I totally support Niggli&Niggli's concept of new World Cup (Vinogradov Mike)

For the moment World Cup system doesn't have any logic, it is just an eclectic mix of different competitions. There are a lot of top runners who skip some races or all of them (except WOC, of course). But now famous people in Orienteering - Matthias and Simone Niggli have generated excellent ideas to reanimate IOF World Cup.

Current list of Galina Vinogradova's PBs

Today Galina ran 5000 m in 16:18.58. For last months Galina Vinogradova renewed PBs for distances from 1500 to 5000 m. Here is a current list:

WOC 2014: Russian team selected

Three stages of Russian test-races are completed. Russian WOC-delegation has announced at official site of Russian Orienteering federation.

Russian team for World Cup 2014, Round 3

Next stages of World Cup are coming soon. Russian team for World Cup 2014 Round 3, stage 1 (Kongsberg, Norway) includes:

About touch free systems and punching trainings

Punching at control is an element of action system during O-competitions. Fortunately, now we can see that touch free systems are spread out around the O-world. And I hope that quite soon runners will not care about time lost while punching. But for the moment it is useful to test and improve these skills sometimes.

Russian Sprint champs: Double victories

Test races for WOC-sprint were completed by Russian championships in Sprint, mass-start. Andrey Khramov and me won another gold medals.

WOC-2014 selected

Victory in Russian sprint championships (individual start) makes me selected to WOC-2014. Vladimir is a host city for these competitions. Result list  is here (in Russian). Summary in English for women:

9 May - Day of Great Victory

9 May 1945 is an ending day of German Nazism. The end of the war that costs 27 millions lifes of Soviet people. The Victory Day is the greatest Russian holiday.