Orienteering News

Q: Do you ever think of going back to using compass? Ikonen: I don’t think so. Going back in this issue would be… yeah, bad development. Ikonen – who took silver at this years World Champs long distance in France – 10 years after his previous individual WOC medal – ...

The strongest moments occur just the second when an athlete understands that he reached his big goal – after countless hours of training. Experiencing the World Champs close to the action was fantastic as always – here are some of the top WOC 2011 moments in pictures as seen from ...

– I said before this World Championships that if I would get only one gold medal, it would be the relay, an extremely happy Thierry Gueorgiou said after securing the gold medal for France in todays WOC relay. This was the fourth time in a row that Gueorgiou has been ...

Minna Kauppi secured the gold medal for Finland after a thriller of a relay! The lead changed a countless number of times during the last leg. At some point it looked like Marianne Andersen had the gold in her pocket for Norway. Estonia was also up there at some time ...

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 ...