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EOC: Middle Qualification

Returning to the area of the Long Qualification in Bidstrup the middle qualification once again saw the top 17 qualify for the final on Tuesday. Great Britain have once again provided five runners in the final. Jamie Stevenson has repeated yesterday's performance by winning his heat by 18 sec...

EOC : Classic Qualification

After the eventful week of the Junior World Championships and World Masters, it’s now time to look forward to one of the biggest senior international competitions of the year – the European Championships (although it is not exclusively for Europeans, as there are runners competing from Australia,...

JWOC : : Relay

The final set of races at JWOC have been completed, and it was double joy for Sweden. The men’s team of Johan Lindahl, Mattias Millinger and Martin Johansson (Classic race silver medallist) won by over 2 and a half minutes from a strong Czech team, who beat the Swiss back by a further 1 and a ha...

JWOC : : Team Scores

There is a team competition held as part of JWOC, although it is not 'a big deal' and often is not calculated until well after JWOC week. But, well, its the holidays and i've not got much else to do so with the help of Excel here are the top 10 countries after the two individual finals: Swe...

JWOC : : Mens Classic

The Top 5 has now been confirmed in the mens classic race. Gold goes to Switzerlands Mattias Merz, who took gold in the short and silver in the classic last year. He beat Martin Johansson of Sweden by 1 second while Simonas Krepsta was only 9 seconds behind him. Jan Prochazka of the Czech ...

JWOC : : Classic Bronze!

Alison O'Neil has won Britains first JWOC medal for 15 years, a bronze in todays classic. After losing out on a medal by 12 seconds yesterday the NOC and EUOC runner took the bronze medal today, behind Silja Tarvonen of Finland and Veline Staldler of Switzerland. Tarvonen, who anchored Finlan...

WMOC : : Qualification

The vets have been feeling the heat in Italy this week during the qualification races for the World Masters Orienteering Championships at Asiago Though not quite as hot as Halden last year, the Venetian province has been basking in the mid-80 – just like some of the competitors! Don’t be fool...

Drew's Scandy Report

Drew left a few weeks ago to live in Sweden for the summer, with OK Linnéhome to superelites Mats and Jan troeng. This is the first part of his report, which we thought might be of interest to anyone who is considering going to Scandinavia for a while to improve their O skills. As many of you ...

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