Junior World Orienteering Championships 2024, hosted in the Pilsen region, are now history. The championship offered extraordinary sporting performances, several powerful stories, lots of joy, some tears, sleepless nights, and memories for a lifetime. Several tons of food were consumed, hundreds of kilometres of tape were stretched, speakers talked for […]

The final competition day at the 2024 Junior World Orienteering Championships in the Czech Republic traditionally belonged to the relay race, in which three-member national teams competed. Each national team could enter up to two relays, which most teams took advantage of. A large starting field thus set off into […]

The home team was once again unstoppable today at the middle distance with Lucie Dittrichová and Jan Strýček winning gold. Lucie Dittrichová was no match for anybody from the starting field, winning with a considerable lead of 1:20 min. Strýček had to fight neck-in-neck with Matthieu Buehrer (SUI) in the […]

On July 3rd, 2024, Hůrky woke up to a misty, cold, and rainy morning. Despite this, what transpired in the following hours on the Long distance course in the adjacent forest is likely to remain one of the most memorable experiences in Czech orienteering for a long time. Many were […]