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There were not many interesting routechoice alternatives in the EOC Sprint Final 2008, but still it is interesting to see where the fight for the medals was won. Below you see routechoices compared for the top runners in both the Women and Men EOC Sprint Final 2008. For many legs, ...

The EOC Sprint Final was flat and fast – and the orienteering was a bit more challenging than in the qualifications, which was said to be very technically easy. Winning times were in the low end for sprint – the fastest women Anne Margrethe Hausken running the 2.6 kilometers long ...

Gold for Emil Wingstedt (SWE) in EOC Sprint distance! Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Andrey Khramov (RUS) are in the next spots. Wingstedt is the king of sprint – with 2 WOC Gold medals and 3 EOC Gold medals over the Sprint distance. Last year at WOC Wingstedt was pushed down ...

Gold for Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) in EOC Sprint distance! Heli Jukkola (FIN) and Helena Jansson (SWE) are in the next spots. Hausken har previously a Silver medal from the sprint distance in WOC in Japan in 2005, a Gold medal from NOC 2005 in Norway and a Bronze medal ...

Minna Kauppi, Heli Jukkola and Helena Jansson won the three womens heats, whereas Michal Smola, Emil Wingstedt and Jamie Stevenson won the three mens heats. Women – Heat 1 1 Minna Kauppi FIN 11:19 2 Sofia Johansson SWE 11:30 3 Anna Margarethe Hausken NOR 11:39 Women – Heat 2 1 ...

Are you an elite orienteer? Or interested in the future of orienteering? Please use 5 minutes of your time to fill out a questionary about separation methods in orienteering provided by a work group set up by the Technical Committee of the Norwegian Orienteering Federation. The questionary has already been ...

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the EOC Tour 2008? EOC Tour 2008 – staged from May 31st until June 1st in Latvia – is one of the events featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – ...

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the Hungaria Cup 2008? Hungaria Cup 2008 – staged from July 2nd until July 6th in Hungary – is one of the events featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – ...

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the Orienteering Festival – accompanying event to the World Orienteering Championship 2008? The Orienteering Festival WOC 2008 – staged from July 14th until July 19th 2008 in Czech Republic – is one of the events featured in ...

Following is a short report from Lipicia Open 2008 – the season opening for quite a few elite orienteers in Slovenia a week ago. Winners in the elite categories where Mikhail Mamleev in front of Thierry Gueorgiou in the mens class and Karine D’Harreville in the womens class. Thanks to ...