Orienteering News

The two absolute world number one runners – Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder – were again the best here at the second World Cup round in Bykle, Norway. They both had fantastic runs – and got very clear victories. Results (unofficial)

Fabien Pasquasy and Becky Carlyle are the first man and woman to head into the forest at this second World Cup race of the year here in the beautiful Norwegian mountains at Bykle/Hovden. Everything is set for a very interesting middle distance race, with most of the absolute world elite ...

Kalevan Rasti with Thierry Gueorgiou went out in the lead about 1 minute before Halden’s Mats Haldin on the last leg of this years Jukola relay – and everything looked like this would be another Jukola thriller. However, Gueorgiou and Haldin decided the race already at the very start of ...

Minna Kauppi did a magnificent run on the last leg in todays Venla relay, and took Asikkalan Raikas to a very popular victory here in Lapua, Finland. Below you see an interview with Minna Kauppi after her run by woO-TV: Online results – follow the Jukola relay from 22.00 CET

Pictures from todays qualification of the heat-winners. From the top: Thierry Gueorgiou, Audun Hultgreen Weltzien, Mats Haldin, Simone Niggli-Luder, Lena Eliasson and Paula Iso-Markku. Full results

The maps from the World Cup Qualification in Lapua, Finland for Men-1 and Women-1 are given below. Men Many runners had problems with a control in the area around control 2 and control 3. Women

At the Jukola site here in Lapua, Finland, nearly everybody is working very hard to make the site ready for the more than 13.000 runners turning up during the coming days to run the Jukola and Venla relays. In contrast to this was the World Cup Qualification this morning. When ...

Say welcome to Lena Eliassons new blog – now to be found here at World of O. Lena is ranked 13th in IOF ranking, and got a 4th spot at the WOC Sprint distance in Denmark last year. Her blog is Swedish language, but includes some maps which others can ...

The deadline for the Jukola video competition has been extended until May 30th. Voting for the videos will be started in the beginning of June. As announced earlier, clips will be shown as they are submitted – and the best clips will be rewarded with Virkiä Jukola merchandise. The clips ...

The Jukola video competition is open for submissions! Deadline for submissions is May 25th. Clips will be shown as they are submitted – and the best clips will as previously announced be rewarded with Virkiä Jukola merchandise. The clips will be broadcast between June 14-June 17 in the two giant ...