[LIVE Friday from 19:00 CET] Swiss, Swedish and Danish runners are the biggest favourites when the World Championships starts with three sprint races Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday’s sprint qualification is just a warm-up for the biggest favourites – but as Mårten Boström “proved” last year in Venice, even the ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Friday July 31st at 19:00 CET with sprint qualification in Forres – a small town on the coast northeast of Inverness. The first medals are fought for in the sprint relay in neighbour town Nairn the day after – with start from 19:05 CET. The championships continues with sprint final in ...

Next week during the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Scotland a decision will be taken about the future of the WOC: IOF is calling an Extraordinary General Assembly in order to discuss a proposal for splitting today’s WOC into a forest part and an urban part. In July 2015 Matthias Niggli, Janne ...

[With animations] WOC runners William Lind (Sweden) and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg (Norway) won O-Ringen overall in two exciting chasing starts. William Lind fought a tight fight with Olle Boström (also in the Swedish WOC team) all the way until the last control, and decided with a few seconds in ...

[Rest day in Sweden – Analysis time at World of O] William Lind and Simone Niggli have been most impressive so far at O-Ringen – each with victories in the two first tough long distance stages (course from men’s first stage above). Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg is not far behind Niggli, ...

LIVE Sunday – Friday: Only a selected few of the World Championships favourites are on the start list in the orienteering race with the biggest money prizes in the sport. The ones on the start – including most of the Swedish WOC team and Norwegian Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg – will ...

– It is completely feasible that in a few years, we will be up in the air for more than an hour, plus also have a lot of smaller kopters chasing the leading teams from above, David Brickhill-Jones, CEO of KopterCam, says when asked about the future for the technology. Seeing the ...

Silver medalist from the World Championships Sprint in Finland in 2013 and bronze medalist from the European Championships Long in Portugal last year, Catherine Taylor are central parts of the British Team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in July/August which has now been selected. The British runners have ...

One running cameraman – 24 km of running – 46 km of MTB – in 13 hours. The Jukola TV production provided some great “runcam” footage of high-speed orienteering performed by some of the best orienteers in the World.  Below you can read  the story behind the footage. – I hope ...

[Updated with map] Scott Fraser (Great Britain) and Elise Egseth (Norway) won the British Sprint selection race for the World Orienteering Championships. Scott Fraser and Cat Taylor (2nd) were the best in the British selection. Note! There might be some issues with some of the split times. From the Nopesport ...