[With Maps and Results] Yannick Michiels has been fighting his way towards the top for several years – today the fast athlete from Belgium took his and Belgium’s first World Cup victory on the Sprint in Lohja, Finland which marked the opening of the Orienteering World Cup 2017. Maja Alm ...

Helena Jansson decided the first race in the World Cup Sprint Relay 2017 for Sweden in a close fight with Denmark’s Maja Alm. Alm was later disqualified due to a miss-punch, and Switzerland’s Elena Roos did thus lead Switzerland in to second place 13 seconds behind with Great Britain in ...

[Follow races LIVE on webTV] The 2017 Orienteering World Cup starts in Turku, Finland this week with a Sprint Relay Wednesday May 24th and continues in Lohja with a Sprint race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Long distance chasing start race on Sunday.  The chasing start ...

WOD on May 24th is a great opportunity to help getting more people around you to experience the joy of orienteering. Have you got your plan ready for how you will help more people try out orienteering on May 24th?  The goal of the World Orienteering Day is to increase to visibility ...

More than 250 runners participated in WOC 2017 selection races over sprint, middle and long distance in Estonia this weekend.  Some of the biggest favourites Maja Alm, Judith Wyder, Matthias Kyburz, Daniel Hubmann and Olav Lundanes confirm that they will be fighting for the medals in Estonia again – many ...

[With GPS-tracking and live results] More than 300 top orienteers come to South-Estonia to compete for their place in national teams with Sprint Friday, Middle Saturday and Long Sunday.  Many nations participate with their national teams in this competition, including Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Lavtia, Germany, Estonia, Belarus, Ireland, Denmark, France, Ukraine ...

[Friday 14:45 CET, Saturday 10:45 CET, Sunday 09:45 CET] The Swedish League finals with live web-TV broadcasting from all 3 disciplines May 12th – May 14th. Commentator is Michael Hallner, assisted by orienteering experts Jerker Lysell (sprint, Friday), Joakim Ingelsson (middle distance, Saturday) and Kalle Dalin (finals with pursuit start, shortened ...

Stora Tuna won an extremely tight battle for victory in the women’s relay after a phantom race by Tove Alexandersson while IFK Göteborg took a clear 10 minute victory in the men’s relay after deciding it all on the unforked 8th leg.  In the women’s race  Tampereen Pyrintö had a ...

Thierry Gueorigou and Svetlana Mironova (WRE Middle) and Andreu Blanes and Ekaterina Nikitina (WRE Sprint) won the two World Ranking events organized on the same day at Aguiar da Beira O-Meeting in Portugal on Saturday. Sunday’s long distance (not WRE) was won by Thierry Gueorgiou and Maren Jansson Haverstad. Aguiar da Beira ...

Lucas Basset (France) and Simone Niggli (Switzerland) won the World Ranking stage of this year’s edition of Portugal O-Meeting – a middle distance in tricky terrain were some had trouble reading the very detailed map.  Basset won the men’s class half a minute ahead of Swedes Johan Runesson and Rassmus Andersson ...