Switzerland won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint Relay after a very strong performance by Simona Aebersold on the last leg where she outran Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson, who was later disqualified for skipping a control. Finland took the second place with Norway in third. The two big favourites, Switzerland and ...
Read More »WOC 2024 Sprint: Analysis, Maps and Results
The Scottish organizers served one of the most tricky World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint races ever – and the Swedish duo Martin Regborn and Tove Alexandersson made the day a big Swedish success with two gold medals for Sweden. Alexandersson with her 20th WOC gold medal – Regborn with his first. ...
Read More »WOC 2024: All You Need To Know
Fast-paced urban orienteering with challenging route choices is expected when the 2024 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Edinburgh, Scotland on Friday July 12th with the Sprint Qualification and Final. The championship – which is a sprint-only WOC – continues with the Sprint Relay on Sunday July 14th, and finally ...
Read More »JWOC 2024: All You Need To Know
[LIVE from Monday July 1st 16:00 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2024 in Czech Republic starts with the Sprint Relay on Monday July 1st, continues with Sprint on Tuesday, Long on Wednesday, Middle on Friday and finishes off with Relay on Saturday. The championship is organized around Pilsen, Czech Republic – and will offer a full ...
Read More »Jukola 2024: All You Need To Know
The 2024 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world – is organized the coming weekend with more than 3000 teams on the start in total! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their ...
Read More »World Cup Italy 2024: Maps, Results & Splits analysis illustrations
From flat and relatively easy orienteering in the first World Cup round on Swiss ground, to tricky, hilly orienteering in the second World Cup round in Geona, Italy. Victories went to Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) in the individual Sprint, while Switzerland won the Sprint Relay. With more varied ...
Read More »World Cup Opening Switzerland 2024: Maps and Results
Sweden and Switzerland dominated the first World Cup weekend of 2024 in Olten, Switzerland – taking two victories each – but with four different winners. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) took the victories on the KO-Sprint while Natalia Gemperle (Switzerland) and Emil Svensk (Sweden) took the victories on ...
Read More »World Cup Opening Weekends 2024: All You Need To Know
The first two Orienteering World Cup rounds of 2024 are about to start in Olten, Switzerland and Genoa, Italy – both organized as pure sprint weekends. It all kicks off in Switzerland from Friday May 24th until Sunday May 26th with a KO-Sprint and an individual Sprint – and continues with another individual Sprint and a Sprint Relay in ...
Read More »Lucky voters: Check if you won fantastic prizes!
Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 5500 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2023″! To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make ...
Read More »Course of the Year 2023: World Champs Middle!
A very varied middle distance course in Switzerland is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2023″ – the women’s course in the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance Final! The course really challenged the competitors – with some very tricky orienteering in the start, a challenging routechoice leg, and some faster but still challenging ...
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