Last week 12 of our elite runners were training during 7 days in Aguiar da Beira, Portugal.

In the beginning we participated in ABOM (sprint, LD and MD) and we noted some good performances. The best results came in the long distance where Olav won and Jo took second place. Our latest member, the young Frenchman, Adrien Delenne immediately showed class when he came third in the sprint race only 13 seconds behind the winner.    

The rest of the week has been full of good technical trainings (provided by O-Portugal) in very interesting but also demanding terrain. Full focus was required to avoid green areas and to find passages in between cliffs and thorny bushes. The JWOC will be held in this part of Portugal in 2021. 

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We are happy to welcome one of France's most promising orienteers, Adrien Delenne, to Halden SK. Adrien is a French National team member and he is 23 years old (born 1996 in Aix-en-Provence).

Currently Adrien lives in Lyon where he studies Engineering at INSA de Lyon.

He has already two participations at World Orienteering Championships (2017 & 2018) and 4 JWOCs. Up until now his best results has been in sprint (bronze medal World University Championships 2018)

Etter en strålende vårsesong kvalifiserte Niels Christian Hellerud seg til det norske laget til Ungdoms-EM (EYOC) som går av stabelen i Veliko Tarnovo i Bulgaria førstkommende helg.

Vår franske juniorjente,Hélène Champigny, er tatt ut på det franske laget der HSKs trener Eva Jurenikova er med som lagleder.

På tirsdag kom eliten i Halden tilbake fra en ukes treningssamling i relevant terreng til EM i Sveits i år. Det har vært en fysisk tung treningssamling med mange høydemetre i banken. Treningssamlingen startet forrige tirsdag med en liten introøkt på vei til overnattingen fra flyplassen, før vi på onsdag formiddag hadde vår første hardøkt. Vi løp en mellomdistanse med godt internasjonalt innslag. Hele det franske landslaget var på treningssamling i samme tidspunkt. Det samme gjalt Tampere Pyrintö, tre svenske landslagsløpere og Ida og Olav.

We are happy to welcome one of Britain's most promising orienteers, Alexander (Sasha) Chepelin, to Halden SK. Sasha was born 1997, raised in Aberdeen in Scotland and is going into his 1st year as a senior.

He did remarkably well in the Junior World Championships in Tampere, Finland in his last year as a junior finishing 5th, 7th and 7th (sprint, middle, long). Hopefully he will develop further as an orienteer with support from Halden SK and the training environment in the club.

Vi välkomnar Rickard Djerf, Viktor Wassén och Elias Bäcklund Ekvall som flyttade till Halden i oktober. De bor i HSK-huset på Alfheimveien och deltar flitigt i klubbträningarna. De ska representera HSK nästa år.

Rickard Djerf

Vad fick dig att komma hit?
Halden är som en orienteringsmecka och vart ska man annars flytta om man vill bli en bättre orienterare?

We are very happy to welcome two promising French juniors, Hélène Champigny and Guilhem Elias, in our club. They are both members of the French national team (Hélène as a youth team member, and Guilhem as a junior) and they both come from South-East France (near Marseille on Mediterranean coast).
Guilhem has already shown up some true talent at international level by setting an impressive streak of 8 medals out of 9 races at EYOC (2015-2016-2017), and he was selected for JWOC already this year with a 6th place from the relay as best result. Hélène is among the best French girls of her age and has been running EYOC in 2016.

Jag har mätt upp vägvalen från sprint-träningen i Halden centrum och klistrat in dem nedan.

Om du ska springa banan senare, se inte på bilderna nu! 

Trackingen från träningen finns hos Loggator(de flesta hade väst på sig men inte alla så precisionen varierar).

Det är inte alltid det kortaste vägvalet som är snabbast. Underlaget, stigningen, antalet svängar, smala passager, egen teknisk skicklighet... påverkar löphastigheten. 

Jentene vant og gutta ble nr 1 og 3: http://o-nm2017.no/nm-stafett-og-preo/

Gull til Olav, bronse til Ida og bronse til Knut! Les mer på o-nm2017