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5 of 8 gold medals went to Switzerland in Nordic Open Championships 2007 at Bornholm, Denmark – thanks mostly to excellent performances by Matthias Merz with three gold medals and Simone Niggli with two gold medals and one silver medal. Both of them also finished the championships with victories at ...

It has now been opened up for submission of videos to the Jukola video competition – deadline for submissions is May 25th! The best clips will as previously announced be rewarded with Virkiä Jukola merchandise, and the clips will be broadcast between June 14-June 17 in the two giant tv ...

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships continues with the relay with the first start at 10.00. There will be online tracking available at TracTrac.dk (according to the TracTrac page). With no relays in the Orienteering World Cup anymore, the relay in the Nordic Orienteering Champs is the only fight left between ...

Simone Niggli lost nearly 3 minutes at the 9th of 14 controls – after being in the lead at control number 8 with nearly a minute. This was because she did not see the 9th control at the map, as it was exactly between the 8th and 10th control on ...

Victories for Matthias MerzMatthias Merz (Switzerland) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) in todays sprint in the Nordic Orienteering Championships at Bornholm, Denmark. Home favorite Søren Bobach took the Gold medal in the mens junior class, whereas Siri Ulvestad (Norway) won gold in the womens junior class. Below you find the six ...

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships starts with the sprint distance at 14.45. The last runner, Matthias Müller, starts at 17.28. It has often been said that it is more difficult to win the Nordic Champs than the World Championships, as all the Nordic countries can have up to 10 runners ...

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Macr-o orienteering is a further development of the micr-o concept, a concept originally developed mainly to market orienteering as a better TV sport. Macr-o is however something very different from micr-o. The motivation here is not mainly to promote orienteering as a TV sport, but rather macr-o is brought forward ...

Saturday there were Finnish NOC tests long distance (won by Petteri Muukkonen and Minna Kauppi), Elitserien in Sweden (won by David Andersson and Simone Niggli-Luder), as well as Danish NOC tests long distance (same venue as Elitserien in Sweden – won by Chris Terkelsen and Signe Søes). Parallel to Elitserien ...

This weekend there are Finnish testruns for the Open Nordic Champs. In the sprint on Friday, victories went to Tuomas Tervo and Minna Kauppi. Read more: SuunnistusNet (Finnish) Kim Fagerudd (Swedish) Map + course sprint men, from Kim Fagerudd Results