[With great video] – His voice rose in excitement as he explained that the key to his dominance in the sport known as orienteering was an innate ability to quickly convert a two-dimensional piece of paper with a variety of symbols on it into a three-dimensional route through the woods, the ...

Veterans Hans Gunnar Omdal and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg are part of the Norwegian team for the World Championships in Scotland which was selected earlier this week. No Norwegian athlete will run all disciplines – and only one athlete, Anne Margrethe Hausken (photo above from WOC 2009), will run both urban ...

– Even if WOC is a very important and well-established event and product, the International Orienteering Federation has done and is planning to make remarkable changes to the programme and the appearance of the event, Matthias Niggli, Janne Salmi, Simone Niggli and several other coaches, elite athletes, former elite athletes and other important ...

[With splits analysis, video interviews, photos] The Junior World Championships Middle distance offered tricky orienteering – which gave very big challenges for the athletes. Many of the favourites got problems in the slopes around Rauland – the terrain offering many diffuse marshes and varying vegetation. Again it was a day ...

The terrain in today’s JWOC Middle Qualification required a lot of experience in Scandinavian terrain – and thus the Scandinavian and Swiss runners had a significant advantage. Heat winners were Imark (SWE), Andersoson (SWE) and Ojanho (FIN) for the men and Hagström (SWE), Müller (SUI) and Koskinen (FIN) for the women. Most ...

– More tricky than it looks from the map, was the informations the athletes got before the JWOC middle qualification. But the courses look quite tricky even on the map – especially the first part which follows a slope with many diffuse marshes and light green areas. Maps JWOC Middle ...

The course setter at JWOC 2015 Sprint had done a very good job – and set a course which offered many interesting route choices. A combination of hilly terrain with varying runnability and some passages which you had to be careful to find, made it necessary to run with full ...

[Updated with split time analysis] 17 year old Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the women’s class and Tim Robertson (New Zealand) won his second Junior World Championships sprint in a row. On a hot day in Åmot, Norway, some of the runners struggled keeping up the speed towards the end of ...

[With GPS analysis & maps] A tough long distance with many long routechoice legs met the athletes in the last of the Norwegian WOC selection races. 1 hour and 40 minutes for the men – 1 hour and 24 minutes for the women. The long distance race in Høydalsmo was also ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championships in Rauland, Norway starts Sunday with Sprint and continues with Middle distance on Monday (Qual) and Tuesday (Final). After a rest day the championships continues with Long distance on Thursday and Relay on Friday. Read on to find all important details about the championships. If some details are missing, ...