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17/03/2009 || The World Games: Russia sends a strong team headed by Khramov ||News||
As the deadline for the athlete entries to The World Games is approaching, the federations have started to select their teams. Russia was the first country to nominate its runners to Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, where The World Games take place in mid-July. The strong Russian team is headed by the reigning sprint world champion Andrey […]
10/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships in Japan an important milestone ||News||
The World Ski Orienteering Championships took place in Hokkaido, Japan last week. This was the first time the event was held in Asia. The chairman of the IOF Ski Orienteering Commission, Markku Vauhkonen, was extremely satisfied with the championships: “The organisers did an excellent job, and the conditions in Hokkaido proved perfect for ski orienteering. […]
10/03/2009 || World Cup quotas for 2009 ||News||
The number of athletes that each nation can enter in the World Cup events in 2009 is based on the World Ranking List Federation League table as at 31 December 2008. As last year, the six best nations – separately for men and women – may enter eight athletes in the World Cup events (with […]
09/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: “This gold was ours” ||News||
Finland and Sweden were the strongest in the World Ski Orienteering Championships relays in Japan on Sunday. The blizzard of Saturday had passed and the weather was sunny but windy. Pristine new snow challenged the teams’ skills in choosing the right skis and waxing. Finland, with the team Teemu Köngäs, Matti Keskinarkaus and Staffan Tunis, […]
08/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Finland and Sweden win relays ||News||
Finland ended Russia’s 11-year dominance of the men’s world championships relay in Rusutsu, Japan today. Russia took silver and Sweden bronze. In the women’s class, Sweden got their first gold medal in these championships when Helene Söderlund finished exactly one minute before Russia’s Tatiana Vlasova. Czech Republic got bronze. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Photo: Paula Lehtomäki […]
07/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Photos from middle distance ||News||
Olli-Markus Taivainen made no mistakes on the middle distance. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Staffan Tunis was satisfied with the silver medal. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Matti Keskinarkaus had chosen the wrong pair of skis, but fought his way to a third place finish. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Defending world champion Tatiana Vlasova took a convincing victory on middle […]
07/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Finnish men dominate middle distance ||News||
All the medals went to Finland in the men’s middle distance race in the World Ski Orienteering Championships today. Olli-Markus Taivainen, not satisfied with the silver and bronze medals he had won in the previous races, won the gold by 37 seconds from his more experienced compatriot Staffan Tunis, with Matti Keskinarkaus taking third place […]
07/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Middle distance – victories for Taivainen and Vlasova ||News||
The young super-talent Olli-Markus Taivainen and the manifold and defending World Champion Tatiana Vlasova won the middle distance competitions at the World Ski Orienteering Championships in Rusutsu, Japan today. The weather conditions during the race were adverse. A blizzard broke out just before the start of the races, and many competitors had difficulty orienteering in […]
05/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Photos from long distance ||News||
Anastasia Kravchenko, junior world champion three years ago, now winner of long distance at Ski WOC. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Andrei Lamov determined to win again. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Barbora Chudikova was the big surprise of the day. Photo: Paula Lehtomäki Eduard Khrennikov on second place – only 9 seconds from his 16th gold medal. Photo: […]
05/03/2009 || World Ski Orienteering Championships: Double gold for Russia – and Lamov ||News||
Andrei Lamov, Russia, won his second gold medal in two days at the World Ski Orienteering Championships today. In the mass-start long distance race he beat his compatriot, multi gold medallist and defending champion Eduard Khrennikov, by just 9 seconds after almost 90 minutes of intense skiing in the Japanese hills. Bronze medallist, a further […]
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