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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 ...

[Updated with more maps/courses] Finland won the overall team competition at this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) ahead of Czech Republic and Hungary. Finland won two individual gold medals and two relay gold medals. Both home nation Poland and France won two gold medals.  EYOC is the step before the ...

Long distance Friday, Relay Saturday, Sprint Sunday. This is the program for this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) which is organized in Poland this weekend from Friday July 1st until Sunday July 3rd. Nearly 400 athletes from 33 countries will be on the start line this weekend. EYOC is ...

Mikhail Vinogradov – the coach and husband of bronze medalist Galina Vinogradova from the European Championships Sprint, has made an analysis of the course from the sprint final from Sunday. Vinogradov has high focus on analytical analysis of sprint races in order to help Vinogradova to get all the way ...

Martin Regborn (Sweden), Gustav Bergman (Sweden), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Judith Wyder (Switzerland), Elena Roos (Switzerland) and Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) won the qualification heats in today’s European Championships Sprint Qualification. The A-Finals start from 16:00 CET. See more information about how to follow the race live here. Good qualifier, really looking ...

OK Pan Århus won the women’s relay at 10Mila 2016 after a tight finish between OK Pan Århus’s Maja Alm and Nydalen SK’s Anne Margrethe Hausken. Södertälje-Nykvarn (SNO) won an equally tight finish in the men’s class – Jonas Leandersson deciding on the very last meters in the run-in against last ...

Switzerland won the World Cup Sprint relay ahead of Sweden with reigning World Champion Denmark in third place. Switzerland’s Judith Wyder – yesterday’s winner – started best on the first leg and took Switzerland to a 3 second lead ahead of Russia’s Natalia Vinogradova. Sweden’s Lina Strand was 8 seconds ...

The news-part of WorldofO.com – news.worldofo.com – has moved to a new server due to some instability the last days with the current hosting company. Sorry for the inconvenience – everything should be up is up and running a lot smoother than ever within the end of the day. During the transition to ...

[Results updated – Ridefelt now in third] Helena Jansson (Sweden) and Olav Lundanes (Norway) were strongest when the World Cup started with a middle distance in Poland earlier today. Sweden and Norway had a strong day – taking 5 out of 6 podium places. Note that the results were updated ...

The Czech Team for the European Orienteering Championships on homeground has been selected. World Champion from the World Championships on homeground in 2008, Dana Safka Brozkova, is heading the strong team – being best among the women in the selection races. The Czech selection races for the forest disciplines in EOC 2016 ...