World of O News

Graham Gristwood won his second straight victory in a tough long distance Sunday in Scotland in 92 minutes – Jessica Tullie won the women’s race in 97(!) minutes.  Whereas the middle and sprint races this weekend were counting for the World Ranking, the long distance was not, and therefore the ...

Domnarvets GoIF (Dana Safka Brožkova, Karolina A. Höjsgaard, Lena Eliason and Emma Johansson) won the exciting Venla 2015 relay. Each woman made a solid performance and secured a good starting position for their final leg runner – Emma Johansson, who decided the relay on the route choice on the long ...

Gristwood and Kinni fastest – Kauppi and Bertuks starting to move ahead of World Championships. Several top runners used the World Ranking race middle distance in Scotland on Saturday as preparation ahead of the World Championships in Scotland in July/August. Graham Gristwood (Great Britain) won 1:18 minutes ahead of Edgars ...

Murray Strain won 38 seconds ahead of Chris Smithard with Øystein Kvaal Østerbø  in 3rd at 0:41. Murray Strain won 18 of 24 legs and did less than half a minute of mistakes. The arena was a World Ranking sprint race in Scotland Schiehallion Weekend. Several teams use the weekend as ...

This Quick HowTo video shows how the Jukola 2015 GPS Analysis was done in 2DRerun. Using 2DRerun’s “Time loss overview” feature it only takes a few minutes to identify the decisive points in each leg. See below the video for step-by-step instructions. Instructions: Step by step Repetition of the steps shown in the ...

This year’s Jukola and Venla relays were tricky with a lot of mistakes even among the top teams – and therefore there is a lot of interesting GPS-data to analyze. Here we take a look at some of the data from the Jukola relay. Above an illustration from the decision point ...

Daniel Hubmann decided Jukola 2015 halfways through the last leg after a tight relay where the big three through the last years – Kristiansand, Halden and Kalevan Rasti – had the main roles. Halden’s Magne Dæhlie started first on the last leg – 42 seconds ahead of Kristiansand’s Daniel Hubmann ...

[With Interviews] Another top last leg from Emma Johansson secured the Venla victory for Domnarvets GoIF – just like at 10Mila. Johansson started out 1 minute behind Leksands Rahel Friedrich – caught the Swiss national team runner halfways – and was alone in the lead from there to the finish. Many teams ...

At Jukola 2015 Swiss top runners Fabian Hertner, Kaspar Hägler, Sebastian Hägler, Christoph Meier and Matthias Leonardt along with Swedish Anders Holmberg will this year run for their Swiss club OLV Baselland instead of their Finnish and Swedish clubs.  Usually most of the non-Scandinavian runners have been running for their Scandinavian clubs ...

Did you know that Jukola 1972 was organized in the same terrain as this year’s Jukola relay? This year’s map does not resemble the map from 1972, but the courses may have some of the same characteristics although modern maps with more detailed have also introduced shorter legs and more ...