News from LiU Orienteering

Three women sub 10 on 3000 m

2009-10-24

Beata Falk, Frida Aspnäs and Linnea Gustafsson have all run sub 10 min on 3000 m during track races this winter...

Three gold medals

2009-10-24

The demanding night courses with difficult map-reading in detailed terrain suited some of the LiU-runners during the Swedish night championships. In men's class there also was an interesting long route choice...

Two silver medals

2009-09-20

The final of the Swedish long-distance championship had many LiU-runners on the starting line – after Saturday's qualifying race were...

"Elitserien" in central Norrköping

2009-09-17

NAIS Orienteering will arrange the sprint competition of Elitserien at Campus Norrköping April 30, 2010, the same weekend as Tiomila in Finspång. The competition area is shown below and the map is drawn by Peter Öberg...

LiU:s great day with two gold medals

2009-09-12

Linnea Gustafsson and Peter Öberg got a double victory for LiU and OK Hällen during the Swedish Championships in the middle-distance...

Almost another World Championship medal for Linnea Gustafsson

2009-08-23

Linnea Gustafsson's WOC week in Hungary ended with a great 5th-place in the long-distance…

WOC silver for Linnea Gustafsson

2009-08-20

LiU's WOC medalist:

LiU's Linnea Gustafsson has in the recent two years has gone from "Gotlandic junior runner with no national team missions" to "senior runner member of the national team and on international elite level". Will we ever see a runner establish…

LiU-medals in Sprint-SM

2009-08-23

LiU got medals of all values during Sprint-SM in Stromstad. In the women's senior class Linnea Lidstrom took the bronze…

Linnea Gustafsson ready for WOC

2009-08-27

LiU's Linnea Gustafsson OK Hällen is ready for her second world championship and this year dhe will run both sprint and long distance…

Frida and Beata selected for Euromeeting

2009-08-27

Twelve Swedes – including LiU's Frida Aspnäs and new LiU-student Beata Falk (still a junior) - have been selected to run Euromeeting…

LiU results from Oringen

2009-07-24

Here follows LiU results from Oringen – both new students, existing students and members of the training group...

Bronze to Linnea at the World Games

2009-07-18

During the middle-distance in the World Games in Taiwan LiU's Linnea Gustafsson reached her greatest international success so far...

Linnea fast in World Games

2009-07-17

World Games in Taiwan has begun for the orienteers and the first discipline was sprint. In women's class LiU's Linnea Gustafsson did one of his best races ever, and landed in 5th place...

High ligts from JWOC in Italy

2009-07-12

There were mixed results by the LiU runners at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Italy. Highlights were...

Öberg 4th in World Cup Chasing Start

2009-06-27

After Friday's middle-distance in the World Cup followed Saturday's long-distance and Chasing Start...

Another victory in the World Cup for Öberg

2009-06-26

Although Peter Öberg believed that the map reading was difficult and speed reduced he formed enough speed for another victory...

Kristin, Kalle and Anton to the Junior World Championships in Italy

2009-06-12

Directly after the Nordic Championships the slightly smaller National Team to the the Junior World Championships in Italy was nominated...

Kalle 1 second from a medal in the Open Nordic Championships

2009-06-10

Wednesday was the last competition day in the Open Nordic Orienteering Championships and sprint was the final distance. Peter Öberg and Anton Tynong skipped this discipline though…

Victory in the World Cup and gold medal to Peter Öberg

2009-06-09

Peter Öberg performed great with a fantastic race in the middle distance; he won gold in the Nordic championships and won the first World Cup race before Thierry Gueorgiou and Valentin Novikov…

Another medal to Anton in the Nordic Championships

2009-06-09

For Anton Tynong 2009 is his best season ever. In the middle-distance, he secured his third medal…

Another medal for Kristin in the Nordic Championships

2009-06-09

For Kristin Löfgren 2009 is her best season ever. In the middle-distance she took another medal…

Three gold medals to LiU during the relays in the Open Nordic Championships

2009-06-07

Three gold medals and one silver medal in four different teams – LiU Orienteering runners ruled in three of four classes...

Fabulous start for LiU at the Open Nordic Championships

2009-06-06

Three of six possible medals in the junior classes to LiU's training group, also lead in both men's and women's class hallways during the race...

Shared LiU victory in national team sprint

2009-06-03

When the Swedish national team took the opportunity to market themselves, on their way to the Nordic championships, LiU junior Kalle Johansson showed up the best...

LiU-orienteers selected to the Nordic Championship

2009-05-28

Seven LiU orienteers are selected to the Nordic Championships in Finland...

Emil selected to the Nordic Open Championships

2009-05-17

Danish Emil Folino Nielsen is selected in the Danish team to the Nordic Open Championships...

Peter and Linnea preparing for next year's World Championships

2009-05-14

Linnea Gustafsson and Peter Öberg are on their way to the Swedish team's training camp in Norway, preparing for next year's World Championships...

Back after injury, and victory in the Elite Series

2009-05-10

National team star Peter Öberg, LiU coach competing for OK Hällen, injured his calf before Tiomila and since then he has done recovery training. The first race was planed to with reduced speed...

Kristin convinced at Silva Cup

2009-05-10

With a second and a third place at this weekend's races in the Silva Cup Kristin Löfgren is back after...

Bronze to Sigge in the Danish Championships

2009-04-26

Last year Danish ultra long-distance king, 22-year-old Rasmus Djurhuus from FIF Hillerød was also this year...

Antons great breakthrough

2009-04-26

A winter with tougher training than before gave immediate results for LiU's Anton Tynong. Physically his body...

Emil 5th in the Danish Championships

2009-04-26

Fifth and seventh place for LiU's Danish orienteers Emil Folino and Sigge Lundedal in...

WC camp after the Elite Series

2009-04-25

Finspång offered tough long-distance courses during the Elite Series. For the senior national team runners, this was just the beginning...

Three of top eight in the Elite Series

2009-04-25

The Elite Series in Finspång was a great success for the female LiU orienteers; three runners among the eight fastest and the ladies...

Two LiU-orienteers in World Games

2009-04-20

The federation announces the Swedish team squad for World Games in Taiwan is complete and two of the four are LiU orienteers...

Pictures from the archipelago

2009-04-19

Here are some photos from Sunday's training session in the St. Anna archipelago...

Fast running of LiU gentlemen in the Tiomila-night

2009-04-19

Here is some running worth mentioning, by LiU-orienteers at 10mila in Skåne...

LiU ladies tenth on Tiomila

2009-04-18

Club team OK Kolmården surprised with a tenth place in the women's Tiomila. Of the five women four train in LiU's training group and two of them are included in LiU Elite Sports...

Linnea Gustafsson overall second in the Elite Series

2009-04-17

Also at the second race of the Elite Series, sprint race in the forest in the north of Helsingborg, LiU's Linnea Gustafsson showed class with another third place, now after winning Danish Signe Søes...

Nostalgic training along men's course from Nordic Championship 1955

2009-04-14

14.8 km, twelve controls, scale 1:50 000 and tough terrain in Kolmården (Black Forest) – this describes the men's course from the first Nordic championship:

Elite Series premiere in Höör

2009-04-13

After Sunday's qualifying race with 120 women and 250 men the 40 fastest runners was chosen for Monday's final race with hunting start – an incomparable thrill with only single-second start intervals between lots of runners...

Pictures from the Black Forest Double (Kolmårdsdubbeln)

2009-04-05

Here follows some pictures from the Black Forest Double (Kolmårdsdubbeln)...

Göran Persson at Campus Norrköping

2009-04-02

Former Swedish national team coach Göran Persson has many years experience and can provide invaluable assistance in preparing elite orienteers mentally for the coming major competitions. The trick to become charged and secure, no matter what happens in the environment...

Long distance in the archipelago

2009-03-24

This weekend most of LiU orienteers compete during the "Seagull relay" (Måsenstafetten), in the finest terrain you can think of. Also to them who stay in Norrköping/Linköping something memorable is offered; long distance training in the archipelago...

Five pages about Linköping University Orienteering in Skogssport

2009-03-24

To our great joy, a very informative and nice article about LiU Orienteering is published in the latest issue of the magazine Skogssport. This, together with a full page ad, should give future students a good picture of the orienteering activities at Linköping University in Norrköping/Linköping....

David Andersson, Lena Eliasson, Artem Panchenko, Kalevan Rasti...

2009-03-24

As always LiU Orienteering houses some guest runners. Here are some visitors who will join LiU Orienteering training in the near future...

The first "training races" this season

2009-03-23

The first "training races" this season, which are intended to improve lactic threshold further and trim physics with map reading, have been run this weekend and here is a selection of LiU-performance...

Intervals on grass

2009-03-16

The sun sets later and racing season is approaching. The interval training on hard ground, which in winter has been done indoors on running track and by sprint orienteering intervals in the city, now move onto the grass outside the athletics hall Stadium Arena; Himmestalund's field is like a large savannah, soon filled with runners/orienteers running like proud ostriches...

Next meeting with former national team coach Göran Persson

2009-03-16

Thursday April 2, Göran Persson, former national team coach of Swedish men's orienteering, comes to Norrköping to meet LiU Orienteering's Elite Group. The meeting is part of the cooperation with Göran when it comes to a holistic approach to elite efforts including how one with...

With a 1.2 m long map towards the sun

2009-03-12

This is what LiU Orienteering offers this Sunday before the theory meeting (training planning) in Little lake cottage; the course measuring 18 km heads south from the beginning to the finish...

Orienteers took championship medals on track

2009-03-08

In the final of the Swedish Junior Championship M22 1500 m the orienteer Erik Johansson took the responsibility to run up a high pace right from the start. He tired out his competitors...

Theory meeting after the Sunday long run

2009-03-04

After Sunday's long run March 15 in Little Lake Cottage there will be a theory meeting. The purpose is discussing the physiological parameters which affect the speed of long distance running. These may be the limit setting for the performance, parameters for development, and perhaps some of them already are well-developed...

Castle Hill and Svärtinge forests this weekend

2009-03-03

This weekend will as usual offer two great orienteering courses:

Saturday's course in Söderköping has a total of 50 controls and measures 18 km with 850 m pitch. The terrain around the ancient castle, which is one of the largest of its kind (800 m * 500 m), is really tough. The terrain is free from snow...

Wednesday and reporter from "Skogssport" is visiting...

2009-03-03

A common winter Wednesday at LiU Orienteering includes morning workout with map and the evening workout include VO2-maximum-intervals, also with map – this is also the case this Wednesday when "Skogssport's" Rasmus Westergren is on a visit...

Danes take over...

2009-02-26

The coaches Peter Öberg and Peter Holgersson are both away this weekend (training camp in Bulgaria and Indoor-SM in athletics) and the Danes Emil Folino and Sigge Lundedal take care of the workouts...

"Urban orienteering and Night Extreme" will be replaced with e.g. NOC 1955

2009-02-23

As we all notice the evenings are lighter and the boiler lights / map lights are no longer needed. Now there are two remaining Tuesday-city-orienteering (15-17 km and 6-8 controls) and one race in the Night Extreme with extra difficult night orienteering. Then...

Cozy Sunday workout on "the roof of Kolmården"

2009-02-22

Here are some photos from Sunday's long corridor-orienteering on the "roof of Kolmården"...

Frida and her new attack on 3000 m

2009-02-19

Frida Aspnäs made a new attempt to get under 10:00 on 3000 m. At Thursday's Indoor-DM on Campus Valla she solo-ran the 3000 m with 20 s per hundred meters (beeping watch)...

Wonderful orienteering weekend

2009-02-15

A thin snow-covered forest that made everything white, brilliant sunshine and over 30 km orienteering courses in top terrain – this was LiU Orienteering's menu on 14-15:th February. Saturday's corridor course was arranged at Sörsjön Camping Village...

Linnea Gustafsson won in Spain

2009-02-15

During the Spain training camp Linnea Gustafsson OK Hällen won the second phase of the Trofeo Costa Blanca just before the Junior World Champion Lina Strand and national team qualified Lina Bäckström...

Ambulance after crash with cactus

2009-02-14

It was a miserable start of the Spain training camp for Swedish Champion Linnea Lidström...

Linnea Gustafsson second place in Spain

2009-02-14

During the Spain training camps first race – the World Ranking-founding first stage of Trofeo Costa Blanca – Linnea Gustafsson succeeded...

Photos of rock aerobics

2009-02-12

Photos from the LiU Orienteering rock aerobics...

"Elitserien" in central Norrköping

2009-02-05

NAIS orienteering will arrange the sprint competition of Elitserien at Campus Norrköping May 1, 2010, the same weekend as Tiomila in Finspång. The competition area is shown below and the map is drawn by Peter Öberg...

New members of the Elite Group

2009-02-02

LiU Elite Sports' head group has after a long meeting decided to adopt three orienteers and two runners ahead of next semester; the large number of members normally means that the requirements for merit increases for future applicants... New orienteers in the elite group are:

Erik Liljekvist, OK Älme (JWC-gold in the relay and total victory in Silva Cup 2008)

Anton Tynong, Gävle OK (2nd and 3rd in Silva Cup 2008)

Jonas Wallin, Vänersborgs SK (6th in long distance and 8th in the middle distance in the Swedish Junior Championships 2008)

Orienteers tested track-running

2009-02-01

Several members of LiU Orienteering Elite Group have tried to compete on the indoor running tracks. On the women's site of indoor statistics we find Frida Aspnäs with 4:43 on the 1500 m and 3000 m at 10:02 and Linnea Gustafsson with 4:53 on the 1500 m and 10:11 in the 3000 m.

Nostalgic training

2009-01-31

At last it was time for a nostalgic training on Risinge peninsula. The course was 15 km long on IFK Norrköping's large and extremely detailed map. It was exciting to see how the map and the terrain had remained, now 30 years after the map was drawn. No revision had been made since then and the forest was still intact...

Soft workout on Lanzarote

2009-01-16

Week 02 part of LiU Orienteering visited Club la Santa – the famous sports hotel on the northwest of Lanzarote. Training in the beautiful environment contained a mixture of running straight into the desert, mountain-biking, strength-training, track-running and other training...

First session in the Stadium Arena

2008-12-13

Now LiU Orienteering has two new halls for indoor-athletics and interval running...

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