Welcome to orientering.se and the Swedish Orienteering Federation. At orientering.se you can follow Swedish orienteering all year around. We cover all big national competitions such as Elitserien, Tiomila, O-Ringen and the Swedish Championships, as well as the major events around the world, such as the World Championships, the World Cup, the World Games and the Jukola Relay. From all these events you can expect text and pictures within a few hours after the end of the event, often with Web-TV in addition. Orientering.se is the place to find results and comments from major orienteering events all over the world.
The material published at orientering.se is in Swedish. Here is a short guide to our foreign visitors.
The start page is our news site. This page is updated every day and all the latest orienteering news are presented here, as well as new Web-TV programs. You can also take part in the discussion about Swedish orienteering by reading and posting your own comments to the articles at the start page.
Tävlande is the Swedish word for competitor. At Sträcktidsanalys you can find some smart tools for analyzing your orienteering race, such as WinSplits (compare the split times for different runners), and at Vägvalsanalys you will find RunOway (mark your route choices and see the route choices of other runners) and QuickRoute where you can analyze your route from a GPS watch. You will also find links to the Swedish ranking list and other useful information for runners. Träningstips is a new feature where members of the Swedish national team every week provides you with a new tool for improving your orienteering skills.
Arrangör contains information for organizers of orienteering events.
Ledare is a set of information for coaches and staff members of the orienteering club.
At Börja orientera you will find information for beginners in orienteering, basic facts about map and compass as well as information for schools and how to find your nearest orienteering club.
Historia och statistik is the place where you can find results from former orienteering events together with information about how it all started more than one hundred years ago.
At the page called Landslaget you will find facts about all members of the Swedish National Team. You can also read about the schedule and organization of the teams.
Tävlingar is the Swedish word for competitions. Here you will find the competition calendar where all the orienteering competitions in Sweden are listed. Fill in the dates, press the upper right button and you will find links to all competitions.
SM-tävlingar is a page covering the Swedish Championships with invitations, links to the organizers and previous results.
Elitserien is a series of high quality competitions for the elite. The series started in 2000 as a way to raise the status of certain elite competitions in Sweden and to prepare the Swedish elite runners for tougher terrain and full-distance competitions. Elitserien is open for elite runners from foreign countries. You will find results, current standings and up-coming programme on this page.
Silva Junior Cup is the equivalent of Elitserien, but for junior orienteers. A series of competitions from spring to autumn, spread out over the whole country. Silva Junior Cup is open for foreign runners.
O-Ringen - the famous Swedish 5-day competition in July - has its own website. Please visit www.oringen.se.
Tiomila - the big relay in the end of April - also contains a link to the organizer's website at www.tiomila.se.
Internationella tävlingar is a page with links to up-coming orienteering competitions outside Sweden. To post your competition at this page, please send an e-mail with the web link to skogssport@orientering.se.
Skogssport is the world-leading orienteering magazine. At the Skogssport homepage you will find teasers for the latest issue, advertising information and contact information to the editorial staff. Some previous articles are available for reading as PDF files.
Förbundsinfo contains information from the Swedish Orienteering Federation. If you are looking for contact information, most addresses can be found at the page Adresser. At the page Orienteringsförbundet you will find contact information related to the federation. If you are looking for a district or a local orienteering club, please try the search engine at Föreningar och distrikt.
Naturpasset is a commitment from the Swedish Orienteering Federation aiming at providing easy access to orienteering, but without the element of competition. Naturpasset is a map with several posts you can visit anytime you like. If you are about to visit Sweden this might be a good way of training. Naturpasset has its own site at www.naturpasset.se.
Skogsäventyret is school project that aims to teach orienteering to children around the age of ten. Skogsäventyret has its own site at www.skogsaventyret.se.
Kartbanken leads you to a register where you can find orienteering maps all over Sweden. More maps are added every week. Click on the map to see maps in a certain area and to find out information about where to get a copy the map. A new feature at Kartbanken is a view where you can find all orienteering clubs in Sweden.
Butiken is a web shop offering orienteering literature (mostly in Swedish) as well as other orienteering products.
If you can’t find what you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to contact the Swedish Orienteering Federation at info@orienteering.se.
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