Orienteering News

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel to Australia to a leg featured at the second day of Australia 3 Days 2021 last easter. The competitors were challenged physically, technically, and mentally by some of the best granite terrain and – according to the organizers – one of Australia’s best granite ...

Ready for some pre-Christmas fun? Today we start the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O with an interesting route choice leg from the World Cup Final Middle distance in Italy this autumn.  Today’s leg is set in very intricate karst terrain – the ground being quite stony and ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) were yet again on top of the results lists at today’s Middle distance World Cup race in Italy which finished of the 2021 Orienteering World Cup. Both also took the overall World Cup victory thanks to today’s victory. In the men’s class Fosser dominated just ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) were yet again in another league than the other runners at the Long distance race of the World Cup final in Cansiglio, Italy today. Both had  a winning margin with more than 5:30 down to the second place – and both had Swiss ...

After exciting competitions in Idre in August, the Orienteering World Cup continues in another type of very interesting mountainous terrain in Italian Cansiglio with a long distance on Thursday (September 30th), a middle distance on Saturday and a Sprint Relay on Sunday. This is the third and last round of the 2021 World Cup ...

Finally a big orienteering relay again! Although this year’s Jukola organized in Lapland will not beat the 2019 record of 21.500 registered competitors due to the pandemic, Jukola will also this year be a gigantic relay with more than 12.000 registered competitors, divided onto 1200 teams in the men’s relay and 1000 ...

The tricky Idre mountain terrain gave another set of very exciting competitions when World Cup relays were decided today. The Swedish runners dominated the race, with victories in both the men’s and women’s class, and several teams battling for the victory throughout the relay in both the men’s and women’s ...

Tricky orienteering with lots of mistakes from the top ranked runners led to a very interesting middle distance World Cup race in Idre Fjäll this rainy Saturday. We got surprise victories in both the women’s and men’s race – with junior Hanna Lundberg (Sweden) winning the women’s race from start ...

Sweden’s Idre Fjäll delivered as promised: Tough, tricky and interesting long distance orienteering in a fantastic area for orienteering just below the tree line. The young couple Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) handled the tough conditions best – and both took their first individual World Cup victories.  In ...

The Orienteering World Cup continues in interesting mountain terrain in Swedish Idre Fjäll with a long distance on Thursday (August 12th), a middle distance on Saturday and a relay on Sunday. This is the second round of the 2021 World Cup after the European Championships in May, as the World ...