Ski-orienteering

Ski orienteering, ski orienteering abbreviated, is a combination of orienteering and cross-country skiing Skisportart.

In ski orienteering athletes need to contact a certain number of items in the shortest possible time as orienteering using a map. They move here with cross-country skis on a groomed trail network, which is marked on the map with his different levels of difficulty. As with orienteering on foot is permitted as an aid, a compass.

The special challenge of the ski orienteering is to choose the routes to the items based on the map according to your personal skiing skills and personal endurance behavior.

Ski orienteering is an organized by the International Orienteering Federation competitive sport with two -yearly Ski Orienteering World Championships and also two annual World Cup been discharged. The first world championships were held in 1975 in the Finnish Hyvinkää. Dominant nations are the Scandinavian countries Sweden, Norway and Finland and Russia. There is also the annual Junior World Championships ( Ski JWOC ).