Minna Kauppi’s gold medal in the middle distance was the first World Orienteering Championships gold medal ever for Finland in the womens class over the middle or short distance. The first short distance race in the World Orienteering Champs was in Czechoslovakia in 1991. Now the Finnish women (and Kauppi ...

Pictures of most runners from the Middle Qualification and Final have now been added to the country pages which give pictures and results of all runners sorted by country. All pictures and results are also added to the runner profiles. The results from WOC 2008 Middle and Sprint have also ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA) took the gold medal at the WOC middle distance after a very strong finish. At the spectator control he was equal in time with the Czech home favourite Michal Smola (CZE), but Gueorgiou had a much stronger finish, and could run into the finish with the French ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA), Baptiste Rollier (SUI), Mikhail Mamleev (ITA), Lina Persson (SWE), Helena Jansson (SWE)/Inga Dambe (LAT) and Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) won the qualification heats in todays middle qualification race on a rainy day in the Olomouc area. The finals will be in the same location with the men ...

For those of you who have not had the possibility to run through the WOC 2008 Sprint course, woO-TV has prepared a runthrough video where the mens course is run through with a headcam. Alongside the video the map along with a GPS track is shown in a split screen. ...

Pictures of most runners from todays Long Qualification have now been added to the country pages which give pictures and results of all runners sorted by country. All pictures and results are also added to the runner profiles. You may also take a look at all historic WOC results by ...

Mats Troeng (SWE), David Schneider (SUI), Daniel Hubmann (SUI), Minna Kauppi (FIN), Annika Billstam (SWE) and Signe Søes (DEN) won the qualification heats in todays WOC Long Distance Qualification in the Olomouc area in Czech Republic. All favourites went on to the final without big problems in a long distance ...

Did you know that the Swiss men never have taken a medal at the Middle distance? Or that Russia never has taken an individual gold medal in the womens class? Or that Norway after Hausken’s Gold medal at the sprint Sunday now have a WOC Gold medal in all disciplines ...

China, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia, Norway, Slovakia and Italy all set new national records with respect to best result achieved at a WOC Sprint ever at the Olomouc WOC Sprint Final on Sunday. Below National records for WOC Sprint 2008 are listed. See also pictures of all of these runners ...

Sprint Final pictures have now been added to World of O Runners WOC 2008 Team Pictures. All pictures are sorted by name and country to make it easy to find the runner you are interested in. You are free to use all these pictures on any webpage as long as ...