Orienteering News

Gueorgiou was the only one who managed to keep up both orienteering technique and speed all the way through the WOC middle distance.  In this article I take a look at the GPS data of the top runners from the WOC Middle distance final. In the GPS analysis, I use ...

– Don’t look for success, only a race without mistakes, Thierry had written on the note in his control description holder for the last preparations. And that is just what he went out and did. The note continues with “Enjoy: You versus You” and “It is for you, 110%”. And ...

2200 photos from all races so far sorted by runner and/or country are now available in runners.worldofo.com. All photos are free to use on the Internet as long as you link to WorldofO.com AND the runner profile where you found the picture. In addition team results by country have been ...

Sweden tops the medal overview with 3xgold, 3xsilver and 2xbronze ahead of France with 2xgold and 1xbronze, Switzerland with 1xgold and 1xbronze. In fourth we have Finland, Denmark and Czech Republic – all with 1 silver – and finally Norway with 1 bronze medal. Below you find all results of ...

The WOC relay is the last WOC event – and if it lives up to the drama of the last years, it will be the highlight of the championships. The start in the womens class is at 13:15 CET – in the mens class at 15:15 CET. Startlist relay (from ...

Another HeadCam video – this time from the WOC Middle Final synchronized with GPS data in 3DRerun. Note that the quality is not the best as the bandwidth was too low to upload it all – but it should be good enough to get some experience of how it was ...

See how the WOC Middle distance was decided from this step by step comparison between Gueorgiou and Öberg using autOanalysis on the GPS-data. Öberg is nearly as fast in the start, but gets tired and can not keep up the orienteering all the way to the finish. In the autOanalysis ...

– It was a lot easier than what we have trained for, Thierry Gueorgiou commented after crushing everybody in todays WOC middle distance. – I nearly felt disappointed when I realized that the visibility was quite good, as I have felt weak physically yesterday after the long distance. I really ...

Finally the routechoice analysis for WOC Long Men is up! There were not many long and decisive routechoices in the WOC Long distance for men this year were top runners choose different routes – from an orienteering point of view it was more of an orienteering technical challenge. And of ...

Experience the tricky first 6 controls of the WOC long distance course for the men using a HeadCam video syncronized with GPS and map. The synchronization is done in 3DRerun with the HeadCam/GPS synchronization feature. You can click anywhere on the map with the left mouse button while holding down ...