LiU Orienteering – a part of LiU Elite Sports

LiU Orienteering offers a broad business and a series of activities for those who are active orienteers. We want students to develop their orienteering – whatever level or ambition – while they carry out successful studies at Linköping University. The range consists of daily training, lectures and social activities carried out in cooperation with the student association LiTHe Lost

Anyone who belongs to the elite tier in Sweden or rest of the world have the opportunity to apply to be included in the LiU Orienterring Elite Goup. It offers personal training and additional benefits and support in order to combine the athletes' studies with a hard focus on their sport. To the elite group adopted orienteers which hold national elite level – e.g. members of the national team groups and national championship medalist. Adopted runners receive benefits such as:

• personal training planning in dialogue with Peter Holgersson and Peter Öberg
• feedback in full race speed
• transport to the daily well-designed training
• free workout at gym
• accommodation in connection with the other members of the elite group
• help during injury – through daily counseling, appointment with a therapist within any days and help with rehabilitation
• contact with general practitioners and sports physicians
• support of mentor to succeed in combining study and training at the elite level
• support in learning mathematics at technical and scientific education
• sensitivity to the flexible examination if collision with championship
• free training on running track indoors: