Orienteering News

A week full of pictures! More than 13.000 photos – of which the 3.500 best have been posted on runners.worldofo.com. Below are some of the highlights from the championships in pictures. Thanks to all WorldofO.com readers for following through a fantastic WOC week here in Lausanne, Switzerland. All pictures are ...

Jan Prochazka decided a very exciting relay for Czech Republic after fighting with Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Anders Holmberg (Sweden) through most of the course. – Olav increased the speed towards the second last control, but then he slowed down and I could pass him, a very happy Prochazka said ...

Simone Niggli ran a fantastic last leg and took the victory for Switzerland in the WOC Relay in Lausanne, Switzerland today! Helena Jansson served Swedish junior Tove Alexandersson a one minute lead out on the last leg, but after a 90 second mistake on the first  control, Niggli was in ...

Live from 11:30 CET! The shortening of the WOC relay the last years has made the WOC relay even more open – with at least 6 potential gold winners in both the mens and the womens class. Switzerland has the possibility to get a dream final of their championship on ...

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. ...