Ultimate Orienteering

Hot temperatures on todays middle distance final at Änggårdsbergen. The runners in the A final had to start on the hottest time on the day, 13.15 for W20 and 13.30 for M20.
In W20 Venla Niemi, Finland, won today middle distance with quite a large margin ahead of her contestants. Niemi finished 34 seconds ahead of […]

No really big surprises among the heat winners in todays middle distance qualification at ÄnggÃ¥rdsbergen. In the W20 class Siri Ulvestad, Norway, and Signe Klinting, Denmark, won the A heat and B heat. The defending World Champion middle distance ,Jenny Lönnkvist from Sweden, qualified easily in heat C, more than one and a haf minute […]

Today was an easy day for the competitors. Today the competitors had the opportunity to run the model event to prepare for tomorrows middle distance qualification.

Hisingsparken was also used for the JWOC selection races in May for several national teams, like for example Sweden and Denmark. Some other teams used the map during their trainings […]

On yesterdays Junior World Orienteering Championships 2008 sprint final Emma Klingenberg, only 16 years old, won the gold medal in W-20. The youngster from Denmark did not focused on the sprint, however it is her favorite discipline. Earlier this year , in spring, she had some problems with the haemoglobin level in her blood […]

Gold for Stephan Kodeda from the Czech Republic during yesterdays Junior World Orienteering Championships 2008 sprint final M-20. Kodeda, who has lived in Sweden for most of the last months to prepare for the World Championships, finished exactly one second ahead of Johan Runesson from Sweden! Sören Bobach from Denmark finished as third and won […]

Today all teams arrived at the event center, located at the Armed Forces Medical Center, in Göteborg. Many teams arrived in the morning, or early in the afternoon, to use their spare time for an easy training on the map of the event center or relax on their beds to prepare for tomorrows sprint final.

The […]

Currently ranked 31st of IOF World Ranking, Swiss A-Team elite runner Baptiste Rollier (26) broke through the very top in season 2007-2008 and might well be considered as one of the Swiss revelations of the year. Living now in Norway and running for Kristiansand OK, he will be competing on middle distance and relay at […]

Only a few days left till the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2008, organized June 30th-July 6th in Göteborg - Sweden. The numer of preliminary entries (men+women) was 238 in total, coming from 28 countries. The teams will be hosted at the Armed Forces Medical Centre in Göteborg.The former amphibian regiment is now turned into a […]

Minna Kauppi took the gold in the womens-class with a margin of 4 seconds ahead of Anne Margrethe Hausken, the winner of the fourth race on Friday. Helena Jansson kept her third place she achieved last Friday.
Results women
1) Minna Kauppi FIN 1:28:11 00:00 1:24:48
2) Anne Margrethe Hausken NOR 1:28:15 +00:04 1:28:15
3) Helena Jansson SWE 1:31:15 […]

In the womens-class Anne Margrethe Hausken is the big favourite during this second round of the World Cup 2008 season organized as part of the annual O-Festival, this year orgaanized near Olso - Norway. Today Hausken won today her third victory in row of this years World Cup season. She finished 56 seconds ahead of […]