Tag: Orienteering
EC bronze! Tuomas Heikkilä brought the men’s sprint orienteering championship medal to Finland after a ten-year break
Tuomas Heikkilä has achieved individual sprint EC bronze in Verona, Italy. Switzerland’s Matthias Kyburz celebrates the EC gold. Tuomas Heikkilä has achieved orienteering individual sprint EC bronze in Verona, Italy.…
Finland returned to World Orienteering medals – Minna Kauppi expects continued success from the upcoming World Championships at home
Finland won two medals at the World Orienteering Championships in Switzerland. The next time the world championships on these trips will be contested in Kuopio in 2025. Anu Karttunen, Nina…
The head coach of the Finnish national orienteering team, Thierry Gueorgiou, believes that Olli Ojanaho will raise the level of the entire team
The French legend believes that Ojanaho will one day be world champion in orienteering. The 26-year-old orienteer has the World Championships in Kuopio in 2025 on the horizon. Henri Kaukonen,…
Will Olli Ojanaho, who excelled as a junior, finally get to celebrate a prestigious medal? Height differences as a challenge for Finns in World Cup orienteering
The World Orienteering Championships medals will be competed for in Switzerland from July 12th to 16th. shows the races on its channels. First up are the long journeys, the live…
The world’s largest orienteering event will be contested in Vuokatti in 2027 – “This is an insanely great thing for us”
Kainuu has a long tradition as an organizer of large orienteering events, for example in 2013 the province hosted the World Championships. According to the leader of Jukola’s relay, Vuokatti…
A fall could be the death of Pasi Ikonen – this is the kind of acknowledgment the terminally ill world champion gets from his orienteering helmet
– In the spring, I had another operation due to a brain tumor, and because of that, a large part of the skull bone is missing from the top of…
The success of the orienteering World Cup calls for ferocity in the lowlands
Accumulating climbing meters has been one of the guidelines for the Finnish national orienteering team for the training season. In recent years, the World Orienteering Championships have been held in…
Venla Harju won a medal again in orienteering at the European Championships – Marika Teini fell out of the fight with a mistake in the last kilometer
Venla Harju took a medal from another personal trip at the orienteering European Championships. Olli Ojanaho was the best of the Finnish men, fourth. On Thursday, he won the EC…
It’s 40 degrees in Portugal, the risk of forest fires prevents the normal conduct of the Junior World Championships in Orienteering – Finland’s coach opens up about health risks
Due to the forest ban, there have been changes to the program of the youth WC competitions. According to head coach Arttu Syrjäläinen, doubling the number of sprint races is…
British star Megan Carter-Davies surprises World Orienteering medals in an interview – speaks Finnish
Carter-Davies, who grabbed his first medal at the Danish World Championships, ended up in a Finnish orienteering club by chance. – I’m a navigator, a British national team navigator Megan…