2020 World Rogaining Championships Awarded to USA
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The International Rogaining Federation (IRF) has awarded the rights to host the 17th World Rogaining Championships (WRC) to Orienteering USA (OUSA). Management of the event will be by the Bay Area Orienteering Club in conjunction with a number of organizations and orienteering clubs who are members of OUSA. The Championships will be held on 1st – 2nd August, 2020 and will attract many hundreds of elite and veteran endurance cross-country navigators from around the world. The event will be centred in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California east of the San Francisco Bay Area. The combination of high altitude, intricate pine forests and physically demanding terrain will be sure to offer a true challenge to the world’s best rogainers.
Website: https://www.wrc2020.com/
2018 European Rogaining Championships
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The 2018 European Rogaining Championships, which will be held 25-26 August 2018 in south-western part of Ukraine, in Carpathy hills. The event website is http://erc2018.com/en
The area of competitions (about 180 km²) is located in the west part of the Chernivtsi region, mainly on the territory of Vyzhnytsya National Park. The event center of the 15th ERC2018 is in a town Berehomet, which is approximately 630 km far from Kiev, about 60 km from Chernivtsi, and 260 km from the Lviv.
The area of competitions will be interesting for fans of extreme sports. There are small mountains with elevations of up to 400 m, a lot of small rivers and streams, and a picturesque hilly terrain with separate settlements. Planning and navigating skills will be important for athletes on the way to success!
August in the Vyzhnytsya National Park is a moderate, warm summer month with an average temperature of 20–25 °C in the daytime and 8–17 °C at night.
Those of you who want to enjoy rogaining and local attractions as well can get unforgettable emotions by visiting Chernivtsi city, or small beautiful towns and villages of the region, as well as other interesting places in the Carpathians with their stunning nature.
We invite you to visit Bukovyna this summer and take part in exciting rogaining competitions!
The early bird registration will last until 31 March 2018.
15th World Rogaining Championships 2017 - Latvia
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Here is a brief look at the recently held and innovative 15th World Rogaining Championships Latvia.
The top ten places were dominated as is usual for WRC's by Open Mens teams, though not unusually two of the top ten teams were Open Mixed teams. Interestingly for a WRC there was only one veteran team in top ten on this occassion. The winners of all three Open events won by clear margins. Interestingly Latvian teams took the first three Open Men and therefor outright places.
1 | 673 Straightforward | Janis Krumins / Andris Ansabergs | 427 | 23:46:02 | MO:1 | |||||||
2 | 609 Laid mums tur laimē diet | Zigmunds Bībers / Andris Ronimoiss | 392 | 23:43:36 | MO:2 | |||||||
3 | 614 LOKO | Jānis Ansabergs / Kristaps Jaudzems | 389 | 23:49:01 | MO:3 | |||||||
4 | 621 MÜRSK | Siim Klais / Märt Roosaare | 385 | 23:48:11 | MO:4 | |||||||
5 | 1079 Georgia and Greig | Georgia Whitla / Greig Hamilton | 382 | 23:41:39 | XO:1 | |||||||
6 | 669 Õnnevalem | Sander Mirme / Ain Fjodorov | 374 | 23:48:44 | MO:5 | |||||||
7 | 646 Inov-8 | Ondrej Skripnik / Radovan Čech | 369 | 23:46:25 | MO:6 | |||||||
8 | 1042 Swamp children | Anna Korobko / Sergey Miroshkin / Dmitry Shemyatikhin | 362 | 23:47:57 | XO:2 | |||||||
9 | 1262 OMEGA | Sergey Yashchenko / Oleg Kalinin | 358 | 23:52:02 | MO:7 | MV:1 | ||||||
10 | 709 Damned by Wives - NN rogaining | Semyon Yakimov / Andrey Efimov / Konstantin Solovyev | 353 | 23:28:03 |
MO:8 |
12 | 1415 SPLAV | Nina Mikheeva / Marina Galkina | 350 | 23:50:07 | WO:1 | WV:1 |
17 | 1007 Surikati | Pēteris Grīviņš / Ieva Upmace | 339 | 23:51:41 |
XO:3 |
27 | 807 Ozons | Māra Leitāne / Aiva Jakovela | 322 | 23:34:52 | WO:2 |
34 | 830 Arena dream team | Anna Burlinova / Maria Plyashechko | 316 | 23:47:55 | WO:3 |
Visit the event web site for a comprehension overview of the event.
Congratulations to the athletes and the organisers.
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