JWOC 2014: Maps, Results and Medal Overview

O-Ringen: we need help and thats OK

Swiss O Week Zermatt

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O-Ringen 2014 - The Big Final Orienteering Video by orin...

Swiss-O-Week - Stage 5 Orienteering Video by Puresive Fi...

SOW...fantastic!

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World Champs a la Italiana

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Home spectator and fan

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Swiss-O-Week Sieg!

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7.plass sammenlagt i SOW

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O-ringen 2014

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Jelly Bean fundraiser at the COCs

Here’s a fun way to raise a few extra dollars for Orienteering Canada’s High Performance Program. Buy tickets Friday and Saturday at the COCs to guess how many jelly beans are in t ...
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Leadership Transition at Orienteering Canada

Charlotte MacNaughton has been the Executive Director (ED) on a volunteer basis since the early 2000s and has decided to transition out of the ED role and focus on other priorities. Effective August 1 ...
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JWOC Relay

JWOC 2014 ended as every JWOC does: with the relay. This year, team Canada boasted two mens teams and one mixed girls team. On team one, Adam ran first, Michael second and Alex last. Team two consiste ...
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JWOC Middle Final

Today was the JWOC middle final. Based on the qualification race, Alex, Pia and Emma ran the B-final and Adam, Michael, Robbie and Trevor ran the C-final.Alex had another good race today, finishing in ...
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Photos from the JWOC Middle Qualification

Stefan Bergstrom, Robert Svoboda, and Brian Graham cheer on Team Canada!Adam Woods finishing strong!Go Emma Go!Robbie Graham giving it his all in the finish chute.Trevor Bray looking speedy!Pia came t ...
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Middle Qualification

The Middle Distance qualification races took place on the contour rich Zheleznica - North map. Theracers were randomly assignedto one of three heats; each minute, three athletes (from separate heats) ...
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JWOC sprint review by Robbie Graham

The race was held in the city of Samokov, a classic eastern European city with a large canal that cuts right through the middle. There are play structures at every turn and many small buildings with p ...
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JWOC Long Round-up

Team Canada athletes participated in the long distance race today at JWOC.Our runners had a tough day in the Long race. It was a grueling wet and green and very technical terrain resulted in long time ...
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JWOC Sprint

The first race of the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) was the sprint. After the first 3rd of the competition the rain started, very heavy and with thunder in the distance. Some of the a ...
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JWOC 2014 gets underway

The 2014 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria starts on July 22nd. Tuesday July 22 – sprint final Wednesday July 23 – long final Friday July 25 – middle q ...
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JWOC preview

This week our JUNIORS get their time to shine. The Junior World Orienteering Championships, or JWOC, are being held in Borovets, Bulgaria this week.Team Canada consists of experienced and first-time J ...
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JWOC Sprint Prep

The JWOC sprint takes place on the morning of July 22nd in Samokov. The map is 80 percent urban and 20 percent park. Its going to be a fast race!The Alexander Bergstrom is the first Canadian runner at ...
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JWOC update from Emma Sherwood

The JWOC team and I continued training on some of the maps that are similar to the terrain will be running in in JWOC. Yesterday we ran on the sprint-like terrain along with another session on the mid ...
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JWOC Training Update

The JWOC athletes have been doing a variety of trainings in preparation for the races that start tomorrow (Tuesday). Heres the latest update from our athletes:Thursday morning training was on the long ...
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The Full Scottish Experience

The orienteering train never stops, and after the World Championships in Italy, it was time to for a majority of the senior team to head to Scotland and begin to start thinking about next year. A shor ...
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JWOC training

With so much action at WOC last week, we know you must be experiencing orienteering-competition withdrawl symptoms. Have no fear! The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) starts next week in ...
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Pre-JWOC training

The past few weeks of training in Europe have been busy for me as coming straight from Italy to Bulgaria was the beginning of a new experience. First I met up with Emma Sherwood and the US team, an ...
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Middle distance analysis

A wise man once coined the term sphere of uncertainty to mean the area where you think you are (I may be mis-quoting / mis-remembering something Adrian Z said - my apologies). We usually draw our rout ...
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Impact magazine – orienteering to increase training...

Super to see orienteering listed a a great activity to increase one’s training diversity in this article in Impact Magazine written by well respected coach Cal Zaryski of Critical Speed in ...
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A great day for Canada at WOC

A great day for Canada at the World Orienteering Championships in Italy. All 3 athletes competing at WOC today either tied or improved their personal bests. Emily Kemp (Ottawa) finished the Middle Dis ...
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WOC Relay preview

The final event of the 2014 World Orienteering Championships is the relay raceon Saturday.The men start at14:55and the women start at13:00Italy time.The running order for the Canadian teams are:Men:1s ...
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WOC Middle: A Great Day for Our Canadian Athletes!

We have some very exciting news from todays WOC middle results: tied and new personal bests for our 3 athletes!Louise ran well to place 28th, tying with her placing in the middle in Trondheim, Norway ...
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WOC Middle Preview

The final individual race for WOC is the middle distance. Louise Oram, Emily Kemp, and Eric Kemp will be representing Canada for this race.Start times are:Louise Oram 12:58:00pm UTC (3:58am PST, 6:58a ...
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WOC 2014

It was a great feeling to be back on the start line after missing last years world champs but a little nerve racking being my first time in the sprint qualification. I did not have the technical ra ...
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Report from the Trenches

Ive been excited to return to Italy since I left five years ago at the end of JWOC. The organisers arent bluffing when they boast of Italys orienteering paradise. The mountainsides are covered by terr ...
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Update from the WOC Long in Lavarone

Back to the forest! Today’s long final was a gruelling race, with 11 km and 495 m of climb for the women, and 16 km and 820 m of climb for the men. Louise found that the altitude made it ext ...
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WOC ~ Long Preview

Next up at WOC is the long final. With the new rules at WOC this year, there is no qualifying race, like with the sprint. Instead, countries are given a number of starting slots based on results from ...
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Sprint Relay Day - a visual blog post

Yesterday was a travel day that saw the majority of Team Canada travel the 3 hours from Lido di Jesolo near Venice for the sprint races to Lavarone in the mountains. Today was the first ever WOC Sprin ...
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Some photos from the sprint!

I thought it would be fun to share some photos of what it looked like on Burano and Venice the day of the sprint. Photos take a long time to load here so just sending a taste :)Aviewfrom our boat appr ...
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WOC Update: Opening Ceremony and Sprint Relay Preview

Today was a rest and travel day for the WOC athletes, while the 5-days (public races) participants had their first official race, a middle distance. In the evening, the central square of Asiago ...
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WOC ~ Next up, Sprint Relay!

Fun facts about the Sprint Relay:- New event on the WOC program this year- 4 athletes on each team, 2 men and 2 women- Touchless SI will be used for punching- Mass start, so should be great to watchCa ...
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WOC Bound 2014 or Am I?

After being left off last year’s WOC team I have finally qualify for the sprint and the first ever sprint relay in Italy. The team was selected based on the results of the Alpe Adria Cup. I a ...
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2014 Orienteering Canada Conference

The Orienteering Canada conference is held in conjunction with the Canadian Orienteering Championships. It’s an ideal opportunity for Canadian orienteers to share information and ideas and to le ...
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2014 WOC team announced

After the selection races in Italy, the selection committee made their final decision on which races athletes will run at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC): Men Long: Robbie Anderson Men Midd ...
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Sr national team selection races underway in Italy

The Canadian Senior National team is being decided this weekend at the Alpe Adria Cup in Italy. The athletes selected will be competing at the World Orienteering Championships which are also in Italy ...
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Job posting with DontGetLost Adventure Running

DONTGETLOST ADVENTURE RUNNING CAREERS Adventure Running Senior Program Manager Golden Horseshoe Orienteering (GHO) has an opening for the position of Adventure Running Senior Program Manager. In this ...
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Europe 2014- Where Orienteering Thrives

I have been in Europe for the past six days to start my preparations for the Canadian team trials, WOC, and WUOC. After getting injured at Sage Stomp earlier this spring my foot is almost back to 1 ...
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Don’t Get Lost race review from Get Out There magaz...

Craig from Get Out There Magazine did a great race review of Don’t Get Lost’s Urban Chase Enduro in Oakville in early June. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAa7sv1xk60 ...
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Winter/Spring Training

After a great indoor track season with the University of Calgary Dinos which wrapped up at the end February I have shifted my training and started to focus on building my volume while maintaining m ...
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New year, New Ambitions

After improving tremendously in the 2013 season, 2014 is looking promising. I have decided to focus on running this winter with hopes of developing my orienteering further. After many seasons of sh ...
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Canadian Orienteering Championships

It has been a week since the Canadian Orienteering Championships wrapped up in Hamilton, Ontario. It was a great weekend of racing, on some of the nicest terrain in Canada. The courses were very wel ...
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COC Preview

The Canadian Orienteering Championships are set to start tomorrow night in Hamilton, Ontario, starting with the Sprint (CC/WRE) at McMaster University followed by the Middle (CC/WRE) and Long (CC) in ...
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WCOC's It's a Wrap

The WCOC’s were held this past weekend in Spruce Woods Provincial Park on the tricky, tricky Hog’s Back map. Three races were held over three days on the most technically challenging ter ...
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WCOC Middle

Today was the WCOC Middle at Hogs Back. My knee was sore to start but the adrenalin kicked in and I wasnt thinking about it so I didnt really notice it too much. I think I am still a bit jet lagged, ...
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Back to Reality

After 42 day in Europe I will be flying home tomorrow August 1st to Winnipeg where I hope to compete in the WCOC’s http://www.orienteering.mb.ca/WCOC2013/if my knee is up for the challenge. It ...
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Bubo Cup Day 4

Day 4 of Bubo Cup was held high up on the Bisaga map. I decided to walk the course today which was a bad decision because my knee was very sore and even worse after the course. It was very unique an ...
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Bubo Cup Day 3

Today was day 3 of Bubo Cup at Vipava at 1:4000. The sprint race was held in the village of Vipava. It was very warm 32C. My goal was top 5 yesterday before my knee started to really hurt later at n ...
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Bubo Cup Day 2

Day 2 of Bubo Cup was held across the road from day 1 on the Postojnska jama map. It was another good race for me with fewer mistakes than yesterday. Although I made fewer mistakes they were very du ...
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Bubo Cup Day 1

Today was day 1 of Bubo Cup on the Magdalena map. The scale was 1:7500 which I thought would be a problem for me to get use to but I had no problems with it at all. The terrain was very different th ...
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HSH Cup Satge 3

Yesterday was the final stage of the HSH Cup (stage 3). It was a longer middle distance chasing start. I had another pretty good race, with a few small mistakes. I placed 14th/43 on the stage and 11 ...
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