The orienteering sport (see Wikipedia) plays an important role at ICA events. The following information was collected by László Zentai, who is always happy about emails with additional information, photos and materials.
2021 – Florence, Italy
Orienteering-related presentations
- T18-1 Mapant Spain: an Automatically Generated Orienteering Map for Spain, Jesús María Garrido Sáenz De Tejada, Manuel Jurado Alonso, Agustín Caballero Belda, Javier Arufe Varela, Jesús Moreno Jabato
- T18-1 Route Planning on Orienteering Maps With Least-Cost Path Analysis, Albert Gáspár, Zsófia Sárközy
- T18-1 Maps of First Orienteering Events, László Zentai
- T18-1 Presenting Multilevel Environment on Orienteering Maps, Dušan Petrovič
Orienteering event
The ICC2021 orienteering event took place on December 18, 2021 at Piazzale delle Cascine, Firenze.
Map of the course
Advanced course – 3.6km, 17 control points
Males
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Dušan Petrovič | Slovenia | 16:28 |
| 2 | Mátyás Gede | Hungary | 18:47 |
| 3 | Maximilian Gartner | Austria | 19:24 |
Females
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Dojana Snopkova | Czech Republic | 23:32 |
| 2 | Bigi Velia | Italy | 30:56 |
2019 – Tokyo, Japan
Orienteering-related presentations
- T18-2-3 Cross-border topographic mapping, cross-border orienteering: the Hungarian overview, László Zentai, Gábor Gercsák
- T07-3-3 Orienteering in Geography Education in Japanese High School, Taketo Kobayashi
- P2-18 Using a free colour vision simulator to improve the accessibility of orienteering maps, Rebecca Schulga, David Forrest, Trevor Hoey
- T43-2-1 Long term archiving orienteering maps project in Slovenia, Dušan Petrovič
Orienteering event
The ICC2019 orienteering event took place on July 19, 2019 at KIBA Park.
Group photo at the orienteering event
Map of the middle course
Map of the short course
Map of the long course
Long course (men) – 3.3km 35m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Dušan Petrovič | Slovenia | 19:51 |
| 2 | Asbjørn Magnus Midtbø | Norway | 20:27 |
| 3 | Zdeněk Stachoň | Czech Republic | 20:45 |
| 4 | Johannes Karstein Midtbø | Norway | 21:15 |
| 5 | Pyry Kettunen | Finland | 22:44 |
| 6 | Mátyás Gede | Switzerland | 24:25 |
| - | Gonzalo Moreno Vergara | Spain | - |
Middle course (women) – 2.8km 30m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Kjersti Elisabeth Midtbø | Norway | 19:59 |
Middle course (men) – 2.8km 30m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Gáspár Albert | Hungary | 16:32 |
| 2 | Terje Midtbø | Norway | 20:18 |
| 3 | Georg Gartner | Austria | 20:32 |
| 4 | Sebastian Hennig | Germany | 21:36 |
| 5 | Primoz Kete | Slovenia | 23:32 |
| 6 | William Mackaness | UK | 24:08 |
| 7 | Kristoffer Kristiansen | Norway | 25:07 |
| 8 | Laszlo Zentai | Hungary | 25:46 |
Short course (women) – 1.9km 10m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Suzuki Noriko | Japan | 17:40 |
| 2 | Marit Varmedal | Norway | 26:25 |
Short course (men) – 1.9km 10m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Menno-Jan Kraak | Netherlands | 17:15 |
| 2 | Jukka Krisp | Germany | 18:19 |
| 3 | Dmitrii Loginov | Russia | 19:31 |
| - | Aamod Srivastava | India | - |
| - | Sverre Iversen | Norway | - |
2017 – Washington, D.C., USA
Orienteering session
Oral Session, Room Virginia A, Monday, 3 July 2017, 14:50–15:50
- Schaad: Semi-Automatic Extraction of Near-Ground Vegetation from LiDAR Data as Base for Orienteering Maps
- Zentai: The evolution of printing technologies in the development of orienteering maps
- Petrovič: Automatically Generated Vegetation Density Maps with LiDAR Survey for Orienteering Purpose
Orienteering event
An orienteering event took place on July 6, 2017 at Fountainhead Regional Park.
Map of the course
A very rainy race: Menno-Jan Kraak, Georg Gartner, Laszlo Zentai
Course 1 – 1.7km 95m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | William Mackaness | Scotland | 28:43 |
| 2 | Maria Rühringer | Austria | 43:55 |
| 3 | Marit Varmedal | Norway | 49:47 |
| 4 | Dmitriy Loginov | Russia | 1:06:15 |
Course 2 – 3.0km 175m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Terje Midtbo | Norway | 40:08 |
| 2 | Markus Fuchs | Switzerland | 48:26 |
| 3 | Georg Gartner | Austria | 50:33 |
| 4 | Menno-Jan Kraak | Netherlands | 51:28 |
| 5 | Kristoffer Kristlansen | Norway | 1:02:36 |
| 6 | William Mackaness | Scotland | 1:11:21 |
| 7 | Fabian Bock | Germany | 1:24:11 |
| 8 | Rob Edsall | USA | 1:39:01 |
| 9 | Sverre Iversen | Norway | 1:45:31 |
| 10 | Roar Engell | Denmark | 2:07:39 |
| 11 | Alika Jensen | USA | 2:09:38 |
Course 3 – 3.7km 195m
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Zdenek Stachon | Czech Rep | 31:54 |
| 2 | Pyry Kettunen | Finland | 34:35 |
| 3 | Gian-Reto Schaad | Switzerland | 38:13 |
| 4 | Roland Hansson | USA | 39:13 |
| 5 | Dusan Petrovic | Slovenia | 42:39 |
| 6 | Thorsteinn Sigurjonsson | Norway | 48:12 |
| 7 | Trine Bjerva | Norway | 48:43 |
| 8 | Laszlo Zentai | Hungary | 48:57 |
2015 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Orienteering session
Oral Session 7, Room 3, Wednesday, 26 August, 2015 13:30–14:50
- Glaner, Gartner: The Possibilities of Using Airborne Laser Scanning Data for the Creation of Orienteering Maps
- Zentai: Generalization Problems of Orienteering Maps
- Janata: The Use of Laser Altimetric Data for Orienteering Mapping in the Central-European Area
Orienteering event
An orienteering event took place on 26 August 2015 at Ilha de Fundão.
Map of the course
Participants of the orienteering event
Long course – female
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Olga Chesnokova | Switzerland | 31:51 |
| 2 | Josephine Biro | Sweden | 47:59 |
| 3 | Amanda Baumgartner | Sweden | 51:42 |
Long course – male
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Zbynek Sterba | Czech Republic | 17:20 |
| 2 | Andreas Hall | Finland | 17:34 |
| 3 | Gian-Reto Schaad | Switzerland | 21:04 |
| 4 | Hubert Klauser | Switzerland | 21:15 |
| 5 | GEDE Matyas | Hungary | 21:38 |
| 6 | Dusan Petrovic | Slovenia | 22:01 |
| 7 | Roland Hansson | USA | 22:11 |
| 8 | Thomas Koblet | Switzerland | 23:56 |
| 9 | Terje Midtbo | Norway | 25:01 |
| 10 | Thomas Gloor | Switzerland | 25:08 |
| 10 | Jedrzej Gasiorowski | Poland | 25:08 |
| 12 | Teemu Sipila | Finland | 29:19 |
| 13 | Anders Ek | Sweden | 31:07 |
| 14 | Sebastien Meier | Germany | 33:44 |
| 15 | Laszlo Zentai | Hungary | 34:31 |
| 16 | Primoz Kete | Slovenia | 37:02 |
| 17 | Bart Bruex | Netherlands | 38:47 |
| 18 | Sverre Iversen | Norway | 52:23 |
| 19 | Fernando Barroso | Brazil | 68:55 |
| Eric Losang | Germany | - |
Short course – female
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Marianna Serebryakova | Switzerland | 18:18 |
| 2 | Jana Moser | Germany | 20:38 |
Short course – male
| Name | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Georg Gartner | Austria | 18:21 |
| 2 | Kristoffer Johan Kristiansen | Norway | 18:27 |
| 3 | Rafael Barros | Brazil | 26:38 |
2013 – Dresden, Germany
Orienteering session
Session S9-F, Orienteering Maps, Wednesday, 28 August, 2013 14:45–16:00
- László Zentai: Implementation of Cartographic and Digital Techniques in Orienteering Maps (the full text was published in the Springer Proceedings)
- Dušan Petrovič: Automation in orienteering map production – fiction or reality, paper
- Thomas Gloor: Vegetation height maps derived from digital elevation models – the next innovation in the production of orienteering maps? Abstract on page 558
- Terje Midtbø: Orienteering moves indoor, paper
Orienteering event
Took place on 28 August 2013. See the results here or the split times here or visit the photo gallery.
Map of middle course
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2011 – Paris, France
Orienteering session
Zentai, Midtbø, Petrovič
Audience
- László Zentai: Legibility of orienteering maps: evolution and influences, abstract, presentation, full text published in The Cartographic Journal, May 2011
- Terje Midtbø, Sindre Jansson Haverstad: Map animations for visualizing orienteering competitions, paper
- Dušan Petrovič: Some experiences in making orienteering maps in Slovenia from airborne laser scanning data, paper, presentation
Orienteering event
Took place on 8 July 2011 at Parc du Tremblay. See the results below or visit the photo gallery. The split times can be seen here.
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Map course A
Map course B
Map course C
Course A: 4.9 km 25 P 1 65 KLAUSER, Hubert Baar HA 25:00 2 43 HAUSWIRTH, Sabine Baar DA 25:03 3 110 SCHAAD, Gian-Reto Baar HA 26:31 4 3 ANTOS, Filip Zdiby HA 26:58 5 31 GAFFURI, Julien Ispra HA 27:46 6 ROMIEU, Cyril AS IGN HA 36:59 7 103 PETROVIC, Blaz Ljubljana HA 39:32 Course B: 3.7 km 21 P 1 94 MIDTBO, Terje Trondheim HB 24:52 2 73 KRISTIANSEN, Kristoffer Hønefoss HB 30:49 Course C: 2.7 km 17 P 1 40 GRANAS, Karin Uppsala DC 28:57 2 PETROVIC, Gasper Ljubljana HC 42:03 3 128 VALLARINO KATZENSTEIN, Ana Montevideo DC 54:54 4 18 COTTERALL, Louise Auckland DC 1:01:54
2009 – Santiago de Chile, Chile
Zentai, Petrovic, Gartner
Orienteering presentations
- Laszlo Zentai, Hungary: Maps For Different Forms Of Orienteering, paper
- Dusan Petrovic, Slovenia: Criteria For Selecting Areas For Orienteering Maps, paper
- Georg Gartner, Austria: Laserscanning Data as a Basis For Orienteering Maps – Advanced Potential And Further Research, paper
Orienteering event
Took place on 20 November 2009 at Hacienda Santa Martina. Program PDF. Guidelines PDF. See the results below or visit the photo gallery.
Map
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| Name | Country | Level | Start time | Finish time | Time | |
| Cifuentes Jorge | CHL | A | 00:04:00 | 00:35:24 | 00:31:24 | |
| Torres Jervacio | CHL | A | 00:22:00 | 00:53:54 | 00:31:54 | |
| Meliñir Domingo | CHL | A | 00:10:00 | 00:48:08 | 00:38:08 | |
| Gaffuri Julien | FRA | A | 00:00:00 | 00:38:27 | 00:38:27 | 1 |
| Hans Erik Aurell | SWE | A | 00:14:00 | 00:53:08 | 00:39:08 | 2 |
| Petrovic Dusan | SLO | A | 00:12:00 | 00:54:37 | 00:42:37 | 3 |
| Ditz Robert | AUT | A | 00:16:00 | 01:00:43 | 00:44:43 | |
| Oleggini Lorenzo | SUI | A | 00:06:00 | 00:52:00 | 00:46:00 | |
| Georg Gartner | AUT | A | 00:08:00 | 01:01:00 | 00:53:00 | |
| Podobnikar Tomaz | SLO | A | 00:18:00 | 01:17:18 | 00:59:18 | |
| Pinto Livio | ITA | A | 00:20:00 | 01:24:30 | 01:04:30 | |
| Holleman Scott | USA | A | 00:02:00 | 01:15:08 | 01:13:08 | |
| Zentai Laszlo | HUN | B | 00:04:00 | 00:43:57 | 00:39:57 | 1 |
| Neira Julio | CHL | B | 00:02:00 | 00:48:18 | 00:46:18 | 2 |
| Pantazis Dimos | GRE | B | 00:00:00 | Disq | 3 | |
| Kunz Melanie | SUI | B | 00:06:00 | 00:52:10 | 00:46:10 | 1 |
| Nass Andrea | GER | B | 00:10:00 | 00:58:43 | 00:48:43 | 2 |
| Fey Beatrix | GER | B | 00:12:00 | 01:27:24 | 01:15:24 | 3 |
| Gonzalez Victor | CHL | B | 00:28:00 | 01:18:18 | 00:50:18 | |
| Midtbø Terje | NOR | C | 00:16:00 | 00:40:18 | 00:24:18 | 1 |
| Kristiansen Kristoffer | NOR | C | 00:00:00 | 00:34:50 | 00:34:50 | 2 |
| Norheim Robert | USA | C | 00:02:00 | 00:38:27 | 00:36:27 | 3 |
| Iversen Sverre | NOR | C | 00:04:00 | 00:44:24 | 00:40:24 | |
| Zeisset Paul | USA | C | 00:08:00 | 01:12:00 | 01:04:00 | |
| Aldosari Ali | KSA | C | 00:06:00 | 01:21:14 | 01:15:14 | |
| Grånäs Karin | SWE | C | 00:10:00 | 00:43:44 | 00:33:44 | 1 |
| Marit Varmedal | NOR | C | 00:12:00 | 00:50:22 | 00:38:22 | 2 |
| Fasold Astrid | GER | C | 00:14:00 | 01:19:05 | 01:05:05 | 3 |
| Hunnes Einar | SWE | D | 00:16:00 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Parra Jorge | CHL | D | 00:18:00 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Cikic Sabine | GER | D | 00:18:00 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Lehmann-Grube Fritz | GER | D | 00:20:00 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mercado Huerta Norman | CHL | D | 00:20:00 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Kiousopoulos John | GRE | D | 00:20:00 | 00:00:00 |
2007 – Moscow, Russia
Orienteering session
6 August 2007, chaired by László Zentai, Hungary. Presentations:
- László Zentai, Hungary: New technologies in making orienteering maps, presentation file
- Georg Gartner, Robert Ditz, Austria: Laser scanning data for cartographic data modelling of orienteering maps
- Dusan Petrovic, Slovenia: Adventure races and orienteering maps
- R.V. Atojan, Russia: Techniques of panoramic map-picture creation on the base of the locality perspective drawing
Joint training
There was no official orienteering event, but we had a joint training around Hotel Cosmos (Botanical garden, Jauza, Sokolniki) on 8 August 2007.
Early morning in front of the ICA hotel with pre-printed o-maps: Terje Midtbø (Norway), Menno-Jan Karrak (The Netherlands), László Zentai (Hungary), Dušan Petrovič (Slovenia), Georg Gartner (Austria), Kristoffer Kristiansen (Norway)
2006 – Vienna, Austria (Gicon)
Map
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Orienteering event on 14 July 2006, organized by Robert Ditz and Georg Gartner. Image gallery. Results:
1. Gian-Reto Schaad Switzerland 24:54 2. Dušan Petrovic Slovenia 25:12 3. Laszlo Zentai Hungary 28:10 4. Feldmann Hans-Uli Switzerland 29:03 5. Menno-Jan Kraak Netherlands 38:19 6. Tomaž Podobnikar Slovenia 40:50 7. Frank Thiemann Germany 45:01 8. Andreas Pammer Austria 45:48 9. Ben Nausner Austria 45:50 10. Alexandra Stadler Austria 47:29 11. Jana Moser Germany 49:10 12. Fam. Zentai Hungary 50:48 13. Anja Hopfstock Germany 52:26 14. Pavel Dergel Czech Republic 1:01:34 15. Alexandra Kaiser Germany 1:03:20 16. Jochen Wendel Germany 1:04:31 17. Petr Fuks Czech Republic 1:28:30 18. David Fairbairn United Kingdom dq 19. Tony Moore New Zealand dnf 20. Leonhard Suchenwirth Austria dnf
2005 – A Coruña, Spain
Rystedt, Zentai, Petrovic, Muñoz Nieto, Ditz
Participants
Orienteering session
12 July 2005, chaired by Bengt Rystedt, Sweden. Program PDF. Presentations:
- Mapping standard for sprint orienteering: standardized competition maps for urban, park and forest areas, L. Zentai, Hungary
- Orienteering maps in Slovenia, D. Petrovic, Slovenia
- The orienteering maps production: quality control, A.L. Muñoz Nieto, M. Herrero Matías and M. Vidal Triquell, Spain
- Orienteering maps in Vienna – data acquisition and cartographic data modelling, R. Ditz and G. Gartner, Austria
Map
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Orienteering event
14 July 2005. Program PDF. See the results below or visit the photo gallery.
1. Dušan PETROVIC Slovenia 20:43 2. Reidar FOSSUM Norway 21:14 3. Ulf HEDLUND Sweden 22:14 4. Georg GARTNER Austria 22:40 5. Terje MIDTBO Norway 23:02 6. Lars HARRIE Sweden 23:27 7. Hans-Uli FELDMANN Switzerland 23:30 8. Robert DITZ Austria 23:54 9. Craig FEUERHERDT Australia 24:01 10. Kjell RONNEBERG Norway 25:06 11. Boris STERN Switzerland 26:27 12. Kristoffer KRISTIANSEN Norway 26:40 13. László ZENTAI Hungary 26:55 14. Olaf SCHNABEL Switzerland 27:28 15. Ingo PETZOLD Switzerland 28:50 16. Karsten LIEN Norway 28:55 17. Hanna MARAN Estonia 29:26 18. Primoz KETE Slovenia 29:43 19. David FAIRBAIRN England 30:25 20. Marion WERNER Switzerland 30:53 21. Edel Sofie NILSEN Norway 31:11 22. Moritz NEUN Switzerland 31:29 23. Jana MOSER Germany 32:15 24. Jorma POYHIA Finland 32:42 25. Amdrew NIERMAN United States 33:22 26. Alexandra STADLER Austria 34:00 27. Miklaucic LOJZE Slovenia 34:24 28. Brit Torill HAUGEN Norway 35:04 29. Lars PALM Sweden 36:00 30. Elisabeth Marie CHESNEAU France 37:04 31. Helina HIRN Finland 43:36 32. Vemund RONNEBERG Norway 51:41 33. A-AGOT ELIGAADE HARTMON Norway 51:54 34. James CARTER United States 53:21 35. Ewa SIEKIERSKA Canada 57:50 36. Amy GRIFFIN Australia 61:53 37. Sverre IVERSEN Norway ERROR
2003 – Durban, South Africa
There was no dedicated presentation on orienteering maps. One of the ICC participants managed to take part in an orienteering event during the conference.
2001 – Beijing, China
There was one presentation on orienteering maps: László Zentai, Hungary: Development of orienteering maps' standardization
László Zentai also had a chance to take part in the Chinese Orienteering Championships during the Conference. This event was organized close to Beijing, the competition map and some photos are available here (in Hungarian).
1999 – Ottawa, Canada
1st ICA (and 4th CCA) Orienteering event
by Diana Hocking
77 participants from 14 countries enjoyed an evening of exercises and socialising at Rockcliffe Park (and the New Edinburgh Pub) on Tuesday. Thanks to Intergraph for donating the excellent prizes.
Top results (approx. 5 km course)
- Hans Aureil, Sweden, 27:14 minutes
- Hans-Uli Feldmann, Switzerland, 27:28
- Dusán Petrovic, Slovenia, 28:28
- Tony Kusbach, Czech Republic, 29:33
- Reider Fossum, Norway, 31:50
Top Canadian: Roger Wheate, 37:45 (CCA President)
Top Women: Jen Turner, Erin Kuyvenhoven (Canadian students)
Personal report
by Dušan Petrovic, Slovenia
There was one event and due to many other activities (technical visits, excursions, commissions meetings etc.) I believe that one is enough. We had it in the afternoon, on Tuesday (try to avoid the day of national delegates meeting!), probably around 5 p.m. and there were more than 70 competitors who took part. The competition area was about one hour walking from the conference center and it covered embassies with surrounding parks, there was also a part of forest. It was Score-O, with limited time of one hour (there were also many non-orienteering runners who competed and just tried). There were also some small symbolic prices, probably from technical exhibitors (I got an Intergraph cup).
1989 – Budapest, Hungary
There were two presentations on orienteering maps according to the abstracts of the conference:
- Petr Uher, Czechoslovakia: Maps for Orienteering
- David J. Fairbairn, United Kingdom: Orienteering Mapping and higher education
Link to photo galleries about ICA Orienteering in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
