MiniNews

Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) were strongest at Suunto Games Middle distance in Estonia. Suunto Games is organized in the area of next year’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC), with many of the world’s top ranked runners on the start list.  It was a good day for Sweden in ...

Many of the world’s best orienteers will compete in Estonia at Suunto Games this weekend in preparation for next years’  World Orienteering Championships (WOC). In addition there will be an official WOC 2017 training camp in Estonia this week. Two World Ranking events are organized this weekend – one long ...

[LIVE Results: Sprint Friday 16:50 CET, Relay Saturday 11:50 CET, Long Sunday 10:30 CET] The Junior European Cup (JEC) 2016 is organized in Stirling, Scotland. JEC is an annual event for junior national teams – a good opportunity for the best and second best juniors to compete.  The athletes compete in M/W18 ...

[LIVE GPS-tracking Friday 15:05 CET, Saturday 14:30 CET, Sunday 11:05 CET] Euromeeting starts Friday 23/9 at 14:00 CET with a Middle distance, continues with Long distance on Saturday and finishes off with a Sprint on Sunday. Several top runners choose the high quality Euromeeting races in Latvia to prepare for ...

The World Orienteering Championships is the major orienteering event of the year – an event were everybody expects top map quality, with maps drawn according to the international standards for orienteering maps. There have been some discussions on the map quality for WOC 2016, however.  Was the map quality for the WOC ...

Norway had the best leg time on all three legs – very impressive! That did, of course, give Gold. Switzerland were 2nd, 3rd and 2nd on the three legs. Good, but no good enough. Sweden had a very bad start – but were saved by Bergman (2nd best leg time) & Lind ...

Nearly 1000 pictures from WOC 2016 Sprint & Sprint Relay have been sorted by country & runner and have been posted at WorldofO.com’s Facebook page and at the WorldofO athlete profiles. There is one album for each country in the WorldofO.com’s Facebook page. There were eight countries sharing the 27 medals handed out – ...

Today’s events in the Summer-O 2016 series are the two companion events OOCup 2016 and Bubo Cup 2016. OOCup 2016 was a five day event organized in three(!) different countries; Slovenia, Italy and Austria with nearly 2000 competitors. Bubo Cup  a smaller companion race (around 500 competitors) organized on the island ...

Next week the World Orienteering Championships is organized in Strömstad, Sweden. In connection with the World Championships, there will be held a number of meetings which on different levels are important for the future of the sport. Below a summary of the meetings is given. Except for the IOF General ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Slovak Karst Cup 2016, also called Grand Prix Slovakia 2016.  Slovak Karst Cup is one of the smaller summer orienteering events – but it still offers interesting terrain and orienteering – this type of fast karst terrain is well worth a visit.  None ...