Poll-08

– I ran a good race without any major mistakes but I still could not believe that I was second, Michal Smola says after winning a very popular silver medal at home ground in Olomouc – actually the first by a Czech man since the gold medals of Petr Kozák ...

Especially the womens class is open – with a tough voting fight between a few of the very best Juniors in 2008. In the mens class, there is a clearer lead, but still nothing is decided in the mens class either. More than 1500 votes have been given so far ...

– I’m just a simple man. I have a family: a wife – Nadja, a son Sasha and a cat Masha. This is how Andrey Khramov – one of the best orienteers in the World in this century – presents himself. He is known as the orienteer who gets better ...

– I would love to say, that I was a professional orienteer – but reality is, that I have a full time study at the University besides the training, Signe Søes says in this interview. Nevertheless, Søes has managed to make several big steps this year – going from a ...

– 2012 is already in my head – then the World Champs are held in Switzerland. I’m dreaming of winning WOC Gold in all 4 disciplines in my career, Daniel Hubmann explains in this interview. Hubmann had seven WOC and EOC silver medals before he took his Gold medal over ...

– If I could only run one discipline each Championships, it would always be the relay, Helena Jansson says in this Interview. One of her big highlights in 2008 was therefore deciding the EOC Relay for Sweden on the last leg. Jansson has taken another major step up as an ...

– I was a turbulent child who discovered orienteering at the age of 4, Thierry Gueorgiou says in this interview. Gueorgiou is known as The King of Middle Distance, but this year there was even more attention around the “lost” gold medal in the WOC Relay. Gueorgiou however worked hard ...

Marianne Andersen has grown to become one of the big profiles in international orienteering with individual World Championship medals 3 years in a row. Below Andersen is presented for the nomination “The Orienteering Achievement of 2008″ through an interview made by World of O and Ultimate Orienteering. Nominated for: Came ...

Voting for the “The Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008″ has now opened – and will be open from November 18th until November 25th. The past week all nominated juniors have been presented at World of O and Ultimate Orienteering – and now everything is ready to name the ultimate Junior ...

Siri Ulvestad took the Bronze medal at the Junior World Champs Long in Gothenburg this year. Below Ulvestad is presented for the nomination “The Ultimate Junior Orienteer of 2008″ through an interview made by World of O and Ultimate Orienteering. Nominated for: Bronze medal at Junior World Champs Long in ...