Not the choice of routes on the longer legs, but rather higher speed towards the end of the course, good execution of the planned routes and stable orienteering was decisive when Thierry Gueorgiou won the gold medal at the World Championships long distance 2014 in Lavarone, Italy. Daniel Hubmann took ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Svetlana Mironova (Russia) won the WOC long distance in Lavarone, Italy today. Mironova was an outsider after her medal at the European Championships long distance, and did a technically close to perfect race on a day where the main favourites Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Judith Wyder ...

Thierry Gueorgiou – the King of Middle Long distance! With his victory in today’s World Championships long distance Gueorgiou is the first man ever to win three gold medals on the long distance. – It is easier to win the long distance because there you can make some mistakes and ...

[Start from 12:00 CET – last start at 15:12 CET] Thierry Gueorgiou, Daniel Hubmann, Olav Lundanes, Judith Wyder and Tove Alexandersson are the big favourites in the WOC long distance in Lavarone, Italy tomorrow. Read on to get the full background on the favourites – and see who the outsiders ...

The mixed sprint relay in Trento was an exciting race – partly because the lead changed often during the race. However, it was difficult to understand exactly why the lead changed during the race – especially due to the GPS not working well in the narrow streets of Trento. Was ...

[Updated with maps] Switzerland’s Judith Wyder ran Switzerland to gold when the first World Championship in mixed sprint relay was decided in Trento, Italy today. Belgium and Denmark had a clear lead after two legs, but Switzerland’s Matthias Kyburz basically decided the race on the third leg were he brought ...

[LIVE from 17:30 CET] Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland all have very strong teams – Denmark with a small edge after their fantastic sprint day in Venice on Saturday. Sweden and Switzerland are just as strong though – this will be a very exciting premiere for the mixed sprint relay. Looking back ...

Both Maja Alm and Tove Alexandersson did bad technical races taking wrong route choices and doing navigational errors – but they still managed to win medals due to their high running speed. Judith Wyder secured gold through a very stable race – at a bit lower speed. The sprint in ...

[Updated with analysis and splitsgraphs] Surprise Gold to Søren Bobach (Denmark). Judith Wyder (Switzerland) handles the pressure and wins the women’s sprint at WOC 2014. The sprint in Venice was spectacular and exciting – Denmark was the big winner with three medals at the first day of the World Championships ...

[Updated with better quality picture] The big surprise of the day was Mårten Boström failing to qualify for the final – except for that everything went according to plan for the big favourites in today’s sprint qualification in Burano by Venice. Heat winners were Daniel Hubmann, Jonas Leandersson and Yannick ...