World of O News

Jerker Lysell and Galina Vinogradova both took their first World Cup victories in the KnockOut sprint which was the second stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour in Göteborg, Sweden today. Both Lysell and Vinogradova must be counted as KnockOut sprint specialists. Their only Top 3 World Cup results are from ...

Welcome to the NORT KnockOut Sprint Betting and LiveBlog. Here you can tip the winner in each of the semifinals and finals – and compete with others in trying to predict the results best. The best way to accompany the webTV broadcast? Betting is open until the start of the ...

[Update: 5 Swiss men and 5 Swedish women in Semi-finals – Semi-finals live from 18:05] From 18:05 CET you can follow the KnockOut sprint Worldwide on webTV – but already at 10:00 CET the qualification starts with a regular sprint race. As for stage 1, the qualification time counts in ...

Small scandal in Finland [Updated with full analysis and map samples]: All teams did not run the same total course in Jukola 2011. The problem occured on the 1st and 2nd leg, where 100 out of 1500 starting teams had wrong forking. The best placed team with wrong forking seems to ...

Thierry Gueorgiou won the first duel for Kalevan Rasti at the long night of Jukola against Anders Nordberg, but Olav Lundanes won the second and more important duel for Halden against Fabian Hertner and Kalevan Rasti. Replay all of the excitement in the LiveBlog at the bottom of this page. ...

What a thriller finish! Domnarvets GoIF’s Lena Eliasson took the victory ahead of Tampereen Pyrintö’s Anni-Maija Fincke after being behind for 15 of 17 controls. Everybody had prepared for a Finnish victory when Fincke missed the tricky 16th control and Eliasson could slip by to take the victory. This was ...

Here are some interactive illustrations to see the race development in the Jukola and Venla relays the last years. Taking a look at the Jukola statistics for Kalevan Rasti, we see that even if KR got second last year, it is their largest gap to the winner since 1998. The big ...

– Looking forward to my battle with the night legend, are the words of the King of Middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – before the battle against Anders Nordberg at tonights long night leg of Jukola – the third leg. The 3rd leg is set to start at 00:11 CET ...

21:55 CET on Saturday more than 1500 men head into the forest – nearly 9 hours earlier at 14:10 CET nearly 1100 women start their relay. The Jukola relay is the highlight of the season for many runners – here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola ...

[Updated with Final results and maps] Swiss domination among the men – Swedish among the women. Five Swiss men in the top of NORT Stage 1 – with young Matthias Kyburz on the top! Three Swedish women on top – Linnea Gustafsson taking the victory. In the mens class,  Merz ...