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14.02.2015 World SkiO Championships: Middle Distance domination by Finland
Domination of the Middle Distance race today by Finland was as emphatic as it was unexpected. Milka Reponen was the fastest of four Finnish women with times within 4 seconds of the winner, whilst Staffan Tunis enjoyed a clear victory in the men’s race over the Bulgarian Stanimir Belomazhev.

14.02.2015 Follow World Championships Middle Distance LIVE
2015 World Ski Orienteering Championships continue today with Middle Distance, mass start.

13.02.2015 “It’s not the honeymoon …”
Sarah-Jane and Nick Barrable are a bit keener on orienteering than most orienteers. For most of their lives they haven’t done any skiing, but now they are at the World SkiO Championships in Norway. “I spent the first few years of my life in Scotland, but there was no skiing”, Sarah-Jane says. And for Nick: […]

13.02.2015 Better and better for Aleksi Karppinen
Aleksi Karppinen didn’t feel in perfect rhythm at the start of the race, but it ended in the best way for the Finn. The 19-year-old from Muhos, a town on the coast well north in Finland, won the Junior Long Distance with a margin of 38 seconds to the winner of the Sprint, Vladislav Kiselev. “The […]

13.02.2015 Better and better for Karppinen
Aleksi Karpinen didn’t feel in perfect rhythm at the start of the race, but it ended in the best way for the Finn. The 19-year-old from Muhos, a town on the coast well north in Finland, won the Junior Long Distance with a margin of 38 seconds to the winner of the Sprint, Vladislav Kiselev. “The […]

12.02.2015 Isabel Salen stepped up to gold
At the Junior Long Distance prize-giving, Isabel Salen stepped up to the highest place. She got the medal that was missing. The Swede has also a gold from the Relay last year. Individually she took silver and bronze in Estonia last year. “I had a very good race today”, she says. The junior winner is […]

12.02.2015 Isabel stepped up to gold
At the Junior Long Distance prize-giving, Isabel Salen stepped up to the highest place. She got the medal that was missing. The Swede has also a gold from the Relay last year. Individually she took silver and bronze in Estonia last year. “I had a very good race today”, she says. The junior winner is […]

12.02.2015 A historic victory
When Lars Hol Moholdt won the Long Distance there was much more interest in the success than there normally is for a gold in ski orienteering. The Norwegian has been going hard for winning a gold for a long time, and on the Long Distance on home ground he made it. And this happened to […]

12.02.2015 “Now I have won them all”
For years Josefine Engstrom has been one of the best in the world, but she was missing one world title – the Long Distance. The Swede won today by a margin of 36 seconds to Mira Kaskinen. “My best race ever? No, I made a mistake, but it was still a very good race for […]

12.02.2015 World SkiO Championships: Long Distance golds for Engstrom and Moholdt
The Norwegian home crowd had plenty to cheer today when Lars Moholdt took the Long Distance crown by 52 seconds over pre-race favourite Andrey Lamov, Russia. In the women’s race, another gold seemed on the cards for Tove Alexandersson, Sweden but she was disqualified and victory went to her team-mate Josefine Engstrom.