Middle, Knock-Out Sprint and Sprint: The third Orienteering World Cup round in 2019 is organized in Laufen, Switzerland from Friday September 27th to Sunday September 29th. This is the second last World Cup round in 2019, with the last round being organized in China.

World Cup leaders Tove Alexandersson and Gustav Bergman (both Sweden) are accompanied by around 130 men and 100 women. Whereas the first two World Cup rounds were organized in tough forest terrain in Finland and Norway (World Orienteering Championships), this third World Cup round and the last World Cup round in China is more suitable for runners who can keep high speed on hard surfaces. The Switzerland World Cup round starts with a Middle Distance race in hilly mixed forest with many trails, continues with the new Knock-Out Sprint format where the fast runners should really excel –  and finished off with a Sprint which should include some interesting areas in the old part of Laufen with some narrow streets and alleys.

The main favourite in the women’s class is – as always – Tove Alexandersson, with 4 of 4 World Cup wins this season. Simona Aebersold, Natalia Gemperle and the Swiss women with Simona Aebersold in front will probably be the toughest competitors for Alexandersson.  Also look out for Marika Teini who is placed second in the World Cup. Interestingly we will have Maja Alm on the start list again this weekend – after the World’s best sprint orienteer the last seasons failed to qualify for the World Championships in athletics, the fast Danish woman has finished the athletics season and is ready for some orienteering. It will be interesting to see if Alm can give Alexandersson a real battle for the victory – Alexandersson has won all World Cup races so far this season. Another runner who would have been interesting to see on the startlist is Judidth Wyder – who stopped by some orienteering races a few weeks ago while pursuing her trail-running career – winning the Swiss Championships Sprint and Long; Wyder is not on the startlist though, but with her current shape (beat Tove Alexandersson’s course record in the Ring of Steall Skyrace last weekend) it wouls have been an interesting battle.

In the men’s class Gustav Bergman leads the World Cup ahead of Olav Lundanes and Frederic Tranchand – with the first Swiss runner Daniel Hubmann all the way down in 5th place. Here we expect the Swiss runners to fight back and get several podium places, and probably also a win or two. Also look out for the typical sprint specialists who we have seen less in the first part of the season but are now ready to shine: Yannick Michiels, Tim Robertson and Kris Jones among others. It will also be interesting to see what the young Norwegian Kasper Fosser can do.

Top 10 World Cup

Top 10 World Ranking starters women

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	2	Tove Alexandersson	SWE	65
2	11	Marika Teini	FIN	5868
2	9	Natalia Gemperle	RUS	6259
286	3	Maja Alm	DEN	77
4	10	Sabine Hauswirth	SUI	2100
21	5	Maija Sianoja	FIN	5370
14	6	Elena Roos	SUI	4961
6	12	Simona Aebersold	SUI	23032
8	8	Lina Strand	SWE	5654
10	13	Julia Jakob	SUI	1867

Top 10 World Ranking starters men

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	289	Olav Lundanes	NOR	13003
4	1	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
2	10	Gustav Bergman	SWE	7562
3	2	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
161	4	Yannick Michiels	BEL	13592
43	5	Tim Robertson	NZL	15525
6	20	Frederic Tranchand	FRA	17348
8	6	Vojtech Kral	CZE	12187
1116	7	Kristian Jones	GBR	11299
40	8	Martin Hubmann	SUI	10851
17	9	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
9	44	Gernot Ymsen	AUT	11671
10	13	Ruslan Glibov	UKR	9910

Links & Live serives

All 3 competitions will be covered with full TV broadcast on Web-TV and on Swiss and Finnish TV. In addition the usual live services (live results, GPS tracking etc.) will be offered. All live services are now offered via orienteering.sport. WebTV has a cost of 16 EUR for all races or 6 EUR per race.

• Orienteering.sport live webpage for the World Cup final
• World Cup final webpage 
• Current World Cup standing
• Bulletin 4 – all latest information about the races
• Knock-Out Sprint Format Description document

Program

• Friday September 27th: Middle – WebTV 12:23 – 16:00
  • First start approx. 10:00
  • Last start Women 13:30 – winners ready around 14:05
  • Last start Men 15:05 – winners ready around 15:40
• Saturday September 28th: Knock-Out Sprint – WebTV 15:01-17:00
  • First start Qualification Women 09:00
  • First start Qualification Men 09:35
  • Heat choice Women 10:00
  • Heat choice Men 10:40
  • First start ¼-Final Women (every 7’) 10.50
  • First start ¼-Final Men (every 7’) 11.32
  • First ½-Final Women (every 12’) 15:10
  • First ½-Final Men (every 12’) 15:46
  • Final Women 16:24
  • Final Men 16:43 
• Sunday September 29th: Sprint – WebTV 13:03-15:40
  • First start B-Final approx. 11:40
  • First start Women 13:11, Last start Women 14:03
  • First start Men 14:08 , Last start Men 15:07

Detailed race information

Middle (Friday)

Knock-Out Sprint (Saturday)

General information

Knock-Out Sprint Qualification

Knock-Out Sprint Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Sprint (Sunday)

All entered runners

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	289	Olav Lundanes	NOR	13003
4	1	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
2	10	Gustav Bergman	SWE	7562
3	2	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
161	4	Yannick Michiels	BEL	13592
43	5	Tim Robertson	NZL	15525
6	20	Frederic Tranchand	FRA	17348
8	6	Vojtech Kral	CZE	12187
1116	7	Kristian Jones	GBR	11299
40	8	Martin Hubmann	SUI	10851
17	9	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
9	44	Gernot Ymsen	AUT	11671
10	13	Ruslan Glibov	UKR	9910
14	11	Emil Svensk	SWE	16905
12	542	Albin Ridefelt	SWE	15472
13	12	Florian Howald	SUI	10810
21	14	Andreas Kyburz	SUI	12304
15	18	Milos Nykodym	CZE	14322
22	15	Aleksi Niemi	FIN	18700
16	43	Miika Kirmula	FIN	11767
1832	16	Trond Einar Moen Pedersli	NOR	14760
32	17	Robert Merl	AUT	13549
18	19	Joey Hadorn	SUI	23033
19	977	Gaute Hallan Steiwer	NOR	16697
20	27	Lucas Basset	FRA	7403
116	21	Artem Popov	RUS	15086
171	22	Peter Hodkinson	GBR	10688
23	26	Jonas Egger	SUI	18893
140	24	Oystein Kvaal Osterbo	NOR	18660
48	25	Marek Minar	CZE	20166
26	61	Elias Kuukka	FIN	22101
27	310	Ralph Street	GBR	16782
28	536	Pavel Kubat	CZE	12195
205	29	Jakob Edsen	DEN	22688
30	–	Nicolas Rio	FRA	18921
65	31	Arturs Paulins	LAT	14704
35	32	Kasper Fosser	NOR	23855
33	38	Rudolfs Zernis	LAT	18506
75	33	Riccardo Scalet	ITA	18966
258	34	Chris Smithard	GBR	16491
41	34	Jonas Vytautas Gvildys	LTU	10248
619	39	Piotr Parfianowicz	POL	14642
82	40	Christoph Meier	SUI	13502
202	42	Eric Borjeskog	SWE	8136
46	54	Olli Ojanaho	FIN	19846
257	48	Adrien Delenne	FRA	19918
49	229	Bojan Blumenstein	GER	7741
87	49	Joni Hirvikallio	FIN	10663
221	51	Topias Ahola	FIN	19993
51	160	Max Peter Bejmer	SWE	7466
112	52	Tobia Pezzati	SUI	18890
139	53	Matthias Reiner	AUT	15405
55	186	Audun Heimdal	NOR	10545
56	72	Michal Olejnik	POL	14406
57	398	Kristo Heinmann	EST	10551
233	58	Emil Ahlbeck	NOR	6827
107	59	Tristan Bloemen	BEL	7724
196	60	Algirdas Bartkevicius	LTU	18826
63	328	Dmitrii Nakonechnyi	RUS	14003
66	2364	Edgars Bertuks	LAT	7598
92	67	Akseli Ruohola	FIN	24217
165	68	Maxime Rauturier	FRA	20176
69	348	Mathieu Perrin	FRA	22868
148	70	Mattia Debertolis	ITA	19153
71	129	Sebastian Inderst	ITA	11008
73	193	Kenny Kivikas	EST	11784
244	76	Dag Blandkjenn	NOR	25227
80	450	Simon Imark	SWE	22867
208	81	Jonathan Crickmore	GBR	8598
96	82	Topi Syrjalainen	FIN	24296
85	107	Mathias Peter	AUT	14853
581	87	Damian Konotopetz	CAN	11953
1374	88	Tomas Hendrickx	BEL	10587
100	89	Tomas Kubelka	CZE	19046
90	93	Quentin Rauturier	FRA	20655
593	96	Marvin Goericke	GER	9942
155	102	Emil Oebro	DEN	18647
104	–	Bjoern Cederberg	DEN	22960
161	104	Jesse Laukkarinen	FIN	12511
111	335	Aron Bako	HUN	7286
113	202	Loic Capbern	FRA	8188
386	113	Aston Key	AUS	24481
613	114	Tomas Krivda	CZE	28597
391	117	Daniil Kashin	RUS	21401
336	118	Ats Sonajalg	EST	16991
725	119	Alex Carcas	GBR	20527
125	996	Sergey Dobrynin	RUS	8889
235	144	Vegard Jarvis Westergard	NOR	18032
145	215	Krzysztof Wolowczyk	POL	19705
295	147	Mathias Blaise	BEL	28056
458	152	Xiyuan Liang	CHN	26587
898	153	Tamas Tolgyesi	HUN	19832
485	157	Patrick Jaffe	AUS	21630
1263	159	Wouter Hus	BEL	20876
159	636	Mate Baumholczer	HUN	7426
175	531	Isac von Krusenstierna	SWE	25180
291	183	Francois Van der Ouderaa	BEL	14543
191	368	Sebastian Ken Baumann	JPN	25943
199	344	Daniel Vandas	CZE	28599
226	201	Timo Suter	SUI	23936
203	688	Janis Tamuzs	LAT	17066
207	1041	Krisztian Liszka	HUN	12848
2906	213	Levente Tugyi	HUN	20111
218	691	Ole Hennseler	GER	25195
408	224	Xiaoming Liang	CHN	12731
352	265	Nicolas Kastner	AUT	22896
267	721	Leonas Mockunas	LTU	13744
285	653	Raphael Masliah	FRA	33925
381	347	Colin Kolbe	GER	25197
354	424	Ben Mitchell	GBR	13706
359	1096	Erik Doehler	GER	20178
2716	366	Michael Kondro	CAN	28475
377	464	Laurits Bidstrup Moller	DEN	21017
504	399	Hirokazu Osaki	JPN	14498
920	432	Adam Potter	GBR	15121
435	2364	Jonas Hubacek	CZE	20162
443	1490	Aleksei Asmolov	RUS	22811
444	697	Andrew Barnett	AUS	7372
475	630	Rasmus Moeller Jess	DEN	28258
482	678	Csaba Gerber	HUN	28320
516	484	Reigo Teervalt	EST	21720
558	799	Jan Bednarski	POL	34077
646	560	Johan Hogstrand	SWE	10941
694	–	Jaagup Truusalu	EST	17389
1047	733	Kaarel Hendrik Zernant	EST	27696
891	–	Artjoms Rekunenko	LAT	15417
1174	–	Li ZhuoYe	CHN	38086
1604	1980	Hideto Takahashi	JPN	36472
2081	–	YaoWen HU	CHN	28234
2146	–	Tang JianDa	CHN	38081
–	–	Alexander Frolov	RUS	24745
–	–	Xiao Tang	CHN	25126

WRE pos	WRE pos sprint	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	2	Tove Alexandersson	SWE	65
2	11	Marika Teini	FIN	5868
2	9	Natalia Gemperle	RUS	6259
286	3	Maja Alm	DEN	77
4	10	Sabine Hauswirth	SUI	2100
21	5	Maija Sianoja	FIN	5370
14	6	Elena Roos	SUI	4961
6	12	Simona Aebersold	SUI	23032
8	8	Lina Strand	SWE	5654
10	13	Julia Jakob	SUI	1867
11	621	Venla Harju	FIN	4150
27	14	Ursula Kadan	AUT	2678
15	28	Silje Ekroll Jahren	NOR	2486
18	15	Andrine Benjaminsen	NOR	396
16	41	Sara Hagstrom	SWE	1997
17	42	Denisa Kosova	CZE	3061
78	17	Galina Vinogradova	RUS	6258
28	18	Aleksandra Hornik	POL	19685
19	150	Lisa Risby	SWE	4900
79	19	Tereza Janosikova	CZE	28127
70	21	Sigrid Alexandersen	NOR	63
22	33	Svetlana Mironova	RUS	3932
44	22	Martina Ruch	SUI	18903
23	225	Catherine Taylor	GBR	5861
24	31	Vendula Horcickova	CZE	19096
25	51	Susen Loesch	GER	3602
465	25	Alice Leake	GBR	3349
26	77	Lotta Karhola	FIN	18912
31	26	Isia Basset	FRA	332
40	27	Sarina Jenzer	SUI	2549
38	29	Paula Gross	SUI	18906
30	134	Lilian Forsgren	SWE	1592
41	30	Anna Haataja	FIN	19926
31	347	Merja Rantanen	FIN	4811
48	32	Alva Olsson	SWE	4312
123	34	Alexandra Enlund	FIN	28427
35	1524	Miri Thrane Oedum	DEN	6735
54	35	Megan Carter Davies	GBR	844
75	36	Cecilie Friberg Klysner	DEN	23304
37	40	Sofia Haajanen	FIN	1963
71	37	Irina Nyberg	RUS	4227
39	378	Saila Kinni	FIN	2876
43	57	Sofie Bachmann	SUI	18907
93	43	Anna Dvorianskaia	RUS	19063
–	43	Charlotte Ward	GBR	6342
45	63	Anja Arbter	AUT	173
84	45	Laura Ramstein	AUT	4800
128	46	Laura Robertson	NZL	4916
46	149	Lisa Holer	SUI	18902
421	48	Kristine Fjellanger	NOR	1541
58	49	Caroline Gjotterup	DEN	1757
50	86	Evely Kaasiku	EST	2672
52	280	Lenka Mechlova	CZE	3830
62	52	Sandra Grosberga	LAT	1865
60	53	Adela Indrakova	CZE	2430
55	91	Gabija Razaityte	LTU	4836
57	59	Josefin Tjernlund	SWE	19038
115	60	Carlotta Scalet	ITA	5184
87	61	Anna Simkovics	AUT	5414
91	64	Anastasiia Borovkova	RUS	22189
424	65	Victoria Haestad Bjornstad	NOR	23852
66	414	Anna Bachman	SWE	253
67	73	Ausrine Kutkaite	LTU	3216
68	67	Ingeborg Eide	NOR	20206
107	74	Maelle Beauvir	FRA	20207
74	90	Jo Shepherd	GBR	5339
76	726	Laura Vike	LAT	6236
214	78	Cecilie Andersen	GBR	19077
80	751	Hanna Wisniewska	POL	6443
118	83	Florence Hanauer	FRA	22869
83	103	Liga Valdmane	LAT	6125
449	85	Zuzanna Kubicka	POL	3156
88	148	Galina Ribediuc	MDA	4779
173	97	Francesca Taufer	ITA	19187
223	104	Runa Fremstad	NOR	1623
108	275	Johanna Oberg	SWE	21094
110	486	Johanna Trummer	AUT	22769
130	120	Paula Starke	GER	20062
232	122	Fanny Tilkin	BEL	32367
537	123	Eszter Mantuano	HUN	31940
134	281	Anika Gassner	AUT	20213
135	182	Anna Stickova	CZE	20209
477	142	Triin Jaadmaa	EST	27629
350	144	Jiayi Zheng	CHN	6604
348	151	Juliette Basset	FRA	24928
311	162	Mary Fleming	AUS	1554
712	171	Anine Lome	NOR	25225
182	193	Tereza Cechova	CZE	22097
191	209	Cecile Foltzer	FRA	24927
193	751	Veronika Kalinina	RUS	24156
224	269	Nicoline Friberg Klysner	DEN	2941
230	249	Sarah Jones	GBR	22517
652	283	Lucie Arno	BEL	33074
289	–	Kristine Bertuka	LAT	2984
321	428	Katarzyna Slusarczyk	POL	28653
917	343	Shuang Long	CHN	25674
474	350	Xueqin Yang	CHN	33715
516	665	Tereza Novotna	CZE	4220
556	824	Elina Karklina	LAT	3242
–	680	Leonore Winkler	GER	22481
1098	944	Csenge Gerber	HUN	28391
1143	–	YongYu LI	CHN	28237
1518	–	Wu JianFei	CHN	38082
–	1524	Josefine Lind	DEN	3454
–	–	Xiong Yan	CHN	38083