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24/02/2014 || Gueorgiou and Niggli winners of the long distance WRE in Portugal ||Arena||
Held last weekend in the municipalities of Satão and Aguiar da Beira, in the central part of Portugal, the third edition of the Mediterranean Championships in Orienteering, and Orienteering World Ranking Event competitions, finished in the best way. In the final stage, a top level Long Distance World Ranking Event (WRE), Simone Niggli and Thierry […]
22/02/2014 || Mediterranean Championships Sprint ||Arena||
The third edition of the Mediterranean Championships in Orienteering continued yesterday in Aguiar da Beira. In the Sprint course, the Spanish fury was well present, with the “bomb kids”, Andreu Blanes and Antonio Martinez, who took the top two positions. The event was also a World Ranking Event. In the WRE women’s elite class, Galina Vinogradova […]
14/02/2014 || First ever Ski Orienteering World Ranking Event in Turkey ||Arena||
The first ever Turkish Ski Orienteering World Ranking Event was held yesterday at a new ski resort Ergan at Erzincan, Turkey.
19/01/2014 || Rvacheva and Lamov head World Cup standings ||Arena||
After 5 of the 12 individual races in this season’s Ski Orienteering World Cup, Tatyana Rvacheva, Russia continues to lead the standings despite being beaten in both of the races in Norway this weekend. She is ahead of Tove Alexandersson by 20 points. There is then a big gap of 70 points down to third-placed […]
19/01/2014 || Tove – “One more winter of SkiO” ||Arena||
Tove Alexandersson has now found her flow with map and skis, and won both World Cup races in Norway. The remarkable Swede, who tops the ranking lists in both winter and summer, has foot orienteering as her main sport, but she wants to continue competing the whole year. “At least I want to go for […]
19/01/2014 || “At ESOC I hope to be in better shape” ||Arena||
Andrey Lamov won both races in Norway, and showed impressive speed in the forests close to where WSOC will be next winter. – Can you do better than this at ESOC later in the winter – at home in Russia? “Yes, I hope so”, Lamov smiles. Now he has four more important races this week. […]
19/01/2014 || “We will not take all at ESOC!” ||Arena||
Four of the six podium places were occupied by Russians in the fifth individual race of the World Cup. But they are not at all complacent ahead of the European Championships on home ground later this winter. Head coach Alexander Bliznevsky was of course very satisfied with the results in Norway, but when he is […]
18/01/2014 || Lamov in front of everyone ||Arena||
Andrey Lamov had a super race in the first of the two World Cup races in Norway this weekend. “I felt in very good shape”, the Russian smiles. There were three loops in this Middle distance mass start race. Already at the first of the two map exchanges the Russian was in the lead. “I […]
18/01/2014 || “I try to avoid hearing messages” ||Arena||
Tove Alexandersson was well down on the lead when passing the finish arena, after almost half the course of the fourth individual race in this year’s World Cup, but the Swede could smile at the end. After 3.7 km of the 8.2 kilometre course with mass start at Gåsbu, close to Hamar, in Norway, Tove […]
10/01/2014 || Olympic medal hope designed WUOC medals ||Arena||
There are 213 days remaining before the World University Orienteering Championships 2014 in the Czech Republic will be officially opened. It is still quite a long time, but some activities need to be prepared in advance. One of these activities is designing the medals that will be awarded to the best competitors in the five […]
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