JWOC Relay 2019: Maps and Results

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Norway’s men and Great Britain’s women won the JWOC 2019 relay – finishing off this year’s Junior World Championships. Norway was the big favourite in the men’s class after great runs by Kasper Fosser throughout the championship – Fosser took his third gold medal in the championships with the relay ...

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JWOC Middle 2019: Maps and Results

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Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Isa Envall (SWE) won the JWOC 2019 Middle distance in Denmark. This was Fosser’s second victory at this JWOC – after winning the long distance earlier this week.  Envall won 54 seconds ahead of Fiona Bunn (GBR) with Tereza Janosikova (CZE) in 3rd at 1:24. In ...

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JWOC Long 2019: Maps and Results

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Kasper Fosser (NOR) won the men’s Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance just like last year, while Ida Haapala (FIN) and Veronika Kalinina (RUS) took a shared victory in the women’s class (still unofficial as of Tuesday morning) after a late jury decision moving Kalinina from silver to shared gold. While the ...

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JWOC Sprint 2019: Maps and Results

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Aston Key (AUS) and Eline Gemperle (SUI) took the victories at the Junior World Championships Sprint in Denmark.  Key won 13 seconds ahead of Samuel Pihlstrom (SWE) with Guilhem Elias (FRA) in 3rd at 0:14. In the women’s class Gemperle won only 3 seconds ahead of Tilda Ostberg (SWE) with Grace ...

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EYOC 2019: Maps and Results

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Finland won the overall team competition at this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) after winning three of the four relays. The Finnish team had to travel back home without individual gold medals this year, though – with runners from Czech Republic (3 gold), Hungary (2 gold) and Germany, Poland and Denmark winning ...

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Jukola 2019: Stora Tuna takes surprise victory!

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[Updated with links to maps and full GPS-tracking] Stora Tuna (Sweden) took the victory in the 2019-edition of Jukula after a strong last leg by Emil Svensk. Stora Tuna was a surprise victory with their very young team. Actually more than half of the team are brothers: Emil, Joakim, Viktor ...

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Venla 2019: Fredrikstad takes the victory!

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Norway’s Fredrikstad SK took the victory in the 2019 edition of the Venla relay after a strong leg by Kamilla Olaussen on the last leg. IFK Göteborg went out onto the last leg in the lead, but after first a bad routechoice and later a quite big mistake, IFK’s Sara ...

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Jukola 2019: All You Need To Know!

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Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world is even larger this year – 21.500 is a record number of competitors for the men’s relay Jukola and the women’s relay Venla! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 ...

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World Cup Finland 2019: Maps and Results

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Swedish Double: Tove Alexandersson and Gustav Bergman won both Saturday’s Middle distance and Sunday’s Long distance in the first round of the 2019 Orienteering World Cup in Finland this weekend. with clear victories in Saturday’s Middle distance, they both managed to keep the chasing runners on In Saturday’s Middle distance, ...

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World Cup Round 1 2019 – Finland: All You Need To Know

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The 2019 Orienteering World Cup starts off with three races in Finland just one week before the Jukola/Venla relay: A Middle distance race on Saturday June 8th, a Long distance pursuit race on Sunday June 9th and a Sprint Relay on Tuesday June 11th. All 3 competitions will be covered ...

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