1. All
over the next weekend, the Orienteering fans will be focused in the
Lower Silesia region, in Poland, for the opening round of the FootO
World Cup 2016. “Three races in three unique venues: Wrocław,
Sobótka (mountain Ślęża) and Trzebnica. This will definitely be
an orienteering feast”, assure the organizers about the three
stages - Middle Distance, Sprint (Qualification + Final) and Sprint
Relay - that fill the program. “Courses, made by two of the best
course setters in Poland - Jacek Morawski and Kostiantyn Majasow -,
are already done and we're sure, that our guests will be satisfied”,
says Wojciech Dwojak, World Cup Event Director. The number of
registered athletes amounts to 264, representing 26 countries, and
it’s possible to see on the list the winners of the two previous
editions of the World Cup, the Swiss Daniel Hubmann and the Swedish
Tove Alexandersson, but also the Danish Maja Alm, the Norwegian Olav
Lundanes, the Ukrainian Nadiya Volynska, the Swedish Helena Jansson,
the British Catherine Taylor, the Swiss Matthias Kyburz or the New
Zealander Tim Robertson, among many other important names of the
international Orienteering scene. The French Thierry Gueorgiou and
the Danish Ida Bobach, Long Distance World Champions, are the most
remarkable absents from the greatest test before the World Games
2017, that will be held in Wrocław. Everything to follow at
http://worldcup2016.pl/.
2. The
Czech Team for the European Orienteering Championships on home ground
has been selected. World Champion in 2008 (Olomouc, Czech Republic),
Dana Safka Brozková is heading the strong team – being best among
the women in the selection races. The Czech selection races for the
forest disciplines in EOC 2016 were held in Šumperk and surroundings
last weekend. The selection races started with a 3000 meter track
test on Friday. On Saturday there was a Long Distance on the map
Skřítek and on Sunday the selections ended up with a Middle
Distance on a small, rocky area. Jan Petrzela won the 3.000 metres
while Milos Nykodym was the best in the forest races. As for the
Women, Dana Safka Brozková won the Long Distance and Denisa Kosová
performed better than anyone else in the Middle Distance and 3.000
metres. The athletes selected are Vendula Horčičková, Adélka
Indráková, Adélka Jakobová, Jana Knapová, Denisa Kosová,
Michaela Omová and Dana Šafka Brožková, in the Women; the Men are
Daniel Hájek, Vojtěch Král, Pavel Kubát, Tomáš Kubelka, Miloš
Nykodým, Jan Petržela, Jan Procházka and Jan Šedivý. To see
detailed information, please go to
http://news.worldofo.com/2016/04/27/czech-eoc-selection-team-maps-results/.
3. From
20th to 24th April, the region of Åhus, Sweden, received the MTBO
Camp 2016. Organized by the OK Øst Birkerød, Denmark, and OK
Pan-Kristianstad, Sweden, the event called the attention of about
three hundred participants from 15 countries, offering a several
different races in terms of its format and distance. The offer
included two stages scoring for the IOF MTBO World Ranking, one in
the Sprint Distance and another of Middle Distance. The Sprint stage
had in the Russian Grigory Medvedev (Cube Russia Team) and the
Finnish Marika Hara (Team Finland) the big winners, while the Swedish
Marcus Jansson (Garphyttans IF) and again Marika Hara took the first
places in the Middle Distance stage. The Finnish Ingrid Stengård and
Eeva-Liisa Hakala achieved, respectively, the second and third places
in both stages, while in Men the Russian Ruslan Gritsan (Shimano
Bergamont) and the Czech Radek Laciga (CZE Elite) followed Medvedev
in the Sprint and the Finnish Jussi Laurila (Team Finland) and the
Danish Allan Jensen (OK Pan Arhus) were second and third in the
Middle Distance stage. Overall, Medvedev and Hara were the big
winners of MTBO Camp 2016. All to check in
http://www.mtbocamp.dk/2016/.
4. The Spanish Football League
(La Liga), the Spanish Sports Superior Council and the Spanish Sports
Association presented LaLiga4Sports, a project born to give
visibility to the 64 sport federations in Spain. The official
presentation took place in the Madrid Architects Official College
with the presence of representatives of all sports federations,
including Victor García Berenguer, President of the Spanish
Orienteering Federation and Andreu Blanes, one of the leading
exponents of Orienteering in that country and 7th classified in the
Sprint final of the World Orienteering Championships WOC 2015
(Inverness, Scotland). “This is a great initiative, but with a long
way to go before it proves 100% productive”, Blanes states. The
athlete believes that “people directly involved in the process are
very committed with the so-called small sports” but, again, his
idea is that “it’s necessary to give time to see how it works”.
To the Portuguese Orienteering Blog, the Spanish Orienteering
Federation's Secretariat confirmed that the Spanish Football League
will annually allocate some money to the sports federations,
according to their visibility. The condition is investing the money
in the High Competition and, at the same time, some resources may be
used to advertise LaLiga4Sports. Jesús De Miguel add that “last
year the FEDO received 19,000 Euros, from a total of 6,000,000 Euros
shared by all Federations.”
Joaquim Margarido
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