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World Students Preview

20 June 2004 by guest events
The biannual World Students Orienteering Championships are held this week in the Czech Republic. The event website Orientacnibeh is very well informed and even quite banterous. We will do our best to keep you informed of teh teams progress though nopesport, but in the unlikely event of us not p...

Forssa Games

20 June 2004 by guest world
You've probably never heard of it but the Forssa games, formerly the Forssa Phone Games, is the biggest evening event in the world. Traditionally held on the Wednesday evening before Jukola it gathers all the world elite together on a short race course. This years champions were Pasi Ikonen a...

Turku Sprint Relay

20 June 2004 by guest world
Turun Suunistajat, one of the biggest and most successful orienteering clubs in the world, is celebrating its 50th birthday this year with 50 different races. One of these was the new Turku-Sprint Relay, the format being teams of three, one female and two males with courses of 1.5km. Each runn...

Tampere Games

20 June 2004 by guest world
The first set of races in a huge week of Finnish orienteering were the Tampere Games, held last weekend in the same area as WOC 2001. Jonne Lakanen, the lesser known of the Lakanen brothers took the mens race ahead of Pasi Ikonen and pairing from Halden Skiklubb, Jarkko Huovila and Mats Haldi...

Overall Womens UK Cup

14 June 2004 by guest uk
The women’s competition in this year’s UK Cup has proved one of the most exciting in recent years, with the standard of orienteering getting better and better. Anyone from a number of our top athletes could have taken the title, and with Jo Stevenson and Heather Monro being the only two of the t...

Overall Mens UK Cup

14 June 2004 by guest uk
This year’s UK Cup has been an interesting one for the men, with 6 of the races attracting nearly every top athlete (JK, Triple O-Severn and the Lakes weekend). However, with 5 of our top athletes, Jamie StevensonTM, Dan Marston, Richard Wren, Stephen Palmer and Jon Duncan, not running the full ...

BEOC Classic

14 June 2004 by guest uk
BEOC Classic Race Ed Nash managed to produce another top run to retain his title as British Elite Classic Champion, with Jon Duncan finishing 2nd for the second time in 2 year’s, though showing that his performance the day before was a minor blip. Duncan paid for an early mistake, losing a co...

BEOC wins-McCarthy & Winskill

13 June 2004 by guest uk
Ewan McCarthy and Helen Winskill celebrated yesterday after being crowned British Middle Distance champions on a hot sunny afternoon on the Moray coast. Helen took victory from Hannah Wooton by 34 seconds, although splits analysis shows Hannah lost 1:30 on the long second leg and was running f...

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