[Updated with women’s results] The King of Middle is back! 6 years after Thierry Gueorgiou took his last victory in his favourite race – the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance, Gueorgiou did it again. In his last individual WOC race. What a fairytale-ending! Happiness, relief and a lot of other ...

We are ready for a very technical Middle distance at WOC Middle in Estonia today. Here is a quick first look at the men’s course and some of the challenges the athletes will meet. Follow the race LIVE here: Background material: Startlist WOC Middle, WorldofO All You Need to Know article, Maps &Results from ...

[First man starts 09:32, last man 12:14, first woman 12:58, last woman 15:14 (all times CET, local time one hour later)].  Tove Alexanderssonis big favourite in the women’s race – the men’s race is wide open with 10-15 runners who can win on a good day. Read on for a ...

Why did the medals go to Tove Alexandersson, Maja Alm and Natalia Gemperle, what were the decisive moments in the race, and what were the best choices on all the interesting routechoice legs the Women’s WOC 2017 Long distance course had to offer? This article attempts to answer these questions ...

Why did Olav Lundanes win the race, what were the decisive moments in the race, and what were the best choices on all the interesting routechoice legs the Men’s WOC 2017 Long distance course had to offer? This article attempts to answer these questions based on detailed analysis of GPS-data ...

[Updated with men’s results] Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Olav Lundanes (Norway) are the World Champions on Long distance in Rouge, Estonia – just like in Strömstad, Sweden last year. Last year both were basically on home ground – this year they met a very different challenge in green and tough ...

  We are ready for a very tough and green Long distance in Rouge, Estonia today. Here is a quick first look at the women’s course and some of the challenges the athletes will meet. Follow the race live here: Background material: Startlist WOC Long, WorldofO All You Need to Know article, Maps &Results from WOC ...

Around 1500 pictures from the three Sprint races at WOC 2017 have been posted on the athlete profile pages and in Facebook albums (sorted by race result). By race (on Facebook): Sprint Final Men and Women Sprint Qual: Men A, Men B, Men C, Women A, Women B, Women C ...

Finally start of the forest part of WOC 2017! The women start from 10:14 CET (11:14 local time) with decisions around 13:20 CET. The men start from 11:43 CET with decisions around 15:50 CET. With estimated winning times of 80 minutes for the women and 100 minutes for the men this is ...

Victories went to France (2), Hungary (2), Finland, Switzerland, Poland and Slovakia in the individual races at the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Slovakia this weekend. The relays were won by France (2), Switzerland and Finland. EYOC offered very nice competitions in Slovakia in interesting terrain with many contour ...