Orienteering News

– Even if WOC is a very important and well-established event and product, the International Orienteering Federation has done and is planning to make remarkable changes to the programme and the appearance of the event, Matthias Niggli, Janne Salmi, Simone Niggli and several other coaches, elite athletes, former elite athletes and other important ...

[With splits analysis, video interviews, photos] The Junior World Championships Middle distance offered tricky orienteering – which gave very big challenges for the athletes. Many of the favourites got problems in the slopes around Rauland – the terrain offering many diffuse marshes and varying vegetation. Again it was a day ...

The terrain in today’s JWOC Middle Qualification required a lot of experience in Scandinavian terrain – and thus the Scandinavian and Swiss runners had a significant advantage. Heat winners were Imark (SWE), Andersoson (SWE) and Ojanho (FIN) for the men and Hagström (SWE), Müller (SUI) and Koskinen (FIN) for the women. Most ...

The course setter at JWOC 2015 Sprint had done a very good job – and set a course which offered many interesting route choices. A combination of hilly terrain with varying runnability and some passages which you had to be careful to find, made it necessary to run with full ...

[Updated with split time analysis] 17 year old Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the women’s class and Tim Robertson (New Zealand) won his second Junior World Championships sprint in a row. On a hot day in Åmot, Norway, some of the runners struggled keeping up the speed towards the end of ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championships in Rauland, Norway starts Sunday with Sprint and continues with Middle distance on Monday (Qual) and Tuesday (Final). After a rest day the championships continues with Long distance on Thursday and Relay on Friday. Read on to find all important details about the championships. If some details are missing, ...

Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg won a clear victory in the women’s class ahead of Mari Fasting. Hausken Nordberg’s husband Anders Nordberg – retired from international top orienteering after the 2013 season – finished 2nd in the men’s class behind Magne Dæhlie. Olav Lundanes and Mari Fasting are pre-selected for the World ...

Emil Svensk and Tove Alexandersson won the Swedish Championships Sprint on Tuesday. Alexandersson had one of those “impossible days” where she is unbeatable – winning with 1:39.  Link: Replay webTV of the complete race in SVT Play In the men’s class the fight for victory was a lot closer. With ...

Domnarvets GoIF (Dana Safka Brožkova, Karolina A. Höjsgaard, Lena Eliason and Emma Johansson) won the exciting Venla 2015 relay. Each woman made a solid performance and secured a good starting position for their final leg runner – Emma Johansson, who decided the relay on the route choice on the long ...

This year’s Jukola and Venla relays were tricky with a lot of mistakes even among the top teams – and therefore there is a lot of interesting GPS-data to analyze. Here we take a look at some of the data from the Jukola relay. Above an illustration from the decision point ...