In English
Welcome to Espoon Suunta’s website!
Espoon Suunta (EsSu) is an orienteering club from Espoo, Finland with a strong interest in advancing the elite orienteering as well as youth orienteering and adult fitness orienteering in the western Capital area.
Contacts
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| Club president | Marco Halén | pj#espoonsuunta.fi | |
| Elite orienteering | Petri Vesanto | valmennus#espoonsuunta.fi | |
| Youth orinteering | Erno Puupponen | nuoriso#espoonsuunta.fi | |
| Maps | Matti Toivonen | kartat#espoonsuunta.fi | |
| Webmaster | webmaster#espoonsuunta.fi |
eGames is a (inter)national orienteering competition organized annually in early August in the vicinity of Espoo. There’s always a good terrain and an excellent map in eGames as well as real classic distances to run and a fast result service.
Espoon Suunta has terrain maps predominantly of the coastal area of the Helsinki region and urban area maps of Espoo.
History
Espoon Suunta was founded in 1988, when two clubs: Espoon Rasti and Reima -34 (originally Helsinki-based Kruununhaan Reima) joined together to form a new and strong club based on the developing youth work. Reima’s youth team had won Youth Jukola Relay in 1988.
Reima was one of the clubs to take part in the first Jukola Relay in 1949. EsSu’s best placing in the relay was in 1998 as 5th. Individual achievements of EsSu members include a silver medal in World Orienteering Championships and a World Championship in Mountain Bike Orienteering:
Jussi Mäkilä
- 2006 Champion, Relay, MTB WOC, Joensuu, Finland
- 2004 Champion, Relay, MTB WOC, Ballarat, Australia
- 2004 Champion, Short Distance, MTB-O Finnish Championships
- 2003 Second, MTB-O World Cup
- 2003 Winner, Relay, MTB-O World Cup
- 2002 Champion, Classic Distance, MTB WOC
- 2002 Bronze, Relay, MTB WOC
- 2002 Champion, MTB-O Finnish Championships
- 2001 Second, MTB-O World Cup
- 2001 Winner, Relay, MTB-O World Cup
- 2001 Champion, MTB-O Finnish Championships
- 1998 Champion, MTB-O Finnish Championships
Marika Mikkola
- 2004 Bronze, Classic Distance, WOC, Västerås
- 2004 Silver, Relay, WOC, Västerås
- 2001 Silver, Classic Distance, WOC, Tampere
- 2001 Champion, Relay, WOC, Tampere
- 2001 Silver, Relay, Finnish Orienteering Championships
- 1998 Winner, Venla Relay (Team Angelniemen Ankkuri)
Juha Miettinen
- 1995 Champion, Classic Distance, Finnish Orienteering Championships
- 1994 Third, Tiomila Relay