O-Ringen Magazine Nr 2 - 2023.
The worlds biggest orienteering event. 21-27 july 2024.
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THE MAGAZINE ABOUT THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ORIENTEERING ADVENTURE<br />
NUMBER 2<br />
OCTOBER 2023<br />
Smålandskusten<br />
is waiting for you!<br />
ENTER BY<br />
5TH NOVEMBER<br />
– SAVE 20 %<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City<br />
with a focus on<br />
community<br />
O-RINGEN MAGAZINE NR 2 • 2023 1
EN HALV LITER<br />
SVENSK SOMMAR<br />
I vår nya jordgubbsglass samsas svensk färsk grädde<br />
med solvarma jordgubbar från Stora Berg självplock, 15 minuter<br />
från vår Glassfabrik. En somrig smak av Sverige helt enkelt.<br />
After the<br />
mountains<br />
comes the seaside!<br />
Once again, O-<strong>Ringen</strong> is over – another one is coming. We are leaving the mountains (and<br />
a bit of rain and hail) behind us and our sights are set on the coastline ahead of us. At the<br />
core of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> is the concept that the experiences of orienteering and fellowship are<br />
central to each edition, while the setting and framework change around them.<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
När livet leker<br />
We know that this year, many<br />
of you had further to travel<br />
to our arenas, which meant<br />
that some people spent<br />
altogether too much time waiting in Åre.<br />
To everyone who took part in O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Åre 2023, we promise we have read, sorted,<br />
processed and taken on board both the<br />
criticism and the praise that we received<br />
in connection with our competitor survey.<br />
Without your feedback each year, O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
– together with its competitors – would<br />
never be able to be the world’s greatest<br />
orienteering adventure!<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2023 in Åre was a real<br />
challenge. Changing basic conditions have<br />
been and still are a challenge for ourselves<br />
as an organisation, as well as our concept<br />
and our delivery model. Now we are<br />
drawing a line under 2023 and looking to<br />
the years ahead. With a self-critical eye<br />
and high quality engagement with you,<br />
our loyal competitors, we have been able<br />
to update our mission plan, collecting and<br />
documenting many important points and<br />
new experiences. The knowledge we’ve<br />
gained will be crucial to how we continue to<br />
organise successful and enjoyable events in<br />
Swedish orienteering.<br />
Now the orienteering adventure is<br />
heading south – to the coast of Småland!<br />
Our helpers and destination are ready to<br />
welcome you. You can expect an O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
City, with the campsite and O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Square, that’s just a short cycle from the<br />
centre of Oskarshamn. We have two stages<br />
right next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City and yet another<br />
arena within cycling distance. We are also<br />
providing five days of competition for all<br />
orienteering disciplines. So, orienteering for<br />
everyone and plenty of time for shared club<br />
dinners, eating cake, bathing and spending<br />
time with family and friends!<br />
A huge thank you to everyone helping us<br />
to be even better!<br />
CLAES FORSBERG<br />
CEO Svensk Orientering Events AB<br />
claes.forsberg@oringen.se<br />
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Svensk Orientering Events AB<br />
Heliosgatan 3<br />
120 30 Stockholm<br />
info@oringen.se<br />
IN THIS EDITION:<br />
Thank you to Åre and our<br />
15,651 competitors for a<br />
wonderful O-<strong>Ringen</strong> week<br />
26–31<br />
Contact O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Claes Forsberg | CEO<br />
070-492 14 50, claes.forsberg@oringen.se<br />
Anders Strömbäck | project manager<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Smålandskusten 2024<br />
070-860 81 86, anders.stromback@oringen.se<br />
Mats Adolfsson | sales<br />
070-394 50 71, mats.adolfsson@oringen.se<br />
Anna Wennertorp | marketing, experience<br />
& competitior services<br />
070-952 54 78, anna.wennertorp@oringen.se<br />
Magnus Johansson | IT och digitalisering<br />
070-381 03 56, magnus.johansson@oringen.se<br />
Conny Gunnarsson | logistics<br />
070-810 73 49, conny.gunnarsson@oringen.se<br />
Johan Andersson | competition<br />
073-420 03 61, johan.andersson@oringen.se<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
www.oringen.se<br />
@oringen<br />
PHOTO: Peter Holgersson<br />
DJUPETRÄSK<br />
TRAINING COURSES<br />
ARENA DÖDERHULTSDALEN<br />
STAGE 4 & 5<br />
O-RINGEN TOWN<br />
ARENA HJORTBERGET<br />
STAGE 3<br />
8<br />
ARENA HAVSLÄTTS<br />
FRILUFTSOMRÅDE<br />
16<br />
STAGE 2<br />
ARENA BRÄDHOLMEN<br />
ELITE SPRINT<br />
BAGHEERA RELAY<br />
OSKARSHAMN<br />
The magazine is produced and published<br />
by Svensk Orientering Events AB<br />
Responsible publisher<br />
Claes Forsberg<br />
Layout<br />
Martin Hammarberg, Adshape AB<br />
Cover<br />
Photo: Cornelia Höglind<br />
ARENA SCANIASLINGAN<br />
STAGE 4 & 5<br />
SATELLITE PARKING<br />
ARENA STADSPARKEN<br />
STAGE 3<br />
ARENA KRISTINEBERG<br />
Community, club feeling<br />
and varied challenges<br />
STAGE 5<br />
ARENA GUNNARSÖ<br />
STAGE 3<br />
Stage areas:<br />
Rosenfors, Gunnarsö<br />
and Döderhultsdalen<br />
15<br />
Changes for age groups 75 years and above.<br />
18<br />
Getting to our main arenas .<br />
36–37<br />
MTBO with five stages.<br />
38<br />
Five stages of Trail-O.<br />
48<br />
Hackathon - What happens now?<br />
51–55<br />
Get the full Smålandskusten experience.<br />
Photo: Cornelia Höglind.<br />
SVANENMÄRKT<br />
24<br />
20<br />
Traditional O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite<br />
close to all the action .<br />
32<br />
Högtryckssprinten & Bagheerastafetten.<br />
42–43<br />
Swiss orienteering family are<br />
welcome additions to SOK Viljan.<br />
44–45<br />
Direction 2030.<br />
58–63<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Jönköping 2025.<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Göteborg 2026.<br />
67–74<br />
Registration guide.<br />
Trycksak<br />
3041 0189<br />
O-RINGEN MAGAZINE NR 2 • 2023 5
TACK FÖR<br />
I ÅR, ÅRE!<br />
Ren njutning<br />
TILLSAMMANS GJORDE VI<br />
O-RINGEN OFÖRGLÖMLIG<br />
Kul att så många hittade till Suzuki-Center, mitt i den fantastiska fjällmiljön. Årets<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> blev ett härligt äventyr, med storslagna vyer, lerigt underlag och utmanande<br />
terräng. Perfekt för oss 4x4-entusiaster!<br />
Om du träffade på oss kunde du förmodligen inte missa hur stolta vi är över årets<br />
nyhet: 3 års service ingår på alla nya bilar från Suzuki – en viktig milstolpe i vår resa<br />
mot det krångelfria billivet.<br />
Hoppas vi ses igen nästa sommar! (Eller ännu tidigare, hos någon av våra återförsäljare<br />
runtom i landet, eller på suzukibilar.se).<br />
Stolt tävlingspartner<br />
till O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Tack alla orienterare och naturdyrkare för fantastiska dagar i Åre!<br />
Flera av er ville provsmaka våra produkter och vi fick många härliga<br />
förslag på nya smaker. Nu önskar vi er en underbar höst och vinter,<br />
med nya upplevelser och goda minnen från skog och mark. Som ni vet<br />
är Fjällfil® gjord på mjölk från norrländska gårdar, med okonstlade smaker<br />
från bären vi älskar, utan tillsatta aromer. Det är så vi vill ha det, naturligt<br />
och äkta, en ren njutning från norr!
RETROSPECT O-RINGEN ÅRE 2023<br />
Thank you Åre!<br />
15 651<br />
participants<br />
61 334<br />
starts<br />
1085<br />
clubs<br />
37<br />
countries<br />
”<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Åre 2023 would like to<br />
thank everyone who can to enjoy our<br />
beautiful part of the world in summer<br />
and experienced an O-<strong>Ringen</strong> in<br />
true mountain surroundings. We are<br />
very grateful that you joined us and<br />
I hope you had a great experience in<br />
terrain and nature that might have<br />
been new to you. The charming thing<br />
about O-<strong>Ringen</strong> is that each year is<br />
unique. We also hope that you will<br />
return to Jämtland and Åre in the<br />
future. On behalf of all our officials<br />
and helpers, Niclas Lidström, Project<br />
Manager for O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2023 in Åre,<br />
would like to say huge thank you for<br />
joining us.<br />
Our oldest competitor was born<br />
in 1932 and the youngest was<br />
born in 2018<br />
OK Kåre won the Bagheerastafetten!<br />
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Thank you Region Jämtland Härjedalen<br />
for medical healthcare and collaboration!<br />
During O-<strong>Ringen</strong> in Åre, our arenas in Trillevallen, Järpen<br />
and Ånn all included a temporary mobile medical station<br />
operated by Region Jämtland Härjedalen’s team. The<br />
region’s aim was to ease pressure on other local<br />
healthcare services, including local health centres,<br />
Östersund Hospital and the ambulance service.<br />
The medical station at the arena was there to provide full treatment<br />
for anybody who needed it, while at the same time giving as high<br />
quality healthcare as is possible in temporary facilities. A total of<br />
13 people worked in the station’s team. As well as a receptionist<br />
there were a doctors, a physiotherapist, nurses, a radiographer and<br />
assistant nurse/orthopaedic technologist. All visits were recorded<br />
and documented by the team treating the patient. As well as this<br />
team there was also a logistics manager, a project manager and two<br />
more people to help transport and build the medical station.<br />
The team on the ground<br />
The team were divided into five treatment areas: an emergency<br />
area (doctor/nurse), physiotherapy area (physiotherapist),<br />
orthopaedics area (orthopaedist/nurse), eye injuries, etc. (regional<br />
doctor/nurse), X-ray (radiographer), and of course a reception led<br />
a receptionist and triage (emergency nurse). The doctor and nurse<br />
in the emergency area also had to either run out to casualties or be<br />
transported there on O-<strong>Ringen</strong>’s quad, depending on the situation.<br />
The station had equipment including and eye microscope and<br />
portable X-ray unit, as well as materials to stitch and dress wounds,<br />
bandages and other treatments for injuries commonly suffered<br />
during O-<strong>Ringen</strong>. You could clearly see that the injuries presented<br />
varied not only according to the terrain, but also the weather. The<br />
forest terrain led to more eye injuries and mountain terrain and<br />
wet weather more cuts and strains.<br />
Many people treated at the competition<br />
In total, 213 people received medical care during the competitions<br />
at Trillevallen, Järpen and Ånn. 210 of these were treated<br />
on location and three were transported elsewhere; all three had<br />
heart complaints and were taken to Östersund Hospital. Of the 213<br />
visits; 156 saw a doctor, 18 a physiotherapist and 39 a nurse. The<br />
average age of patients visiting the station was 41. The youngest<br />
patient was 6 years old and the oldest was 88.<br />
25 X-rays and 9 fractures<br />
The mobile X-ray unit performed 25 X-rays, detecting 9 fractures that<br />
were treated on location. Patients who needed X-rays avoided having<br />
to go to hospital in Östersund or a health centre in Åre. The images<br />
were transferred digitally to the hospital and read by their team, with<br />
the answer being sent directly back to the emergency area.<br />
How did it go?<br />
On the basis of the above, we can summarise the collaboration<br />
between O-<strong>Ringen</strong> and the regional health service by saying<br />
say that it worked just as well as we had hoped. O-<strong>Ringen</strong> took<br />
place without any serious incidents or injuries. The aim of easing<br />
pressure on other health services was met successfully, in that<br />
treatment on location healthcare and ambulance services in the<br />
area were not affected. The mobile X-Ray unit meant that these<br />
25 patients avoided having to be taken to Östersund Hospital or a<br />
health centre in Åre for care, easing pressure on both transport and<br />
their X-Ray services.<br />
Finally, you could say that providing healthcare on location, under<br />
the direction of Region Jämtland Härjedalen, has worked very<br />
well during O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Åre. It meant not only a good service but<br />
much better accessibility. Normal healthcare services were not put<br />
under pressure and were hardly affected at all. The response from<br />
competitors has also been very positive, in that they were provided<br />
with high quality, safe and quick care on location.<br />
Levererar omtanke<br />
Allt för dig<br />
När du gör livet godare för många, finns vi alltid nära<br />
och till hands. Med ett heltäckande utbud av bra<br />
råvaror, personlig service, hållbarhet i fokus och säkra<br />
leveranser, hjälper vi dig att förbättra din affär.<br />
Läs mer om hur vi kan hjälpa dig<br />
på martinservera.se<br />
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Changes for age groups<br />
75 years and above<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
A number of you have requested that we change how<br />
we organise competition classes for runners aged 75<br />
years and older. We are therefore very happy to be able to<br />
present these new changes.<br />
• No more classes D75 Short, H75 Short, D80 Short and<br />
H80 Short<br />
• Classes DH75-95 will have a free minute start<br />
• Classes DH75-95 will use the start previously used<br />
by DH80, giving a shorter distance to the start for<br />
classes DH75 and for runners who previously ran the<br />
short class.<br />
Runners just turning 75 may find they have slightly longer courses<br />
than in the 70 Short class but, on the other hand, there will be a<br />
shorter distance to the start. We feel that this is more important<br />
than a couple of hundred metres out on the course. The start for<br />
the short classes (DH17–20 Short to DH70 Short) often needs to<br />
be located further away from the arena to allow for the best courses<br />
for everyone starting from that start. Just as before, the last control<br />
will count as your finish time for classes DH80+ on stages 1 to 4.<br />
We hope that these changes for our older runners will make it<br />
possible for more people to continue enjoying O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, even<br />
when you legs aren’t quite as quick as they used to be.<br />
Many competitors have requested not to have two different<br />
classes for the relatively small number of runners in the DH75 and<br />
-80 age groups. We hope that having just one class will mean a<br />
better sense of camaraderie, as everyone in each age group runs in<br />
the same class.<br />
Preliminary distances to the start<br />
Stage DH75 Short classes<br />
Stage 1 1200 m 1500 m<br />
Stage 2 1600 m 1200 m<br />
Stage 3 1200 m 1900 m<br />
Stage 4 1600 m 2900 m<br />
Stage 5 1200 m 1600 m<br />
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OVERVIEW O-RINGEN SMÅLANDSKUSTEN 2024<br />
ARENA MÅLILLA OK’s<br />
KLUBBSTUGA<br />
STAGE 1<br />
ARENA ROSENFORS<br />
STAGE 1 & 2<br />
ARENA HJORTBERGET<br />
ARENA HAVSLÄTTS<br />
FRILUFTSOMRÅDE<br />
STAGE 3<br />
STAGE 2<br />
ARENA DÖDERHULTSDALEN<br />
STAGE 4 & 5<br />
ARENA BERGA IP<br />
STAGE 4<br />
DJUPETRÄSK<br />
TRAINING COURSES<br />
O-RINGEN TOWN<br />
ARENA BRÄDHOLMEN<br />
ELITE SPRINT<br />
BAGHEERA RELAY<br />
OSKARSHAMN<br />
ARENA LÅNGEHÄLL<br />
ARENA SCANIASLINGAN<br />
STAGE 4 & 5<br />
ARENA STADSPARKEN<br />
STAGE 3<br />
ARENA GUNNARSÖ<br />
STAGE 3<br />
STAGE 1 & 2<br />
SATELLITE PARKING<br />
ARENA KRISTINEBERG<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> square to<br />
Arena Rosenfors<br />
Arena Långehäll<br />
Arena Gunnarsö<br />
Arena Brädholmen<br />
Arena Havslätts friluftsområde<br />
Arena Kristinbergs motionsspår<br />
Arena Scaniaslingan<br />
Arena Döderhultsdalen<br />
Arena Hjortberget<br />
Arena Stadsparken<br />
Arena Berga IP<br />
Arena Målilla OK:s klubbstuga<br />
Oskarshamns stadskärna<br />
Träningsbanor med tidtagning, Djupeträsk<br />
Satellitparkering<br />
Distance<br />
43 km<br />
40 km<br />
5 km<br />
3 km<br />
5 km<br />
4 km<br />
2 km<br />
0,3 km<br />
0,3 km<br />
3 km<br />
30 km<br />
49 km<br />
2,5 km<br />
3,5 km<br />
4 km<br />
STAGE 5<br />
Symbol & Colour<br />
Orienteering<br />
MTBO<br />
Trail-O<br />
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ETT SVENSKT SPORTMÄRKE GRUNDAT 1981 I AVESTA<br />
Getting to Oskarshamn<br />
When you make your way to the Småland coast and<br />
Oskarshamn, you’re about the same distance from each<br />
of Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm.<br />
It’s easy to get to Oskarshamn by car or by using one of the<br />
daily bus services from many places in Sweden. A number of<br />
bus companies offer services; Flixbus has a direct connection<br />
to 15 other towns and Vy Bus4You to 9 towns, and then there’s<br />
Silverlinjen, which runs between Öland/Kalmar and Stockholm.<br />
This year we will also be able to offer transport with our O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
buses from several places in Sweden (details and booking will be<br />
available later).<br />
If you would like to fly, the nearest airport is Kalmar Öland<br />
Airport, which is served by several routes and carriers. You might<br />
want to combine your visit to the Småland coast with a trip to<br />
Gotland by catching the ferry between Gotland and Oskarshamn.<br />
There are also several options for travelling by train. If you’re<br />
arriving by train to Kalmar, Berga or Västervik you can take a<br />
bus connection to your final destination. Read more about taking<br />
public transport at kalmarlanstrafik.se or download the “Kalmar<br />
länstrafik” app to see which connections suit you best.<br />
Getting to our main arenas<br />
Stage buses will travel to the first two stages in Rosenfors from<br />
both O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City and the satellite parking, and to Stage 3 from<br />
the satellite parking. From O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City to Stage 3 you can cycle<br />
or walk approximately 4 km. We will also provide additional town<br />
buses. For stages 4 and 5, the arena is right next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City.<br />
For competitors travelling by car to stages 1, 2, 4 and 5 there will<br />
Stage 1 & 2<br />
Arena Rosenfors<br />
Stage 3<br />
Arena Gunnarsö<br />
Stage 4 & 5<br />
Arena Döderhultsdalen<br />
Staying at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Campsite<br />
Stage bus<br />
Cycle, long walk<br />
or extra local buses<br />
be parking within walking distance of these arenas. If there are<br />
over 20,000 participants, we will use satellite parking and further<br />
transport by bus to the arena. Stage buses are free, they’re included<br />
in your entry fee.<br />
You can read about how to get to each MTBO and Trail-O arena<br />
on the pages about these disciplines later in the magazine.<br />
Staying on the coast,<br />
north or south of Oskarshamn<br />
Car to satellite parking, then<br />
bus to arena<br />
Car to satellite parking, then<br />
bus to arena<br />
Staying west<br />
of Oskarshamn<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to satellite parking,<br />
then bus to arena<br />
Cycle or walk Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
Photo: Shutterstock, Johfors Productions AB. Photo: Shutterstock.<br />
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Ange koden seamless300 i kassan. Koden gäller t.o.m. 30 november 2023
Traditional O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite close to all the action<br />
Prices and<br />
more info at<br />
oringen.se<br />
Book your stay<br />
at oringen.se<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City, Uppsala 2022. Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
Oskarshamn Folk High School.<br />
Photo: Anna Wennertorp.<br />
Camping<br />
Oskarshamn Folk High School<br />
Other accommodation<br />
Depending on where on the campsite you are, it is 2.5–3.7 km in<br />
to the centre of Oskarshamn. In other words, the perfect cycling<br />
distance. The campsite has up to 2,500 camping pitches and is right<br />
next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square, where as usual there is a lot going on in<br />
the evenings; prize givings, entertainment and the possibility to<br />
meet our partners. As usual, Radio O-<strong>Ringen</strong> will also broadcast<br />
from the square.<br />
The campsite has the following pitches both with and<br />
without electricity:<br />
• standard pitch 9 x 9 m<br />
• XL pitch 9 x 18 m<br />
• Half pitch 4.5 x 9 m (for tents without electricity)<br />
You can find more information about our campsite on our booking<br />
portal. It is possible to book over a period of 10 days (18th–28th<br />
July 2024). The campsite has access to service areas.<br />
Prices for camping<br />
Camping<br />
Price*<br />
Half pitch 4.5 x 9 m without electricity (tent) SEK 1210<br />
Standard pitch 9 x 9 m without electricity SEK 2410<br />
Standard pitch 9 x 9 m with electricity SEK 3720<br />
XL pitch 9 x 18 m with electricity SEK 4175<br />
*Campsite prices +30% after 2 nd June.<br />
Shared club dinners are a staple of the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite. Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
In a central location, around 1 km walking distance from<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square. Quiet, pleasant surroundings with a lot of green<br />
space and a barbecue area. Oskarshamn Folk High School has a<br />
number of single rooms with showers and toilets in the corridor.<br />
The price of a single room includes breakfast and towels. There<br />
is a TV in the room, as well as a common room and kitchenette.<br />
You can also stay in a classroom and use your own sleeping mat<br />
and bedding. This also includes breakfast. There are toilets in the<br />
accommodation and nearby.<br />
Arrival 19th, 20th or 21st July and departure 27th or 28th July. A<br />
minimum of 7 nights, a maximum of 9 nights. Wifi available.<br />
Rödsle School<br />
At Rödsle School, next to the campsite, we have accommodation<br />
in classrooms. Bring your own sleeping mats and bedding. Toilets<br />
are in corridors and showers/changing rooms in the sports hall<br />
nearby. Meals are not included. Hard floor accommodation can be<br />
booked between 18th-28th July 2024, a minimum of 7 nights and a<br />
maximum of 10.<br />
If you would prefer a different type of accommodation, there<br />
are a huge variety of private residences to rent; both houses and<br />
apartments. The Småland coast also has hotels, hostels, cabins,<br />
campervan parking and more, all of which will be available via our<br />
booking portal at oringen.se.<br />
Oskarshamn has a guest harbour – why not bring your boat?<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Smålandskusten 2024 will have showers at the finish arenas.<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
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Community, club feeling<br />
and varied challenges<br />
– that’s what O-<strong>Ringen</strong> is really about<br />
I have seen many things in the world of sport, but getting<br />
to stand on top of the podium after a stage of O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
beats most of them. The fact that this was in the<br />
H21C class and was 42 years ago really doesn’t matter.<br />
Orienteering is sport at its very best.<br />
Every time I’m out in the forest walking Xavi, our wire-haired Jack<br />
Russell terrier, the memories come flooding back. I look over at the<br />
crag on the far side of the marsh, imagining a red and white control<br />
kite at its foot, or on the north side of the marsh. Sometimes<br />
I take a few quick steps in from the road or ski track, pretending I<br />
have a map and compass in my hand, and that I’m heading straight<br />
for a control only I can see.<br />
For me, orienteering competitions were never that simple. I<br />
often wandered round searching for the right control, turned the<br />
map the wrong way, ran too quickly or too slowly and made such<br />
huge mistakes that I’d promise myself that never again would I<br />
venture out into an unfamiliar wilderness. Only to then find myself<br />
at next Tuesday’s club training race, paying the token start fee,<br />
drawing the course onto the map and throwing myself back into<br />
the forest.<br />
I did every sport you could think of, growing up in northern<br />
Småland in the 1970s and 80s. Football, athletics, skiing, bandy,<br />
table tennis, volleyball, shooting – and orienteering. There was<br />
something special about orienteering. The feeling of fellowship in<br />
that big orienteering family was unbeatable. I loved being close to<br />
nature, the freedom, the suspense ahead of the competition itself<br />
and then chatting about our races and route choices afterwards.<br />
I still have a big box of old maps at my parents’ home in Södra<br />
Vi, about 10km north of Vimmerby. My routes are drawn onto<br />
Anders Lindblad, in red, discusses route choices with dad Kurt and cousin Ove<br />
Lindblad. Photo: private.<br />
them in blue pen. There aren’t many lines going straight to the controls.<br />
They were mostly wiggling and circling at the side of them.<br />
The best thing was O-<strong>Ringen</strong> each summer<br />
The best thing about orienteering was O-<strong>Ringen</strong> each summer, or<br />
as we called it, the Five Days. The first time my cousin Ove and I<br />
went – we were pretty much joined at the hip in those days – was<br />
when the competition was held in Skåne in 1974. Two years previously,<br />
the forests of Småland had been invaded by runners, not<br />
far from Vimmerby – I remember that one stage was held near the<br />
farm where the Emil of Lönneberga films were shot. That competition<br />
left a big impression on me and the Five Days was something I<br />
wanted to be part of.<br />
Skåne 1974 where Brösarp’s hills made for a tough stage,<br />
Stockholm 1975 with Västerhaninge as a competition centre,<br />
Västergötland 1978, when Ove and I were just as interested in the<br />
girls from OK Hammaren in Sandviken as the orienteering itself<br />
(when we arrived home we were quickly convinced to ride our<br />
mopeds from Vimmerby to Sandviken and back just to see them<br />
again) and then Hälsingland 1981.<br />
My greatest sporting memory<br />
It was there, at Stage 3, where I achieved the greatest victory of<br />
my life. I ran in class H21C, so the class below Elite, A and B, but<br />
competition was still tough. I remember, there were over 300 of us<br />
runners competing for victories and podium places, and I had an<br />
almost perfect race on Stage 3.<br />
Winning a stage meant that my friends in Vimmerby OK made<br />
a victory wreath that the hung round my neck at our camp, where<br />
the VOK flag was flying high and the mood was wonderful, with<br />
plenty of jokes, unity and camaraderie across all age and gender<br />
boundaries. At the official prize giving I got to stand on the top of<br />
the podium. I remember that I won a rain jacket and a wooden<br />
Hälsinge key. I felt proud, happy and grateful. Later that evening,<br />
all of us in Vimmerby OK got together to eat at our camp. I’ve forgotten<br />
the stories but I’m sure that Lasse, Mats, Ove, Jerry, Roger,<br />
Agneta, Bengt, Mats-Lennart and the rest of us discussed route<br />
choices, maps, terrain and life in general before eventually ending<br />
up on the dance floor.<br />
A newspaper clipping from Vimmerby Tidning, which my<br />
mother Kerstin has saved, describes how I hadn’t manage to get<br />
in touch to report on my own stage win that day. I’d just started<br />
a part-time job as a sports reporter at Vimmerby Tidning and<br />
probably thought it was a bit embarrassing to phone in and tell<br />
them about my win. This was in the time before mobile phones<br />
and the internet, when journalists used old-fashioned landlines.<br />
I can imagine that finding a telephone on a campsite in Hälsingland<br />
probably wasn’t all that easy, either. But the article about my<br />
victory headlined the sports pages in Vimmerby Tidning. Neither<br />
before or since has it been the case that my achievements were seen<br />
The wreath made by Vimmerby OK clubmates after winning a stage of H21C in<br />
1981. Photo: private<br />
to be the biggest event of the day.<br />
I went out in third place in the chasing start on the final stage, a<br />
position I held to the finish. Finishing third at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, no matter<br />
which class it was in, is one of my best sporting memories. This when<br />
I’ve worked as a journalist for Svenska Dagbladet at nine Olympic<br />
Games, lots of World Championships including football, athletics, skiing,<br />
handball and other big adventures, like the Dakar Rally in Africa,<br />
the Australian Open in tennis and the Masters in golf.<br />
Among honours and international medals<br />
I’ve even reported on the World Orienteering Championships,<br />
when they took place in the forests outside Västerås in 2004 and<br />
Karolina A Höjsgaard won gold in the long distance. The orienteer<br />
who I’ve written most about, however, is Tove Alexandersson, who<br />
in 2019 also won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal as only the<br />
second orienteer ever after Annichen Kringstad in 1981.<br />
For the last ten years I’ve been part of the jury deciding on a<br />
recipient of the annual Gold Medal. In my role as secretary – and<br />
as a sports columnist for Svenska Dagbladet – I’m the one who<br />
nominates candidates, is involved with most aspects of awarding<br />
the medal and I even get to vote for the eventual winner. It is a<br />
privilege to be part of the Swedish sports prize that’s most steeped<br />
in tradition and, as a former orienteer, of course I have highlighted<br />
Tove Alexandersson’s successes over the years. Annichen Kringstad<br />
has also been part of the jury for as long as I have.<br />
Comeback at Smålandskusten 2024<br />
It feels very exciting and appropriate for O-<strong>Ringen</strong> to be coming<br />
to Småland in 2024. I’m sure that every competitor will be looked<br />
after very well and the courses will be both challenging and enjoyable.<br />
The terrain will be varied, from detailed coastal terrain to<br />
heavier-going Småland forest. It will be challenging, both physically<br />
and technically.<br />
I haven’t competed at a single orienteering event since O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
1983, when Anderstorp in Småland was the competition centre<br />
for almost 25,000 competitors. Annichen Kringstad – who else! –<br />
and Håkan Eriksson won the elite classes that year, while I mostly<br />
Camping at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>. Lars-Göran Johansson, cousins Anders and Ove Lindblad<br />
and Mats Johansson. Photo: private<br />
drifted around with little idea what I was doing. I can’t remember<br />
where I ended up on the results, but that isn’t really what O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
is about. It’s the camaraderie, club atmosphere, varied challenges,<br />
post-race discussions each evening and the Spartan camping and<br />
campervan lifestyle that really make the Five Days what it is.<br />
When I think back on all the joy that orienteering, and above<br />
all O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, has given me, perhaps it would be fitting to make a<br />
comeback with a map and compass at Smålandskusten 2024. Will<br />
there be a C class in H65?<br />
Anders Lindblad outside the Vimmerby OK clubhouse. Photo: private.<br />
Anders Lindblad<br />
Sports columnist at Svenska Dagbladet, secretary<br />
of the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal committee<br />
and one-time member of Vimmerby OK.<br />
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Following long marshes<br />
or the edge of larger<br />
marshes makes for<br />
easier navigation and<br />
quicker running.<br />
STAGES 1 & 2<br />
ROSENFORS<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2024 opens with a long<br />
distance competition on Stage 1<br />
and middle distance on Stage 2 in<br />
Rosenfors. Rosenfors is located inland,<br />
to the west of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City. Arriving<br />
on the stage bus, you get dropped off<br />
at Rosenfors IK’s home ground, just a<br />
few hundred metres from Rosenfors<br />
Arena. It will be a classic O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
arena in a large meadow, where careful<br />
orienteering is needed all the way to<br />
the last control.<br />
By the fertile valley where the rivers Emån<br />
and Stångån almost meet, Småland’s hills<br />
rise up to the north west.<br />
Stages 1 and 2 are on the east of the valley,<br />
with some larger hills, and mostly good<br />
runnability and visibility. The terrain is characterised<br />
by areas of detail, with many rock<br />
features. There are not many paths or tracks<br />
in the terrain, which has at times made<br />
setting the easiest courses more difficult. We<br />
have created some new paths to be able to<br />
make these courses as good as possible.<br />
Stage 1, Long distance<br />
Stage 1 starts to the south east of the arena<br />
for the shorter and easier courses, in a<br />
vaguer part of the map. There are paths and<br />
tracks to begin with and then some felled<br />
areas, fields and meadows towards the end,<br />
before the final meadow and the finish.<br />
Longer and more technical courses start<br />
straight into a pathless, detailed area with<br />
Comments after test-running the<br />
courses for Stage 1 on 9 th Sept 2023:<br />
• Good, varied terrain and a good<br />
challenge.<br />
• Varied course with easier, more<br />
difficult, shorter and longer legs.<br />
• Nice terrain, fun orienteering.<br />
• Tough terrain, quite slow going.<br />
many boulders and crags. The fast, open terrain<br />
with good visibility is in places swapped<br />
for felled sections and denser areas, with<br />
reduced visibility and runnability. Between<br />
the hills and up on their tops, clear areas of<br />
marsh can be useful for navigation. Most<br />
courses finish in a very detailed area with<br />
boulders, crags and smaller hills, then it’s<br />
just a case of running through the meadow<br />
to the finish.<br />
Stage 2, Middle distance<br />
The route to the start on Stage 2 passes<br />
northwards through Rosenfors village.<br />
Shorter and easier courses will use an area<br />
with few paths and many details close to the<br />
paths. All courses finish through the same<br />
area. Longer and more technical courses<br />
start up on the big hill which dominates<br />
the competition area, where the terrain is<br />
runnable, with good visibility. Like on Stage<br />
1 there is a lot of detail but towards the end<br />
of the courses there is even more, and both<br />
runnability and visibility are more limited in<br />
places. Remember to stay focused as you run<br />
down the hill on the approach to the finish.<br />
Comments after test-running the<br />
courses for Stage 2 on 10 th Sept 2023:<br />
• Great map. Clear, even though<br />
there is a lot of detail.<br />
• The courses have a good difficulty<br />
level. It’s good that they don’t just<br />
rely on direction changes all the<br />
time, like some planners do. This<br />
terrain is demanding enough as<br />
it is.<br />
• Fun and challenging course, good<br />
consistency.<br />
• Lovely terrain!<br />
» Stage area ROSENFORS<br />
OL STAGE 1 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Monday July 22 nd 2024<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 1 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Monday July 22 nd 2024<br />
OL STAGE 2 MIDDLE DISTANCE<br />
Tuesday July 23 rd 2024<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 2 MIDDLE DISTANCE<br />
Tuesday July 23 rd 2024<br />
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The paths wind<br />
between the<br />
marshes, small<br />
hills and up over<br />
the open rock.<br />
Tränar du<br />
även ditt<br />
lo<br />
l i<br />
enn s ak<br />
?<br />
STAGE 3<br />
GUNNARSÖ<br />
Now it’s time to move to the sea and<br />
Gunnarsö Arena for a long distance<br />
race. If you are staying at the O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
campsite or in Oskarshamn, we recommend<br />
cycling to the arena – it’s less<br />
than 5 km. If you don’t have a bike with<br />
you and the walk is a bit too far, there<br />
will be buses from Döderhultsdalen.<br />
Now we’re by the sea on the Småland coast<br />
and the typical coastal terrain is much less<br />
hilly than Stages 1 and 2.<br />
The terrain is characterised by large areas<br />
of pine forest with open rock, detailed hills<br />
and marshes of all sizes, which form natural<br />
boundaries between the open rock areas and<br />
small hills. Shorter and easier courses stay in<br />
the area closest to the arena, in terrain with<br />
a lot of paths winding their way between the<br />
marshes, small hills and up over the bare<br />
rock, where they can sometimes be a little<br />
unclear. Make sure you look up to see where<br />
the path continues on the other side. Longer<br />
and more technical courses have a bit more<br />
climb and the terrain has fewer paths, with<br />
lots of detail to make the orienteering more<br />
difficult, especially near the old sea inlet in<br />
and around the nature reserve Sjöboviken,<br />
which is crossed using bridges. The courses<br />
finish though the area close to the arena<br />
with many paths. If you look up when you<br />
finish, you will see the blue water of Östersjön.<br />
If it’s a nice day, taking a dip in the sea<br />
might be the perfect way to finish your race!<br />
Comments after test-running the<br />
courses for Stage 3 on 13 th Sept 2023:<br />
• It was tricky!<br />
• I would like another longer leg.<br />
Scan the QR code to<br />
listen to a report from<br />
the test-running on<br />
Radio Kalmar P4.<br />
» Stage area GUNNARSÖ<br />
OL STAGE 3 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Thursday July 25 th 2024<br />
Photo: Johfors Productions AB.<br />
Annonsavdelningen - Din Mediepartner<br />
Det finns flera studier som försöker reda ut varför människor har olika<br />
förmåga att orientera sig i omgivningen. Till viss del kan förmågan vara<br />
medfödd och till och med vara påverkad av ett visst hormon. Andra studier<br />
har funnit att det är individuella egenskaper och anlag som hjälper till. Att<br />
kunna tänka i väderstreck, vinklar och hitta kännetecken i omgivningen. Vi<br />
tycker gott att lokalsinne även kan beskriva förmågan att kunna läsa av och<br />
hitta rätt i lokalsamhället. Att förstå sammanhang, diskutera och hitta<br />
markörer för att kunna orientera sig i allt det som händer. Oskarshamns-<br />
Tidningens dagliga utgivning bidrar till att träna lokalsinnet.<br />
Under sommaren 2024 kommer besökare och deltagare i O-<strong>Ringen</strong> att mer<br />
eller mindre inta Oskarshamn. Vill du presentera budskap för både dessa och<br />
Oskarshamnsborna har vi annonserbjudanden i både nyhetsmedia och på<br />
utomhustavlor.<br />
Kontakta Fredrich Frithioff 0491-575 05 eller<br />
Peter Kinnander 0491-575 03.<br />
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These stages finish<br />
by passing through<br />
the Fagereke<br />
nature reserve<br />
STAGES 4 & 5<br />
DÖDERHULTSDALEN<br />
Photo: Cornelia Höglind.<br />
The final two stages of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> will<br />
be based at Döderhultsdalen Arena,<br />
right next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City. It will be<br />
within walking and cycling distance<br />
of the centre of Oskarshamn. The<br />
stages finish by passing through the<br />
Fagereke nature reserve, finishing at<br />
the arena under Hjortberget.<br />
Stage 4, Middle distance<br />
On the way to the start on Stage 4, competitors<br />
can also see the blue water of Östersjön.<br />
The starts are close to the northern part of<br />
Oskarshamn. There are lots of paths in the<br />
whole of the competition area, between the<br />
low hills that have plenty of detail.<br />
The terrain also features some areas of<br />
denser forest, which limit running speed and<br />
mean you have to navigate more carefully. At<br />
the start of the stage, some competitors may<br />
pass an adventure playground and frisbee golf<br />
course and may need to cross some ropes, etc.<br />
that are not marked on the map. Competitors<br />
will be challenged by some shorter and<br />
steeper hills and changing terrain close to<br />
the edge of town. Shorter and easier courses<br />
start in small forested areas on the edge of<br />
town, then cross under the E22 and finish<br />
by passing through Fagereke nature reserve.<br />
The path network, with a variety of large and<br />
small paths, means the terrain is constantly<br />
changing all the way to the finish under<br />
Hjortberget. Longer and more technical<br />
courses start in a trickier, more detailed area<br />
then pass some fields and meadows on the<br />
way to the crossing under the E22, then pass<br />
through Fagereke nature reserve on the way<br />
to the finish.<br />
Comments after test-running the<br />
courses for Stage 4 on 6 th Sept 2023:<br />
• Fun.<br />
• Difficult.<br />
• Changing terrain, good variety.<br />
Stage 5, Long distance<br />
The final stage takes place in forest to the<br />
west of Stage 4 but finishes in the same place<br />
at Döderhultsdalen Arena. This last stage<br />
has mostly good runnability, however there<br />
are some denser areas and areas with undergrowth,<br />
with some felled area to cross or go<br />
round. The terrain consists of gently sloping<br />
forest and has fewer details than Stages 3<br />
and 4. Shorter and easier courses pass riding<br />
clubs and horse paddocks before coming<br />
from the west into the same finishing area as<br />
on Stage 4. When it’s time to decide the winners,<br />
choose the right paths and avoid extra<br />
climb at the end to be first to the finish.<br />
Longer and more technical courses start<br />
northwards in varied terrain, with open forest<br />
mixed with denser areas and felled areas,<br />
where you’ll need to navigate well and find<br />
the best lines for running. The final, decisive<br />
part of each course will go through the same<br />
area as Stage 4, with pastures and broadleaf<br />
forest with many large, old deciduous trees.<br />
Keep orienteering all the way into the finish if<br />
you want to be crowned a winner at O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Smålandskusten 2024!<br />
Comments after test-running the<br />
courses for Stage 5 on 20 th Sept 2023:<br />
• Not very hilly, but tough!<br />
• I would like one or two more long legs.<br />
• Many people will find this challenging.<br />
» Stage area DÖDERHULTSDALEN<br />
OL STAGE 4 MIDDLE DISTANCE<br />
Friday July 26 th 2024<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 4 MIDDLE DISTANCE<br />
Friday July 26 th 2024<br />
OL STAGE 5 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Lördag July 27 th 2024<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 5 LONG DISTANCE<br />
Lördag July 27 th 2024<br />
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Oskarshamn centre<br />
– Bagheera Relay and<br />
Högtryckssprinten for<br />
Elite tour runners<br />
Sprint orienteering<br />
on the cobbles<br />
of Oskarshamn<br />
SPRINT<br />
BRÄDHOLMEN<br />
As usual at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, there will be two sprint<br />
competitions. The first is the Bagheera Relay, which<br />
takes place in connection with the opening ceremony<br />
on 21 st July. Then we also have the Elite Tour Stage 3,<br />
Högtryckssprinten, on the activity day on 24 th July.<br />
Then we also have the Elite Tour Stage 3, Högtryckssprinten, on the<br />
activity day on 24 th July. The Bageera Relay and Högtryckssprinten<br />
have the same finish arena, by the sea and next to Oskarshamn’s<br />
» Stage area BRÄDHOLMEN<br />
BAGHEERASTAFETTEN, YOUTH RELAY<br />
Söndag July 21 st 2024<br />
ELITE TOUR STAGE 3 HÖGTRYCKSSPRINTEN<br />
Wednesday July 24 th 2024<br />
Combination of urban and park terrain in the centre of town, finishing<br />
right next to Oskarshamn's inner harbour.<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
inner harbour. The start and changeover of the Bagheera Relay is<br />
also here.<br />
The competitions use slightly different areas but both will be in<br />
central parts of Oskarshamn, in front of cheering spectators. The<br />
competition terrain itself is a combination of urban and park areas.<br />
The park features parkland, forest and some buildings (a school) and<br />
in town, small yards and narrow passages, streets and alleyways – all<br />
to give a real sprint orienteering challenge.<br />
The Gotland ferry approaches Oskarshamn. I disembark<br />
and look to the horizon. I’ve just arrived here on the<br />
mainland to start my first job. Little did I know that, 30<br />
years later, I would be looking at the same horizon as I<br />
draw the map for the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Elite Sprint.<br />
Just like back then, the Gotland ferry nears the inner harbour,<br />
turning its usual pirouette before docking at the quay. The passengers<br />
step back onto dry land. They rush by as I stand scratching my<br />
head, looking at the cartographic dilemma posed by Långa Soffan,<br />
said to be the world’s longest bench. It must be in the Guinness<br />
Book of Records. From here, as well as the Gotland ferry, you<br />
can also spot Blå Jungfrun (“The Blue Maiden”) in the distance.<br />
Steeped in legend, the island also a national park.<br />
Now I’m nearing the middle of town. I walk the same cobbles<br />
as Axel Robert Pettersson, “Döderhultaren,” walked a century ago.<br />
You’ll definitely learn about him when you come to Oskarshamn<br />
next summer. There’s a bit of a hill to climb, so I have tired legs by<br />
the time I reach the town square.<br />
Competitors will surely run through the town centre. Where<br />
else will they go? Apart from the town centre itself, Oskarshamn is<br />
proud to have a relatively large park. As well as typical park terrain<br />
it also has some forest, where you get the feeling of being right out<br />
in the woods, far away from the bustle of the town centre.<br />
Streets, cycleways and walkways. Tarmac, cobbles, grass and<br />
gravel. Forest, parkland and lots of urban areas. Yes, it’s anyone’s<br />
guess how the course setter chooses to use these possibilities.<br />
I hope and believe that all our competitors will appreciate the<br />
variety that Oskarshamn has to offer, and wish you all a warm<br />
welcome to the Smålandskusten in 2024.<br />
Tony Lövdahl, mapper<br />
Bagheera Relay for youth runners is a highlight of O-<strong>Ringen</strong>’s<br />
opening ceremony every year. Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
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Five stages<br />
of MTBO<br />
You will cycle<br />
on everything from<br />
technical paths to<br />
fast gravel roads<br />
How to get to each stage<br />
Photo: Cornelia Höglind.<br />
MTBO Stage 1 – Monday July 22 nd 2024<br />
Arena LÅNGEHÄLL<br />
Middle distance<br />
Staying at<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Campsite<br />
Staying on the coast, north<br />
or south of Oskarshamn<br />
Staying west<br />
of Oskarshamn<br />
Car to stage parking Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
STAGES 1–5<br />
MTBO<br />
Photo: Cornelia Höglind.<br />
MTBO Stage 2 – Tuesday July 23 rd 2024<br />
Arena LÅNGEHÄLL<br />
Long distance<br />
MTBO Stage 3 – Thursday July 25 th 2024<br />
Arena HJORTBERGET<br />
Sprint<br />
MTBO Stage 4 - Friday July 26 th 2024<br />
Arena SCANIASLINGAN<br />
Middle distance<br />
MTBO Stage 5 - Lördag July 27 th 2024<br />
Arena SCANIASLINGAN<br />
Long distance<br />
Car to stage parking Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Smålandskusten 2024 offers five MTBO stages,<br />
each with its own character. As a MTBO competitor<br />
you will cycle on everything from small, very technically<br />
demanding paths to fast, wide gravel roads, with some<br />
tarmac sections. Not only that, three of the stages<br />
are held next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square and the campsite at<br />
Döderhultsdalen.<br />
Stages 1 and 2, Arena Långehäll<br />
Långehäll outdoor leisure area, just outside Blomstermåla, will<br />
host the first two stages. The area is in a wonderful forest setting<br />
and has a rich path and road network, which really lends itself to<br />
MTBO. The area has up to 20 kilometres of bike tracks, which are<br />
maintained by Ålems Cykelklubb.<br />
Stage 1 is a middle distance, where MTBO riders will be<br />
challenged in terms of both intensive navigation and cycling ability<br />
in Långehäll’s dense path network, which also has some hilly areas.<br />
Stage 2 is a long distance, where MTBO riders will face a<br />
relatively flatter area with faster paths and tracks, offering lots of<br />
route choice.<br />
STAGE 1 & 2 STAGE 3 STAGE 4 & 5<br />
Stage 3, Havslätt Arena Hjortberget<br />
Stage 3 at Hjortberget Arena is a lengthened sprint, in suburban<br />
terrain near the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite at Döderhultsdalen. The<br />
terrain features both fast roads and paths near a residential area,<br />
as well as cycling in a recreational area with a dense path network,<br />
with some paths being more technically demanding. The finish is<br />
at Hjortberget, next to Döderhultsdalen.<br />
Stages 4–5, Scaniaslingan Arena<br />
Stage 4 is a middle distance and will take place in Kronoparken,<br />
an area near to town and next to the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite. The area<br />
has some small hills and a good network of cycling and mountain<br />
bike tracks created by the local cycling club. The area is perfect for<br />
middle distance.<br />
Stage 5 is a long distance and will also take place near the<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite. The competition area overlaps with the area<br />
used for Stage 4, which is combined with fast gravel roads and a<br />
variety of paths of all sizes and technical difficulty. The area offers<br />
varied terrain, with both fast cycling and tricky sections.<br />
The start and finish are at the arena but, after finishing and<br />
showering, we recommend taking your bike down to the MTBO<br />
meting place at Döderhultsdalen Arena to meet fellow competitors,<br />
friends and family and discuss the day’s competition with them.<br />
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For the first time<br />
ever at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>,<br />
there will be a<br />
TEMPO stage<br />
STAGES 1–5<br />
TRAIL-O<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
The Trail-O at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Smålandskusten 2024 will be held<br />
over five stages, at five different arenas. The three stages<br />
near Oskarshamn are within cycling distance and there are<br />
buses to Stage 1. For Stage 4 at Berga you will need to<br />
take your own car. All the arenas have car parking nearby. .<br />
Stage 1 will be held at Rosenfors Arena, where you can use the<br />
stage bus for the orienteering, after which Trail-O competitors will<br />
be transported with minibuses to the competition area, which is<br />
next to Målilla Orienteringsklubb’s club hut. Once you have competed,<br />
take the minibus back to the Arena to download and to join<br />
other Trail-O and orienteering competitors.<br />
Stage 2 will be held at Havslätt Arena in Oskarshamn, within cycling<br />
distance of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City in Döderhultsdalen, in a wonderful<br />
How to get to each stage<br />
Stage 1 – Monday July 22 nd 2024<br />
Arena MÅLILLA OK'S KLUBBSTUGA<br />
Middle distance<br />
Stage 2 – Tuesday July 23 rd 2024<br />
Arena HAVSLÄTTS FRILUFTSOMRÅDE<br />
Long distance<br />
Stage 3 – Thursday July 25 th 2024<br />
Arena STADSPARKEN<br />
TempO for E and A/Medel for B and C<br />
Stage 4 – Friday July 26 th 2024<br />
Arena BERGA IP<br />
Long distance<br />
Stage 5 – Lördag July 27 th 2024<br />
Arena KRISTINEBERG<br />
Long distance<br />
Staying at<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Campsite<br />
Stage bus or stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage or car to<br />
stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage or car to<br />
stage parking<br />
recreation area. The terrain is easily accessible and visibility is good.<br />
This stage will also host “Come and try Trail-O” on the ctivity day on<br />
24th July.<br />
Stage 3 will be held at Stadsparken in Oskarshamn and for the first<br />
time at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, this will be a TEMPO stage for the classes Pre-<br />
Elit and Pre-A. For Pre-B and Pre-C there will be normal Trail-O.<br />
This will be park terrain mixed with forest. This stage is also within<br />
cycling distance.<br />
Stage 4 will be at Berga sports ground, which has a football pitch<br />
and exercise tracks. This will be a competition area with good visibility<br />
and lovely paths and tracks. Competitors must take their own car<br />
to this stage, as it is around 30 km to Berga from O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City.<br />
Stage 5 will be held at Kristineberg in Oskarshamn, again within<br />
cycling distance of the campsite. A pleasant arena next to the hilly<br />
terrain and its great exercise tracks.<br />
Staying on the coast,<br />
north or south of Oskarshamn<br />
Car to satellite parking, then<br />
stage bus, or car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Staying west<br />
of Oskarshamn<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking Car to stage parking Car to stage parking<br />
Cycle to stage or car to<br />
stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
Car to stage parking<br />
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Swiss orienteering family are welcome additions to SOK Viljan<br />
Grendelmeier family<br />
• Ineke, mom<br />
• Peter, dad<br />
• Sanna 14 years<br />
• Marit 13 years<br />
Orienteering<br />
is more popular<br />
in Sweden<br />
Idols SImona Aebersold and Hanna Lundberg have both run O-<strong>Ringen</strong> several times. Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
In the summer of 2021, the Swiss<br />
orienteering family the Grendelmeiers<br />
left their homeland and moved to<br />
Oskarshamn, on the coast of Småland.<br />
The family is made up of Ineke and<br />
Peter, who are both doctors in their<br />
50s, and their daughters Sanna, 14, and<br />
Marit, 13. The move meant that the SOK<br />
Viljan girls’ team got a real boost, as<br />
both Sanna and Marit are talented young<br />
runners who have been successful both<br />
in Switzerland and Sweden,<br />
While Ineke and Peter naturally became<br />
an important part of the club’s leadership.<br />
Now they will be officials at O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Smålandskusten 2024, where Ineke and<br />
Peter will be helping with Competitor<br />
Services and maybe also with first aid in the<br />
forest (they’re professionals!). We put some<br />
questions to the family.<br />
When and why did you<br />
move to Oskarshamn?<br />
Ineke: We started our move here in summer<br />
2021 and by the time school started in August<br />
that year, the whole family were here.<br />
Peter: I have had a connection to Sweden<br />
for the last 30 years, ever since I orienteered<br />
here. As well as that, Ineke’s family also had<br />
a holiday cottage near Åseda, so we have<br />
spent our Christmas and summer holidays<br />
here. Six or seven years ago, on a summer<br />
holiday, we travelled to Gotland and saw on<br />
an advertisement that the island was looking<br />
for doctors. That was when we first had the<br />
idea of moving to Sweden. We were finding<br />
that the work culture in Switzerland wasn’t<br />
something we wanted to be caught up in<br />
for the next 20 years. We also liked Sweden<br />
and our holidays here. So we contacted the<br />
doctors’ organisation in Småland and Oskarshamn<br />
ended up being the most suitable<br />
place to live and work.<br />
When did you start orienteering?<br />
Peter: I started orienteering when I was ten<br />
but then had a long break until around five<br />
or six years ago.<br />
Ineke: The family has orienteered together<br />
for around five or six years.<br />
Is orienteering in Sweden<br />
similar or different to Switzerland?<br />
Peter/Ineke: Of course, many things are the<br />
same: the race procedure, the controls and<br />
the maps. Many of the forests in Switzerland<br />
have lots of big tracks and greener areas.<br />
There are also many steep areas. The forests<br />
in Småland are usually much less hilly but<br />
more detailed. In Sweden a lot of activities for<br />
juniors are organised at club level, whereas<br />
this is usually done regionally in Switzerland.<br />
Sanna: I’ve saved all my prizes. One of them<br />
is a piece of wood. It feels like orienteering<br />
is more popular in Sweden, where the other<br />
kids at school have at least some idea of<br />
what it is.<br />
What are your best<br />
orienteering memories?<br />
Everyone: O-<strong>Ringen</strong> in Kolmården, 2019.<br />
Sanna: And one sprint race in a park in<br />
Switzerland, which was really nice.<br />
Do you have any orienteering heroes?<br />
Sanna: Simona Aebersold<br />
Marit: Hanna Lundberg<br />
What are your favourite<br />
places in Oskarshamn?<br />
Marit: Nilssons bakery<br />
Ineke: Uvö, being so close to the forest at<br />
Havslätt, Blå Jungfrun<br />
Sanna: The beach at Havslätt<br />
Peter: Djupeträsk and Eckern<br />
How have you found the social aspects<br />
of moving to a new country?<br />
Ineke/Peter: The club are like a family and<br />
often meet up outside of orienteering. We<br />
work mostly in Kalmar and we have some<br />
friends there, through work. Some of them<br />
are orienteers, too.<br />
Marit and Sanna: The club has a good group<br />
of W14s who train together and even do<br />
extra training. We also have a lot of friends<br />
at school.<br />
People from Switzerland often pick up<br />
Swedish very quickly. What’s your secret?<br />
Ineke: Lots of Swiss runners go to orienteering<br />
schools in Sweden and compete for<br />
Nordic clubs.<br />
Sanna: To start with I just tried to listen and<br />
learn bit by bit until I could use the words<br />
myself. It also helped that we already spoke<br />
German and a lot of words are similar to<br />
Swedish.<br />
Peter: But the prepositions are still a<br />
problem after two years!<br />
Nilsson Konditori: a favourite place for Marit and<br />
Sanna. Photo: Johfors Productions AB.<br />
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Photo: Peter Holgersson.<br />
Direction 2030<br />
– everyone has a right to take part<br />
Direction 2030 is the strategy of<br />
Swedish orienteering and describes<br />
our vision: Swedish orienteering – for<br />
everyone, throughout their life. The<br />
strategy covers both our general aims<br />
and areas for action, with our basic<br />
principles and core values as a guide.<br />
Direction 2030 aims to inspire and<br />
encourage us to dare to change and<br />
develop towards 2030.<br />
One of our basic principles is that “everyone<br />
has a right to take part”. This means,<br />
everyone who wants to join in and orienteer<br />
can do so, whatever their circumstances.<br />
Orienteering welcomes everyone, regardless<br />
of their background or ambition. We work<br />
for equality and inclusion and place a high<br />
value on working together. The idea that<br />
orienteering is a lifelong sport for all life’s<br />
stages can be seen in practical terms by our<br />
range of age classes and open classes. Orienteering<br />
should bring inspiration and joy<br />
to everyone, throughout their life. Here are<br />
four examples of how we are working actively<br />
with our vision “for everyone, throughout<br />
their life” and our principle “everyone has a<br />
right to take part”.<br />
Exemptions for large scale maps for people<br />
with eye injuries and visual impairments<br />
Do you have a documented eye<br />
injury or visual impairment that is<br />
not age related? If so, you can apply<br />
for an exemption from the Swedish<br />
Orienteering Federation for larger<br />
scale maps.<br />
A successful exemption allows competition<br />
organisers to work round competition rules<br />
when it comes to map scale. Organisers,<br />
however, are not obliged to contribute extra<br />
time and work to allow larger map scales<br />
for participants. Contacting the organiser<br />
in good time before a competition means<br />
there is a greater chance they will be able<br />
to order an adapted map. The larger the<br />
competition, the more notice is required,<br />
as arranging and ordering maps is a longer<br />
process. Remember to attach proof of your<br />
exemption when contacting the organiser.<br />
How to apply for an exemption:<br />
• Describe the injury.<br />
• Attach a certificate from a doctor.<br />
• Email this information to Niklas Wrane<br />
(niklas.wrane@orientering.se).<br />
How to order your map from<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> if you have an exemption:<br />
• Go to O-<strong>Ringen</strong>’s booking portal to register<br />
yourself and the class you would like<br />
to participate in<br />
• Email your exemption and your order for<br />
an adapted map to info@oringen.se by<br />
7th April<br />
Kompassriktning 2030<br />
Orienteering map norms are<br />
the result of many years of<br />
development, and they have<br />
considered some forms of<br />
colour blindness.<br />
N<br />
For instance, the red colour that<br />
many people have difficulty<br />
seeing is not used and symbols<br />
in different colours have different<br />
shapes so they don’t get mixed<br />
up. There has not, however, been<br />
any scientific analysis of how<br />
maps are read when colours are<br />
seen differently.<br />
Therefore, with economic<br />
support from Skogssportens<br />
Gynnare and Kartringen, the<br />
Swedish Orienteering Federation<br />
is starting a project whose results<br />
will also be shared with the International<br />
Orienteering Federation.<br />
The aim is to develop a norm for<br />
orienteering maps which works<br />
for as many people as possible,<br />
regardless of your colour vision.<br />
S<br />
New project assessing<br />
orienteering maps and<br />
colour blindness<br />
Janne completed 3 stages with only 2% vision<br />
Jan “Janne” Thorin, 43, from Karlstad<br />
has found a new sport: orienteering.<br />
After having an eye problem when<br />
he was 14, Janne now has only 2%<br />
vision. “It’s like swimming in murky<br />
water,” he says.<br />
So how do you orienteer?<br />
– No problem, if like Janne you like a<br />
challenge, but one or two adaptations are<br />
needed.<br />
Using enlarged maps at scale 1:1,800,<br />
Janne took part in the final three stages<br />
of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> in Åre, accompanied by a<br />
guide. The guide’s job was to make it easier<br />
for Janne to get about on rough paths and<br />
through the forest.<br />
In Åre Janne did the Easy 3.5 km course<br />
on two stages and the Easy 5.0 km course on<br />
one stage. The courses were divided over 8–9<br />
A4 and A3 maps, one for each leg. His guide<br />
helped him change maps at each control.<br />
Proud and happy<br />
Janne was happy and proud after completing<br />
the three stages.<br />
– I never thought I would experience the<br />
feeling of freedom you get from being able<br />
to orienteer through the terrain. And then<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> and the Swedish Orienteering<br />
Federation’s work with Direction 2030<br />
has resulted in a clear vision that<br />
everyone with a visual impairment,<br />
or intellectual or physical disability,<br />
should be able to compete in the world’s<br />
biggest orienteering competition.<br />
In an evaluation of this year’s Para-I class,<br />
competitors have shared many positive experiences<br />
from Åre. The experience has left<br />
the strongest impression, being one of the<br />
15,000 orienteers who took on the challenge<br />
through hailstorms and wet marshes, and<br />
sharing the memories with clubmates.<br />
When we ask Eva Dahlberg about her<br />
most vivid memory from the summer’s<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, say replies somewhat<br />
despondently, but with a glint in her eye:<br />
“The medals… Henrik had the medals out<br />
on the kitchen table at home for over a<br />
month and nobody was allowed to touch<br />
them.” Eva is talking about Henrik Berglund,<br />
I never thought<br />
I would<br />
experience<br />
the feeling of<br />
freedom you get<br />
from being able<br />
to orienteer<br />
to get the chance to experience O-<strong>Ringen</strong>,<br />
with so many competitors, buses to the<br />
arenas and walking to the arenas together<br />
with thousands of other orienteers was really<br />
special, says Janne.<br />
More orienteering<br />
He’s still orienteering and, following<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, Janne has been orienteering in<br />
Para athletes welcome at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Smålandskusten<br />
her partner and fellow competitor in the<br />
Para-I class, who won every stage. We hardly<br />
need to ask what Henrik remembers.<br />
– The prize givings, interviews and<br />
meeting other prize winners. And having to<br />
write autographs, says a smiling Henrik.<br />
It’s clear that he’s proud to compete in the<br />
Para-I class and has already started planning<br />
his travel and accommodation for O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
Smålandskusten. By then, Eva and Henrik<br />
are hoping that the Para-I class will have<br />
more competitors.<br />
Värmland in OK Tyr’s club colours. Now he<br />
is looking for sponsors to help him continue<br />
orienteering.<br />
– I’m entitled to a guide to can help me train<br />
and compete within the Karlstad area, but not<br />
to anything further away. Orienteering means<br />
a lot to me. It has really motivated me to train<br />
and to live a healthy life, both physically and<br />
mentally, finishes Janne.<br />
– We saw that there were some other para<br />
athletes at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> who chose to compete<br />
in other classes. They are welcome in the<br />
Para-I class!<br />
Ahead of this year’s O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, the<br />
Para-I class is part of the plan from the<br />
very beginning and all para athletes who<br />
are curious about an adapted orienteering<br />
adventure can read about the open Para-I<br />
class on the website. The courses have a<br />
“Very easy” difficulty level and the map is a<br />
simplified 1:5,000 orienteering map.<br />
Photo: Tilda Andersson.<br />
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O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City and the arenas are all large areas and coverage for<br />
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Bluecom also provides the firewalls required to connect O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
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O-<strong>Ringen</strong>’s IT Manager Magnus Johansson explains:<br />
– Thanks to Bluecom’s equipment and skilled personnel, we can<br />
provide competitors with a stable and reliable wireless network.<br />
Competitors can make orders and entries, see results, pay using<br />
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the same time, our competition administration and other internal<br />
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Hackathon at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> this summer<br />
– What happens now?<br />
At this summer’s O-<strong>Ringen</strong>, we held a Hackathon that<br />
aimed to pose questions and spark discussion on<br />
sustainability and orienteering for young people. The<br />
Hackathon played an important part in the work of<br />
Swedish orienteering with regard to sustainability and<br />
was held with help from the Youth 2030 Movement.<br />
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There were a total of 40 participants, of whom 32 were young<br />
people. The decision makers who attended were mostly<br />
representatives from the Swedish Orienteering Federation,<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> and Bagheera.<br />
Participants worked in small groups of around five, with eight<br />
groups in total. They followed a process that started with understanding<br />
a challenge, then brainstorming solutions, developing<br />
ideas and lastly a visual presentation. There were five challenges:<br />
travel, material, school orienteering, the sport’s (lack of) visibility<br />
and inequality in circumstances.<br />
Are you curious about what we came up with?<br />
– We’re seeing that the ideas coming from the Hackathon and the<br />
summer’s idea workshops (which took place at the Rikslägret camp<br />
in Idre and at the confirmation camps in Sälen and Eksjö) are consistent<br />
with each other. Young people see clear synergies between<br />
transport and material issues and social and ecological sustainability,<br />
but otherwise we can say that the type of sustainability young<br />
people are most focused on is social sustainability. It’s clear that<br />
young people think the most important aspect for this is being able<br />
to orienteer wherever you are, and getting more people interested,<br />
says Anna Wennertorp from O-<strong>Ringen</strong>.<br />
– School orienteering is clearly an important subject for young<br />
orienteers. It was the area most groups wanted to work with – even<br />
in groups who were working on other areas, many people touched<br />
on this topic in their own discussions.<br />
Flexibility and the idea that schools should “understand” and<br />
implement the things that make orienteering fun are two key ways<br />
to improve young people’s experience of orienteering at school.<br />
It’s worth saying that digitalisation and digital solutions are not<br />
seen by young people to be so important. When talking to young<br />
people at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> before the hackathon – when we talked<br />
about, for example, launching a lift sharing app – many people<br />
underlined that solutions like this were already being used, or<br />
that people didn’t think they would work as people won’t use<br />
them, continues Anna.<br />
Where do we go from here?<br />
– In three upcoming episodes of the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> podcast will focus<br />
on young people and the following topics; travel, school orienteering<br />
and inequality in circumstances, finishes Anna.<br />
Would you and one or more friends like to join in?<br />
Send us an email atradio@oringen.se describing briefly what you<br />
would like to talk about, who you would like to join you and where<br />
you’re from, and maybe you’ll get your own podcast episode!<br />
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The three best things<br />
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Our campsite and coastal location are the icing on the<br />
cake of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> week and we promise you’ll take away<br />
great memories from Småland’s coastline. Let us present<br />
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• A classic O-<strong>Ringen</strong> campsite right next to town<br />
• Coastal terrain with magical views<br />
• The ideal location for day trips to suit art buffs,<br />
history nerds, adventurers or anyone in search<br />
of a good playground.<br />
Småland is a renowned idyll, with miles of traditional roundpole<br />
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fabric of the land. Can’t wait for your adventure? Then come for a<br />
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cliffs, take off your shoes feel the white sand between your toes at<br />
Böda Sand, make mischief with Pippi Longstocking, or why not<br />
pet an elk? We’re ready to entertain the entire family. Welcome!<br />
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Five destinations you don’t want to miss!<br />
Children & Families<br />
Food & Drink<br />
Culture<br />
Nature<br />
The Småland coast has plenty of attractions<br />
to explore for children and families.<br />
Food enthusiast, self-declared foodie or just having a<br />
taste? You’ll find food craftsmanship, farm shops, traditional<br />
dishes and haute cuisine.<br />
In the footsteps of history, lively<br />
tones and informative visits.<br />
Incomparable nature,<br />
stunning views and magical places<br />
Målilla Älgpark – Hultsfred<br />
At Målilla Älgpark you can pet and feed the elk, and take photographs<br />
to help you remember your visit. You can get close to and<br />
study these magnificent animals while they eat, sleep or bathe.<br />
Västervik Resort – Västervik<br />
A five star campsite with adventures for all the family. Bathing<br />
facilities with fun slides, warm outcrops for sunbathing, entertainment<br />
and nature activities for children.<br />
Vimmerby Adventure – Vimmerby<br />
Take your family or friends for an exciting adventure on the treetop<br />
obstacle course, with a total of 83 obstacles both high up in the<br />
treetops and closer to the ground.<br />
World of Dinosaurs – Kalmar<br />
Europe’s largest dinosaur museum, an unforgettable experience<br />
where you can meet more than 200 of the largest and most frightening<br />
animals ever to walk the planet. Find out how the dinosaurs<br />
evolved and why they died out.<br />
Lådbilslandet – Öland<br />
Another amusement park with rides, a bouncy castle, adventure<br />
playground and obstacle course. Lådbilslandet is ideal for children<br />
aged 2 to 10 years.<br />
The Smoke House – Mönsterås<br />
In the same place where Nabbens Rökeri & Fisk is today, there was<br />
already a fish processing factory in the 1920s where fish from the<br />
Kalmar Strait was prepared for transport to destinations all over<br />
Europe. The smoke house was founded in the early 1950s.<br />
Axelssons i Aby - Hultsfred<br />
At Abyslätten, between Målilla and Mörlunda, you’ll find Kronogården.<br />
Make sure you don’t miss their speciality potato waffles,<br />
or a visit to the farm shop.<br />
Mellingerum - Oskarshamn.<br />
Here on the farm, there are exciting new projects every day. Pick<br />
your own berries and vegetables and enjoy delicious coffee and<br />
meals in our cafe.<br />
Slottsholmen - Västervik<br />
The food at Slottsholmen is inspired by the memories Björn Ulvaeus,<br />
who grew up in Västervik, and taste experiences from shows and performances<br />
across the world. On our menus, the local meets the exotic.<br />
Brygghuset - Vimmerby<br />
Here, local produce is everything. From our plates you eat food<br />
from selected producers around us, while you’re sitting on furniture<br />
made by craftspeople in Vimmerby. Even the ale from the tap<br />
and water in your glass is literally from next door.<br />
Astrid Lindgren’s Näs - Vimmerby<br />
At the farm of Näs, at the beginning of the 20th century, a little girl<br />
finds her first story. It sets her mind in motion, so much so that it<br />
never stops.<br />
Swedish Rock Archive – The Walk - Hultsfred<br />
40-odd physical signs take you on a route from the venue Klubben.<br />
There is also an accompanying app “Hultsfred – The Walk”, which<br />
features music, film clips, facts and experiences.<br />
Kalmar Castle - Kalmar<br />
Kalmar’s oldest attraction looks much the same as it did in 1592,<br />
but there’s still a lot to discover. Here you’ll find both permanent<br />
and temporary exhibitions with a range of themes.<br />
Greta Garbo Museum, Högsby – Högsby<br />
Greta Garbo is in the top five most famous Swedes of all time. At<br />
the museum in Högsby, you can follow her career with the help of<br />
fantastic studio images, archive films and much more.<br />
Kingdom of Glass<br />
Småland’s Kingdom of Glass has been creating magic since 1742.<br />
These unique glass artworks are renowned the world over and<br />
can be found in many Swedish homes. Meet the craftspeople and<br />
artists here.<br />
Smalspåret narrow gauge railway - Hultsfred<br />
Cycle on a trolley or travel on a nostalgic train along a winding<br />
narrow gauge railway that takes you through dark forests and open<br />
landscapes. Start from Hultsfred, Flaten or Virserum, or from<br />
Hultsfred to Västervik.<br />
Blå jungfrun - Oskarshamn<br />
Off the coast at Oskarshamn, she towers on the horizon: Blå<br />
Jungfrun, the legendary, mysterious island. Fantastic nature and a<br />
sense of peace that money can’t buy.<br />
Archipelago tours in Västervik - Västervik<br />
Experience an archipelago tour with an activity guide, out in unspoilt<br />
nature! Meet grey seals that can be up to three metres long,<br />
and have the chance to spot a majestic sea eagle.<br />
More Kastell – Högsby<br />
Here you’ll find Småland’s own Grand Canyon, with its dramatic<br />
scree, cliffs and running water, and a fine flora of mosses and<br />
lichens. An 8 km long ravine, widened and deepened by the huge<br />
volume of water created when inland ice melted 12,000 years ago.<br />
Jungnerholmarna – Mönsterås<br />
A beautiful area for walking in Fliseryd. This area is in a unique<br />
environment with exciting industrial history and valuable nature,<br />
by the river Emån.<br />
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Bathing<br />
Whether it’s the sand between your toes, the thrill of the<br />
jump or a warm sunbathing spot that you love, we have<br />
bathing spots for everyone.<br />
Gunnarsö – Oskarshamn<br />
Holiday in a natural coastal idyll by the Baltic Sea. From this<br />
campsite there are beautiful paths to walk on, sunlit outcrops, a<br />
diving platform and child-friendly beaches.<br />
Västervik Resort – Västervik<br />
A five star campsite with adventures for all the family. Bathing<br />
facilities with fun slides, warm outcrops for sunbathing, entertainment<br />
and nature activities for children.<br />
Have you read the<br />
Oskarshamn Guide?<br />
Find it using the QR code<br />
below or go to<br />
oskarshamn.com/o-ringen<br />
– read about everything<br />
there is to do on<br />
the Smålandskusten!<br />
Gösjön i Berga – Högsby<br />
At Gjösjön you’ll find a big diving platform, playground, kiosk,<br />
crazy golf, accessible toilet with a ramp and another ramp to help<br />
access the water. You’ll also find Gösjöbadet campsite.<br />
Böda Sand – Öland<br />
On Öland’s most beautiful beach, with its 20 km of white sand,<br />
families, pensioners, couples and friends meet. Combine play,<br />
relaxation, sun and sand with group exercise, crazy golf, spa treatments<br />
and children’s activities.<br />
Vattenpalatset – Mönsterås<br />
Challenge a friend or colleague on a water slide that times you.<br />
Swim against the current in the jet stream channel, or in the lagoon.<br />
You can also take your time in the relaxation area.<br />
Blå Jungfrun and its many legends<br />
The island of countless legends, Blå Jungfrun (“The Blue<br />
Maiden”), also known as Blåkulla, is a granite dome<br />
towering 86 metres above sea level right out in the<br />
middle of Kalmarsund. It has sparked people’s curiosity<br />
and imagination since ancient times. Don’t miss the<br />
opportunity to visit this national park.<br />
Magical nature<br />
In the summer you can visit Blå Jungfrun on a day trip from<br />
Oskarshamn and Byxelkrok, or on your own boat. Its isolation and<br />
inaccessibility make Blå Jungfrun an exciting destination. You are<br />
met with multilevel terrain. Walkways guide you round the island<br />
and lead you to a lush arbour of ancient, tall and gnarled trees,<br />
fascinating caves where small entrances open up into huge caverns,<br />
and geological formations. On one of Blå Jungfrun’s clifftops there<br />
is a labyrinth that you can walk round to wish for fertility, good<br />
luck with fishing or perhaps a calm sea for the journey back? If you<br />
climb to the highest point on Blå Jungfrun you are met with panoramic<br />
views of coast of the mainland, Kalmar Strait and Öland,<br />
well worth the journey.<br />
Don’t tempt fate<br />
If you go to Blå Jungfrun, remember not to put any of the small<br />
stones in your pocket as a souvenir. The stories say that anyone<br />
who takes a stone from Blå Jungfrun will be plagued by bad luck<br />
until the stone is returned. In fact, every year Oskarshamn municipality<br />
receives stones from regretful tourists who have decided<br />
against tempting fate. And every year, they make sure to take these<br />
stones back to the island in Kalmar Strait. It’s just safest that way.<br />
Book your visit<br />
During the summer, you can take a boat tour to Blå Jungfrun on<br />
M/S Solkust or M/S Solfrun. These tours leave from Oskarshamn<br />
and Byxelkrok. Look around the amazing rock formations and<br />
caves, explore the enchanting labyrinth and visit the beautiful<br />
stone beach. www.solkustturer.se<br />
Many myths<br />
Perhaps the island’s lonely location has been the reason why so<br />
many legends have been told about its history. The rugged beauty<br />
of the rock formations, formed by inland ice, has given rise to<br />
much speculation about what might go on there, out at sea in<br />
one of Sweden’s most famous national parks. And of course your<br />
imagination can run wild thinking of all that has happened here,<br />
on an island that was already inhabited in the Stone Age. In times<br />
gone past, people thought a godlike being lived on the island.<br />
Seafarers, who have been hit by storms here more than anywhere<br />
else, thought of Blåkulla as especially dangerous. They have steered<br />
clear of this place for a long time and there are countless stories<br />
about it. The most well-known and enduring myth is probably<br />
the one that witches fly to Blåkulla every Maundy Thursday for a<br />
witches’ sabbath.<br />
Tourist information<br />
You can read everything you need to know before your visit to Blå<br />
Jungfrun National Park on sverigesnationalparker.se, for example,<br />
when is best to visit the island, how to get there and any special<br />
rules you may need to know before your trip.<br />
Photo: Alexander Hall.<br />
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Welcome to Jönköping 2025!<br />
Photos: Destination Jonköping.<br />
Along the southern shores of Vättern stretches<br />
Småland’s biggest city. This is where town meets country<br />
in perfect harmony. Whether you’re born and raised here<br />
or this is your very first visit, there’s a lot to experience<br />
here. This region is a paradise for nature lovers, with one<br />
of Sweden’s largest oak forests, nature reserves, walking<br />
routes, refreshing dips in the crystal clear waters of<br />
Vättern, wide open views and charming country lanes to<br />
cycle along. Wherever you find yourself in the city, the<br />
countryside is always close. Welcome to Jönköping!<br />
Jönköping invites you to a first class O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City. Located at<br />
Rosenlund next to Elmia exhibition centre and with stunning<br />
views across Vättern, we are please to offer a compact and central<br />
concept, with O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square and the campsite side by side.<br />
There are bathing areas within walking distance: an indoor adventure<br />
pool and Vättern outdoors. An obstacle course, bowling,<br />
skatepark and padel are just a few of the other activities available<br />
within a kilometre of O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City.<br />
A city full of life<br />
Jönköping has an international college and 140,000 inhabitants,<br />
and is buzzing with life all year round. The city centre has<br />
picturesque avenues and canals which open out onto three lakes:<br />
Vättern, Munksjön and Rocksjön. If you want to wander round<br />
the old town, explore local shops or enjoy good food and drink,<br />
the Matchstick area (Tändsticksområdet) is the place for you. The<br />
whole area is classed as a listed building and has a long history,<br />
which you can experience especially at the Match Museum.<br />
Proximity to nature is another major advantage of our destination.<br />
With its soft paths, beautiful views, John Bauer forests, wide<br />
marshlands, lakes and hillsides, the southern Vättern area is the<br />
perfect place to explore.<br />
The shores of Vättern<br />
Right in the middle of Jönköping you’ll find Vätterstranden, a<br />
beach and bathing area with a seaside feel and fantastic views.<br />
From O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City you can follow the cycleway for a few<br />
kilometres along Vättern, into the centre of Jönköping, where<br />
shopping, culture and a wide variety of restaurants await. With its<br />
whole kilometre of shoreline, Vätternstranden has room for everyone,<br />
as well as clean and clear water and a sandy beach. If it’s too<br />
cold for a dip in the lake, there are lawns, activities and restaurants<br />
nearby. Why not play volleyball on one of the beach volleyball<br />
pitches, have a play at the playground or ride along the beautiful<br />
path by the lake, enjoying the views by bike. If you cycle a couple of<br />
kilometres in the opposite direction you’ll get to Huskvarna, where<br />
among other things you can visit Husqvarna Factory Museum,<br />
have coffee and cake at Brunstorps Gård and go on to Äppledalen,<br />
known as “Småland’s answer to Tuscany”, with its local food entrepreneurs<br />
and attractions.<br />
Cycling in Jönköping<br />
All around Jönköping you can find everything from beautiful<br />
country lanes to challenging hills and endless gravel rides.<br />
Whether you’re looking to really dig in up a hill or enjoy a gentle<br />
outing on gravel, we have something for you. There’s a wealth of<br />
places to discover. At Huskvarnaberget nature reserve, with its<br />
beautiful views over Huskvarna and Jönköping, you can find the<br />
popular mountain bike arena at IKHP, which offers flowing tracks,<br />
drops and some challenging climbs up the slalom hill. There’s the<br />
EuroMTB 2016 track and many others to test. Hallbystugan, just<br />
to the west of Jönköping, is well-known among mountain bikers.<br />
Here you will find tracks for all ages and abilities. Don’t miss their<br />
pump track! At Gränna you can cycle on looping trails as well as<br />
try out the exciting enduro tracks up on Grännaberget. Both IKHP<br />
and Hallbystugan will be visited by everyone competing in MTBO<br />
at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>.<br />
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Three unique experiences<br />
in and around Jönköping<br />
Here are some attractions you’ll definitely want to visit<br />
during your stay in Jönköping and the surrounding area. Of<br />
course there are many more destinations and experiences<br />
but here are three you really won’t want to miss.<br />
Tabergsgruvan<br />
Iron ore was mined here from the 15th century, right up until the<br />
1950s The seam itself, however, was formed some 1,200 million<br />
years ago. During the summer you can take a guided tour here.<br />
You will also find the only bat museum in Sweden at the mine.<br />
Rosenlund Rosarium<br />
Right next to O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City you will find Rosenlund Hall and<br />
Rosenlund Rosarium, which among other things has 550 varieties<br />
of rose. In 2022, Rosenlund Rosarium won the distinction Award<br />
of Garden Excellence and became the first rose garden in Sweden<br />
to be listed as one of the best rose gardens in the world to visit.<br />
Bake some Polkagris rock<br />
In the middle of the 19th century, Amalia Erikson created a variety<br />
of rock confectionery that went on to become Gränna’s most<br />
famous export and one of Sweden’s most popular souvenirs. Today,<br />
there are around a dozen kitchens in Gränna where you can see the<br />
process. Here the sugar is boiled, stretched, kneaded and twisted<br />
just like in Amalia’s time and at some of the kitchens you can even<br />
have a go at baking your own Polkagris stick of rock.<br />
Terrain that’s waiting for you<br />
Another side of Småland awaits<br />
In our effort to bring you interesting competition areas,<br />
we have of course sought after traditional inland Småland<br />
terrain, alongside finding areas that are suitable for<br />
everyone. Younger and older. Recreational and elite<br />
runners. There will be some steeper hills, denser areas<br />
and wooded marshes, but overall runnability will be good<br />
and we will throw in some twists here and there, such as<br />
negative contour detail or vague, flatter areas. Remember<br />
that you make your own route choices!<br />
More to come<br />
As O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Jönköping 2025 comes closer, we will release more<br />
information about the terrain. Maybe it will be presented in a new<br />
way…?<br />
We will also help you by giving tips on how to tackle the navigational<br />
challenges.<br />
You have to stay on the ball. You can move very quickly in places but the<br />
terrain has areas of more complex contours, where you’ll need to slow<br />
down and take more care.<br />
After the Smålandskusten, we’re going… back to Småland.<br />
The tagline “Another Småland” has already been taken by<br />
Nässjö but it works well here, too. From the coast to the<br />
land. From sea to lake. From the small town to the big city.<br />
Are the same clubs organising?<br />
– No. Småland is a large area with many active clubs. None of the<br />
clubs are helping at both. We will, however, learn a lot from the<br />
Smålandskusten and their experiences, says Måns Lennermo, the<br />
Project Manager for O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Jönköping 2025.<br />
What about the terrain?<br />
– This will also be very different. The coastal terrain will be<br />
swapped for inland terrain. Mature, magical Småland forest. A<br />
moraine landscape with larger hill shapes, to give some examples<br />
of the differences,” says Måns.<br />
But some things must be similar?<br />
– Of course there are some similarities. We can also offer great<br />
attractions near the competitions and five stages across all disciplines.<br />
Then there’s having the traditional campsite and O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
City in the same place, says Måns.<br />
And will the competitors enjoy all this?<br />
– Of course! That was clear from our stand in Åre. People really<br />
appreciate that we are able to provide a compact and central<br />
concept, focusing on the campsite. The fact that there are bathing<br />
areas within walking distance, the whole of Vätterstranden and<br />
everything that a city like Jönköping can offer within a few kilometres<br />
is something we are very proud of and are looking forward<br />
to sharing, says Måns.<br />
And how are preparations going generally?<br />
– We are finalising agreements with landowners. The organising<br />
team is taking shape well. In theory, most of the tasks are already<br />
assigned. Excitement is starting to bubble among our officials.<br />
Everyone wants to know more, to get stuck into their roles, to<br />
welcome you. But for now it’s time to be patient and keep working<br />
away steadily, finishes Måns.<br />
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Welcome to Gothenburg 2026<br />
Come to Gothenburg for world class sport<br />
– find a delicious reason to stay!<br />
show jumping competition. Take your place in<br />
the stands and enjoy world class dressage and<br />
show jumping.<br />
Poppels City Brewery<br />
Poppels City Brewery is a unique food and<br />
beer experience in one of Gothenburg’s most<br />
exciting neighbourhoods. At the newly built<br />
Platinan at Hisingsbron you’ll find the world’s<br />
largest oak barrel pilsner brewery and a restaurant<br />
with room for over 170 guests. The restaurant<br />
is working towards circular solutions, with<br />
a menu built around sustainability, plant-based<br />
food and bread.<br />
It’s almost 20 years since Gothenburg last hosted O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
and in 2026 it’s time for it to return!<br />
No fewer than 17 Gothenburg clubs are joining forces to organise<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2026. From the big clubs like Göteborg-Majorna OK,<br />
IFK Göteborg and Sävedalens AIK, to smaller ones such as IK<br />
Stern, IK Marin Väst and many others.<br />
In recent years, Gothenburg has built up a wealth of experience<br />
in organising big orienteering events, including the Junior World<br />
Championships, World Masters Championships, Swedish Championships,<br />
10-MILA and most recently the Swedish Sprint Championships<br />
in 2022. We are taking all this valuable experience into our<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> preparations.<br />
Our own local experience combined with the collective experience<br />
of the O-<strong>Ringen</strong> team is a winning formula for a successful<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2026.<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City will be at Stora Holm, Hisingen, a rural idyll only a short<br />
distance away from each competition stage and the buzz of the city.<br />
Stora Holm is normally a training facility for drivers and includes a<br />
skidpan, but for one week it will be transformed into O-<strong>Ringen</strong> City,<br />
with room for 2000 camping pitches. It will be a compact O-<strong>Ringen</strong><br />
City, close to restaurants, O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square and other facilities.<br />
There is also a good electricity supply, which means we will be<br />
able to supply many camping pitches with electricity.<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2026 will offer exciting competition areas, with a<br />
very Gothenburg feel, for both Orienteering, MTBO and Trail-O<br />
classes. Work is underway this autumn to find the areas that can<br />
provide the perfect challenge for everyone. We are hoping to be<br />
able to offer a stage featuring classic coastal terrain.<br />
There will be around 1200 of us Gothenburgers in orange T-shirts,<br />
doing all we can to make sure you have a fantastic overall experience.<br />
A warm welcome to Gothenburg!<br />
Thomas Sellgren<br />
Chair of the Organising committee.<br />
Organizing clubs 2026<br />
• FK Herkules<br />
• Frölunda OL<br />
• Göteborg-Majorna OK<br />
• Göteborgs Orienteringsförbund<br />
• Göteborgs Skidklubb<br />
• IF Marin Väst<br />
• IFK Göteborg Orientering<br />
• IK Stern<br />
• IK Uven<br />
• Kungälvs OK<br />
• Lerums SOK<br />
• Mölndal Outdoor IF<br />
• OK Alehof<br />
• OK Landehof<br />
• Sjövalla FK<br />
• Sävedalens AIK<br />
• Tolereds AIK<br />
• Utby IK<br />
Named as Swedish City of Sport 2023, Gothenburg has<br />
opportunities to experience sport at both local and<br />
international level. Don’t miss out on cheering on your<br />
country’s handball team or the chance to see top level<br />
show jumping. Visit one of the city’s local breweries or<br />
the world’s biggest pizzeria! Here are some tips for your<br />
visit to Gothenburg.<br />
World Women’s Handball Championship<br />
1st – 11th December<br />
For the first time ever, the women’s handball world championships<br />
will be played on Swedish soil. Gothenburg is hosting Sweden’s<br />
group and the final rounds with matches at Scandinavium from<br />
1st–11th December. Cheer on your team from the stands and<br />
experience the championship magic with thousands of fans in a<br />
buzzing arena.<br />
Junior World Ice Hockey Championship<br />
26th December – 5th January<br />
In the Christmas holidays 2023/24, the IHF World Junior Championship<br />
will be played in Gothenburg. You can be sure of a big<br />
hockey festival in the city when the stars of the future meet to<br />
compete for the gold. Along with teams from nine other countries,<br />
Sweden will play matches at Scandinavium and Frölundaborg from<br />
26th December 2023 to 5th January 2024.<br />
Gothia Floorball Cup 4th – 7th January<br />
Gothia Innebandy Cup is one of the world’s biggest and most international<br />
floorball tours for young players. Every year, it is attended<br />
by over 470 from six to eight nations and over 1300 matches are<br />
played at 28 venues across Gothenburg.<br />
Gothenburg Horse Show 21st – 25th February<br />
You can be sure of horse mania and dramatic competitions when<br />
the world’s top horse riders and audience fill Scandinavium. Gothenburg<br />
Horse Show has also been voted the world’s best indoor<br />
Project<br />
Project is an inviting and cosy restaurant. What<br />
began as a cafe without a full kitchen has gone<br />
on to become one of the city’s Michelin starred<br />
restaurants. Eat something tasty from the seasonal<br />
menu and enjoy a cocktail or a glass of wine from Project’s<br />
own wine cellar.<br />
14 m 2 BAO<br />
Pop into the Saluhallen (market hall) and top up your energy levels<br />
at 14 m2 BAO, a little restaurant with big inspiration from Asia.<br />
Bao buns are on the menu, with tasty and exciting fillings.<br />
Moreno Pizza<br />
The world’s biggest pizzeria, with its enormous roof terrace, in<br />
Stigbergs Square in cosy Majorna. Moreno’s grand premises feature<br />
long tables, pizza and tankards of beer. You never need to book a<br />
table here, no matter how big your group is. The worst case is that<br />
you would have to wait a little while in our bar. Or on our roof<br />
terrace, with wonderful views over Majorna and the Göta river.<br />
If you’re wondering what’s going on in Gothenburg, take a look at<br />
our events calender. There’s something for everyone!<br />
www.goteborg.com/evenemang<br />
Welcome to Gothenburg!<br />
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Lika nära till lugnet<br />
som till adrenalinet<br />
Välkommen till Mönsterås kommun längs<br />
kusten vid Kalmarsund i Småland i samband<br />
med O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2024. Bara 20 minuter söder<br />
om Oskarshamn och en halvtimma norr om<br />
Kalmar och från Öland hittar du oss.<br />
Här får du naturupplevelser, kultur och historia<br />
i ett paket - från spännande historiska miljöer<br />
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i Emån och en av södra Sveriges mest unika<br />
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Bagheera<br />
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22/7<br />
Arena<br />
Rosenfors<br />
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Arena<br />
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Long<br />
Arena<br />
Långehäll<br />
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23/7<br />
Arena<br />
Rosenfors<br />
Stage 2<br />
Middle<br />
Arena<br />
Rosenfors<br />
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Stage 2<br />
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24/7<br />
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Brädholmen<br />
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Sprint<br />
Activity day<br />
THUR<br />
25/7<br />
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sprint<br />
FRI<br />
26/7<br />
Arena<br />
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Stage 4<br />
Middle<br />
Arena<br />
Döderhultsdalen<br />
Stage 4<br />
Middle<br />
Arena<br />
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O-<strong>Ringen</strong>s biggest and most classic competition is<br />
to compete over five days.<br />
The winner for many of the classes is determined<br />
by an exciting chasing start on the final day of<br />
competition, available for Foot-O and Trail-O.<br />
MAIN CLASSES<br />
Our five-day main classes are most popular. You have an allocated,<br />
timed start. Our youngest competitors get an introduction to<br />
orienteering with the Inskolning class, where you can start when you<br />
want and everyone gets a prize, and the results only show who has<br />
taken part, with no times or positions. The competition is decided on<br />
the final day with a chasing start for everyone except Inskolning and<br />
DH10–DH12.<br />
New for O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2024, DH75 and older have a free minute start,<br />
which means you choose a start minute when you get to the start.<br />
Class Middle Long Difficulty Class Middle Long<br />
Inskolning 1,5 1,5 Beginner Para-I 2,0 2,0<br />
D10 2,0 2,5 Very easy H10 2,0 2,5<br />
D11 2,5 3 Easy H11 2,5 3<br />
D12 2,5 3 Easy H12 2,5 3<br />
D13 3,0 4,4 Moderate H13 3,0 4,4<br />
D14 3,0 4,4 Moderate H14 3,0 4,4<br />
D15 3,5 5,5 Moderate H15 3,5 6<br />
D16 3,5 5,5 Moderate H16 3,5 6<br />
D18 3,5 5,5 Difficult H18 3,5 7,1<br />
D20 3,5 6 Difficult H20 3,5 7,7<br />
D21 3,5 7,7 Difficult H21 5,0 9,9<br />
D21 Lång 4,5 9,3 Difficult H21 Lång 5,5 11,5<br />
D35 4,0 6,6 Difficult H35 5,0 8,8<br />
D40 4,0 5,5 Difficult H40 4,8 8,2<br />
D45 4,0 4,9 Difficult H45 4,8 7,1<br />
D50 3,5 4,4 Difficult H50 4,5 6,6<br />
D55 3,5 4,4 Difficult H55 4,0 6,1<br />
D60 3,5 3,9 Difficult H60 4,0 5,5<br />
D65 3,0 3,8 Difficult H65 3,5 5<br />
D70 3,0 3,3 Difficult H70 3,5 4,4<br />
D75 3,0 3,1 Difficult H75 3,0 3,9<br />
D80 2,5 2,5 Difficult H80 2,5 3<br />
D85 2,5 2,5 Difficult H85 2,0 2,5<br />
D90 1,5 2 Difficult H90 1,5 2<br />
D95 1,5 1,5 Difficult H95 1,5 1,5<br />
PARA-I<br />
5-DAYS<br />
Para-I is for anyone with an intellectual disability. The difficulty<br />
level of the class is green (very easy).<br />
The Para-I class is available on all five days, and as a chasing<br />
start. It is open to anyone with an IQ of under 75, the equivalent<br />
to attending a special school or having LSS support in Sweden.<br />
You do not need a Parapsports licence to compete. The Para-I<br />
course is very easy and is around 2 km. All five stages are foot<br />
RECREATIONAL CLASSES<br />
Compete on easier courses in classes according to age and sex. Start<br />
when you want every day and no chasing start on the final day.<br />
Class Middle Long Difficulty Class Middle Long<br />
D21 Motion 3,7 5,5 Moderate H21 Motion 4 6,6<br />
D35 Motion 3,2 4,6 Moderate H35 Motion 3,8 6,3<br />
D40 Motion 3 4,4 Moderate H40 Motion 3,6 6,1<br />
D45 Motion 2,8 4,1 Moderate H45 Motion 3,5 4,9<br />
D50 Motion 2,7 3,8 Moderate H50 Motion 3,3 4,7<br />
D55 Motion 2,6 3,6 Moderate H55 Motion 3,2 4,6<br />
D60 Motion 2,5 3,4 Moderate H60 Motion 3 4,3<br />
D65 Motion 2,3 3,2 Moderate H65 Motion 2,9 4<br />
D70 Motion 2,2 2,9 Moderate H70 Motion 2,6 3,8<br />
D80 Motion 2 2,5 Moderate H80 Motion 2 2,5<br />
SHORT CLASSES<br />
Shorter than competition classes but with the same technical<br />
challenge. Classes have a free minute start, which means you<br />
choose a start minute when you get to the start. Chasing start for<br />
all classes on the final day. There are no DH75 or DH80 Short, we<br />
recommend DH75 or DH80 instead – see Main classes.<br />
Class Middle Long Difficulty Class Middle Long<br />
D12 Kort 2,0 2,5 Very easy H12 Kort 2,0 2,5<br />
D14 Kort 2,5 3,0 Easy H14 Kort 2,5 3,0<br />
D16 Kort 3,0 4,4 Moderate H16 Kort 3,0 4,4<br />
D17-20 Kort 3,0 4,5 Moderate H17-20 Kort 3,2 5,5<br />
D21 Kort 4,0 5,5 Difficult H21 Kort 4,5 7,6<br />
D35 Kort 3,6 4,5 Difficult H35 Kort 4,3 6,3<br />
D40 Kort 3,3 4,1 Difficult H40 Kort 4,2 5,7<br />
D45 Kort 3,3 3,9 Difficult H45 Kort 4,1 5<br />
D50 Kort 3,0 3,7 Difficult H50 Kort 3,8 4,8<br />
D55 Kort 3,0 3,5 Difficult H55 Kort 3,5 4,6<br />
D60 Kort 2,3 3,2 Difficult H60 Kort 3,3 4,0<br />
D65 Kort 2,2 3 Difficult H65 Kort 2,8 3,8<br />
D70 Kort 2,1 2,7 Difficult H70 Kort 2,6 3,3<br />
orienteering, which means that accessibility is not adapted to<br />
anyone using a wheelchair or other mobility aid. If you do use<br />
any mobility aids, we recommend our Trail-O classes.<br />
The Para-I class is open for all ages. There is a free start for all<br />
stages and timing using SportIdent. Competitors can be joined<br />
by a coach/adult/friend on the course.<br />
OPEN CLASSES<br />
There are twelve open orienteering classes, with different lengths<br />
and technical difficulty levels, that you can run every day. Start<br />
when you like.<br />
Class Middle Difficulty<br />
Lätt 2,5 2,0 Easy<br />
Lätt 3,5 2,8 Easy<br />
Lätt 5,0 4,0 Easy<br />
Lätt 10,0 6,0 Easy<br />
Medelsvår 2,5 2,0 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 3,3 2,5 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 4,0 3,0 Moderate<br />
TRAIL-O CLASSES<br />
In the Trail-O competition map knowledge is<br />
in focus. Each control has up to five alternate<br />
control markers. You must remotely determine<br />
which control marker is correctly placed<br />
according to the control ring on the map and<br />
the control description. You compete in a class<br />
determined by its difficulty level, rather than<br />
age and gender. The competition takes place in<br />
easily passable terrain.<br />
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MTBO<br />
Class Middle Difficulty<br />
Medelsvår 5,0 4,0 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 6,0 4,5 Moderate<br />
Svår 2,5 2,0 Difficult<br />
Svår 3,5 2,8 Difficult<br />
Svår 5,0 4,4 Difficult<br />
Svår 7,5 6,0 Difficult<br />
There are five MTBO stages at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> 2024. Start times are<br />
pre-allocated and the competition finishes with a chasing start on<br />
the final day. MTBO is high-speed and is all about making quick<br />
route choice decisions. The maps are like those used in Foot-O. The<br />
biggest difference is how paths and tracks are marked. They show<br />
how easy they are to ride on. Put simply, the longer the dashes on<br />
the lines, the easier they are to ride.<br />
OPEN MTBO CLASSES<br />
Class/Course Sprint Middle Long Cykelnivå<br />
Lätt mellan 3,0 6,0 10,0 Moderate<br />
Lätt lång 3,5 7,0 15,0 Svår<br />
Svår mellan 4,3 6,0 10,0 Svår<br />
Level<br />
Beginner<br />
Very easy<br />
Easy<br />
Moderate<br />
Description<br />
MTBO CLASSES<br />
Class Sprint Middle Long<br />
D12 2,5 3,0 5,5<br />
D14 3,0 5,0 8,5<br />
D16 4,0 5,5 10,0<br />
D20 4,5 7,0 14,5<br />
D21 5,5 8,5 20,0<br />
D35 4,5 7,0 13,0<br />
D40 4,5 7,0 13,0<br />
D45 4,5 7,0 13,0<br />
D50 4,0 6,0 11,0<br />
D55 3,5 6,0 11,0<br />
D60 3,5 5,0 9,0<br />
D65 3,5 5,0 9,0<br />
D70 3,0 4,0 7,5<br />
D75 3,0 4,0 7,5<br />
D80 2,5 4,0 7,5<br />
Class<br />
Pre-Elit<br />
Pre-A<br />
Pre-B<br />
Pre-C<br />
Class Sprint Middle Long<br />
H12 2,5 3,0 5,5<br />
H14 3,5 5,5 8,5<br />
H16 4,5 7,0 13,0<br />
H20 5,5 9,0 21,0<br />
H21 6,0 11,0 25,0<br />
H35 5,5 8,0 17,5<br />
H40 5,5 8,0 17,5<br />
H45 5,5 8,0 17,5<br />
H50 5,0 7,5 15,0<br />
H55 5,0 7,5 15,0<br />
H60 5,0 6,0 13,0<br />
H65 4,0 6,0 13,0<br />
H70 4,0 5,0 11,0<br />
D75 3,5 5,0 11,0<br />
D80 3,5 5,0 11,0<br />
LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY - MAIN-, SHORT-, RECREATIONAL- AND OPEN CLASSES<br />
Moderate<br />
Moderate<br />
Difficult<br />
Difficult<br />
The course is in terrain with clear and connected features such as roads, larger paths, buildings and open land. The controls on a<br />
green course must always be placed on handrails and must provide reassurance that the competitor is following the correct route.<br />
Control features may be path bends, path junctions, telegraph posts, buildings or other clear features or objects.<br />
The terrain is the same as for green courses, i.e. clear and connected features, e.g. roads, larger paths, open land and buildings. The<br />
controls on a white course must mark only the end of one leg and the start of the next. The control features must therefore be easily<br />
identified and distinct. As well as green course features, controls on white courses may also be on e.g. boulders, crags, fences and<br />
similar features.<br />
Yellow courses can be in more difficult terrain but runnability and visibility must still be good. The terrain must have a connected<br />
network of roads, paths, fences, waterways, open areas etc. Control points may be on more difficult features, for example on the top<br />
of a very distinct hill, but must always have a clear attack point. There must be a clear catching feature behind controls.<br />
Orange and red courses must use runnable terrain, with gentler hills and forest, preferably with areas of cultivated land. Terrain<br />
details must be clear. Compared to green, white and yellow courses, more difficult control features may be used, for example larger<br />
re-entrants, distinct ridges, hills and crags. There must be a clear feature a maximum of 200 m before the control and a clear catching<br />
feature behind it.<br />
Same as for orange courses but you can encounter all types of terrain.<br />
All types of terrain may be used. Very physically tough terrain should be avoided. All types of control feature may be used. Compared<br />
to orange and red courses, purple courses place higher demands on, planning skills, choosing quick routes ahead of safe routes and<br />
finding controls without clear catching features behind them.<br />
On blue and black courses, the difficulty should always suit skilled orienteers, even if anyone can compete. The increased difficulty<br />
level compared to other courses is because more of the orienteering uses contour features, detailed terrain and smaller features.<br />
Same as for blue courses but you can encounter all types of terrain.
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STAGE START<br />
3-DAYS<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
With the Stage Start option, you can choose the course<br />
you want to run at each stage of O-<strong>Ringen</strong>. The Stage<br />
Start option is available for each orienteering discipline<br />
that is offered at O-<strong>Ringen</strong>; Foot-O, MTBO and Trail-O.<br />
For our younger orienteers we offer Introduction and U-classes.<br />
Theese classes can also be booked for 5 days main- and short classes.<br />
Free start times apply to everyone so you can start when it suits<br />
you. If you are an adult and a beginner, there are Try-it out classes<br />
to start with. Then you can gradually choose a more difficult and /<br />
or longer course.<br />
For MTBO, both orienteering technical difficulty and cycling<br />
technical difficulty are indicated. Class/Course indicates the<br />
orienteering technical difficulty. Bicycle level indicates the bicycle<br />
technical difficulty.<br />
If you are new to the sport of orienteering, you can get help with<br />
the basic skills and with finding the right course for you through<br />
our orienteering school, located at each of the arenas used for foot<br />
orienteering.<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
OL-KLASS<br />
PREO-KLASS<br />
OPEN CLASS, 3-DAYS<br />
Class/Course Middle Long Difficulty<br />
Mycket lätt 2,5 (prova på) 2,5 2,5 Very easy<br />
Mycket lätt 4,0 (prova på) 4,0 4,0 Very easy<br />
Inskolning 1,5 1,5 Beginner<br />
Para-I 2,0 2,0 Beginner<br />
Lätt 2,5 2,0 2,5 Easy<br />
Lätt 3,5 3,0 3,8 Easy<br />
Lätt 5,0 3,7 5,0 Easy<br />
Lätt 10,0 6,5 10,0 Easy<br />
Medelsvår 2,5 2,5 2,5 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 3,3 2,5 3,3 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 4,0 3,0 4,0 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 5,0 3,7 5,0 Moderate<br />
Medelsvår 6,0 4,0 6,0 Moderate<br />
Svår 2,5 2,0 2,5 Difficult<br />
Svår 3,5 2,7 3,5 Difficult<br />
Svår 5,0 4,4 5,0 Difficult<br />
Svår 7,5 6,0 7,5 Difficult<br />
Class/Course<br />
Open Pre-A<br />
Open Pre-B<br />
Open Pre-C<br />
MTBO-KLASS<br />
Class/Course Sprint Middle Long Cykelnivå<br />
Mycket lätt kort 2,5 4,5 6,0 Easy<br />
(prova på)<br />
Lätt mellan 3,0 6,0 10,0 Moderate<br />
Lätt lång 3,5 7,0 15,0 Difficult<br />
Svår kort 3,5 4,5 6,0 Moderate<br />
Svår mellan 4,3 6,0 10,0 Difficult<br />
Svår lång 5,5 7,0 15,0 Difficult<br />
OL<br />
MTBO<br />
THUR<br />
25/7<br />
Arena<br />
Gunnarsö<br />
Stage 3<br />
Long<br />
Arena<br />
Hjortberget<br />
Stage 3<br />
Prolonged sprint<br />
FRI<br />
26/7<br />
Arena<br />
Döderhultsdalen<br />
Stage 4<br />
Middle<br />
Arena<br />
Scaniaslingan<br />
Stage 4<br />
Middle<br />
Om du bara vill vara med på orienteringsfesten under de<br />
sista tre dagarna, onsdag, torsdag och fredag, finns det<br />
flera olika öppna klasser för OL och MTBO.<br />
Du väljer längd och svårighetsgrad som passar dig.<br />
Fri starttid gäller för öppna klasser.<br />
SAT<br />
27/7<br />
Arena<br />
Döderhultsdalen<br />
Stage 5<br />
Long<br />
Arena<br />
Scaniaslingan<br />
Stage 5<br />
Long<br />
Class Sprint Middle Long Difficulty Cykelnivå<br />
Lätt 2,5 - 2,0 2,5 Easy -<br />
Lätt 5,0 - 4,0 5,0 Easy -<br />
Medelsvår 3,3 - 2,7 3,3 Moderate -<br />
Medelsvår 5,0 - 4,0 5,0 Moderate -<br />
Svår 3,5 - 2,8 3,5 Difficult -<br />
Svår 5,0 - 4,0 5,0 Difficult -<br />
Svår 7,5 - 5,0 7,5 Difficult -<br />
MTBO Lätt Mellan 3,0 6,0 10,0 Easy Moderate<br />
MTBO Lätt Lång 3,5 7,0 15,0 Easy Difficult<br />
MTBO Svår Mellan 4,3 6,0 10,0 Difficult Difficult<br />
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ACTIVITIES<br />
CHILD CARE<br />
During O-<strong>Ringen</strong> we offer child care for kids aged 3-8 years at<br />
Arena Rosenfors, Arena Gunnarsö och Arena Döderhultsdalen.<br />
Pre book your child care at oringen.se. You can leave your child<br />
with us for up to 3 hours at a time (while you race).<br />
MINIKNAT<br />
For the youngest orienteers there are daily Miniknat, or String<br />
courses, at Arena Rosenfors, Arena Gunnarsö och Arena<br />
Döderhultsdalen.<br />
In Miniknat, kids follow a streamered course between check<br />
points, which feature different activities, challenges, and fun surprises.<br />
They do, of course, get a map to follow and a SI card.<br />
There is no timing or results list, but all children get a prize<br />
when they finish.<br />
You can pre book Miniknat at oringen.se or book it directly at<br />
the arena.<br />
BAGHEERA ORIENTEERING SCHOOL<br />
Have you never tried orienteering but want to try? Or re you a former<br />
orienteer and want to refresh your skills? At the Orienteering School,<br />
we will cover all the necessary skills that you need in order to set out<br />
by yourself on an easy-level O-<strong>Ringen</strong> course. We will then come with<br />
you to the start and help you get going.<br />
ADDITIONALS<br />
- to be selected at<br />
the same time as<br />
you book your start<br />
FOLKSAM MOTIONSLOPPSFÖRSÄKRING<br />
(INSURANCE)<br />
Folksam motionsloppsförsäkring is for participants in<br />
exercise and competition events and gives you back the<br />
entire registration fee if you become acutely ill or injured<br />
and can not participate. The insurance also includes an<br />
olycksfallsförsäkring (accident insurance) when you are<br />
training. Only valid for Swedish residents.<br />
SI PUNCHING CARD<br />
Rent your punsching card for one or all stages.<br />
START TIMES BLOCKED<br />
WITH ANOTHER CLUB<br />
Start with another club than your own.<br />
SAVE<br />
20%<br />
REGISTER BY<br />
NOV 5 th<br />
SPLIT START TIME<br />
You start on different times during the day. Only<br />
avaliable when you compete in the same dicipline.<br />
Delad lottning är endast tillgänglig för deltagare i OL<br />
(dock ej i elitklasser).<br />
PUNCH HELP TRAIL-O<br />
Transport help, only for Trail-O.<br />
BAGHEERA YOUTH RELAY<br />
The traditional youth relay is organized in conjunction<br />
with the opening ceremony July 22. The relay is between<br />
club teams but you can also create a combination team<br />
between clubs. Teams consists of four runners, one from<br />
each classes D14, H14, D16 and H16.<br />
Bring your club and support your team!<br />
Legs Course length Start procedure<br />
D16-H14-D14-H16 4 x 1,8 km Mass start<br />
MAP SCALES OL<br />
JUNIOR AND SENIOR CLASSES<br />
DH18-DH21 (short and elite classes included) have map scale<br />
1:15 000 for the long distance stages and 1:10 000 for the middle<br />
distance stages.<br />
ADULT CLASSES<br />
DH21 Motion, DH35-DH40 (short and recreational classes<br />
included) have map scale 1:10 000 for all stages.<br />
DH45 and older classes (short and recreational classes included)<br />
have map scale 1:7500 for all stages<br />
OPEN CLASSES<br />
Lätt 10.0, Svår 5.0, Svår 7.5 have 1:10 000 for all stages. All other open<br />
classes have 1:7500 for all stages. The same map scales apply to the<br />
open classes regardless of you enter for 5-days, 3-days or stage start.<br />
For Training courses with timing, the classes Svår 5,0 and Svår<br />
7,5 use map scale 1:10 000 and all other classes have map scale<br />
1:7500.<br />
TRAINING COURSES<br />
WITH TIMING<br />
Warm up for O-<strong>Ringen</strong> with one of our Smålandskust timed training<br />
courses, from 18 th –21 st July at Djupeträsk, around 3.5 km from<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> camping (depending on exactly where you're pitched).<br />
Register using our booking portal or at Competitor Services at<br />
O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square. No registration at Djupeträsk. You can collect<br />
your map at Competitor Services at O-<strong>Ringen</strong> Square, where you<br />
can also download your SI card after you run.<br />
Gren Class/Course Length Difficulty<br />
OL Mycket lätt 2,0 2,0 Very easy<br />
OL Lätt 2,5 2,5 Easy<br />
OL Lätt 4,0 4,0 Easy<br />
PUSH HELP TRAIL-O<br />
Transport help, only for Trail-O.<br />
The map scale varies depending on which class you have entered.<br />
Here you can find the map scale for your class.<br />
YOUTH CLASSES<br />
For Inskolning, U1, U2, DH10-DH14 (short classes included) the<br />
map scale is 1:7500 for all stages.<br />
DH15-DH16 (short classes included) have map scale 1:10 000<br />
for all stages.<br />
MAP SCALES MTBO<br />
For MTBO, the map scales have not been decided yet.<br />
Information will be updated at oringen.se.<br />
OL Medelsvår 3,0 3,0 Moderate<br />
OL Medelsvår 4,0 4,0 Moderate<br />
OL Medelsvår 5,0 5,0 Moderate<br />
OL Svår 3,0 3,0 Difficult<br />
OL Svår 5,0 (1:7 500) 5,0 Difficult<br />
OL Svår 5,0 (1:10 000) 5,0 Difficult<br />
OL Svår 7,5 7,5 Difficult<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
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REGISTRATION FEES 2024<br />
Product Prize category nov 5<br />
-20%<br />
Elite Tour<br />
5-days<br />
3-days<br />
Stage start<br />
Main- &<br />
Short classes.<br />
Trail-O<br />
april 7<br />
-10%<br />
jun 2<br />
ordinary<br />
After<br />
+30%<br />
Up to age 20 2230 2510 2790 3620<br />
Age 21 and up 2750 3090 3440 4470<br />
Inskolning 560 630 700 910<br />
Up to age 16 900 1010 1130 1460<br />
Ages 17–20 1240 1390 1550 2010<br />
Age 21 and up 1910 2150 2390 3100<br />
Recreational classes Age 21 and up 1810 2040 2270 2950<br />
Open classes<br />
Open classes<br />
MTBO-class<br />
Up to age 16 780 880 980 1270<br />
Ages 17–20 1120 1260 1400 1820<br />
Age 21 and up 1710 1920 2140 2780<br />
Para-I 610 610 610 610<br />
Up to age 16 470 530 590 760<br />
Ages 17–20 660 740 830 1070<br />
Age 21 and up 1040 1170 1300 1690<br />
Up to age 16 470 530 590 760<br />
Ages 17–20 660 740 830 1070<br />
Age 21 and up 1040 1170 1300 1690<br />
Try it out (all ages) 110 120 140 180<br />
Up to age 16 110 120 140 180<br />
Ages 17–20 160 180 200 260<br />
Age 21 and up 210 240 270 350<br />
Para-I 110 110 110 110<br />
Bagheerastafetten Per team 350 400 440 570<br />
Training courses<br />
with timing<br />
Up to age 16 60 70 80 100<br />
Ages 17–20 80 90 110 140<br />
Age 21 and up 90 100 120 150<br />
Welcome to<br />
Smålandskusten<br />
ADDITIONAL SERVICES<br />
nov 5<br />
-20%<br />
april 7<br />
-10%<br />
jun 2<br />
ordinary<br />
After<br />
+30%<br />
Folksam motionsloppsförsäkring (Insurance) 155 155 155 155<br />
Folksam motionsloppsförsäkring plus (Insurance) 275 275 275 275<br />
SI Punching card rental, per stage 45 45 45 55<br />
SI, SIAC (MTBO) Punching card rental, per stage 65 65 65 75<br />
Start times blocked with another club 130 130 130 155<br />
Split start time 130 130 130 155<br />
Punch help Trail-O 120 120 120 145<br />
Push help Trail-O 120 120 120 145<br />
Jubilee plaque (order before 2/6) 0 0 0 -<br />
Visa 0 0 0 0<br />
Customized map (order before 7/4) 0 - - -<br />
ACTIVITIES & ADDITIONAL SERVICES<br />
Terms for registration at oringen.se<br />
nov 5<br />
-20%<br />
april 7<br />
-10%<br />
jun 2<br />
ordinary<br />
After<br />
+30%<br />
Child care 70 70 70 90<br />
Miniknat 45 45 45 65<br />
Bagheera orienteering school 0 0 0 0<br />
July 21–27 2024<br />
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HOST<br />
COMPETITION PARTNERS<br />
STAGE HOSTS<br />
ACTIVITY PARTNERS<br />
SUPPLIERS<br />
Photo: Peter Holgersson<br />
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