Both of them are succesfull. Very, indeed. Both of them are born 1990 and are juniors one cannot wait to see breaking through in the Elite, for their results seem already that promising. Both of them are figureheads of two strong national teams. Though, both of them have different ways of training and a different approach of orienteering.
Both of them should have competed at JWOC in less than one week …

What a weekend for Minna Kauppi! Kauppi (FIN) achieved this afternoon, at the 4th World CUp race, her second gold medal this weekend. Yesterday she won the middle distance, so she started as first in today’s chase start, 47 seconds ahead of Marianne Andersen (NOR). Almost nobody was able to keep the same running speed and by leaving the first loop of the butterfly she was running head a head …

The combination of high temperature and technically difficult orienteering made that many runners struggled this afternoon in Bærum during the 3rd race of the 2009 World Cup season.
Minna Kauppi (FIN) grabbed her second World Cup victory this season. In Finland at the 1st World Cup race Kappi won the bronze medal on the middle distance, but today she showed her strength already in the early stage of the race. “It …

Tomorrow the World Cup 2009 competition continues in Norway as part of the annual O-festivalen, the biggest orienteering competition in Norway. Bærum, located just outside Oslo,is the venue for the 3rd and 4th World Cup race of this season. The terrain will vary from open pine forest with good run ability for the middle distance, to different types of terrain, like old spruce forest, marshy areas and slopes and cliffs, …

One of the core runners in the Swedish team with the European Championships gold and the World Championships silver in the relay as the most noticeable results. Multiple Swedish champion and definitely one of the most technical orienteers in the world. Last year Peter Öberg placed 7 in the overall World Cup with 2 individual victories, this year, despite an injury in the mid-Spring, he won two gold medals at …

If one would logically expect Swiss national championships to be hold inside of the country’s borders, it however wasn’t the case of the Middle Championships 2009, hold today in the Austrian town of Feldkirch - within a stone’s throw from Switzerland, true. Never mind: “the more, the merrier” could have been the possible motto of this competition week-end, as both Swiss and Austrian clubs collaborated in its organisation and a …

Halden SK’s Emil Wingstedt was in the lead in the first part of the 7th leg chased by Daniel Hubmann and Thierry Gueorgiou. Hubmann and Gueorgiou together were able to speed up the pace and after a mistake by Wingstedt the gap squeezed more and more.
In the end of the race the fight was between Gueorgiou and Hubmann, increasing the gap with Wingstedt. On the third last control there is …

After two years of absence on the highest stage of the podium Ulricehamns OK won this afternoon the 32nd Venla relay. Hellas finished as second 2′54” behind. The fight for the bronze was quite exciting as a lot of teams came together at the third last control. In the end the fight for bronze was won by Tampereen Pyrintö.  Accompanied by her teammates Tampereen Pyrintö’s last runner  Anni-Maija Fincke traversed …

This weekend the annual Jukola will take place. Besides the Tiomila the biggest orienteering relay in the world. The 61st Jukola relay and the 32nd Venla relay will be organised in the province of Eastern Finland with the competition centre located in Raviradantie very close to the city centre of Mikkeli.
What do you need to know for this weekend spending in front of the computer screen following one of the …

With 2 victories and one 4th place at the Swiss testraces, Bettina Aebi secured herself easily a place inside of both JWOC and NOC Swiss delegations. The 18 years old has already 4 EYOC medals to her credit and will definitively be one of the big Swiss hopes of upcoming JWOC. She obtained a 5th place yesterday in the sprint at NOC 2009 and agreed to tell us a moment …