World Cup Final 2024: All You Need To Know

Starting with a long distance race on Thursday – and continuing with a middle distance on Saturday and a relay on Sunday – the World’s best orienteers will gather in Kuopio, Finland to compete for the final time on the international scene this season. The terrain looks amazing as always in this region of Finland, and all top athletes (see list of top competing athletes ordered by World Ranking at the bottom) plan to be on the start line – a total of 300 athletes from 32 nations.

This year’s World Cup final is organized from Thursday September 26th until Sunday September 29th, and has extra importance for the athletes as it also serves as a pre-WOC for next year’s World Orienteering Championships. With two races to go, the battle for the overall World Cup is still open in both the men’s and women’s classes, although Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) have relatively large leads.

The races will be broadcast live on national TV-stations in Norway, Sweden, Finland and France, and races can also be followed on IOF TV (25 EUR for all races) with English and German commentary. There will also be available free live GPS-tracking and live results. See more details on how to follow the races in the “Links & Live” section below.

Program

• Thursday, September 26th: Long distance
  • TV Broadcast: 11:30 – 15:30
  • Men’s First Start: 08:29
  • Women’s First Start: 08:56
• Saturday, September 28th: Middle distance
  • TV Broadcast: 11:30 – 15:00
  • Women’s First Start: 08:40
  • Men’s First Start: 09:25
• Sunday, September 29th: Relay
  • TV Broadcast: 09:50 – 14:00
  • Men’s Start: 09:59
  • Women’s Start: 12:02

All times are CET – local times are + one hour

Links & Live

• Orienteering.sports live page for World Cup final 2024 – 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 2024 web-page
• World of O results archive which includes both World Cup, EOC and WOC

Race details

Whereabouts

Following this link (and included as a screenshot below) you can find where the World Cup Final 2024 is organized (northeastern marked area in the below map) compared to the WOC 2025 areas (WOC 2025 Middle Q to the north, WOC 2025 Middle Final and Long to the southwest and Relay close to the Kuopio city center).

Terrain

The terrain-description is the same for all three races:

Land forms: The total height difference is less than 100m, and there are no steep slopes or high cliffs. The terrain includes challenging detailed areas and places where there are just a few features to navigate.

Stones: Stone density is generalized to make the map readable for modern orienteering.

Vegetation: Pine trees dominate the landscape. Vegetation in the lower parts of the terrain is usually dense in the late summer and fall.

Runnability: The area has a basic structure of economic forests causing changes in runnability. Runnability varies.

Visibility: The area has a basic structure of economic forests causing changes in visibility.

Track density: There are only few tracks, forest roads and signs of forestry machine.

Old maps

Below the four old maps from the area are shown.

Long distance race details

• Long distance with the start interval 3 minutes for the best ranked 40 competitors in competition and 2 minutes for all others.
• Course planner Jarmo Puttonen
• Women 11.7 km, 290 m climb, 23 controls
• Men 14.5 km, 370 climb, 25 controls
• Expected winning times 88 minutes

Middle distance race details

• Middle distance with start interval 2 minutes
• Course planner Marko Uotila
• Women 4.5 km, 185 m climb, 16 controls
• Men 5.5 km, 220 climb, 20 controls
• Expected winning time 32 minutes

Relay race details

• Course planner Olli-Jussi Korpinen
• Women 4.7-4.9 km, 135 m climb, 13-15 controls
• Men 5.5-5.6 km, 155 climb, 15-17 controls
• Expected winning times women 34/102 min, men 33 min/99

World Cup standings

The individual World Cup consist of seven competition. The total score is the sum of the scores of each competition. That means there are still 200 points to battle for – and all points won will count towards the overall.

Men

			25/05	26/05	01/06	17/08	18/08	26/09	28/09	Total
1		Kasper Harlem Fosser	22	12	100	80	100			314
2		Martin Regborn	50	60	80	18	29			237
3		Emil Svensk	22	100	0	40	50			212
4		Daniel Hubmann	24	28	33	33	80			198
5		Eirik Langedal Breivik	22	40	9	100	23			194
6		Joey Hadorn	100	17	10	30	33			190
7		Tomas Krivda	10	31	60	50	16			167
8		Tuomas Heikkila	60	80	13					153
9		Jonatan Gustafsson	80	50	9					139
10		Miika Kirmula	22	0	40	0	60			122
10		Fabian Aebersold	31	21	25	0	45			122
12		Riccardo Rancan	33	13	25	21	25			117
13		Tino Polsini	16	30	45	25				116
14		Teemu Oksanen	40	10	26	0	17			93
15		Albin Ridefelt				60	28			88
16		Tim Robertson	10	17	37	15	7			86
17		Timo Suter	45	24	2	4	8			83
18		Yannick Michiels	0	45	35		0			80
19		Akseli Ruohola	0	33	23		22			78
20		Loic Capbern	31	0	0	45	0			76

Women

In the women’s World Cup rankings, Simona Aebersold (SUI) is leading with a strong chance to top the overall World Cup this year. She has already won two races and finished second in three, giving her 440 points. Her closest competitor, Natalia Gemperle, also from Switzerland, has 370 points. Tove Alexandersson (SWE), who has dominated by winning the World Cup for the last nine years, is currently third with 337 points. There’s a big drop in points after the top three, with Andrine Benjaminsen (NOR) in fourth place having over 100 points less. Hanna Lundberg (SWE) and Venla Harju (FIN) are right behind her in fifth and sixth places.

			25/05	26/05	01/06	17/08	18/08	26/09	28/09	Total
1		Simona Aebersold	80	80	100	100	80			440
2		Natalia Gemperle	60	100	80	80	50			370
3		Tove Alexandersson	100	37	50	50	100			337
4		Andrine Benjaminsen	40	35	33	60	60			228
5		Hanna Lundberg	37	45	27	31	33			173
6		Venla Harju	28	18	40	35	35			156
7		Victoria Haestad Bjornstad	50	15	45	17	21			148
8		Evely Kaasiku	24	7	37	24	45			137
9		Cecile Calandry	31	40	7	33	24			135
10		Tereza Rauturier	0	60	20	23	28			131
11		Maija Sianoja	22	13	31	25	27			118
12		Alva Sonesson	29	33	3	20	25			110
13		Aleksandra Hornik	22	50	35		0			107
13		Ida Agervig Kristiansson	45	30	18	0	14			107
15		Marie Olaussen	0	24	5	37	37			103
16		Paula Gross	22	18	12	45	0			97
17		Karolin Ohlsson	2	28	28	22	16			96
18		Rita Maramarosi	22	15	29	9	15			90
19		Josefin Tjernlund	37	24	19					80
20		Ines Berger	16	0	12	40	10			78

Team

The teams World Cup is defined as the sum of all scores from both relay and individual competitions according to the following principle:

• Individual races: The sum of the four best runners per team (nation), both Men and Women
• Relay: The individual scoring * 10
• Sprint Relay: The individual scoring * 20

			Total
1		Switzerland	3455
2		Norway	3296
3		Sweden	3073
4		Finland	1919
5		France	1382
6		Czechia	1303
7		Hungary	927
8		Denmark	884
9		Great Britain	810
10		Austria	781
11		Latvia	685
12		Estonia	682
13		Germany	672
14		Poland	599
15		Ukraine	518
16		Bulgaria	500
17		New Zealand	425
18		Italy	419
19		Spain	365
20		Slovakia	361

Top starters – sorted by World Ranking position

Men

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
5	1	Kasper Harlem Fosser	NOR	23855
10	2	Matthias Kyburz	SUI	12305
3	3	Emil Svensk	SWE	16905
554	4	Olli Ojanaho	FIN	19846
11	5	Joey Hadorn	SUI	23033
16	5	Daniel Hubmann	SUI	10849
20	7	Gustav Bergman	SWE	7562
805	8	Albin Ridefelt	SWE	15472
25	9	Jannis Bonek	AUT	23784
17	10	Miika Kirmula	FIN	11767
9	11	Tomas Krivda	CZE	28597
49	12	Ruslan Glibov	UKR	9910
1	14	Martin Regborn	SWE	15387
1379	15	Lucas Basset	FRA	7403
–	16	Viktor Svensk	SWE	33940
1382	17	Anton Johansson	SWE	20161
–	18	Simon Imark	SWE	22867
39	19	Eirik Langedal Breivik	NOR	32770
45	20	Martin Hubmann	SUI	10851
807	22	Lukas Liland	NOR	27350
109	24	Milos Nykodym	CZE	14322
35	24	Havard Sandstad Eidsmo	NOR	33052
28	26	Fabian Aebersold	SUI	32449
39	27	Max Peter Bejmer	SWE	7466
19	28	Loic Capbern	FRA	8188

Women

WRE pos sprint	WRE pos	Name	Country	WRE ID
1	1	Tove Alexandersson	SWE	65
2	2	Simona Aebersold	SUI	23032
19	3	Andrine Benjaminsen	NOR	396
3	4	Natalia Gemperle	SUI	6259
6	6	Hanna Lundberg	SWE	37614
11	7	Tereza Rauturier	CZE	28127
43	8	Marie Olaussen	NOR	4291
10	11	Venla Harju	FIN	4150
–	12	Johanna Ridefelt	SWE	21094
–	13	Sanna Fast	SWE	22905
25	14	Karolin Ohlsson	SWE	4277
7	16	Megan Carter Davies	GBR	844
32	17	Ane Dyrkorn	NOR	26755
18	18	Sandra Grosberga	LAT	1865
63	19	Marika Teini	FIN	5868
12	20	Evely Kaasiku	EST	2672
403	21	Marion Aebi	SUI	23
17	22	Maija Sianoja	FIN	5370
78	23	Miia Niittynen	FIN	4161
33	26	Paula Gross	SUI	18906
55	28	Ingrid Lundanes	NOR	25248
894	28	Elin Svantesson	SWE	4057
296	30	Tereza Smelikova	SVK	24934