JWOC26  |  Karlskrona 29 June – 4 July  Individual SprintThe Individual Sprint kicked off the 2026 Junior World Orienteering Championships with 338 Athletes lined up along with and 98 team officials from 40 countries.  It was a sharp-witted start to the first up race. Several runners were caught out by a tricky initial direction decision straight […]

A small group of kiwi athletes attended Jukola/Venla this year. The event was hosted one hour east of Helsinki in Kotka, over 1,800 teams, raced in seven stages. The men lined up to start the race at 11pm, in the dark and non-stop rain. Yet more were flocked in the airfield / rally circuit for the arena. The start of women’s race had added […]

Event details:29 June individual Sprint: Trossö in Karlskrona. 30 June Sprint Relay. Trossö in Karlskrona. Mixed four-member team relay, the first and last legs are women’s legs. 1 July Long DIstance Augerum. Varied vegetation, from beech forest with fast runnability to areas with coniferous forest3 July Middle Distance event Bussevik. Countryside, mainly forest (pine, oak, beech) with a few small areas of […]

Oceania Sprint Knockout  | Sat 24 JanuaryIt was a flying start for the kiwis escaping NZ fickle summer weather for some warm sprint urban running in the NSW coastal area. The morning’s knockout qualification and quarter final sprints were based at St Peters College, Tuggerah, and the afternoon venue for the knockout semi-final and the […]