With the World Orienteering Championship gold medals in Long and Middle distances in Denmark in 2006, the Swiss runner Simone Niggli-Luder completed a collection of incredible 12 gold medals from World Championships in Orienteering between 2001 and 2006. This fantastic achievement was recognized as the “Orienteering achievement of the year ...

a runner who managed something very few thought would be possible: winning the WOC Sprint distance in Århus when still being a junior – and topping this with becoming the first non-European World Champion in orienteering! For this achievement, Hanny Allston got 409 votes in the “Orienteering Achievement of 2006″ ...

Three prizes were announced to be drawn among the webpages linking to the “Best of Orienteering 2006 Poll” (with a triple weighting for heavily visited sites) to make the poll results as representative for the orienteering community as possible. The websites of the Norwegian Orienteering Federation, FIF Hillerød and Emiliano ...

Jani Lakanen – the WOC 2006 champion over the Long distance and Søren Bobach – the big Danish surprise in this years JWOC with his gold on the middle distance. Congratulations to both of them! Jani Lakanen was nominated in the “Achievement of the year 2006″ category for his gold ...

On spot number 4 in the “Orienteering Poll 2006″ we find two runners we will hear a lot of in the years to come. In the “Orienteering achievement 2006″ category, the overall World Cup winner Thierry Gueorgiou took the 4th spot – whereas Olav Lundanes took the 4th spot in ...

… none other than the Norwegian World Champion 2006 over the middle distance – Holger Hott Johansen – in the “Achievement of the year 2006″ category. In the junior category – Denmark’s surprise junior Signe Klinting took the 5th place. During the weekend number four and three in the poll ...

The winners in the “Orienteering achievement of the year 2006″ and the “Junior of the year 2006″ poll will be revealed in a countdown manner the next 6 days – starting with number 6 today. A big presentation of the winner of the two categories will be made in the ...

Close to all WRE competitions in Foot-orienteering are now entered into WoO Calendar – but quite a few of them are not entered with position. With YOUR help, all of these events can be positioned! This will make it easier for people to consider which WRE competitions to attend to, ...

Today the impressive winner maps in the Catching Features Map contest have been announced – and it looks like this map contest has been another step forward in making the orienteering simulator (or game – choose the one most appropriate for you) Catching Features (CF) even more realistic. Using the ...

Update: 27 votes is all that is between the two top ranked in the poll for the “Achievement of the year 2006″. This is really going to be a tight race in most prestigious category in the “Best of Orienteering 2006″ poll staged by World of O and Orienteering Today. ...