Simona Aebersold was the fastest runner of the day – and that with an excellent technical race. With a lead from the first control until the end, Aebersold won 1:50 ahead of Aleksandra Hornik (Poland) with Johanna Öberg (Sweden) in 3rd at 2:11. Aebersold did a stable race and lost 16 ...

Another Swiss day at the Junior World Orienteering Championship at the middle distance: Gold for Simona Aebersold in the women’s class and Thomas Curiger in the men’s class.  In the women’s class Polish Aleksandra Hornik took a very popular silver medal with Swedish Johanna Öberg in third. In the men’s ...

Switzerland and Norway with 12 runners to the A-final. Best ever JWOC middle qualification for Germany with 8 runners in the A-final. Turkey with their first ever runner in the A-final. These were some of the positive highlights in today’s Junior World Championships Middle Qualification in Ftan, Switzerland. Heat winners ...

The women’s class in the Junior World Championships (JWOC) Long distance 2016 featured decisive routechoice legs, big mistakes by top runners and drama. Below we take a look at the race from start to finish and take a look at all the decision points in the race. Anna Haataja (Finland) won ...

The men’s class in the Junior World Championships (JWOC) Long distance 2016 had many potential winners who had the speed to win the race, but of these nobody got through the race without technical mistakes.  As the following analysis will show, Swiss Joey Hadorn had so high running speed that he ...

  Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) and Anna Haataja (Finland) took the Gold medals at today’s Junior World Championships Long distance in Engadin, Switzerland. A great day for Switzerland again with four medals of six possible! Same podium In the men’s class the medal podium at the long distance looks exactly like yesterday’s ...

Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) wins the Junior World Championships Sprint 2016 despite taking the wrong route choice on the long route choice leg, costing him 27(!) seconds to the fastest split time. The Swiss runner Hadorn takes the title due to high running speed and a consistent race (except for this long leg). ...

Simona Aebersold took the lead at the first control and kept it all the way to the finish – never challenged by her competitors. – I stopped several times when I was uncertain, Aebersold said after the race. Obviously a good tactic in this hilly sprint with some tricky route ...

A fantastic day for Switzerland at the opening race of the Junior World Championships (JWOC) in Scuol, Switzerland today: A clear gold for Simona Aebersold in the women’s class – and both gold and silver in the men’s class with Joey Hadorn ahead of Thomas Curiger. In the women’s class Anna Dvorianskaia (RUS) was ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championship (JWOC) starts in Scuol, Switzerland with the Sprint tomorrow at 09:00 CET. Below is a quick look at earlier results of the athletes. See also: JWOC 2016 – All You Need To Know and  JWOC 2016 team overview. There will be live GPS-tracking, live results, live web-TV ...