Orienteering World Cup 1998

The Orienteering World Cup in 1998 was the seventh edition of the international orienteering series . The Norwegian Hanne Staff and the Dane Chris Terkelsen won the overall ranking.

The World Cup season was held in seven rounds with a total of 13 competitions, including three relay races.

Venues

round	competition	date	venue	competition	comment
1	1	May 22nd and 23rd	Killarney	Middle distance
	2	25. May		Season
2	3	28th of May	Lake District	Long distance
	4th	May 30th and 31st		Short distance
3	5	July 20th to 24th	Gävle	(Multi-day competition)	O-rings
4th	6th	12th September	Krakow	Season
	7th	September 14th and 15th		Long distance
5	8th	17th of September	Tatranská Lomnica	Long distance
	9	September 19th and 20th		Short distance
6th	10	September 26th and 27th	Otepää	Long distance
	11	September 29th		Season
7th	12	October 1st and 2nd	Hämeenlinna	Short distance
	13	October 3		Long distance

Men's

date	place	distance	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	Remarks
22./23. May	Killarney	Long	Bjørnar Valstad	Valentin Novikov	Steven Hale
28th of May	Lake District	Long	Chris Terkelsen	Johan Ivarsson	Bjørnar Valstad
30./31. May	Lake District	Short	Johan Ivarsson	Jörgen Mårtensson	Valentin Novikov
20th - 24th July	Gävle
14./15. September	Krakow	Long	Chris Terkelsen	Juha Peltola	Jörgen Mårtensson
17th of September	Tatranská Lomnica	Long	Sixten Sild	Bjørnar Valstad	Chris Terkelsen
19./20. September	Tatranská Lomnica	Short	Janne Salmi	Fredrik Löwegren	Bjørnar Valstad
26./27. September	Otepää	Long	Chris Terkelsen	Timo Karppinen	Johan Ivarsson
1./2. October	Hämeenlinna	Short
October 3	Hämeenlinna	Long

Ladies

date	place	distance	1st place	2nd place	3rd place	Remarks
22./23. May	Killarney	Long	Hanne Staff	Johanna Asklöf	Yvette Hague
28th of May	Lake District	Long	Yvette Hague	Katarina Borg	Katarina Allberg
30./31. May	Lake District	Short	Hanne Staff	Satu Mäkitammi	Katarina Borg
20th - 24th July	Gävle		Hanne Staff
14./15. September	Krakow	Long	Jana Cieslarová	Satu Mäkitammi	Sabrina Meister-Fesseler
17th of September	Tatranská Lomnica	Long	Hanne Staff	Gunilla Svärd	Külli Kaljus
19./20. September	Tatranská Lomnica	Short	Anniina Paronen	Reeta Kolkkala	Satu Mäkitammi
26./27. September	Otepää	Long	Hanne Staff	Johanna Asklöf	Katarina Borg
1./2. October	Hämeenlinna	Short
October 3	Hämeenlinna	Long

Overall rating

singles

Men's space country athlete Points 1 THE Chris Terkelsen 282 2 SWE Johan Ivarsson 280 3 NOR Bjørnar Valstad 279 4th SWE Jörgen Mårtensson 257 5 FIN Timo Karppinen 243 6th NOR Carl Henrik Bjørseth 240 7th SUI Thomas Buehrer 239 8th SWE Jimmy Birklin 236 9 FIN Janne Salmi 232 10 FIN Juha Peltola 230

Ladies space country Athlete Points 1 NOR Hanne Staff 296 2 FIN Johanna Asklöf 294 3 SWE Katarina Borg 269 4th FIN Reeta Kolkkala 263 5 SUI Sabrina Meister-Fesseler 249 6th FIN Satu Mäkitammi 243 7th FIN Anniina Paronen 241 8th SWE Katarina Allberg 241 9 SWE Gunilla Svärd 238 10 GBR Heather Monro 230

Season

Men's space country Points 1  Denmark 56 2  Sweden 52 3  Norway 40 4th  Switzerland 38 5  Czech Republic 37 6th  Finland 36 7th  Estonia 26th 8th  United Kingdom 26th 9  Lithuania 22nd 10  Poland 14th

Ladies space country Points 1  Norway 56 2  Finland 55 3  Switzerland 52 4th  Sweden 44 5  United Kingdom 33 6th  Czech Republic 29 7th  Denmark 24 8th  Estonia 21st 9  Lithuania 14th 10  Poland 14th

Web links

• World Cup 1998 Overall IOF
• Results World of O Runners