JWOC 2015 Long: GOLD for Hagström and Ojanaho

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Finnish Olli Ojanaho won a second Gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Rauland, Norway after a great race. Swedish Sara Hagström won a well deserved Gold medal in the women’s class after trouble on both sprint and middle. The fight for victory in the long distance was ...

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Thierry Gueorgiou and Orienteering featured in the New York Times

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[With great video] – His voice rose in excitement as he explained that the key to his dominance in the sport known as orienteering was an innate ability to quickly convert a two-dimensional piece of paper with a variety of symbols on it into a three-dimensional route through the woods, the ...

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Norwegian team for WOC in Scotland

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Veterans Hans Gunnar Omdal and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg are part of the Norwegian team for the World Championships in Scotland which was selected earlier this week. No Norwegian athlete will run all disciplines – and only one athlete, Anne Margrethe Hausken (photo above from WOC 2009), will run both urban ...

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Open Letter: Splitting the WOC?

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– Even if WOC is a very important and well-established event and product, the International Orienteering Federation has done and is planning to make remarkable changes to the programme and the appearance of the event, Matthias Niggli, Janne Salmi, Simone Niggli and several other coaches, elite athletes, former elite athletes and other important ...

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JWOC Middle: GOLD for Ojanaho and Ahlsand

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[With splits analysis, video interviews, photos] The Junior World Championships Middle distance offered tricky orienteering – which gave very big challenges for the athletes. Many of the favourites got problems in the slopes around Rauland – the terrain offering many diffuse marshes and varying vegetation. Again it was a day ...

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JWOC 2015 Middle Qual: Results and Maps

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The terrain in today’s JWOC Middle Qualification required a lot of experience in Scandinavian terrain – and thus the Scandinavian and Swiss runners had a significant advantage. Heat winners were Imark (SWE), Andersoson (SWE) and Ojanho (FIN) for the men and Hagström (SWE), Müller (SUI) and Koskinen (FIN) for the women. Most ...

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Maps and course JWOC Middle Qualification

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– More tricky than it looks from the map, was the informations the athletes got before the JWOC middle qualification. But the courses look quite tricky even on the map – especially the first part which follows a slope with many diffuse marshes and light green areas. Maps JWOC Middle ...

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JWOC 2015 Sprint: BIG GPS analysis

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The course setter at JWOC 2015 Sprint had done a very good job – and set a course which offered many interesting route choices. A combination of hilly terrain with varying runnability and some passages which you had to be careful to find, made it necessary to run with full ...

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JWOC Sprint: GOLD for Aebersold and Robertson

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[Updated with split time analysis] 17 year old Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the women’s class and Tim Robertson (New Zealand) won his second Junior World Championships sprint in a row. On a hot day in Åmot, Norway, some of the runners struggled keeping up the speed towards the end of ...

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