Orienteering News

Simone Niggli had an incredible start of her race – winning the 6 first legs and building up a one minute lead to Annika Billstam. Minna Kauppi on the other hand had a bad start of the race – loosing nearly two minutes to Niggli. Below a short analysis of ...

A lot of route choice options on today’s WOC Long distance – thus a lot of interesting material for GPS & Splits analysis. For now here is the raw material – this article will be updated with further analysis later on. The overall conclusion is that there are not that ...

Simone Niggli took her 19th WOC gold medal in a tough long distance race today. The Swiss superstar of orienteering came back after her middle distance “disaster” on Tuesday where she orienteered to the wrong control. Niggli was in the lead from the start until the finish – even a ...

An incredible race by Olav Lundanes – winning the WOC Long distance nearly 3 minutes ahead of Swiss Matthias Merz. The Norwegian runner was fastest all the way from the start until the finish. Both his speed and his technical performance was one step ahead of the competitors. With this ...

Today’s long distance is a tough race with a lot of route choice option. Use these webroutes to draw YOUR choice on this tough race! Map men (with GPS tracking) Map women (with GPS tracking) Webroutes for most of the interesting legs Women 2-3: http://maps.worldofo.com/webroute/?id=498 Women 3-4:http://maps.worldofo.com/webroute/?id=499 Women 5-6: http://maps.worldofo.com/webroute/?id=500 ...

Probable outcome: Removal of WOC Qualification races seems very probable as all suggested programs are without qualification.  A split WOC – Forest and Urban alternating years – is one possible scenario – but as of now it is difficult to know if this has enough support among the member federations. ...

Live from 11:31 CET! None of the Top 6 men from WOC Long 2011 are on the start in today’s WOC long distance. Actually only 2 of the best 10 from last year are on the start – and only 4 of the best 10 women from 2011 are on ...

This is your chance to get a feel for how the athletes experienced the WOC Middle Final. This HeadCam video takes you through the women course – synchronized with the map. The complete video (including some embarrassing mistakes) can be seen synchronized with map in 3DRerun. Alternatively you can see the ...

Minna Kauppi with third WOC middle gold after great race! With maps, results and autOanalysis! Minna Kauppi (Finland) took the gold medal in today’s WOC middle distance after the big favourite Simone Niggli orienteered to the wrong control. But even with a perfect race by Niggli, Kauppi would have been ...

Bertuks against all odds! With Maps and Results and autOanalysis! – My goal was to improve my personal best – a 9th place, Edgars Bertuks  said after his surprising gold medal in WOC middle distance. The Latvian runner introduced himself to the orienteering world by winning the first leg in the ...