Poll

Update: 27 votes is all that is between the two top ranked in the poll for the “Achievement of the year 2006″. This is really going to be a tight race in most prestigious category in the “Best of Orienteering 2006″ poll staged by World of O and Orienteering Today. ...

At the World Cup final which was held in volcanic forests around Clermont-Ferrand in France, the home runner Thierry Gueorgiou won almost all he could. He reached three times for gold and there was noone in the field who could beat him in any of the individual races. This brought ...

Simone Niggli is no doubt the best sportsmen orienteering has ever had. At World Championships in Denmark this 28-year-old Swiss won her 11th and 12th WOC gold medals, something no other orienteer has ever done or even got close to. Deservingly this achievement earned her nomination in the “Achievement of ...

Emil Wingstedt is at the moment Swedish best orienteer and thank to him the country won its only gold medal at the World Championships. For Wingstedt himself, this gold was 5th in the discipline from major Championships, which is something rarely seen in men’s orienteering these days. (Something only the ...

Valentin Novikov is the most experienced Russian orienteer. At WOC Relay he took care of the last leg in the golden Russian team, with a style that earned him nomination into the “Achievement of the Year” category of the 2006 Poll. He was by far the fastest orienteer of the ...

With 13 days to go, 2400 votes have been given in the “Best of Orienteering 2006 Poll” staged by World of O and Orienteering Today. There is a close race for the top position in both the “Achievement of the year 2006″ category and in the “Junior 2006″ category. Interviews ...

In Denmark, at the World Championships, Minna Kauppi brought Finland home to a gold medal in the women’s Relay, something she had already done at the European Championships in Otepää in May. Both achievements which earned her nomination among the world’s best orienteers in the Achievement of the Year 2006 ...

After three days, more than 1600 votes have been given in the “Best of Orienteering 2006 Poll” staged by World of O and Orienteering Today – of these about 40% in the junior category. Votes have been coming in from all over the world, and this surely must be one ...

The 24-year-old Kajsa Nilsson has been nominated in the “Achievement of the Year 2006” poll as the comeback of the year. Orienteering Today to her about the 2006 season, in which she managed to storm back up into the absolute elite in women’s orienteering. Although you say Middle distance is ...

An Orienteering legend, that’s what Hanny Allston became last year, despite being mere 20 years of age. In the 2006 season this young lady from Hobart was living through a dream of a kind. She became the junior World Champion in Long distance and then, a couple of weeks after, ...