Orienteering News

Baptiste Rollier and Kristin Lövgren took home the second day of Portugal O-Meeting 2012 – a middle distance race. Rollier had two other Swiss runners joining him on the podium – yesterday’s winner Thierry Gueorgiou finished 6th. In the women’s class, Lena Eliasson and Sara Lucher were closest to the ...

Simone Niggli is back – beating the current World Champion on long distance Annika Billstam with 15 small seconds. And Thierry Gueorgiou shows that the competitors will have to fight hard to beat him in 2012 as well. Portugal O-meeting (POM) is the international season opening – with most of ...

Today’s Sunday Route Choice Puzzle is a from a Czech training camp last weekend where they ran a few interesting sprint courses which have since been published along with split times and an analysis of the route-choices by Czech Coach Radek Novotny. Here only one of the legs is provided ...

World of O turns 17 today! The Internet is 20 years old, Google is 14 years old, Facebook is 7 years old. Thus 17 years is quite an age in the Internet world. 17 years ago World of O among other things offered “a slideshow through all o-pages” – that ...

– We are getting close to finishing the update of the IOF standard for information exchange, Mats Troeng – the man behind great orienteering software like QuickRoute, Doma and WinSplits – writes in an email. Now Troeng and the IOF want to have feedback from orienteers on the new standard ...

At yesterday’s joint meeting of the IOF Council and Commissions, the IOF Council announced that the WOC in the future project is dead. – 80% of the federations are happy with the current status, it was said in the meeting according to sources present in the meeting. This is one ...

The future of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) is getting more open after the IOF member federations’ feedback to the suggested WOC program have started being published. Of the responses posted so far, there is not exactly big support behind the WOC program suggested by the IOF. Update 20.01.2012 15:00: ...

Today’s Sunday Route Choice Puzzle is a follow-up to Route to Christmas were more sprint legs were requested. The sprint race “Effretiker OL” was organized in Switzerland today – and as the Swiss federation now has bought GPS-units, there is GPS-tracking available with several top runners. The course has a ...

Download and Print the World of O Wall Calendar today – and you are ready for the 2012 season with pictures of the orienteers behind the greatest orienteering achievements of 2011 along with a practical overview of all important races the coming season: All WOC races, World Cup  races, World ...

Thierry Gueorgiou, Ida Bobach, Ionut Zinca, Helena Jansson, Daniel Hubmann and Tove Alexandersson have all two things in common: They were behind some of the greatest orienteering achievements of 2012 2011 – and they are featured on the World of O Wall Calendar 2012. The World of O Wall Calendar ...