World Cup Mixed Sprint Relay: How did you like it?

Route choice analysis: World Cup Middle Turkey

World Cup Sprint Relay: Maps and Results

Frustrerende fornuftighet

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Tech Torture in Turkey

Portugal O-Meeting: Gueorgiou and Magnusson (and Niggli)

New season, new country, new job, new Scandinavian club,...

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World Cup Turkey Middle: Maps and Results

Season start in Turkey

World Cup #1 in Turkey and mixed sprint relay

Strålende Treningssamling

On the podium in Turkey

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Less excitement, but more fun?

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Türkei: Weltcup und Stützpunkt

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Weltcupsieg in der Türkei

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POM 2014: Moments

Joaquim Margarido
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Lamov and Hancikova Sprint European Champions

He has been on, or very near, the podium the whole season. Yesterdays race did not go according to the plans, so today was his turn to show at home what he can: Andrei Lamov dominated the mens Sprint ...
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Latest orienteering fasion

Latest orienteering fasion
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Follow European Championships Sprint LIVE from 8:20 GMT

European Ski Orienteering Championships in Tyumen, Russia, continue with Sprint today.
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European Ski Orienteering Championships: home victory in Mixe...

The Russian team of Vladimir Barchukov and Yuliya Tarasenko won the first event of the Championships being held near Tyumen in Russia, an exceptionally close-fought race in which 14 teams finished wit ...
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Thanks ricardo!

Thanks ricardo!
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Strålende Treningssamling

As soon asI got the result from the second scan I headed to Portugal. Sacrum had healed well and I got permission to start to run again, gently and cautiously with care. Doctor told me that I should ...
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Russian Cup. First part

There are selection starts for European Orienteering Championship these days in Russia, program of competitions you can find here. The block of sprints is over, and we have two man and two women, wh ...
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Russian Cup. Sprint mass-start. Final. First lap. Men

Russian Cup. Sprint mass-start. Final. First lap. Men
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Tyumen is ready!

European Ski Orienteering Championships kick off today with Mixed Relay. The events can be followed live online on the ESOC website, and with either English or Russian commentary: http://esoc2014.ru/l ...
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Russian Cup. Sprint. Final. Men

Russian Cup. Sprint. Final. Men
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POM 2014: Guerra and Madella win Trail orienteering stage

The second day of the Portugal O Meeting 2014 had an extra attractive. For the Trail orienteering aficionados, the stage held in the Senhora dos Verdes Park was a challenge of enormous complexity and ...
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Anatomy of a race - early candidate for course of the year?

Is this the best sprint course and map in New Zealand since at least the World Cups? Given the wonderful course on Ferrymead at the Nationals and the stunning Queenstown Botanic Gardens maps its a tou ...
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Season start in Turkey

After some months of basic training it was time to get in shape and ready to compete at the 1st World Cup in Turkey.The winter training went well and I was very satisfy with my physical shape. On the ...
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Tech Torture in Turkey

The first round of IOF World Cup racing included some twists I had not anticipated although you should always enter a new orienteering country with an open mind. The race was warned of having low vis ...
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Follow European Championships LIVE online!

The European Ski Orienteering Championships kick off with Mixed Relay on Friday in Tyumen, Russia. The organisers have secured high quality live TV broadcast from the events with English (and Russian, ...
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WOC-WTOC 2014 are next

In four months the World Foot Orienteering and Trail Orienteering Championships Start. Orienteers from 37 countries and 5 continents already entered at the event between Trentino and Veneto in Italy ...
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Portugal x2

Its been a while since my last post. Some week ago, I wanted to write something about the training camp with the national team in Portugal. But then I realized that pretty much had already been writte ...
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Interviews with Thierry Gueorgiou, Simone Niggli, Jan Prochaz...

Interviews with Thierry Gueorgiou, Simone Niggli, Jan Prochazka and Maria Magnusson after POM http://t.co/B2QUX3vAey
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You know the green is really green when even the powerline go...

You know the green is really green when even the powerline goes around!
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Orienteering digital offspring

Turf - Outdoor addiction, is a phenomenon that has been around in scandinavia for a few years. It is like a mix between Orienteering, Nike grid and geocaching. You download an app in order to see a ma ...
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Portugal O’Meeting: almost 1700 participants

With almost 1700 participants, the Portugal O’ Meeting 2014 is over. On the only Long Distance course of the event week, Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou were the first to start… ...
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Fireside Chat: Darren Ashmore

This is the first in what may become an irregular feature. The premise is simple, an orienteering friend comes to stay and we talk into the night about orienteering. They may or may not be world fam ...
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Interland 2014 – Final England Team

The final England team for the Interland Cup 2014 is now available from the link below: Interland 2014 – Final England Team Interland Bulletin to follow
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Climax of Ski Orienteering season in Russia

The European Ski Orienteering Championships, the pinnacle of this ski orienteering season, takes place near Tyumen in Russia starting on Friday and continuing throughout next week. 106 competitors fro ...
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World Cup Mixed Sprint Relay: How did you like it?

The first ever (unofficial) World Cup race in Mixed Sprint Relay was run last Sunday in Turkey. What is your opinion about the “new” race format – and how well did it wo ...
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POM 2014: Maps

Portugal O Meeting 2014 (Gouveia)Intermediate Distance, Vila Nova de Tázem (Day 1)Middle Distance, Arcozelo da Serra (Day 2)Middle Distance WRE, Arcozelo da Serra (Day 3)Long Distance, Arcozelo ...
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5.03.2014 RUSSIAN CUP BEGINS/Orienteering in Gelendzhik

Foot-o season in Russia will be opened tomorrow (5 of march). Cup of russia will start in Gelendzhik. There will be selections to the national team for the 2014 European Championship, which this year ...
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POM 2014: Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli, the big winner...

With almost 1700 participants, the Portugal O Meeting 2014 is over. On the only Long Distance course of the event, Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou were the first to start... and the first to finis ...
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Gorrick Spring Series

Finally my trip to a snow-free country came around and with the increase in temperature I stood on the start line of the Gorrick Spring Series with my pale and pasty legs and arms bared for all to see ...
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Nopesport For SALE

Nopesport orienteering website for sale. Get involved to give the site a future or twist it for your personal agenda. Up to you!Read whole story...
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Russian Cup in Gelendzhik. Program

Russian Cup is starting in Gelendzhik tomorrow, it will be held on shore of Black sea. It is wonderful weather in the South of Russia: no snow and +15-20 degrees. The program of competitions: 5 Marc ...
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Portugal O’ Meeting 2014: Maria’s Day!

Maria Magnusson was best on the super difficult middle distance course. Photo: Joaquim Margarido On a day where the sun, although lightly, visited Gouveia and the Portugal O ‘Meeting 2014, M ...
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Portugal O-Meeting: Gueorgiou and Magnusson (and Niggli)

[With maps and results] The World Ranking event at Portugal O-Meeting (day 3) has traditionally been one of the most important races in the winter-season – were the world orienteering elite ...
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World Cup #1 in Turkey and mixed sprint relay

Right now Øystein is in the wellness centre on the hotel enjoying a Turkish bath and massage. He forgot to lock his computer, and as his room mate I decided to write an article on his blog, sin ...
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POM chasing or beeing chased

Last week I had run MCO in extremely demanding terrains and I did not expect a lot from the Portugal Orienteering Meeting (POM). When we arrived to Gouveira and I has seen open terrains with boulders, ...
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POM 2014: Maria's Day!

On a day where the sun, although lightly, visited Gouveia and the Portugal O Meeting 2014, Maria Magnusson was the brightest star of the third stage of the event, interrupting a blistering series of t ...
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Evaluation of Sprint Relay in Turkey

The IOF Athletes’ Commission asks for feedback after the first Sprint Relay event in the Unofficial Sprint Relay World Cup 2014. All participants (athletes, coaches, officials) of the Sprint ...
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POM winners on Sunday: Gueorgiou, Niggli, Guerra and Madella

Remo Madella (to the right) and Julio Guerra (on the wheelchair) were the winners of Sunday’s trail orienteering event. Photo: Joaquim Margarido With the victories of Simone Niggli and Thierry G ...
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Nominations closing for JWOC Team.

Nominations close for Australian JWOC team on March 9th.
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POM 2014: Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli reinforce the l...

With the victories of Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou in todays stage, came to the end the first half of the Portugal O Meeting 2014. In the stage of Trail orienteering, Julio Guerra and Remo Made ...
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The End of Summer

Geez its been a good summer. The OSquad have been going hard around the place, training for orienteering or getting into some wider outdooors activity. See Tanes previous post about the impressive li ...
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Original bad luck orienteer

Original bad luck orienteer
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World Cup Sprint Relay: Maps and Results

Sweden won the first unofficial World Cup race in mixed sprint relay today ahead of Denmark and the Swedish second team. Switzerland and Sweden were the big favourites ahead of the race – S ...
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Competitions as training

Over the past week I’ve used two very different types of competition as training. Last Saturday there was a local event at Kfar HaHoresh, near home (so near that we went with two cars). The even ...
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Dreamteam competition

This year we are introducing the Ski Orienteering Dreamteam Competition for the European Championships in Tyumen. It’s based on Michaela Gigons MTBO Dreamteam competition that has successfully b ...
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Route choice analysis: World Cup Middle Turkey

There were a few longer legs with some route choice challenges in the World Cup Middle distance race in Turkey today – even if the race was decided more by mistakes in the tricky (or even in ...
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POM 2014: Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli start off on th...

Its now very difficult to find a title for the orienteering events in Portugal which does not include the names of Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou. It has been so in the recent years, so it was al ...
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World Cup Turkey Middle: Maps and Results

Daniel Hubmann won a clear victory in the men’s class in the first World Cup race in 2014 – with last year’s overall World Cup winner Matthias Kyburz in second. In the w ...
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World Cup Round One.......2015

...And suddenly its March! Its been another hectic couple of months full of work and travel, with niggley injuries coming and going, and thankfully some training and racing to keep me sane! The blog h ...
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