World Cup Czechia 2023: All You Need To Know

The second Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023 is about to begin in Ceska Lipa and Korce in Czechia from August 2nd until August 6th. The World Cup round starts with Sprint on Wednesday August 2nd, continues with a Sprint Relay on Thursday and finishes off with two forest races in the weekend – Middle on Saturday and Long on Sunday.

The two sprint races are organized in the historic center of Ceska Lipa while the forest races are organized in sandstone terrain that should be similar to the terrain of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 in Czechia. No old maps are available for the World Cup forest area – see part of the WOC long course above for terrain similar to the forest terrains. All the world’s best athletes will be on the start – see the list of starters ordered by World Ranking at the bottom of this article.

Program World Cup Round 2

• Wednesday August 2nd: Sprint Ceska Lipa
  • TV: 16:00 – 18:30
  • Group 1 (lower ranked runners):
    • Start 14:10 – 15:48
  • Red Group Men (40 best Sprint World Ranking):
    • Start 15:52 – 16:52. Winner ready 17:07
  • Red Group Women (40 best Sprint World Ranking)
    • Start 17:00 – 18:00. Winner ready 18:15
• Thursday August 3rd: Sprint Relay Ceska Lipa
  • TV: 17:00 – 18:30
  • Start 17:15. Winner ready 18:15
• Saturday August 5th: Middle Korce
  • TV: 11:00 – 15:30
  •  Women
    • Start 08:30 – 12:50. Winner ready 13:25
  • Men
    • Start 10:00 – 14:40. Winner ready 15:15
• Sunday August 6th: Long Korce
  • TV: 11:00 – 15:30
  •  Women
    • Start 08:58 – 13:46.
    • Red Group Start 10:18 – 11:45 (30 best World Ranking)
    • Winner ready 13:05
  • Men
    • Start 08:35 – 13:45
    • Red Group Start 12:18 – 13:45 (30 best World Ranking)
    • Winner ready 15:15

All times are CET.

How to follow the races

The World Cup races will be broadcast live on national TV-stations in Sweden, Finland and Czech Republic, and races will also be broadcast in France. The races can also be followed on IOF TV with either English commentary by Katherine Bett and Jonas Merz or Norwegian commentary by Kjell-Erik Kristiansen (9 EUR per race or 30 EUR for all races). There will also be available live GPS-tracking and live results (free to follow).

Links:

• Orienteering Sport web page – here you will find links to webTV-broadcast, GPS-tracking and live results.
• Bulletin 4 – detailed information
• IOF Eventor webpage for the event
• World Cup 2023 page
• World of O results archive which includes both World Cup, EOC and WOC

Orienteering World Cup 2023

Seven individual races and three relays make up the 2023 Orienteering World Cup, which is spread over three rounds: The opening round which was organized in Norway (April 27th -30th), this round in Czechia (August 2nd – 6th) and the World Cup Final in Italy (October 4th – 8th) which is also the European Orienteering Championships (EOC). The recent WOC in Switzerland in not part of the World Cup. See below for the standing in the individual World Cup before the Czechia World Cup round. For updated World Cup standings see the IOF World Cup page.

Race details (full information in Bulletin 4)

Sprint

Sprint Relay

Middle

Long

Entered runners sorted by World Ranking standing (Top 40)

Men

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	2	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
2	1	Kasper Harlem Fosser	NOR	23855
17	3	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
3	87	Tim Robertson	NZL	15525
4	122	Yannick Michiels	BEL	13592
9	4	Gustav Bergman	SWE	7562
5	10	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
–	5	Albin Ridefelt	SWE	15472
15	6	Joey Hadorn	SUI	23033
6	38	Ralph Street	GBR	16782
641	7	Olli Ojanaho	FIN	19846
7	18	Tomas Krivda	CZE	28597
25	8	Emil Svensk	SWE	16905
10	35	Havard Sandstad Eidsmo	NOR	33052
11	15	Miika Kirmula	FIN	11767
282	11	Isac von Krusenstierna	SWE	25180
12	37	Loic Capbern	FRA	8188
–	12	Simon Imark	SWE	22867
13	91	Jonatan Gustafsson	SWE	40367
250	14	Max Peter Bejmer	SWE	7466
23	16	Florian Howald	SUI	10810
266	17	Ruslan Glibov	UKR	9910
18	367	Adrien Delenne	FRA	19918
19	85	Riccardo Rancan	SUI	18900
1112	20	Simon Hector	SWE	20164
634	20	Anton Johansson	SWE	20161
21	200	August Mollen	SWE	40563
21	62	Aleksi Niemi	FIN	18700
23	22	Martin Hubmann	SUI	10851
39	23	Jannis Bonek	AUT	23784
403	25	Topi Syrjalainen	FIN	24296
–	25	Magne Daehli	NOR	8654
26	45	Michal Olejnik	POL	14406
27	32	Vojtech Kral	CZE	12187
407	27	Milos Nykodym	CZE	14322
29	81	Timo Suter	SUI	23936
32	29	Soren Thrane Odum	DEN	18651
30	43	Eirik Langedal Breivik	NOR	32770
31	39	Akseli Ruohola	FIN	24217
42	31	Lucas Basset	FRA	7403
33	807	Tuomas Heikkila	FIN	23025
34	75	Tino Polsini	SUI	28365
645	34	Viktor Svensk	SWE	33940
35	128	Alvaro Casado	ESP	28538
60	36	Mathieu Perrin	FRA	22868
37	190	Jakub Glonek	CZE	24672
40	48	Bojan Blumenstein	GER	7741

Women

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	1	Tove Alexandersson	SWE	65
2	2	Simona Aebersold	SUI	23032
6	3	Andrine Benjaminsen	NOR	396
4	9	Elena Roos	SUI	4961
453	4	Natalia Gemperle	SUI	6259
5	14	Tereza Janosikova	CZE	28127
7	5	Hanna Lundberg	SWE	37614
14	6	Sara Hagstrom	SWE	1997
9	7	Karolin Ohlsson	SWE	4277
215	8	Lisa Risby	SWE	4900
8	22	Lina Strand	SWE	5654
16	10	Venla Harju	FIN	4150
11	313	Eline Gemperle	SUI	33988
24	11	Sabine Hauswirth	SUI	2100
12	33	Aleksandra Hornik	POL	19685
38	12	Marie Olaussen	NOR	4291
13	–	Charlotte Ward	GBR	6342
–	13	Johanna Ridefelt	SWE	21094
15	24	Victoria Haestad Bjornstad	NOR	23852
17	16	Marika Teini	FIN	5868
18	41	Emma Bjessmo	SWE	22886
19	25	Ane Dyrkorn	NOR	26755
36	19	Paula Gross	SUI	18906
20	137	Eef van Dongen	NED	40634
64	20	Denisa Kosova	CZE	3061
21	97	Malin Agervig Kristiansson	DEN	36181
62	21	Evely Kaasiku	EST	2672
22	37	Ingrid Lundanes	NOR	25248
23	135	Hedvig Valbjorn Gydesen	DEN	32310
25	67	Cecile Calandry	FRA	33897
26	74	Ida Agervig Kristiansson	DEN	40702
27	105	Inka Nurminen	FIN	24183
294	27	Marion Aebi	SUI	23
28	54	Martina Ruch	SUI	18903
771	29	Andrea Svensson	SWE	20204
51	30	Ida Haapala	FIN	28437
–	31	Sanna Fast	SWE	22905
32	50	Grace Molloy	GBR	27559
43	32	Sandra Grosberga	LAT	1865
445	34	Vendula Horcickova	CZE	19096
35	196	Olena Babych	UKR	25660
36	101	Ana Isabel Toledo Navarro	ESP	33644
444	36	Miia Niittynen	FIN	4161
–	39	Marianne Andersen	NOR	113
41	40	Hanna Wisniewska	POL	6443