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Lasse Arnesen sine første 60 dager

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Kära träningsdagbok… – men vad är det ege...

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Emil Wingstedt tells about future of sport statistics in...

Had a very nice trainingsweekend on x- country skis yest...

Ida Bobach tells about future of sport statistics in Ori...

Sportlerwahlen

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3. plass i Effretiker-OL

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Ich bin nominiert für die Thurgauer Sportlerwahl 20...

Orienteering in the News: Get Out There Magazine race report:...

Here’s Get Out There Magazine‘s video race report of the Don’t Get Lost’s Snowshoe Raid held Jan 17, 2017 at Blue Mountain, ON.
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Reminder: Dec 31 deadline to apply for the High Performance P...

A reminder that the deadline to apply for the 2015 High Performance Program is December 31, 2014. Read this news item for more details.  
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December 31 deadline to apply for the 2015 High Performance P...

The 2015 High Performance Program (HPP) Athlete Handbook has been published on the HPP page on orienteering.ca. The Athlete Handbook provides information about what Orienteering Canada’s High Perf ...
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Season’s Greetings from Orienteering Canada

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Athetes competing in WREs need to set up user account in Even...

The IOF is requesting that all athletes who will be competing in World Ranking Events to set up an user account in Eventor. All the details to in order to set up the account are available here.
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10th anniversary of the Vancouver Sprint Camp

Greater Vancouver Orienteering Club’s Sprint Camp is 10 years old! GVOC has a fabulous weekend planned (Feb 13-15, 2015), as always. If you sign up by December 14th, you get a 10th anniversa ...
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Sass Peepre Orienteering Training for Teens

SPOTT 2015 – Sass Peepre Orienteering Training for Teens SPOTT 2015 is an on-line program for orienteers aged 13 – 18. SPOTT builds smarter, more prepared orienteers through off-season ...
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2015 High Performance Program Athlete Handbook now available

The 2015 High Performance Program (HPP) Athlete Handbook has been published on the HPP page. The Athlete Handbook provides information about what Orienteering Canada’s High Performance Progr ...
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Contract Job Opportunity for an Experienced Orienteer

Contract Job Opportunity for an Experienced Orienteer Part-time for 6 months January through June, 2015 COORDINATOR for SPOTT (Sass Peepre Orienteering Training for Teens) Synopsis: Hiring a coordinat ...
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Orienteering in the News: Vancouver Courier article on Brian ...

Here’s a Nov 18, 2014 article by Meghan Stewart in the Vancouver Courier about Brian Ellis’ gold medal win at the World Masters Orienteering Championships in Brazil in the long dis ...
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Gold Medal in M70 won by Brian Ellis of Vancouver

We’re very excited for Brian Ellis of Vancouver who won gold in the M70 category in the long distance at the 2014 World Masters Orienteering Championships in Brazil. Also congrats to our US ...
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North American Orienteering Championships

It has been two weeks since the North American Orienteering Championships wrapped up in Arnprior, Ontario. The weekends races were top notch and I think they were the best Canada has ever put toget ...
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US Nationals 2014/ NAOC Preview

This past weekend was the US Champs in New York where I had three great races. I ended up winning the sprint and was second overall in the long. I mp in the middle because I skipped a control but w ...
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The 2014 North American Championships are underway

A quick update for spectators and for racers about this weekend’s North American Orienteering Championships in Ottawa.Over 600 are here to compete and there are many club members representing Canad ...
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Wherever you go...

... And there you are.This simple expression has taken on so much meaning for me when, all of a sudden, I found myself re-starting my life in a new country, a new city, and creating a new home. About ...
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Fall Orienteering in the Yukon

Hi there, my name is Caelan McLean and I am from Whitehorse, YT. Fall is definitely coming on as most of the leaves have now fallen off the trees and it is starting to freeze some nights. Orienteering ...
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WUOC 2014 Race Recap

WUOC 2014 was one of my main goals for this season and was a competition that I thought I would be able to perform well at. I was in good shape physically and my orienteering was not even comparable ...
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WUOC 2014- Final Thoughts

WUOC 2014 was one of my main goals for this season and was a competition that I thought I would be able to perform well at. I was in good shape physically and my orienteering was not even comparabl ...
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WUOC Sprint

We got to do a bit of a different style of sprint this year, in that the races started in a zoo(!), was a mixed forest and urban sprint and had 115m of elevation (more than double our middle course th ...
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Team Update

Just a quick update from the team during this packed week of races, with detailed reviews of the races from the athletes to follow.Very exciting news today from Olomouc, Czech Republic, Emily Kemp pla ...
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WUOC Sprint Relay

The first race of these World University Championships took place in the beautiful city of Kroměříž an hour’s drive from our home base in Olomouc. I havent run very many Sprint Relays but I was ...
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WUOC Sprint Mixed Relay

Yesterday was the sprint mixed relay in the town of Kromeriz. The course was mostly in park with a little loop in the town at the end. I thought the forkings were way better than the WOC sprint mix ...
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Sprint relay & long distance

The first race at the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) this year was the sprint relay. This is a mixed-gender relay, with 2 men and 2 women. Emily Kemp started out for Canada, handin ...
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The 19th World University Orienteering Championships are offi...

All parts of the Canadian University Orienteering Team have now arrived in Olomouc, Chez Republic. We are staying in University dorms and so far everything has been well organized and close by, which ...
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Silesia Grand Prix/WUOC

Last weekend I raced in the Silesia Grand Prix which was a 5 stage competition over 4 days in the North of Czech Republic. The terrain was very enjoyable and generally fast with some slower green a ...
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World University Championships (WUOC) ~ Coming soon!

The Canadian Team has arrived in Olomouc, Czech Republic for the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC)! The four day WUOC training camp has just come to a close, and the official model ev ...
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JWOC Long Recap

Since arriving back in Canada, I have had some time to dwell over my JWOC races and pin-point what went well and what needed improvement in each of my races. I am specifically going to focus on the lo ...
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A reflection back on WOC

Although it was a couple weeks ago now that WOC ended I am only now getting around to filling out the notes I jotted down on some races and re-formatting them in to a (somewhat :P) legible format. For ...
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Scotland Training Camp- "Heather" and "Bracken...

Most of team Canada was in Scotland for a twelve day training camp in preparation for next year’s world champs. We were training twice a day on maps which was not just good preparation for ne ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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