World of O News

Pia Young Vik (Norway) and Barros Vallet (France) won surprise gold medals when the 2025 European Orienteering Championships (EOC) concluded on Sunday with thrilling individual sprint finals in Lier, Belgium. Some tricky long route choices challenged the pre-race favourites – with many runners losing significant time.  France’s Mathias Barros Vallet produced the ...

August Mollén secured his first international championship title with a smart route choice in the final meters, leading a Swedish 1-2 ahead of Jonatan Gustafsson, while Cécile Calandry claimed her first major title in the women’s race at the European Championships Knock-Out Sprint in Geel, Belgium. The Market Square in ...

The 2025 European Orienteering Championships opened with lots of drama in the Belgian city of Hasselt, when Norway claimed their first ever Championships Sprint Relay title. Finland’s anchor run first into the finish, but what should have been Finland’s moment of glory transformed into Norwegian celebration when Maija Sianoja’s jumped ...

Fast orienteering in flat city centers – probably with many artificial barriers – await the runners when the European Orienteering Championship (EOC) starts in Belgium on Wednesday with the Sprint Relay, and continues with Knock-Out Sprint and Individual Sprint the rest of the week. The championship is organized in the Flemish cities of Hasselt, Geel and ...

Swedens’s women and Norway’s men took clear victories in the relay that finished off the World Orienteering Championships 2025 in Kuopio, Finland. The battle for silver and bronze was a lot closer, with Norway beating Switzerland in a tight battle on the last leg in the women’s leg, while the ...

[Including comparisons for all legs] Reigning World Champions Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) both defended their titles from Switzerland in 2023 over the long distance at the 2025 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Kuopio, Finland. For Aebersold the margin was only 9 seconds after a thriller finish – ...

  Eirik Langedal Breivik (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle distance in Kuopio, Finland on Wednesday.  This was a big day for Sweden and Norway with four Swedish and two Norwegian medals. All three medals in the women’s class went to Sweden – Sanna Fast ...

The 2025 World Orienteering Championships started off on Tuesday in Kuopio, Finland with a challenging Middle distance qualification at the Tahko ski resort Tuesday morning. All the big favorites made it safely through to Wednesday’s final, but the technical Finnish terrain served up lots of challenging orienteering.  The final will use ...

Interesting and varied orienteering is expected when the 2025 World Orienteering Championship starts in Kuopio, Finland on Tuesday July 8th with a Middle Qualification race. The action continues with three TV-broadcast forest races from Wednesday to Saturday: Middle Final on Wednesday, Long Final on Thursday and Relay on Saturday. The Kuopio region ...

Sweden (Men) and Switzerland (Women) won the relay events as the first World Cup round of 2025 concluded in Idre Fjäll, Sweden – the last test ahead of the World Orienteering Championships in Finland in a few weeks’ time. Switzerland (Paula Gross, Natalia Gemperle, Simona Aebersold) won ahead of Norway ...