World Cup Final 2025: All You Need To Know

Starting with a sprint on Friday from 15:00 CET on live TV – and continuing with a sprint relay on Saturday and a knock-out sprint on Sunday – the world’s best orienteers will gather in Uster, Switzerland to compete for the final time on the international scene this season for the 2025 World Cup Finals.

Most top athletes plan to be on the start line – a total of 224 athletes from 32 nations. Notably absent among the top sprinters are Emil Svensk (2nd in the Sprint World Ranking), Tove Alexandersson (shared 1st in the Sprint World Ranking – not focusing on Sprint this year), Sara Hagström (6th) and Megan Mitchell (7th).

This year’s World Cup final is organized from Friday September 26th until Sunday September 28th. With three races to go, the battle for the overall World Cup is still open in both the men’s and women’s classes, although Max Peter Bejmer (Sweden) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) have relatively large leads. Read more about the overall World Cup standings at the bottom of this article.

The races will be broadcast live on national TV-stations in Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and races can also be followed on IOF TV (9/25 EUR for one/all races) with English commentary by Katherine Bett and Jonas Merz. Norwegian customers can watch on langrenn.com. There will also be available free live GPS-tracking and live results, as always. See more details on how to follow the races in the “Links & Live” section below.

Program

Friday, September 26th: Sprint

• Men’s First Start: 13:15 (approx.)
• Women’s First Start: 13:30 (approx.)
• 14:50 First start top 40 Men
• 15:00 IOF Web-TV start  – similar start time for other TV broadcasts
• 16:00 First start top 40 Women
• 17:30 IOF Web TV end

Saturday, September 27th: Sprint Relay

• 17:00 IOF Web-TV start –  similar start time for other TV broadcasts
• 17:15 Start
• 18:15 First team to finish
• 18:30 IOF web-TV end

Sunday, September 28th: Knock-Out Sprint

• 11:00 First start Women quarterfinal
• 11:30 Frist start Men quarterfinal
• 13:00 IOF Web-TV start –  similar start time for other TV broadcasts
• 13:10 First start Women semifinal
• 13:50 First start Men semifinal
• 14:25 Final Women
• 14:40 Final Men
• 15:00 IOF Web-TV end

All times are CET (UTC+1)

Links & Live

• IOF Live page for World Cup final 2025 – 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 2025 web-page
• World of O results archive which includes both World Cup, EOC and WOC

Race details

Whereabouts

The World Cup Final 2025 is organized in Uster, Switzerland, located about 20km east of Zurich. The arena is situated at Arena Pünt. All three competitions take place in the same urban area with varying courses.

Terrain

The terrain description is the same for all three races:

Land forms: Urban terrain with smaller and bigger buildings and park areas. Mostly flat to moderate climbs.

Traffic: Traffic is reduced in most parts of the terrain, but there can be cars, bicycles and pedestrians passing through the terrain. Take care and follow the instructions of officials.

Runnability: 80% hard surface and 20% grass for the Sprint. 60% hard surface and 40% grass for the Sprint Relay. 90% hard surface and 10% grass for the Knock-Out Sprint.

Surface: Fast sprint terrain in urban environment.

See the old map from the area below.

Indivdual Sprint race details

Sprint distance with starting order determined by Sprint World Ranking as of September 24, 2025.

Course planner: Rachel Marxer
Women: 3.6km, 16m climb, 20 controls, 14 minutes expected winning time
Men: 4.1km, 20m climb, 21 controls, 14 minutes expected winning time

Sprint Relay race details

Sprint relay, mass start. 4 legs (Women-Men-Men-Women). A federation may enter up to 4 teams consisting of 4 competitors (at least 2 women).

Course planner: Nico Brechbühl
Leg 1 and 4 (Women): 3.8km, 16m climb, 17 controls, 15 minutes expected time
Leg 2 and 3 (Men): 4.4km, 20m climb, 21 controls, 15 minutes expected time

Knock-Out Sprint race details

The best 36 in each class from Friday’s sprint will qualify for the KO-finals. The elimination rounds consist of 6 quarter finals, 3 semi-finals and 1 final per class with 6 runners in each heat.

Course planner: Silvan Ullmann
Quarter final: 1.9km, 40m climb, 13 controls, 7’00 (Men), 7’50 (Women) expected time
Semi-final: 2.0km, 10m climb, 14 controls, 6’50 (Men), 7’30 (Women) expected time
Final: 2.0km, 10m climb, 13 controls, 7’00 (Men), 7’50 (Women) expected time

World Cup standings

The individual World Cup consists of nine competitions across three rounds. With two individual races to go, there are still 200 points to battle for – and all points won will count towards the overall standings.

Men

In the men’s World Cup, forest specialist Max Peter Bejmer (SWE) is leading with 250 points after his two excellent forest races in Idre Fjäll –  including one victory at the Middle. Defending champion Kasper Fosser (NOR) is second with 210 points after his silver medal at EOC. Martin Regborn (SWE) is third with 202 points. The competition is tight for the next spots. Tomáš Křivda (CZE) has 183 points, while European sprint champion Mathias Barros Vallet (FRA) jumped to fifth place with 158 points after his breakthrough at EOC. Fabian Aebersold (SUI) is sixth with 153 points. With 200 Sprint points to battle for, the men’s class is quite open this year.

Women

In the women’s World Cup rankings, defending champion Simona Aebersold (SUI) has the lead with a strong chance to defend her title. She has collected 330 points after a 3rd and 5th place at the European Championships in Belgium. Her closest competitor, European knock-out sprint champion Cécile Calandry (FRA), has 258 points. European sprint champion Pia Young Vik (NOR), who also took silver in the KO sprint, is third with 242 points. Natalia Gemperle (SUI) is fourth with 237 points, followed by Inka Nurminen (FIN) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE). Note that Tove Alexandersson is not focusing on Sprint this year, and is therefore not starting in the World Cup final.

Team World Cup

The Team World Cup is led by Sweden ahead of Norway and Switzerland. The team standings are calculated from the sum of all scores from both relay and individual competitions.

• See all World Cup standings at the World Cup webpage

Top starters – sorted by World Ranking position

Men

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	4	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
3	76	Jonatan Gustafsson	SWE	40367
4	1	Kasper Harlem Fosser	NOR	23855
5	51	Tuomas Heikkila	FIN	23025
6	145	Yannick Michiels	BEL	13592
7	19	Tomas Krivda	CZE	28597
8	38	Riccardo Rancan	SUI	18900
9	1207	Ralph Street	GBR	16782
10	37	Tim Robertson	NZL	15525
11	23	Joey Hadorn	SUI	23033
12	39	Tino Polsini	SUI	28365
13	525	Mathias Barros Vallet	FRA	37269
15	73	Timo Suter	SUI	23936
16	12	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
17	32	Teemu Oksanen	FIN	28425
18	114	Alvaro Casado	ESP	28538
18	50	Francesco Mariani	ITA	37592
20	30	Jorgen Baklid	NOR	23859
21	71	Loic Capbern	FRA	8188
22	18	Akseli Ruohola	FIN	24217
25	10	Fabian Aebersold	SUI	32449
26	68	Isac von Krusenstierna	SWE	25180
27	955	Guilhem Verove	FRA	37270
28	222	Jakub Glonek	CZE	24672
28	388	Nathan Lawson	GBR	12543
30	7	Eirik Langedal Breivik	NOR	32770
31	43	Ferenc Jonas	HUN	34068
32	154	August Mollen	SWE	40563
34	960	Adrien Delenne	FRA	19918
35	181	Henry McNulty	AUS	13483
36	5	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
37	62	Jonas Hubacek	CZE	20162
41	8	Max Peter Bejmer	SWE	7466

 Women

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	2	Simona Aebersold	SUI	23032
3	4	Natalia Gemperle	SUI	6259
4	13	Aleksandra Hornik	POL	19685
5	6	Hanna Lundberg	SWE	37614
8	25	Victoria Haestad Bjornstad	NOR	23852
9	7	Venla Harju	FIN	4150
10	43	Eef van Dongen	NED	40634
11	12	Cecile Calandry	FRA	33897
12	14	Tereza Rauturier	CZE	28127
15	3	Andrine Benjaminsen	NOR	396
16	57	Rita Maramarosi	HUN	42228
17	56	Ida Agervig Kristiansson	DEN	40702
18	28	Maija Sianoja	FIN	5370
19	20	Pia Young Vik	NOR	40246
20	33	Alva Sonesson	SWE	33965
21	616	Eline Gemperle	SUI	33988
21	77	Ana Isabel Toledo	ESP	33644
23	523	Maelle Beauvir	FRA	20207
24	24	Grace Molloy	GBR	27559
25	46	Inka Nurminen	FIN	24183
28	22	Ane Dyrkorn	NOR	26755
30	496	Emma Bjessmo	SWE	22886
37	1455	Josefine Lind	DEN	3454
38	568	Nerea Gonzalez	ESP	33642
39	51	Hanne Hilo	FIN	33726
40	750	Deborah Stadler	SUI	25987