Victories went to Anne Margrethe Hausken and Anders Nordberg at todays middle distance race which counted as the fourth race in this years orienteering World Cup. For Hausken, this was the best international middle distance race – a discipline which has been difficult for Hausken in the past. For Nordberg ...

Here grouping graphics for the Middle Qualification at EOC 2008 is given. Again, a lot of grouping is seen. Note! Colored boxes in the below figures show that two runners have been within 15 seconds of each other at a control. Boxed in the same color show that two runners ...

In the final day of the EOC 2008 Sweden and Russia took home the Gold medals in the Relay. The Swedish team with Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson finished only 12 seconds ahead of the Russian Silver medalists. In the mens class Russia took the gold medal with ...

Gueorgiou is still the King of Middle Distance – and Finland took the Triple in the womens class with Heli Jukkola, Merja Rantanen and Minna Kauppi. A very popular silver medal in the mens class to home runner Martin Sirmais. Bronze in the mens class went to Pasi Ikonen – ...

Matthias Müller (SUI), Valentin Novikov (RUS), Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA), Helena Jansson (SWE), Minna Kauppi (FIN) and Emma Engstrand (SWE) were the heat winners in todays EOC Middle Qualification in Latvia. Again several of the outsiders went out already in the qualification – among them the reigning World Champion over the ...

– The long final yesterday was one of the technically most demanding long distance races I have ever run, Eva Jurenika writes at her homepage. Several of the runners have analyzed their races and written about it in their Blogs. Below many of the statements are collected. Statements Some statements ...

Gold medals went to Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) and Dmitriy Tsvetkov (RUS) in todays EOC over the Long distance. Today Hausken impressed everybody by taking her second Gold medal in this years EOC at the Long Distance in Ventspils, Latvia. Dmitriy Tsvetkov’s Gold medal was a very surprising one – ...

Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) is working hard on replacing Simone Niggli (SUI) as the queen of orienteering – today Hausken took her second Gold medal in this years EOC at the Long Distance in Ventspils, Latvia. Strong finish Hausken secured her second Gold medal at this years EOC through a ...

The EOC Long Qualification was fast with some technically challenging parts (see map extract). Many runners did some smaller errors, but still the gap from the winner to the last qualifier in each heat was as low as 3.49 in one of the mens heats – and below 5.30 in ...

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 ...