The first ever (unofficial) World Cup race in Mixed Sprint Relay was run last Sunday in Turkey. What is your opinion about the “new” race format – and how well did it work in Turkey? Was it fun to run? Yes (Gustav Bergman) All participants (athletes, coaches, officials) are asked ...

[With maps and results] The World Ranking event at Portugal O-Meeting (day 3) has traditionally been one of the most important races in the winter-season – were the world orienteering elite had its first real test. This year the start field was not as strong as usually due to the ...

Sweden won the first unofficial World Cup race in mixed sprint relay today ahead of Denmark and the Swedish second team. Switzerland and Sweden were the big favourites ahead of the race – Switzerland however failed and got two teams disqualified. The best Swiss team finished 5th in the end. ...

There were a few longer legs with some route choice challenges in the World Cup Middle distance race in Turkey today – even if the race was decided more by mistakes in the tricky (or even in the easy) parts than by route choices. Below you get a quick analysis ...

Daniel Hubmann won a clear victory in the men’s class in the first World Cup race in 2014 – with last year’s overall World Cup winner Matthias Kyburz in second. In the women’s class Sweden tookt he double: Tove Alexandersson ahead of Helena Jansson. It was again a Swiss/Swedish day ...

[Updated with map] Lena Eliasson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the Qualification in the first World Cup race in Turkey today. A fast middle distance with less than 25 minutes winning time was on the program. With only 30 runners qualifying for the A-final, some top runners missed the ...

Middle Qual on Friday, Middle Final on Saturday and Mixed Sprint Relay on Sunday. Live GPS-tracking and  – that’s the program for the first World Cup round of 2014, organized in Turkey. Turkey offers varied and technically interesting terrain – this will be an interesting weekend for orienteering fans. The ...

[Updated with Maps + 2DRerun Long distance] Three World Ranking races in two days: Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli dominated the high profile WRE race weekend at the Mediterranean Championships (MCO) in Portugal this weekend. The French and Swiss World Ranking leaders* both won the middle and long distance races. ...

– A really hard long distance race in really hard terrain – with some interesting long legs, Jonas Mathys writes in an e-mail about today’s “January Classic”. It is not old enough to be a real classic – but this Elitserien race from 2011 is still one of the nicer ...

[With GPS comparison] At the second stage of NAOM 2014 Thierry Gueorgiou was back were he wants to be – on top of the M21 Elite class – with Daniel Hubmann in second. In the overall Gueorgiou got the upper hand with some seconds. In the women’s class Amelie Chataing ...