Five from Hisuteam nominated to World/European Championship competition

Ski Orienteering World Junior Championships and European Championships will be held in Põlva, Estonia at 18th-23rd February. Five from SK Pohjantähti were nominated to the Finnish National junior team.

Junior World Championship team :
o Ladies 20: Suvi Oikarinen Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura , Sanna Pusa Haapamäen Urheilijat , Noora Räisänen Saloisten Reipas, Liisa Sassi-Päkkilä SK Pohjantähti, Mirka Suutari Kouvola Suunnistajat , Oona Valkonen Kalske
o Men 20 : Joonas Ahola Navi, Santeri Aikio Kuusamo Eräveikot, Aleksi Karppinen SK Pohjantähti,
Samuli Schroderus SK Pohjantähti, Misa Tuomala Suunta Jyväskylä, Jyri Uusitalo Pellon Ponsi.

Junior European Championship team:
o Ladies 17: Laura Kotila Ounasvaaran hiihtoseura , Liisa Nenonen SK Vuoksi , Juliaana Näsi SK Pohjantähti, Tuuli Suutari Kouvola Suunnistajat . Deputy: Aurora Näsi SK Pohjantähti.
o Men 17 : Tommi Härkönen Kajaanin Suunnistajat , Emil Lönnström SK Orient, Eevert Toivonen Pirkkalan Hiihtäjät , Elmeri Toivanen Kouvolan Suunnistajat. Deputy: Miska Tervala Rastivarsat .

More info in the bulletin of this link

Pictures from Kuusamo competition

Pictures from Kuusamo Ski-O on 24th-25th January:

Juliaana Näsi, Liisa Sassi-Päkkilä and Aleksi Karppinen had good results in the important ranking competition:
- Juliana won the 1st day of ladies 18
- Aleksi were 3rd in total results of both days in men 20
- Liisa was 4th in total results of both days in ladies 20

On Sunday Samuli Schroderus was leading the men 20 series competition until the control 13 but then when crossing a ditch, broke his ski and were forced to interrupt.

Pictures from Hamar, Norway

Juliaana Näsi, SK Pohjantähti

Finland won the Junior meeting again !

2nd position also on Sunday

In the Nordic Junior meeting, Norvegian Elias Mølnvik was the lucky winner in men 17-18 series again on Sunday's sprint. The difference to Samuli Schroderus was only 3 seconds, 1 second more than on Saturday.

As the middle distance on Saturday, also the sprint was very technical and challenging, forcing orienteers to focus on the map reading and prevent from keeping maximal skiing speed.

In the picture left Samuli Schroderus, middle Elias Mølnvik and right Eevert Toivonen.

Juliaana Näsi had mistakes in two controls but otherwise her split times were looking good.

Sunday's results in this link.

2nd place in Norway Nordic Junior meeting

Junior National Teams Ski-o Nordic Junior meeting was held in Hamar, Norway on 18th January2014. Middle distance was on Saturday and sprint distance will be on Sunday.

From SK Pohjantähti, Samuli Schroderus was second in men 17-18 series. He did 3.5 minutes mistakes but remained still 2nd thanks to outstanding skiing speed. The winner was Norwegian Elias Moelvik.

Juliana Näsi was 7th in the ladies 17-18 series on her first national team start and got plenty of good experience for the next competitions.

Link to the results.

Races will continue on Sunday with sprints.

Ski-O trainings during last weekend

Perfect conditions in Kuusamo for Ski-O practicing: 80 cm clean white powder snow :) The next competitions will also be in Kuusamo but in completely different area than our practicing maps were.

Representing Finland in Norway

Juliaana Näsi and Samuli Schroderus from Pohjantähti were selected to represent Finland into the youth national championship match in Hamar, Norway at 18-19th January 2014.

Success in Tornio

Pohjantähti's top 3 results:

Sprint on 4th January 2014:
- 1st Aleksi Karppinen, men 20
- 3rd Aurora Näsi, ladies 18

Middle distance on January 5th:
- 1st Munsterhjelm Camilla, ladies 35
- 2nd Juliana Näsi, ladies 18
- 3rd Samuli Schroderus, men 18

Ski-O training in Kuusamo

Ski-O training in Kuusamo

Excellent training conditions in Kuusamo during new year time.