Orienteering News

Yannick Michiels (Belgium), Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Maja Alm (Denmark), Galina Vinogradova (Russia) and Cecilie Friberg Klysner (Denmark) were the heat winners when the World Orienteering Championships started with the Sprint Qualification in Tartu, Estonia. All the big pre-favourites performed well. Reigning champion Jerker Lysell who ran his ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Friday June 30th at 12:00 CET (13:00 local time) with sprint qualification in Tartu, Estonia.  Program: Qual Women 12:00. Qual Men 13:00. Finals on Saturday from 13:41 (all times CET) Live services at the organizer’s LIVE Center (Only Final Saturday ) WebTV at liveorienteering.org – to buy access ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Friday June 30th at 12:00 CET (13:00 local time, see time conversion here) with sprint qualification in Tartu, the second largest city in Estonia. The first medals are fought for in the Sprint final on Saturday (from 13:30 CET) and the Sprint Relay Sunday afternoon (from ...

Jukola & Venla 2017 was again a great event – with lots of great orienteering. Relive the event by enjoying the GPS-tracking and take a look at the challenges the runners met. Below are links to GPS-tracking from all the 7 legs of the Jukola relay and the 4 legs ...

IFK Göteborg secured their first ever Jukola victory after a very tight battle with Koovee on the last leg. IFK was in the lead throughout nearly all of the relay – building up a 7(!) minute lead already after 3 legs. These 7 minutes shrank slowly leg by leg – ...

Alfta-Ösa won the 2017 edition of Venla after a very strong team effort. Alfta-Ösa was in the lead already out from the start – and except for some trouble at the third leg the Swedish team was in the lead all the way until the finish. Swiss OL Norska took ...

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 ...

Magne Dæhli (Norway) took his first World Cup victory and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class when the first World Cup round of 2017 was decided in Finland today. The World Cup round was organized as a “tour” consisting of Sprint on Thursday, Middle on Saturday and a Long ...

[With Maps and Results] Yannick Michiels has been fighting his way towards the top for several years – today the fast athlete from Belgium took his and Belgium’s first World Cup victory on the Sprint in Lohja, Finland which marked the opening of the Orienteering World Cup 2017. Maja Alm ...

[Follow races LIVE on webTV] The 2017 Orienteering World Cup starts in Turku, Finland this week with a Sprint Relay Wednesday May 24th and continues in Lohja with a Sprint race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Long distance chasing start race on Sunday.  The chasing start ...