Orienteering News

Thierry Gueorgiou did it again for Kalevan Rasti. After a difficult night for the Finnish team, with many mistakes in the tough and technical terrain, the world stars Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou decided the relay for Kalevan Rasti on the two last legs. The last leg was a real ...

The Danish favourite team OK Pan Århus took their second Venla relay victory in a row after very strong performances by all four runners. Signe Søes decided it all on the first 2 km of the second leg – catching up 1 minute to the lead and opening a gap ...

22:00 CET 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 66th edition of ...

Denmark won today’s unoffical World Cup race in sprint relay in the very tricky artificially built labyrinth-like streets of Imatra. Emma Klingenberg, Tue Lassen, Søren Bobach and Maja Alm run in the Danish team. Sweden had a clear 25 second lead on Denmark after three legs – Jonas Leandersson doing ...

Still a long time until Christmas, but ‘Route to Christmas’ makes a quick visit in the middle of the summer today. The interesting World Cup sprint course in Imatra yesterday is the occasion – leg number 8 in the men’s course is the chosen leg. The leg is as usually ...

[Updated with results] The World Cup race in sprint in Imatra today offered one of the most complex labyrinths of artificially built fences seen in the World Cup so far. This made the race very interesting and challenging – but still the top runners managed to make the right choices ...

The EOC Sprint winners Judith Wyder (Switzerland) and Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the sprint qualification in the World Cup race in Imatra today in a very tight sprint race. The men’s race featured all 40 men going to the final within 58 seconds – in the women’s class the first ...

Oleksandr Kratov (Ukraine) won the men’s class in a very exciting long distance race in the World Cup in Kongsberg today – in the end the Norwegian slow starters Hans Gunnar Omdal and Magne Dæhlie were only 21 and 31 seconds behind. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class with ...

Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) took the victories in the World Cup race middle in Kongsberg, Norway today. The typically Nordic terrain suited the Nordic runners well – Top 3 in both the men’s and women’s class went to Sweden, Norway and Finland. The courses had a though ...

[Updated for Imatra] Middle and Long distance races in Norwegian wilderness around Kongsberg (June 7th-8th) and a sprint race and a mixed sprint relay in Imatra, Finland (June 11th-12th) as a “warm-up event” to Jukola. This is what the third round of the 2014 Orienteering World Cup offers. The races ...