Orienteering News

Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) wins the Junior World Championships Sprint 2016 despite taking the wrong route choice on the long route choice leg, costing him 27(!) seconds to the fastest split time. The Swiss runner Hadorn takes the title due to high running speed and a consistent race (except for this long leg). ...

Simona Aebersold took the lead at the first control and kept it all the way to the finish – never challenged by her competitors. – I stopped several times when I was uncertain, Aebersold said after the race. Obviously a good tactic in this hilly sprint with some tricky route ...

A fantastic day for Switzerland at the opening race of the Junior World Championships (JWOC) in Scuol, Switzerland today: A clear gold for Simona Aebersold in the women’s class – and both gold and silver in the men’s class with Joey Hadorn ahead of Thomas Curiger. In the women’s class Anna Dvorianskaia (RUS) was ...

JWOC starts Sunday with Sprint: Expect great live coverage, spectacular scenery and intricate orienteering when the Junior World Orienteering Championships starts in Engadin, Switzerland the coming weekend. After Sunday’s Sprint, the championship continues with Long on Monday, Middle Qualification on Wednesday, Middle Final on Thursday and Relay on Friday.  Central parts ...

[With recap of the relay leg-by-leg] Koovee run a very strong Jukola relay – being within 2 seconds from the lead all the way from the second exchange to the finish. Oleksandr Kratov decided it for Kovee on the 6th leg of 7 by giving Daniel Hubmann a nearly 5 minute lead. ...

Halden wins Venla 2016 after strong last leg by Mari Fasting: – I made some mistakes in the start, but then I ran very good, Fasting said after the race. Halden’s team was very international: Sabine Hauswirth (Switzerland), Hollie Orr (Great Britain), Anni-Maija Fincke (Finland) and Mari Fasting (Norway). – ...

22:00 CET (23:00 local time) on Saturday Jukola  starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 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 ...

Switzerland’s second team won the men’s class and Finland won the women’s class on the relay at the final day of the European Championships 2016 in Czech Republic. In the men’s class Norway and Czech Republic were closest to  Switzerland – in the women’s class Sweden and Russia. Both relays ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the middle distance at the European Championships middle distance in Czech Republic Friday. Both won their second gold medal at this championships – Alexandersson in long and middle and Kyburz in sprint and middle. Alexandersson in own class Alexandersson ran fast and also had ...

Reigning champion Daniel Hubmann missed the cut while trying to save energy for the final in the tight European Championships middle distance qualification Thursday. Johan Runesson (Sweden), Carl Godager Kaas ( Norway), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Dana Safka Brozkova (Czech Republic), Cat Taylor (Great Britain) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland were heat ...