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25.07.2014 JWOC Middle A-Final: twenty-five nations represented
Twenty nations in the women’s final; twenty-four in the men’s, twenty-five overall. Those are the statistics after the qualification races today. Only three nations have a full complement of women or men through: Denmark and Sweden in the women’s and Finland in the men’s.

25.07.2014 Seven weeks navigating in Europe
Michael Laraia (left), Isabel Bryant and Ethan Childs are navigating around Europe this summer. Photo: Erik Borg For weeks, some very keen juniors from the USA have been travelling in Europe to experience terrain and controls in different countries. Now they are ready for the final races: the Middle Distance Final and the Relay at JWOC […]

25.07.2014 Home cheering but not home terrain
The A-finalists from Bulgaria: Martina Dzhulieva, Stefan Mikhaylov (left), Martin Ponev and Apostol Atanasov are ready for good runs in the last individual race of JWOC. Photo: Erik Borg When the Bulgarians arrive at the arena they really feel that they are in their own country, but in the forest it isn’t just like that. “We […]

25.07.2014 Challenging courses in JWOC Middle Qualification
It was back in action today for runners in the Junior World Orienteering Championships, with up to six women and six men from each nation taking part in the Middle Distance qualification races. There were 3 women’s and 3 men’s heats, with the top 20 from each heat going through to tomorrow’s final.

24.07.2014 Johansson – learning from the world’s best
Anton Johansson is very often training with, and learning from, a medallist in the two last World Championships. His father is also a former star. On the Long Distance at JWOC, the young Swede himself wrote his name in the history books of orienteering. For Johansson it was in some ways “finally the gold”. Last […]

24.07.2014 Høydal: thinking about winning for one year
Since JWOC last year, Gunvor Hov Høydal has been thinking daily about how to be at her very best in the forest races in Bulgaria. The Long Distance ended just as she wanted. When Gunvor started the first forest race at JWOC this year, she also knew a lot about what to do. With her […]

23.07.2014 Gold for Norway and Sweden in JWOC Long Distance
Gunvor Hov Høydal, Norway and Anton Johansson, Sweden, were the winners of the Long Distance race in the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria today. Johansson, who won the bronze medal in the Sprint yesterday and the silver at Middle Distance a year ago, won his race by more than one minute.

22.07.2014 Tim Robertson: one year, one goal, success achieved
Tim Robertson is taking part in his fourth JWOC and has been at three senior World Championships too. What a talent he has; his goal of a Sprint gold medal has also been very high on his list for a long time. The Kiwi was third in the JWOC Sprint last year. Now he stepped […]

22.07.2014 Sara Hagström: “I took some seconds extra”
When Sara Hagström passed the arena on the Sprint one year ago in silver position, it didn’t end that well. This year she again passed the arena in a good position, and this time it was a happy ending. “It gives something extra to win after what happened last year”, Sara says. In Hradec Kralove […]

22.07.2014 “My hair is no problem!”
Raquel Fernandes de Lima is a special person – a person with hair styled in a way unlike anyone else’s at JWOC in Bulgaria. For the first time Brazil is present at JWOC, with a team of two men and one woman. “My goal? I want to have good races and enjoy myself”, Raquel Fernandes […]