Orienteering News

  [With 30+ illustrations] The women made more control mistakes than the men – but also the women struggled with finding the good micro-routechoices in the World Cup middle distance race in Munkedal, Sweden Sunday. Helena Jansson (Swedish Orienteering Federation) won 1:41 minutes ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukrainian Orienteering Federation) ...

[Updated with analysis illustrations] Helena Jansson and Thierry Gueorgiou won the World Cup race middle distance in Sweden today. In technically demanding courses the two strong technical orienteers showed the competitors the way. Jansson won nearly two minutes ahead of Nadiya Volynska while Thierry Gueorgiou won 24 seconds ahead of ...

A lot of route choice mistakes by the top athletes made the World Cup Sprint Relay in Halden very interesting to follow. The high pressure the athletes feel in a such an intense relay – combined with the many route choice options – made the relay a tough challenge even for the ...

Helena Jansson decided the first official World Cup Sprint Relay by taking the best route choices on the longer legs in a tight Sprint Relay at the Fortress in Halden.  Five teams were out in the lead on the last leg: Three from Switzerland and two from Sweden. Sweden 1 and ...

Good routechoices on the long legs and good technical orienteering was the key when Matthias Kyburz and Ida Bobach won the World Cup long distance in Halden, Norway today. The courses had some interesting long legs – and in the end the routechoices decided the races as shown in the ...

[Note! Arena production on webTV Saturday/Sunday] Orienteering World Cup Round 2 heads off with a Long distance race south of Halden (old map above) on Wednesday followed by a Mixed Sprint Relay at Fredriksten fortress in Halden on Friday and Sprint and Middle distance in Lysekil/Munkedal, Sweden in the weekend. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) ...

Edgars Bertuks and Liga Valdmane win Latvian Championships long distance on Sunday. Bertuks won with nearly 6 minutes – building on a 3rd place in the Latvian Sprint Champs on Saturday. From Bertuks’ official Facebook page: Sundays long distance was “ultimate survival” experience – terrible terrain (the map was surprisingly ...

William Lind and Josefine Engström won the 5th Swedish League race of the season – a long distance race which was also the last of three World Cup (and therefore World Championships) selection races for Sweden. Lind had a strong start and had a 2 minute lead after two thirds ...

Simone Niggli and Matthias Kyburz won the second Swiss test race for the World Cup round in Norway/Sweden on Saturday – a middle distance race organized in Austria. This was the second of three test races – the long distance test race was organized on Thursday with Daniel Hubmann and ...

Domnarvets GOIF and IFK Göteborg were the winners in two very exciting relays in 10Mila 2015. In the women’s class Domnarvets’ Emma Johansson was less than 40 seconds ahead of Järla’s Elin Hemmy Skantze – while the men’s race was a very close race between Eskil Kinneberg (IFK Göteborg), Magne ...