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[Live from 14:55 CET (Women) and 17:00 CET (Men)] The relay is the highlight of the World Championships for many – and this year it comes before the long distance. Some top runners like Thierry Gueorgiou and Olav Lundanes skip the relay in order to be better prepared for the ...

[LIVE from 13:00 CET. Decision women 15:20. Decision men 17:50 CET] Reigning champions Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Annika Billstam (Sweden) have so far this year not shown the same exceptional performance which gave them the World Champion titles last year, but they are both athletes with a lot of routine ...

[Updated with correct illustrations] Maja Alm (Denmark) won 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52. Maja Alm won 16 of 22 legs and did nearly no mistakes. Maja Alm took the lead at the first control. Then Rachel Effeney (leading at ...

Emma Klingenberg owned the Scottish small town Nairn today on the first leg for Denmark – getting a big gap already after 2 minutes running. From there it was clear that this was Denmark’s day. In the end Norway surprised with silver, Russia took bronze as last year and Switzerland ...

[Live from 19:05 CET] Switzerland and Denmark are the two big favourites in today’s Sprint Relay in the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland. Switzerland  won the first ever WOC gold medal in Sprint Relay in Trento, Italy last year after a tight fight with Denmark. The decision last year happened on ...

Two times wrong routechoice for Yannick Michiels – still clear heat winner. Big mistake for Lena Eliasson. Unstable race by Nadiya Volynska and Hanny Allston – both with high speed. Below is a quick look at some of the legs from the sprint qualified at the World Championships 2015 in ...

Yannick Michiels (Belgium) impressed with a 17 second win in Men’s Heat 1 – Kris Jones (Great Britain), and Jerker Lysell (Sweden)/Mårten Boström (Finland) won the two other heats in the men’s class.  In the women’s class Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) showed that her injury does not bother her much – ...

[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 ...

[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, ...