News
16/05/2012 || Sprint Qualification: a total of four Swiss winners
The last finalists for the European Orienteering Championships 2012 were determined at the Sprint qualification in Falun, Sweden, this morning.
15/05/2012 || Long Qualification: emphatic victory for Simone Niggli
Defending European Champion at Long Distance, Simone Niggli, set out her stall in perfect fashion today with a win by as much as 2:42 over one of yesterday’s qualification winners, Minna Kauppi. The male defending champion, Daniel Hubmann, wasn’t on the start list today, but his country Switzerland is the only one to have 12 runners in the finals.
14/05/2012 || Interviews from European Championships in Around the Arena
Stories, interviews and photos from the European Orienteering Championships will appear throughout the week in the Around the Arena section on the IOF front page. News will be published, as usual, in the news section on the front page.
14/05/2012 || European Orienteering Championships: 18 nations in Middle Distance final
Today the first qualification races, over Middle Distance, were held at Falun, wit the results showing that eighteen nations will have runners in the final on Thursday. Defending men’s champion Valentin Novikov RUS made his intentions clear by winning his heat, whilst defending women’s champion Simone Niggli SUI came second behind Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg NOR.














