“One of the trickiest WOC qualification races ever” was a phrase repeated several times in the arena after today’s WOC middle distance qualification. In one of the women heats you could be nearly 20 minutes behind the winner, and still qualify for the final. The day brought two heat winners ...

A very comprehensive analysis has been made of the women’s race in WOC 2013 long distance. This analysis for the men’s race is not as thorough – partly because the route choice challenges worked a lot better in the women’s race than in the men’s race – and partly because ...

The WOC Long distance is the most important long distance race of the year, and therefore deserves an in-depth analysis. This comprehensive analysis of the Women’s race on WOC Long distance 2013  has been made based on spending nearly 2 hours with the course setter and several hours more with ...

After a rest day the World Orienteering Championships continues with middle qualification Thursday at 08:00 CET. Now the runners move into more tricky and detailed terrain which should be perfect for a middle distance. Links to live services: Online results, GPS-tracking, Live TV payment. See also WOC 2013 webpage Team ...

The favourites Simone Niggli and Thierry Gueorgiou won today’s WOC long distance after tough races were the winning time went more than an hour. For the women the route choices were deciding – while it was more about managing to keep the mental focus and push all the way to ...

The men start from 10:55 CET – the men from 12:45 CET. 19.5 km tough long distance orienteering with estimated winning time of 91 minutes will meet the men qualified for the final – 13.4 km with estimated winning time of 71 minutes will meet the women. The qualification courses ...

Mårten Boström won a very popular Gold medal on home ground in the World Championships Sprint today – literally running away from his competitors with higher running speed on the longer legs. In the women’s class Simone Niggli took an expected gold medal – but Annika Billstam got very close ...

[Updated with change in results in Men heat 2 after jury decision] Two heat victories for Denmark – and no big surprises in today’s WOC Sprint Qualification – all favourites went on to the final. Heat winners were Rasmus Thrane Hansen (Denmark), Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (Norway), Jerker Lysell (Sweden), Simone ...

The first final in this year World Championships is the sprint final which start Monday early evening at 16:54 CET. The  qualifications are run in the morning from 08:00 CET. Three heat for men and three for women – 15 runners from each heat qualify for the finals. Links to live ...

The Long Qualification courses had one really interesting route choice leg – the long leg from 4-5 in the men’s heats / 2-3 in the women’s heats. The rest of the course was all about accurate orienteering – especially direction running and actually finding the control point. Typically, the route ...