Orienteering News

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 ...

10MILA countdown: One day left until one of the main highlights of the spring season for an orienteer: 10MILA. Kalevan Rasti, Halden, Lidingö, Kristiansand, Vaajakosken Terä, KooVee, OK Linné and Södertälje are the biggest favourites among the men. Halden, Järla, Tampereen Pyrintö, OK Tisaren, SK Pohjantähti, Göteborg-Majorna and Pan Århus are some ...

Follow last year’s first leg with a HeadCam, see the complete 2014 10Mila arena broacast or take a look behind the scenes for last year’s winner in the women’s class, OK Pan Århus. Here is a selection of 10Mila videos to get you in the right mood ahead of 10Mila. ...

[Updated with NZ champs maps] JK in Great Britain, Kolmårdsmedeln in Sweden and New Zealand Championships are some of the events which have been held these Easter holidays. Read on for results and courses. Above a snapshot of the first part of the JK long distance is shown. With the ...

Daniel Hubmann, Svetlana Mironova, Yannick Michiels, Leonid Novikov, Thomas Natvig Årstad and Emily Kemp won the World Ranking events in Spain and Turkey the past weekend. Andalucia O-Meeting in Spain had the strongest start field – with reigning world champions Daniel Hubmann and Svetlana Mironova at the top of the ...

The 2DRerun CoursePlanning Module is a brand new tool for planning orienteering courses – with special emphasis on sprint courses. Focus has been on giving the course setter a fun way to plan courses – which again hopefully will lead to better sprint courses. The basic functionality has been available ...

Gernot Kerschbaumer (Austria) and Minna Kauppi (Finland) took the victories in the highlight of this year’s Portugal O Meeting – the World Ranking Long distance race at Day 3. Kerschbaumer – from start until finish Gernot Kerschbaumer had a steady race, in the end beating Albin Ridefeldt (Sweden) with 1:07 ...