Pictures of almost all runners – 800 pictures in total – for the WOC Sprint day have now been added to the World of O runner database along with WOC 2012 Team overviews. What a great sprint day in Lausanne! The pictures are sorted by runner or by country. Take ...

The WOC long distance goes in typical Swiss “Mittelland” terrain (see old map above)- the qualification being better runnable than the final according to the terrain description. This “Mittelland” terrain suits the Swiss runners especially well – and the biggest favourites in this race are no doubt Swiss Matthias Merz and Simone ...

What a day for Switzerland! In courses with a lot of technical route choices, nobody could beat the Swiss runners in the WOC Sprint in Lausanne today. Simone Niggli took her 18th WOC gold medal – Matthias Kyburz his first. In the women’s class Danish Maja Alm gave Niggli a ...

Some good runners missed the cut in the WOC sprint qualification today – on a course which by many of the runners was described to be “less technical than expected”. Some of the negative surprises of the day were Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (Norway), Fredric Portin (Finland), Christian Bobach (Denmark) and ...

With live TV & streaming, LiveBlog & GPS tracking in the afternoon, this is going to be an exciting day for everybody interested in orienteering. Switzerland and Sweden are the big favourites, but as Simone Niggli put it on yesterday’s press conference for the Swiss Team: – Sprint is a ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts Saturday at 09:01 CET with Sprint qualification in Lausanne – and the first medals are handed out in the evening after the Sprint final. The championships continues through the coming week with 3 qualification races, 3 final races and one relay – the relay finishing ...

A great day for New Zealand in the Junior World Championships in Kosice, Slovakia today. Tove Alexandersson back on top after two days with big mistakes. Matt Ogden took the first JWOC gold medal for New Zealand after beating Jan Petrezela (Czech Republic) and Florian Schneider (Switzerland) with 13 and ...

A completely different terrain from the long distance met the runners in the JWOC middle distance qualification. Away with the depressions – instead a lot of contour details and tricky short legs. Even with very different terrain, most of yesterdays medalists from the long distance did very well. The three ...

The tricky courses in today’s JWOC long distance did give many big problems. Worst hit was big favourite Tove Alexandersson who missed 16 minutes at one control. Gold went to Eskil Kinneberg (Norway) with a close to error-free race and Kirsi Nurmi (Finland). – My tactics was to start slowly ...

Another gold medal for Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) – and gold for Gleb Tikhonov (Russia).  In hot weather in the second largest city of Slovakia, Kosice, the Nordic countries dominated with 4 out of 6 medals and 13 within Top 20. Medals among the men went to Tikhonov, Jan Petrzela (Czech ...