Vinogradova decided a very exciting World Games mixed relay for Russia. Minna Kauppi (Finland), Hanny Allston (Australia) and Elise Egseth (Norway) had a hard fight for the silver medal – Minna Kauppi deciding it for silver for Finland. Elise Egseth took the Bronze medal for Norway after beating Hanny Allston in the last part.

Sweden – one of the favourites with yesterdays Bronze medalist Linnea Gustafsson on the last leg – started together with Russia in the lead on the last leg, but lost 2 minutes already to the first control. In the end Sweden ended in 9th place.

Dmitry Tsvetkov, Julia Novikova, Andrey Khramov and Galina Vinogradova run in Russia’s winner team.

• GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac will be available here
• Routegadget will be available here

Map with course

The map below (two parts) is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking. Click on the maps to see them bigger. Use the GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac to get more details.

Results

1 1:55:07,7 Russia Galina VINOGRADOVA
2 1:56:38,0 Finland Minna KAUPPI
3 1:56:48,9 Norway Elise EGSETH
4 1:57:11,3 Australia Johanna ALLSTON
5 1:59:15,8 Denmark Signe Rossen SOES
6 1:59:19,1 Latvia Aija SKRASTINA
7 1:59:49,7 Switzerland Angela WILD
8 2:00:08,5 Sweden Linnea GUSTAFSSON
9 2:02:31,4 Czech Republic Dana BROZKOVA
10 2:05:17,4 Lithuania Inga KAZLAUSKAITE

Photo: Henning Spjelkavik – more photos here

• Official results here

Sunday July 18th at 08:00 CET the mixed Relay in the World Games starts. There will again be LiveBlog, Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the World Games. The same map as for the middle distance will be used – that is it will be a relay with sprint character. Still we saw quite a few mistakes in the middle distance – so there may be decisive mistakes in the relay as well. [See bottom of the page for LiveBlog]

Pictures: Henning Spjelkavik

Event information

• First start 08:00 CET Live results here
• Startlist is available here
• Video streaming available here
• Tracking available here
• World Games Orienteering webpage
• Maps and results from the World Games Sprint
• Maps and results from World Games Middle

Startlist

1 Switzerland
2 Russia
3 Czech Republic
4 Sweden
5 Great Britain
6 Lithuania
7 Latvia
8 France
9 Norway
10 Finland
11 Denmark
12 Australia
13 Chinese Taipei
14 Japan
15 New Zealand
16 Slovakia

Stories about World Games to check out

• 2009-07-18 15:48:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Follow the relay online!’ The World Games orienteering events end with mixed relay on Sunday. The event will be broadcast live online from 08:00 CET (GMT +2:00). In addition, live results and tracking will be available from the IOF homepage. To access the live video, results and tracking, please click on The World Games logo in the right-hand menu on the IOF front page. …
• 2009-07-18 14:00:00: Thomas Dlabaja: ‘World Games v tropické prádelnÄ›’ Prezentace orienta …
• 2009-07-18 06:33:00: Australia National Team: ‘Hanny Wins Gold’ A golden day for Hanny Allston and Australia in Kaohsiung today.A dominating performance by Hanny, gave Australia its second ever gold medal at the World Games orienteering event after Grant Bluetts gold in 2001.It was a much cooler day which greeted us today, with a nice breeze making conditions much nicer than Friday.Hanny had a smooth run and stuck to her race plan, which involved taking safe r …
• 2009-07-18 09:31:00: Swiss Orienteering: ‘World Games: Erstes Mitteldistanz-Gold für überragenden Daniel Hubmann’ Im zweiten Lauf der World Games in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) trumpfte Daniel Hubmann auf und gewann das Mitteldistanz-Rennen mit über einer halben Minute Vorsprung auf den Russen Dmitry Tsvetkov (RUS). Matthias Müller lag nach halber Distanz in Führung, beging jedoch im Schlussteil zwei grobe Fehler und rutschte auf den 9. Rang ab. Andreas Rüedlinger wurde… …
• 2009-07-18 16:51:00: Ultimate Orienteering: ‘A sweet revenge for both Allston and Hubmann – World Games 2009′ 4.7 k and 5.6 k long courses on 1:5000 scale map drawn according to the ISSOM standard is a unique, but definitely no less exciting combination for the World class middle distance. No one could match the speed and precision of Daniel Hubmann and Hanny Allston today in this unusual middle (or shall we call it a lengthened sprint?) distance at Chengcing lake. Both second yesterday, one so close, the …
• 2009-07-18 06:13:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: -I'm getting to be more a navigator than a competitor’ Hanny Allston won The World Games middle distance by the impressive margin of 76.4 seconds. The Australian showed remarkable strength at Chengcing Lake. She has taken new steps forward since she became a World Champion. …
• 2009-07-18 07:38:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: -I got the gold I wanted’ There was no doubt today about who was going to win among the men. Daniel Hubmann was 33.2 seconds faster than second-best Dmitriy Tsvetkov, and the Swiss got the individual gold that has been his big ambition. …
• 2009-07-18 12:32:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Hanny is definitely back’ If there was any question yesterday about whether Hanny Allston is back in the game for real, today the answer is clear. The Australian sprint world champion from 2006 is on top again. She won The World Games middle distance with an impressive winning margin of over one minute. …
• 2009-07-18 12:40:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Daniel Hubmann's revenge’ Yesterday he lost the victory by one second, but today he left nothing to chance. Daniel Hubmann was the clear winner of the middle distance at The World Games; a race where the audience saw a lot of mistakes made by the top runners. The Russians Dmitriy Tsvetkov and Andrey Khramov finished second and third. …
• 2009-07-18 13:40:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Photos from middle distance’ The World Games are held under the auspices of the International World Games Association and under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee. …
• 2009-07-18 16:00:00: Øystein Kvaal Østerbø: ‘World Games Middle distance’ Today the World Games Middle distance was held from the Cheng Ching Lake in Kaohsiung. I did a quite good performance and came on the 6th place, 1.48 behind Daniel Hubmann who won the race. Results, splits and GPS trackingIn the Women’s class Elise Egseth was running well most of her race, but lost the bronze medal when she missed the second last control with one minute. Hanny Allston won ahea …
• 2009-07-18 16:00:00: British O-Federation: ‘Sarah Rollins in top 10 again at World Games’ The highlight of todays World Games was Sarah Rollins 9th place in the womens race. …
• 2009-07-18 09:43:00: OPN.no: ‘Allston og Hubmann vant i World Games’ Hanny Allston og Daniel Hubmann vant mellomdistansen da World Games fortsatte med mellomdistanse lørdag formiddag. …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: Danish O-Federation: ‘En fjerdeplads til Signe Søes pÃ¥ World Games’ - med placeringer som nummer 4,10, 16 og 17 var det igen idag en god holdpræstation. …
• 2009-07-18 09:31:00: Swiss Orienteering: ‘World Games: Erstes Mitteldistanz-Gold für Daniel Hubmann’ Im zweiten Lauf der World Games trumpfte Daniel Hubmann auf und gewann das Mitteldistanz-Rennen mit über einer halben Minute Vorsprung auf Dmitry Tsvetkov (RUS). Matthias Müller büsste nach der besten ersten Zwischenzeit auf der zweiten Hälfte Zeit ein und wurde Neunter, Andreas Rüedlinger 14. …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: Norwegian O-Federation: ‘6. og 7.plasser i World Games’ Det ble litt stang ut i dag sier Landslagsjef Petter Thoresen etter 6.plass til Øystein Kvaal Østerbø og 7.plass til Elise Egseth på mellomdistansen i World Games. Dagens vinnere ble Daniel Hubman, Sveits og Johanna Allston, Australia. …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: Finnish O-Federation: ‘Kaupille keskimatkan hopeaa World Gamesissa’ Tero Föhr miehissä neljäs. …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: LiU Orienteering: ‘ Bronze to Linnea at the World Game ‘ During the middle-distance in the World Games in Taiwan LiUs Linnea Gustafsson reached her greatest international success so far… …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: Australian O-Federation: ‘Hanny Allston World Games Champion!!’ Hanny Allston wins World Games Middle Distance in Taiwan. …
• 2009-07-18 12:00:00: Maptalk.co.nz: ‘World Games Orienteering Middle distance’ Ross Morrison was once again the best-performed of the New Zealand team at the World Games, but only just. Morrison finished his strong run in the hot conditions in 18th place, just 50 seconds out of a top ten finish, while teammate Darren Ashmore, National Middle distance champion, was also impressive in 21st place, some 40 seconds behind Morrison. Superior legspeed from the World number one fro …
• 2009-07-18 09:43:00: OPN.no: ‘Allston og Hubmann vant World Games’ Hanny Allston og Daniel Hubmann ser ut til Ã¥ ha vunnet World Games sin mellomdistanse lørdag formiddag. …
• 2009-07-18 06:13:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Hanny is definitely back’ If there was any question yesterday about whether Hanny is back, today the answer is clear. The Australian sprint world champion from 2006 is on top again. She won The World Games middle distance with an impressive winning margin of over one minute. …
• 2009-07-18 07:38:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Daniel Hubmann's revenge’ Yesterday he lost the victory by one second, but today he left nothing to chance. Daniel Hubmann was the clear winner of the middle distance at The World Games; a race where the audience saw a lot of mistakes made by the top men. The Russians Dmitriy Tsvetkov and Andrey Khramov finished second and third. …
• 2009-07-18 10:00:00: World of O: ‘World Games Middle: Map and results’ Comeback for Allston – Revenge for Hubmann. Hanny Allston has done a real comeback here at the World Games with Gold medal at the middle distance today and Silver medal at the sprint yesterday. Hubmann was beaten by less than a second yesterday – today he took revenge and run away from everybody – including Khramov. The middle distance was actually a long sprint course – and thus the typical spri …
• 2009-07-18 08:09:00: Swiss Orienteering: ‘World Games: Schweizerinnen in der Mitteldistanz im Mittelfeld’ Im Mitteldistanzrennen der World Games in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) vermochten die Schweizerinnen nicht an den Sprint anzuknüpfen. Angela Wild wurde 13., Rahel Friederich belegte Rang 18. …
• 2009-07-18 03:01:00: International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Follow middle distance live’ There is more to come after the exciting sprint: the middle distance race takes place today at the Chengcing Lake. The event will be broadcast live online from 06:30 CET (GMT +2:00). To access the live video, results and tracking, please click on The World Games logo in the right-hand menu on the IOF front page. Please note that the video works best with Internet Explorer. To use Mozilla …
• 2009-07-18 00:20:00: World of O: ‘World Games Middle: Live from 06:30 CET’ Saturday July 18th at 06:30 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 Middle distance starts – we start the LiveBlog at 07:30 CET – when Minna Kauppi heads into the forest. There is Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the World Games.The LiveBlog will again mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers. Event information Fi …
• 2009-07-17 21:58:00: Kondis.no: ‘Bronse til til Elise Egseth i World Games’ Elise Egseth (bildet) løp fredag inn til bronse på sprinten i orientering i World Games, som arrangeres på Taiwan. World Games er OL for ikke olympiske idretter. I herreklassen ble Øystein Kvaal Østerbø best av våre med 4. plass. Vant gjorde Minna Kauppi, Finland og Andrey Khramov, Russland. World Games fortsetter med mellomdistanse lørdag og avsluttes med miksstafett søndag. …
• 2009-07-17 22:00:00: Ultimate Orienteering: ‘Kauppi and Khramov take the first World Games’ gold medals’ Much has been already said about the World Games – the ‘Olympic Games’ for non-Olympic sports. Yesterday, the World Games 2009 were officially opened with an impressive, more than 3 hours long, opening ceremony held in a newly built 40’000 spectator stadium in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei. Today, the first orienteering event was held in the territory of Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. The fi …

Map men middle

The map below (two parts) is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking from the mens middle distance. The same map will be used for the relay.

LiveBlog

Below you find the LiveBlog. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

Comeback for Allston – Revenge for Hubmann. Hanny Allston has done a real comeback here at the World Games with Gold medal at the middle distance today and Silver medal at the sprint yesterday. Hubmann was beaten by less than a second yesterday – today he took revenge and run away from everybody – including Khramov.

The middle distance was actually a long sprint course – and thus the typical sprinters had an advantage. There were a lot of route choice possibilities as you can see on the map below. In the womens class – Hanny Allston, the gold medalist from WOC sprint 2006, set an early best time. Not even the late starter and big favourite Minna Kauppi could beat her, and it ended in Gold for Hanny Allston. Now we’ve really got to look out for Allston in the World Championships in Hungary in August! Sweden got Bronze with Linne Gustafsson.

In the mens class, Daniel Hubmann showed that he is currently that he is currently the worlds best orienteer. After being beaten with less than a second by Khramov in the sprint yesterday, he simply run away from all the other runners in the middle distance today. His speed in the last part of the race was really impressing. Two medals for Russia: Khramov got silver and Tsvetkov Bronze.

• GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac will be available here
• Routegadget will be available here

Map men

The map below (two parts) is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking. Click on the maps to see them bigger. Use the GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac to get more details.

Map women

The map below (two parts) is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking with route choice of Hanny Allston (blue) and Minna Kauppi (red). Click on the maps to see them bigger. Use the GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac to get more details.

Results women

Photo: Henning Spjelkavik
1 AUS ALLSTON Johanna 27:01.0
2 FIN KAUPPI Minna 28:17.4
3 SWE GUSTAFSSON Linnea 28:44.4
4 DEN SOES Signe Rossen 28:49.2
5 LAT SKRASTINA Aija 29:16.5
6 CZE BROZKOVA Dana 29:18.0
7 NOR EGSETH Elise 29:28.4
8 RUS VINOGRADOVA Galina 29:31.2
9 GBR ROLLINS Sarah 30:00.9
10 DEN ALM Maja Moller 30:06.6

Results men

Photo: Henning Spjelkavik
1 Daniel HUBMANN SUI 11:39,4 24:15,4 27:43,4
2 Dmitry TSVETKOV RUS 11:51,4 24:50,4 28:16,6
3 Andrey KHRAMOV RUS 11:54,4 25:08,4 28:51,8
4 Tero FOEHR FIN 11:50,2 25:13,2 29:00,3
5 Mattias MILLINGER SWE 11:56,7 25:21,7 29:01,2
6 Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBOE NOR 11:52,5 25:46,5 29:32,1
7 Simonas KREPSTA LTU 12:08,1 26:00,1 29:38,4
8 Jonas Vytautas GVILDYS LTU 12:11,2 26:08,2 29:52,2
9 Matthias MUELLER SUI 11:33,6 25:29,6 30:15,9
10 Peter OEBERG SWE 12:29,4 26:57,4 30:49,2

• Results available from the World Games Orienteering page

Saturday July 18th at 06:30 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 Middle distance starts – we start the LiveBlog at 07:30 CET – when Minna Kauppi heads into the forest. There is Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the World Games.The LiveBlog will again mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

Event information

• First start 06:32 CET for women – Live results here
• First start 08:02 CET for men – Live results here
• Startlist is available here
• Video streaming available here
• Tracking available here
• World Games Orienteering webpage
• Maps and results from the World Games Sprint

Stories about World Games to check out

• World of O: ‘World Games: Map and results’ Minna Kauppi and Andrey Khramov took the victories in the World Games sprint today. Kauppi took a clear victory ahead of Hanny Allston and Elise Egseth – whereas Khramov had a hard fight with Daniel Hubmann, finishing off only a second ahead of Hubmann. Tero Föhr took the mens Bronze medal. Map men Map women Results Results available from the World Games Orienteering page …
• Øystein Kvaal Østerbø: ‘World Games Sprint’ Today the World Games Sprint was arranges in the Museum of Arts in Kaohsiung south on Taiwan. I did a good race and came 4th, 3 seconds behind Tero Föhr and the bronze medal. Andrey Khramov won only 1 second in front of Daniel Hubmann. Results -In the Women’s class Elise Egseth did a great race and won the bronze medal. Minna Kauppi won ahead of Hanny Allston.IOF’s World Games page – where you …
• Peter Öberg: ‘Bra lopp på WG sprinten’ Det var en fin tävling med bra banor och terräng under dagens sprinttävling. Vädret var väldigt fint med drygt 30 grader och hög luftfuktighet. Jag gjorde ett mycket bra lopp och slutade på en fin 7e plats. Andrey Khramov vann sekunden före Daniel Hubmann. torsdag 16/07 Utsålt på WG Sprinten och jag är redo Nu är vi på plats i Taiwan för stundande World Games. Det är ett väldigt spännande och a …
• Linnea Gustafsson: ‘Kaoshiung fran sin basta sida’ Resan fran Nynas till Kaohsiung tog dryga dygnet, men jag sov bra pa flyget sa det var inga storre problem nar vi landade i formiddags Taiwanesisk tid. Vi blev glatt mottagna av ett gang sma taiwaneser som skramlade i marakkas och tamburiner till var ara, somliga tyckte det var sa kul att de smet in en extra gang i ankomsthallen och kom ut igen. Taiwaneserna har tagit World Games pa allra storst …
• Orienteering.is: ‘Khramov and Kauppi – World Games` best sprinters’ Andrey Khramov from Russia and Minna Kauppi from Finland took the first gold medals in this years World Games in Taiwan. …
• International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Kauppi and Khramov sprint winners – now photos!’ The sprint races at The World Games were exciting to the very end. In the men's race, reigning sprint world champion Andrey Khramov beat the long distance world champion Daniel Hubmann by a mere second. …
• Rahel Friederich: ‘ Keine WM in Ungarn – dafür World Games in Taiwan! ‘ Mit den Rängen 4, 5, 10 und 7 in den WM Selektionsläufen von Anfangs Juli konnte ich mich knapp nicht für die WM in Ungarn empfehlen. Nach meinen Resultaten im Frühling und vor allem den guten Erfahrungen im Ungarn Trainingslager im April ist dies für mich eine grosse Enttäuschung. Ich wäre sehr gerne nach Ungarn gereist. Da …
• Andreas Rüedlinger: ‘World Games opening ceremony’ The World Games are declared open! After a spectacular show in the new built Main Stadium (40.000 spect.) in Kaohsiung, we are now ready for the first competition, the Sprint race today. Here are some impressions from the opening ceremony… …
• Graham Gristwood: ‘Sat at home watching the World Games’ Not where I want to be really – I would much rather be in Chinese Taipei with the Great Britain team racing round parks and museum gardens. After my test race victories, I took a few easy days, did a little mapping work etc, but somewhere along the line I picked up another cold. The tough weekend combined with some stressful events during the week must have lowered my immune system enough so that …
• OKansas – daily thoughts about O: ‘Sleeping through World Games???’ Im thinking about getting up at 1 a.m. to follow the live coverage of the World Games Orienteering (if Ive got my time zones correct, thats when the races start). Thinking about it, but probably wont actually drag myself out of bed and fire up the computer.WorldofO.com has a page devoted to the race (with links to the streaming video) here.Back to okansas.blogspot.com. …
• International O-Federation: ‘The World Games: Orienteering – a spectator sport’ Åke Jacobson, President of the IOF, opened the orienteering part of The World Games in Kaoshiung. He spoke about a sport that has taken new steps as a stadium and spectator sport. …
• Kristiansand OK Elite: ‘Sølv til Daniel i World Games’ For tiden pÃ¥gÃ¥r World Games i Taiwan, og nok en gang viste Daniel Hubmann at han er en av verdens beste sprintere. A. Khramov vant gullet snaue to sekunder foran Daniel, som hadde over halvminuttet til Tero Føhr pÃ¥ bronseplassen.Daniel Ã¥pnet løpet sterkt og hadde 10 sekunders ledelse pÃ¥ Khramov pÃ¥ 1. meldepost. Men til slutt ble altsÃ¥ Khramov den sterkeste denne gangen.De norske guttene …
• OPN.no: ‘BRONSE til Elise Egseth’ Elise Egseth løp inn til en overbevisende bronsemedalje da World Games innledet med sprint i Taiwan fredag formiddag. OgsÃ¥ de norske herrene gjorde sine saker bra. …

LiveBlog

Below you find the LiveBlog. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

Minna Kauppi and Andrey Khramov took the victories in the World Games sprint today. Kauppi took a clear victory ahead of Hanny Allston and Elise Egseth – whereas Khramov had a hard fight with Daniel Hubmann, finishing off only 4 tenths of a second ahead of Hubmann. Tero Föhr took the mens Bronze medal.

The long leg to the 5th control was an important leg in this sprint course (see map below). The passage over the river just south of the 5th control is very difficult to spot. Hubmann saw it and run straight, whereas Khramov run a far left and lost 10 seconds. Until the last part of the course, it looked like Hubmann had the gold medal in his pocket, but Khramov run faster and picked second by second – finally beating Hubmann by less than a second in the end.

• Webroute long leg – draw your own routechoice
• GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac will be available here
• Routegadget will be available here

Map men

The map below is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking. Use the GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac to get more details.

Map women

The map below is a screenshot from the TracTrac GPS LiveTracking. Use the GPS Tracking replay from TracTrac to get more details.

Results women

Photo: Henning Spjelkavik

1 Minna KAUPPI FIN 8:15,9 11:44,9 14:17,7
2 Johanna ALLSTON AUS 8:34,6 12:11,6 14:40,0
3 Elise EGSETH NOR 8:28,3 12:22,3 14:53,8
4 Rahel FRIEDERICH SUI 8:39,9 12:26,9 15:05,1
5 Linnea GUSTAFSSON SWE 8:37,3 12:27,3 15:06,8
6 Sarah ROLLINS GBR 8:54,0 12:44,0 15:25,4
7 Bodil HOLMSTROEM FIN 8:51,2 12:47,2 15:33,0
8 Maja Moeller ALM DEN 9:12,9 13:05,9 15:45,8
9 Helen BRIDLE GBR 8:52,0 12:58,0 15:47,9
10 Galina VINOGRADOVA RUS 9:25,3 13:16,3 15:49,9

Results men

1 Andrey KHRAMOV RUS 7:59,2 11:00,2 13:11,2
2 Daniel HUBMANN SUI 7:49,3 11:01,3 13:12,8
3 Tero FOEHR FIN 8:23,2 11:36,2 13:46,5
4 Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBOE NOR 8:20,8 11:36,8 13:49,1
5 Matthias MUELLER SUI 8:23,6 11:43,6 14:00,7
6 Lars SKJESET NOR 8:25,3 11:54,3 14:07,2
7 Peter OEBERG SWE 8:31,6 11:52,6 14:10,4
8 Mattias MILLINGER SWE 8:30,2 11:50,2 14:11,7
9 Tomas DLABAJA CZE 8:32,3 11:55,3 14:12,6
10 Ross MORRISON NZL 8:43,0 12:09,0 14:29,8

• Results available from the World Games Orienteering page
• More photos from Henning Spjelkavik – Men
• More photos from Henning Spjelkavik – Women

Friday July 17th at 08:00 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 start. In addition to Live video streaming and GPS tracking, there will be a WorldofO Live Blog from the World Games. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

Several excellent previews of the World Games in Orienteering have been provided at World of O only, so I will not repeat that information here – but instead give you the links you should follow:

• World of O World Games preview
• Ultimate Orienteering World Games preview
• Orienteering.is World Games preview

Event information

• First start 08:00 CET for women – Live results here
• First start 09:00 CET for men – Live results here
• Startlist is available here
• Video streaming available here
• Tracking available here
• World Games Orienteering webpage
• Peter Öberg – arrived at the site

LiveBlog

Below you find the LiveBlog. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on discussion of the event for the viewers.

The last three months since WorldofO.com opened a Twitter account, we’ve seen a significant increase in orienteering related content and users surfacing at Twitter. In April we included the last tweets from @Worldofo in the right margin of the WorldofO.com frontpage, and since then we have seen several fresh Twitter accounts starting off with following @Worldofo. Read on to see what Twitter is – and how it can be useful for the orienteering community.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro blogging platform that enables its users to send and read each others’ updates, known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to other users – known as followers – who have subscribed to them. Read more about Twitter at Wikipedia.

You can send a message to any Twitter account by including @username where “username” is a Twitter account in your Tweet. For example, including @worldofo in your Tweet, you will send a message to @worldofo, and I will read it – and in most cases also answer it. Everybody can read both question and answer (if you don’t use a direct message), and thus I can have an open conversation with my readers.

Retweeting is another good way of using Twitter – which I am also using at @worldofo with Tweets which are interesting for the orienteering community. To retweet is to repeat some information previously tweeted by another user – kind of like forwarding an email. Start the tweet with “RT @username” or “via @username”, and include the original Tweet. During the JWOC, the @worldofo account e.g. retweeted information from the @jwoc2009 account when startlists and maps with routechoices were available. Retweeting a Twitter message helps spreading this particular information faster and more widely, as for example used during the Iran election riots. The Twitter user who retweets a post works like a multiplier.

How can Twitter be useful for the orienteering community?

In cycling, a lot of the top cyclists have a Twitter account where you can follow what they are doing and thinking, @lancearmstrong being the most prominent of them. In orienteering, none of the top runners have got a Twitter account yet, but many top runners have personal blogs.

The problem with the blogs of the orienteering elite is that many are updated only weekly – or even monthly – because of all the work involved with writing a blog post (and training is always the main priority for an orienteer). When the orienteering elite start setting up Twitter accounts, they will be able to post short messages more frequently, and also communicate more easily with their fans. Posting from your phone is easy – even taking a close-up photo of an interesting leg on a training map and posting it to your Twitter account using your phone is done in a minute. Who will be the first Top-50 orienteer to actively use a Twitter account?

World of O at Twitter

• @Worldofo: Short messages about important news, things happening in the orienteering community, news regarding the WorldofO.com site, and communication with WorldofO.com users.
• @Worldofo_news: Most articles published at Worldofo.com are pushed to this Twitter account – use it as an alternative to a RSS-reader to get updated with the latest news from the orienteering world .
• @EliteOrienteer: This account will follow all Elite Orienteers at Twitter. No posting planned to this account for now, but it will be used to give you the latest Tweets from Elite Orienteers. Currently this account is empty – who will be the first to be added?

More services around Twitter are planned at WorldofO.com as more and more orienteers start to use Twitter.

By sending a Tweet including @worldofo, you can give feedback to me. I will read all Tweets addressed to @worldofo, and answer most of them. Everybody will be able to read the answers – and both question and answer must have maximum length of 140 characters.

Some interesting orienteering-related Twitter accounts

• @elitekok – Kristiansand OK Elite. Tweeted about the race of each runner in the KOK team during the Jukola night. I’m sure Halden SK will follow next year …
• @Ultimate_O – Ultimate Orienteering. Ultimate Orienteering just started tweeting – expecting to hear a lot from them here.
• @jwoc2009 – JWOC 2009. A lot of useful information during JWOC 2009.
• @highlandsopen – Highlands Open. I have not found too many orienteering event at Twitter yet, but expect many to follow in JWOC 2009’s steps. Highland Open is there, and added a lot of old maps from the Highlands Open competition for now. [Update: See also @scottish6days - tip via Twitter].
• @sloweb- South London Orienteers and Wayfarers. Tweeting frequently about the SLOW club.

I am sure that in 2-3 months, this list will be a lot longer. Add a comment below if you know about Twitter accounts which should have been in this list.

… with live video streaming and GPS tracking. These are the four last starters in the World Games sprint to be held at the coming Friday July 17th in Kaohsiung, and the World Games websited promises both live video streaming and GPS tracking. The start lists are now available, and there are a lot of strong runners both in the mens and womens classes.

For the orienteers, the World Games consists of three events:

• Sprint distance July 17th Startlist sprint
• Middle distance July 18th Startlist middle
• Mixed relay July 19th Startlist mixed team relay

International multi-sport event

The World Games is an international multi-sport event held every fourth year under the auspices of the IWGA. The World Games is organised under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOF has been a member of the International World Games Association since 1995. In 2001 orienteering made its debut on the program of The World Games held in Akita, Japan.

The programme of The 8th World Games 2009 Kaohsiung includes competitions in 26 official sports and in 5 sports on the invitational program – altogether more sports than ever before. More than 5000 athletes and officials are expected to participate in the competitions that will take place at 24 different venues in Kaohsiung and Kaohsiung County.

The orienteering events will be organised at Chengcing Lake and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts.

Old Maps

There are old maps of the competition area available (see below – click for larger image).

10 last starters – Men Sprint

27 Tero FOEHR FIN 15:26
28 Matthias MUELLER SUI 15:27
29 Pasi IKONEN FIN 15:28
30 Lukas BARTAK SVK 15:29
31 Oeystein Kvaal OESTERBOE NOR 15:30
32 Simonas KREPSTA LTU 15:31
33 Tomas DLABAJA CZE 15:32
34 Peter OEBERG SWE 15:33
35 Andrey KHRAMOV RUS 15:34
36 Daniel HUBMANN SUI 15:35

10 last starters – Women Sprint

67 Signe Rossen SOES DEN 14:26
68 Linnea GUSTAFSSON SWE 14:27
69 Elise EGSETH NOR 14:28
70 Dana BROZKOVA CZE 14:29
71 Bodil HOLMSTROEM FIN 14:30
72 Sarah ROLLINS GBR 14:31
73 Minna KAUPPI FIN 14:32
74 Galina VINOGRADOVA RUS 14:33
75 Rahel FRIEDERICH SUI 14:34
76 Radka BROZKOVA CZE 14:35

Source: World Games orienteering website and World Games Bulletin 4

… from JWOC middle – and also routechoice of the three best women are now available. Above you see the top three womens routechoice for two decisive controls.

Maps with routechoice

Click the maps below to see full maps with routechoice. Official results with split times are available here.

Now we can finally bring you the map from the JWOC Relay (see link below). I’d like to use this opportunity to thank the organizers for being very cooperative – thus for most of the competitions this week we were able to share maps with you just after the last runner left the start / passed the spectator control. I’d also like to thank everybody contributing at the LiveBlog – especially the moderators.

Below you see the JWOC Relay map with all controls. At the right margin, you see the control for all courses. One of the mens courses are drawn on the map. Note that there was a map exchange.

• Map JWOC Relay in Omaps.worldofo.com

Photo: Gustav Bergmann passing the spectator control, already celebrating the victory even if Switzerland is just a step behind… [by Cosimo Guasina]