{"id":3185,"date":"2025-06-14T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2025-06-14T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T20:36:08","slug":"jukolas-spectacular-evening-celebration-culminated-in-the-venla-relay-award-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/en\/jukolas-spectacular-evening-celebration-culminated-in-the-venla-relay-award-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Jukola&#8217;s spectacular evening celebration culminated in the Venla relay award ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award ceremony offered plenty to see and hear for the audience who had gathered to follow the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the spotlight was on the winning team, IFK G\u00f6teborg (<\/span><b>Malin Agervig-Kristiansson, Simona Aebersold, Sara Hagstr\u00f6m, Sanna Fasth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), who received a new trophy designed and crafted by artist <\/span><b>Juha Menna<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and donated by Kaukamets\u00e4l\u00e4iset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0The Gothenburg team took home two prizes as they were also handed the previous trophy, \u2018Venlan avaimet\u2019 (Venla&#8217;s Keys), for the years 2017-2024. Under warm evening sunshine, a total of 25 teams were awarded prizes at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The prizes were provided by Tom Design, Lumonite and Pirtin Kehr\u00e4\u00e4m\u00f6. The prizes were presented by <\/span><b>Petri Paukkunen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Vice-Chair of Kaukamets\u00e4l\u00e4iset, <\/span><b>Antti Ekonoja<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Chair of the Finnish Orienteering Federation&#8217;s Club Parliament, and <\/span><b>Heini Utunen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Regional Mayor of the South Savo Regional Council. The Best Orienteering Coach award, presented by the Orienteering Coaches Association, went to Tampereen Pyrint\u00f6 coaches <\/span><b>Kari Jussila<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><b>Petri Kuusinen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0As <\/span><b>Janne Kinnunen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Mayor of Mikkeli, said in his greeting, \u2018Summer in Mikkeli offers plenty of experiences.\u2019 The Venla Relay awards ceremony was one of those experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Text: Virva Korpinen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo: Samu Romo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Translation: Irma Gynther-Karppinen<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award ceremony offered plenty to see and hear for the audience who had gathered to follow the event.\u00a0 However,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":3178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ajankohtaista-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jukola.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}