Orienteering World Cup 1994

The 1994 Orienteering World Cup was the fifth edition of the international orienteering series. There were a total of nine competitions, including three relay races for the first time.

In the men's category, the Norwegian Petter Thoresen won the overall standings, in the women's category, Marlena Jansson from Sweden. Norway won the relay rankings for men and women.

Venues

competition	date	venue	competition	comment
1	3rd of April	Woodhill	Classical distance
2	April 6th	Nerrina	Short distance
3	April 8th	Little Hard Hills	Season
4th	August 10	Kristiansand	Classical distance
5	13 August	Jægerspris	Classic distance, mass start
6th	August 14th	Jægerspris	Season
7th	25th of September	Quedlinburg	Classical distance
8th	September 29th	Jičín	Season
9	October 1	Jičín	Classical distance

Results

1st competition (classic distance in New Zealand)

Men space country athlete time 1 NZL Alistair Landels 1:44:12 h 2 FIN Mika Kuisma 1:45:11 h 3 SWE Johan Ivarsson 1:46:35 h 4th SUI Thomas Buehrer 1:48:45 h 5 THE Chris Terkelsen 1:49:13 h 6th NOR Petter Thoresen 1:49:16 h

Women space country athlete time 1 SWE Gunilla Svärd 1:25:47 h 2 SWE Anna Bogren 1:26:49 h 3 NOR Torunn Fossli 1:27:13 h 4th SUI Sabrina Fesseler 1:27:14 h 5 NOR Hanne Sandstad 1:27:31 h 6th SWE Annika Zell 1:28:27 h

2nd competition (short distance in Australia)

Men space country athlete time 1 FIN Janne Salmi 27:44 min 2 GBR Steven Hale 27:52 min 3 SWE Jörgen Mårtensson 27:55 min 4th THE Chris Terkelsen 28:11 min 5 SWE Arto Rautiainen 28:43 min 6th SWE Lars Holmqvist 28:45 min

Women space country athlete time 1 NOR Hanne Staff 27:42 min 2 CZE Jana Cieslarova 28:39 min 3 GBR Yvette Hague 28:53 min 4th FIN Reeta-Mari Kolkkala 29:39 min 5 FIN Eija Koskivaara 29:53 min 6th NOR Ragnhild Bente Andersen 30:09 min

3rd competition (relay in Australia)

Men space country athlete time 1 (1) NOR 1 Bjørnar Valstad Håvard Tveite Petter Thoresen 2:10:11 h 2 (1) NOR 2 Kjetil Bjørlo Anders Bjørnsgaard Jon Tvedt 2:12:15 h 3 (2) SWE 1 Arto Rautiainen Jörgen Mårtensson Johan Ivarsson 2:12:28 h 4 (3) CZE Petr Kozák Petr Vavrys Tomas Prokes 2:12:35 h 5 (4) FIN 1 Kaj Roine Janne Salmi Mika Kuisma 2:16:50 h 6 (5) THE Allan Mogensen Chris Terkelsen Carsten Jørgensen 2:16:52 h

Women space country athlete time 1 (1) CZE Marcela Kubatkova Marie Honzova Jana Cieslarova 2:09:41 h 2 (2) NOR 1 Hanne Staff Torunn Fossli Ragnhild B. Andersen 2:13:42 h 3 (3) FIN 2 Johanna Tiira Eija Koskivaara Kirsu Tiira 2:15:24 h 4 (4) SUI 1 Vroni King Brigitte Wolf Sabrina Fesseler 2:16:56 h 5 (3) FIN 1 Annika Viilo Anniina Paronen Riita-Mari Kolkkala 2:18:32 h 6 (2) NOR 2 Ann-Kristin Hogseth Gro Sandstad Hanne Sandstad 2:24:48 h

4th competition (classical distance in Norway)

5th competition (classical distance in Denmark)

Men space country athlete time 1 CZE Rudolf Ropek 1:30:57 h 2 NOR Petter Thoresen 1:30:59 h 3 THE Carsten Jørgensen 1:31:00 h 4th GBR Steven Hale 1:33:06 h 5 SWE Johan Ivarsson 1:33:08 h 6th SWE Lars Holmqvist 1:33:09 h

Women space country athlete time 1 SWE Marlena Jansson 1:18:51 h 2 EST Kulli Kaljus 1:19:13 h 3 GBR Yvette Hague 1:19:31 h 4th ESP Anna Garin 1:19:33 h 5 SWE Anna Bogren 1:19:35 h 6th SWE Gunilla Svärd 1:19:39 h

6th competition (relay in Denmark)

7th competition (classical distance in Germany)

8th competition (relay in the Czech Republic)

9th competition (classical distance in the Czech Republic)

Overall rating

singles

Men space country athlete Points 1 NOR Petter Thoresen 183 2 FIN Janne Salmi 176 3 FIN Mika Kuisma 171 4th NOR Håvard Tveite 170 5 THE Carsten Jørgensen 169 6th SWE Jörgen Mårtensson 167 7th CZE Rudolf Ropek 165 8th SWE Johan Ivarsson 165 9 THE Chris Terkelsen 163 10 GBR Steven Hale 158

Women space country athlete Points 1 SWE Marlena Jansson 193 2 GBR Yvette Hague 179 3 NOR Hanne Staff 173 4th NOR Hanne Sandstad 171 5 SWE Anna Bogren 163 6th SWE Gunilla Svärd 159 7th SUI Sabrina Fesseler 158 8th SWE Maria Gustavsson 157 9 FIN Reeta Kolkkala 146 10 SUI Vroni king 145

Season

The best two results came into the overall ranking.

Men space country Points 1  Norway 37+ 2  Sweden 37 3  Denmark 31 4th  Czech Republic 30th 5  Finland 28 6th  United Kingdom 24 7th  Estonia 22nd 8th  Switzerland 17th 9  France 16 10  New Zealand 12

Women space country Points 1  Norway 34 2  Switzerland 33+ 3  Sweden 33 4th  United Kingdom 32 5  Czech Republic 30th 6th  Finland 30th 7th  Denmark 22nd 8th  Germany 17th 9  Hungary 14+ 10  Russia 14th

Web links

• World Cup 1994 Overall IOF
• 1994 World Cup orienteering.asn.au