Orienteering News

Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Simona Aebersold (SUI) won the Junior World Orienteering Championships long distance in Hungary today. Both winners had clear margins – Fosser was more than 4 minutes faster than Mathieu Perrin (France) with Daniel Vandas (CZE) another minute down. Aebersold’s winning margin down to Hungary’s Zsofia Sarkozy ...

[LIVE from Monday July 9th 10:00 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2018 (#JWOC2018) starts with Long on Monday July 9th, continues with Sprint on Tuesday, Middle Qual on Thursday, Middle Final on Friday and Relay on Sunday. The championship is organized around Kecskemét, Hungary – and will offer GPS-tracking, online internet results and live ...

Oleksandr Kratov took Koovee from a 12th place at +5:46 to a 1:18 lead on the 4th leg – beating IFK Göteborg’s runner with 7 minutes. Kenny Kivikas increase the lead to more than 3 minutes on the 5th leg – and Lauri Sild managed to keep a big enough lead ...

Stora Tuna wins the 2018 Venla relay ahead of Göteborg Majorna and MS Parma after a very strong last leg by Tove Alexandersson. Alexandersson was nearly 5 minutes faster than her competitors on the last leg – catching 3 minutes on the leaders already halfways and from there only speeding ...

Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world – starts Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the ...

Olav Lundanes (NOR) won a very tight battle in the men’s class at the European Championships (EOC) long distance 2018 while Tove Alexandersson (SWE) was 5 minutes ahead of her competitors in the women’s class. The long distance marked the end of the championships in Tessin, Switzerland. This was the first day ...

Switzerland took the women’s relay and Norway the men’s relay at the European Championships relay in Tessin, Switzerland. In the women’s relay Switzerland dominated from start to finish, with one of their two teams being in the lead throughout the relay. As only on team from each country counts in ...

Switzerland’s Judith Wyder took the lead already from the start of the first leg – and Florian Howald, Martin Hubmann and Elena Roos took care of the lead all the way to the finish – giving Switzerland a clear win in the European Championships Sprint Relay in Ticino, Switzerland. Sweden took ...

Matthias Kyburz (SUI) and Marika Teini (FIN) took the gold medals on tricky courses in today’s European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Middle in Tessin, Switzerland. On another strong Swiss day Switzerland took the two first places in the men’s class. Matthias Kyburz took his second gold medal of two possible – winning ...

    Switzerland dominated the EOC Middle qualifier with heat winners Fabian Hertner, Daniel Hubmann, Florian Howald, Julia Gross (all SUI).  Marika Teini (FIN) and Jana Knapova (CZE) won the two last heats – on a day where everal high-ranked athletes missed the finals. The steep sloped with few features ...