Orienteering World Cup 1996

The Orienteering World Cup in 1996 was the sixth edition of the international orienteering series. It was held in three rounds with a total of ten competitions. As in 1994, this included three relay races.

Overall victory went to the Swede Johan Ivarsson for the men and his compatriot Gunilla Svärd for the women. Sweden won the relay rankings for men and Norway for women.

Venues

round	competition	date	venue	competition	comment
1	1	8th of May	Juodkrantė	Classical distance
	2	May 11th	Cēsis	Classical distance
	3	12th of May	Cēsis	Season
2	4th	30th July	Mölndal	Short distance
	5	3rd August	Vestmarka	Classical distance
	6th	4th of August	Vestmarka	Season
3	7th	17th August	Langnau	Season
	8th	August 19th	Langnau	Short distance
	9	August 21	Leuk	Classical distance
	10	August 24th	Villard-de-Lans	Classical distance

Overall rating

singles

Men space country athlete Points 1 SWE Johan Ivarsson 181 2 SWE Jörgen Mårtensson 178 3 FIN Timo Karppinen 176 4th FIN Mikael Bostrom 174 5 SUI Alain Berger 168 6th SWE Håkan Eriksson 165 7th CZE Rudolf Ropek 163 8th EST Sixten Sild 162 9 SWE Peter Jacobsson 156 10 NOR Bjørnar Valstad 156

Women space country athlete Points 1 SWE Gunilla Svärd 192 2 SWE Marlena Jansson 189 3 NOR Hanne Staff 184 4th FIN Anniina Paronen 168 5 GBR Yvette Hague 168 6th SWE Anette Granstedt 167 7th NOR Hanne Sandstad 163 8th FIN Sanna Nymalm 161 9 SUI Sabrina Meister-Fesseler 158 10 FIN Johanna Tiira 155

Season

Men space country Points 1  Sweden 40 2  Norway 35 3  Finland 33 4th  Switzerland 32 5  Czech Republic 28 6th  United Kingdom 24 7th  Denmark 23 8th  Lithuania 17th 9  Estonia 15th 10  Italy 13

Women space country Points 1  Norway 40 2  Sweden 37 3  Switzerland 36 4th  Finland 33 5  Czech Republic 27 6th  United Kingdom 24 7th  New Zealand 22nd 8th  Germany 20th 9  Russia 19th 10  Denmark 14th

Web links

• World Cup 1996 IOF
• Results World of O Runners