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PWT China
China plays host to the Park World Tour band wagon for the next five days. Three races will be held over those five days and concludes the 2004 PWT season which has visited five different countries during the year. With three races still to go the top spots are by no means done and dusted. The st...
Japan WRE
As part of the build up to WOC 2005 in Japan the Japanese Orienteering Federation have offered training and a world ranking event in and around Nagoya. The athletes started with a PWT race on Saturday and on Sunday it was a chance for a classic race. The race itself looked tough with the athletes...
PWT round five
Park world Tour round five was held in Nagoya in Japan. Many of the worlds top elite orienteers have headed out to the Far East to compete in the final rounds of the Park World Tour and also train for the World Orienteering Champs in Japan in 2005.
In the men’s race Johan Nasman of Sweden beas...
World Cup Relays
Today saw the final event of the World Cup 2004, the relay. In the Men's relay Great Britain were sent off to a flying start with Matt Speake passing on to Dan Marston in 2nd place with Switzerland a few seconds ahead, and France a second behind. Dan and the French 2nd leg runner, Nicolas Girsc...
Blodslitet 2004
While there were questions raised over the length of today's Classic races at the World Cup in Germany, there was a race of an even greater distance happening near Fredrikstad in Norway. The Blodslitet, translated as 'The Bloody Strenuous Race', is hosted by Fredrikstad Ski Klubb, home to Clive ...
World Cup Classic & Series
Another great set of performances from the GB women today saw three top 20 results on a tough Classic race which saw only the winner finish anywhere near the estimated winning time of 75 minutes. Heather Monro took 8th place with a time of 89 minutes dead, almost 13 minutes behind winner Simone ...
MTBO Middle & Relay
Fridays Middle race saw strong results throughout the GB team in a tightly packed leaderboard. Best placing in the men's race went to Steve Heading in 27th, with a time of 60:38 - less than 9 minutes down on the Australian winner Adrian Jackson. Killian Lomas finished in 43rd, Andy Simpson in 54...
More on the MTBO
Apologies fot the delay, but Here is more info on the MTBO World cup, provided by Toni and taken from a MTB-o e-group:
"The areas that we have ridden in up to now have all been eucalyptus forests,
kangeroos have been spotted on the tracks as we've been charging around. The
maps are pretty in...
World Cup Middle Final
Final Mens results:
1. Mats Troeng SWE 31:21
2. Daniel Hubmann SUI 31:32
3. Jarkko Huovila FIN 31:39
24. Jamie Stevenson GBR 34:12
35. Ewan McCarthy GBR 35:30
42. Dan Marston GBR 36:19
48. Matt Speake GBR 38:56
Final Womens results:
1. Emma Engstrand SWE 31:11
2. Tania Ryabkina RU...
World Cup Middle Qualification
All of Team GBR qualified today in the middle qualification race at the World Cup in Dresden, and Ewan McCarthy won his heating, a promising sign for a top performance tomorrow.
Women Heat 1
1 Simonw Niggli-Luder SUI 23:31
8 Mhairi Mackenzie GBR 28:16
10 Sarah Rollins GBR 28:38
...
World Cup Sprint Final
Final Mens results:
1 Østein Kvaal Øterbø 13:25
2 Mikkel Lund DEN 13:38
2 Daniel Hubmann SUI 13:38
4 Marten Bostrom FIN 13:49
5 Andrey Khramov RUS 13:50
22 Jamie Stevenson GBR 14:28
32 Matthew Speake GBR 15:01
33 = Ewan McCarthy GBR 15:05
48 Dan Marston GBR 15:41
Final Women ...
World Cup Sprint Qualification
Preliminary Results:
Women: 3.4km
Heat 1:
1 6 Gunilla Svä 70 Sweden 16:12
6 10 Mhairi Mackenzie 85 Great Britain 17:09
7 17 Helen Winskill 74 Great Britain 17:27
Heat 2:
1 30 Simone Niggli-Luder 78 Switzerland 15:08
2 25 Heather Monro 71 Great Britain 15:56
Heat 3:
1 28 Ka...
World MTBO Champs
The MTBO long qualification race begins tonight
GB Athletes:
Andy S 9.42 (11.42 our time)
Paul 10.18
Killian 11.12
Gary 11.20
Andy C 11.54
Steve 12.10
Charlotte 11.55
Irish Athletes:
Eoin 10.14
Mark 11.06
Eunice 11.29
Nina 12.35
Event Information for Tuesday 19 Oct...
10Mila 2005
The new-look website for the Tio Mila 2005 is now online. Preliminary information is now available in Swedish, English and Finnish. The Swedish language site is obvioiusly the most copmrehensive at the moment, but expect more English information as we get closer to the competition. Also be sure t...
Orienteering at World Games 05
Next year sees the 7th World Games held in Duisburg, Germany. Orienteering is one of the 32 official sports included in the programme of these games after making its debut in the previous World Games, held in Japan in 2001. Winners then were Grant Bluett of Australia and Hanne Staff of Norway, w...
25-manna
There might not have been a [nope] team there, but it went ahead anyway. The biggest team o event saw nearly 9000 runners contest the 25 person relay, held near Stockholm.
The winners were Halden, with Emil Wingstedt running in just ahead of Thierry Guergiou of Kalevan Rasti. Boring Halden win...
World Trail-O Champs Report
Nopesport member o-a was busy competing at the inaugrual World Trail O Champs which ran alongside WOC in Sweden last month, here's her story of what happened.
The first ever world champs in Trail Orienteering took place in combination with the WOC in Väeras. 15 countries entered competitors fo...
MTBO World Champs Team
The team for the MTBO World Championships in Melbourne, Australia from 11th to 23rd October 2004 has been announced.
Andy Conn
Andy Simpson
Gary Tompsett
Steve Heading
Killian Lomas
Paul Trott
Charlotte Somers Cocks
Congratulations to the team, and we wish them luck in October.
Mor...
Swedish Championships
Classic
Experienced Gunnila Svard took gold ahead of the very fast but somewhat erratic Emma Engstrand. Anna Maarsell took the bronze medal, pushing WOC-favourite Jenny Johansson into 4th place. Other leading WOC contenders struggled, Super Noodles-Luder finished well down in 17th while Karol...
Norwegian Champs : : Relay
NM-week concluded with the relay competition. Two classes, 200 teams, 3 legs, first over the line wins, simple.
Hanne Staff claimed a second Gold of the weekend as Baekkelaget won the womens relay, ahead of Fredrikstad and Halden.
Kristiansand, the emerging force in club relays, were clear ...
Norwegian Champs : : Middle
In a coutry with as many high class athletes as Norway, anything can happen.
The titles of Norwegian Middle Distance Champions 2004 go to Holger Hott Johansen and Marianne Andersen. Holger was backed up by his clubman Anders Norberg and bronze was taken by Hans Olaf Amblie of the weakened Oslo...
Norwegian Champs : : Classic
WOC being held in September means that the Scandinavian national championships are being held earlier this year. The Norwegian Championship were also selection races for WOC, and held in quite swedish terrain, on the border between Oslo and Lillehammar.
In the opening Classic distance leading...
Oringen Results
Top British Results
Liz Campbell wins O-Ringen again with a superb victory in the D50 class at
Swedish 5 days in Gothenburg.
Liz increased her overall lead to win the week by 2mins 26 after wins on
day,2,4, and the final stage.
D21 Super Elite Helen Winskill finished in 17th overall sh...
O-ringen Update
Here are the best of the British results over the past few days
(Brits running for foreign clubs may be missed out)
Day 2
1st Liz Campbell D50
2nd Mhairi Mackenzie D20 Elite
2nd Pete Hodges Open Marathon
4th Joy Hodkinson D10
4th Kyle Heron H18 Long
6th Peter Hodkinson H13
6th Rhod...
Oringen Stage one
Yesterday saw Stage one of this year’s Oringen, whilst many Brits came prepared for glorious sunshine, the rain continued to fall heavily for the first part of the day at least. As people say in Sweden for good luck; ‘We are all pulling our thumbs’ for better weather. However the orienteering mus...
Oringen - SE Prologue
Today saw the prologue of the 2004 super elite classes. The event took place in gotaplatsen, a park area in the centre of Gothenburg. The weather was overcast and big crowds turned up to watch the spectator friendly event.
Results from the men.
1. Tobias Noborn OK Orion 15:16
2. Valentin N...
Oringen Coverage
Look out for oringen coverage over the coming days with nopesport being the only uk press team reporting here at the oringen.
We hope to bring to you up to date news including interviews with super elite winners.
So far, the weather has settled and the outlook is good for the next few days....
EOC : Relay
The European Relay Championships, which is the traditional end to any championship week, had fast head to head team racing. It was 3 in a team, running long, medium, long. First into the forest; the men. First out of the forest, unpredictably was Ingo Horst of Germany, closely followed by Bulgari...
EOC: Long Final
The European Long Final took place in Klinteskoven, South Zealand. The area chosen proved to be tough and rough forest for the runners however the top guys all came in ahead of the projected winning time.
The winner of the men was Kalle Dalin of Sweden making his international debut in Denmark. ...
EOC : : Sprint Final
This morning was the qualifiers, and this afternoon it was the finals.
The men were off first with some very fast times right from the beginning. 14 minutes was looking like the time to get until Emil Wingstedt took nearly a 30 second lead in 13:35, but there was still half of the field yet t...
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