Bulletin 2, Tiomila 2024
Tiomila 2024 is getting closer and closer by each day and today, Bulletin 2 is released with more information about next years competition, where detailed information about each relay are one of the things published in Bulletin 2.
Tiomila 2024 will be the first equal Tiomila where both men and women will have both night- and day-legs. Earlier, we have communicated a two leg increase in the womens relay, from five to seven legs, between 2024 - 2026. During summer and the beginning of autumn the womens relay and the increase has been discussed internally in Tiomilaföreningen.
- We are aware that many clubs will struggle to put together teams, not because women
don't want to run at night, but because there may not be runners available. After listening to the concerns across the country, we have decided to start a little more cautiously than in the original proposal and to offer six legs in the women's race in 2024-26. Two night legs and then four daytime legs. Hopefully the new equal Tiomila, with night legs in the women's race, will both increase interest in night orienteering and make more people want to participate, Michale Thulin, chariman of Tiomilaföreningen, summarizes the change.
More about new equal Tiomila, training courses, leg lengths and many other things can be read in Bulletin 2.
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Tiomila 2024- an equal Tiomila
An equal Tiomila is a Tiomila were both men and women compete at night
An equal Tiomila is a Tiomila were both men and women have the same average leg time
Ett likvärdigt Tiomila är ett Tiomila som sporrar klubbarna att bredda verksamheten för både herrar och damer
An equal Tiomila is a Tiomila which encourage clubs to widen its activities for both men and women
Tiomila from 2024 is an equal Tiomila where both men and women run at night. But at the same time, focus needs to be at turning the downward trend where fewer orienteers, both men and women, is attracted to participate in Tiomila. This has to be done without renouncing the athletic challenges in the relay.
Both possibilities and challenges arise when men and women compete during the same part of the day. To give both relays best possible attention we have, together with the team for the media production, decided that overlap between the relays should be avoided. Without overlap between the relays, both classes can be given the same focus and it gives possibilities to follow more teams than just the first ones. Since we wish that both classes run the last leg in daylight, a solution with divided relays is the best option for the whole competition schedule.
Night for women
It’s time for the women to take part of Tiomila´s biggest signature, night orienteering. One of the concerns regarding this is the low participation from women in night competitions. As owners, and organizers 2024, we take this concern seriously but can with a broader perspective also notice that also mens participation in night orienteering decreases. Tiomila with a chasing/wave start create possibilities regarding this.
We would like to keep the happening of many headlights heading out in the forest at the same time and therefore the women´s relay will start at dusk. With a start in dusk, the last teams will be at the finish when Saturday becomes Sunday. Our hope is that a soft introduction of night legs will attract more than deter.
When dawn becomes morning, a chasing start will also be held in the women´s relay. One hour behind, a wave start similar to the men´s class will be held.
The first finish is expected 2 hours after the first teams in the men´s relay have finished.
Men’s relay start in daylight
At Saturday afternoon, the men will start their relay with three legs in daylight. After a break on a couple of hours, day will be night and a chasing start will be held based on the result from the three earlier legs. One hour after the first team has started, a wave start will be held with the teams that haven´t started inside one hour behind the leaders. Around 100 teams will be in the wave start and instead of a lonely long night, they will experience the relay feeling and have company during the longest night leg. Today, the top teams use 90 minutes on the long night and almost always in company with each other. Meanwhile, teams a bit down in the result list are in the forest for 150 minutes and often alone. This is a subject that is not discussed that often and a wave start will give more teams a more joyful long night.
This change will give the best teams six night legs and will give the teams in the wave start three night legs. The last leg will always be in daylight.
Fewer teams in restart
One problem with Tiomila today is the number of teams in the restart, often up too 2/3 of all entered teams. With a chasing/wave start earlier in the competition, this number will decrease and the goal for the coming years is that no more than 1/3 of the entered teams will restart in the morning.
Continued challenge
Tiomila will continue to be a challenge for the best teams, a competition with a hight technical standard which is one of the most prestigious yearly competitions. Tiomila will also be a competition which will offer more for the teams a bit down in the result list.
The youth relay will keep its existing format, starting a bit later on the day.
Welcome to Nynäshamn and the exiting forests of Södertörn 4-5 of May 2024!
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IOF broadcasts Tiomila for the international audience 2023-25
Tiomila and the International Orienteering Federation, IOF, has for the following three years, 2023-25, agreed about the interational broadcasting rights for Tiomila.
IOF will through their new streaming platform IOF TV broadcast all three relays with English, and hopefully Finnish, commenting. The pricing of Tiomila at IOF TV will be similar to the price fro the Swedish broadcast bought trough Tiomila.
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:08
