Orienteering News

The Swiss men and the Swedish women are the biggest favourites in the WOC sprint – but it is difficult to point out THE big favourite both in the mens and the womens class. Can Kyburz impress the same way he did early this spring? Is the quite flat Chambery ...

Follow the Sprint Qualification from 09:00 CET and the Sprint Final from 15:00 CET. The first gold medals in the World Orienteering Championships 2011 will be awarded in the afternoon in Chambery – in the final you will have all the live services you would want: Live TV, live results, ...

A new HeadCam video from the WOC terrain – this time the complete Middle Qual course for the women. Again you can experience what the World Champs competitors experienced in the tricky French terrains – HeadCam video is synchronized with GPS position- the synchronization is done in 3DRerun with the ...

A new set of pages with picture slide-show of each WOC Team has been set up. Already 1000 pictures from WOC 2011 are in – from the middle qualification and long qualification. Check out the pictures of runners from your favourite team. As always pictures are free to use on ...

Here you find the routes of Öberg, Kauppi, Eliasson, Gueorgiou and the other heat winners for WOC 2011 Middle Qualification and WOC 2011 Long Qualification. Thanks to the WOC organizer for providing maps with routes. We will try to make some simple analysis during Monday – the organizers have the ...

Most of  the favourites managed to continue to the final in today’s middle distance qualification in the World Champs in Savoie, France. The courses were less tricky than expected by some – with a lot of running on tracks. Still there were more competitors from “smaller nations” than usually in ...

Experience exactly what the World Champs competitors experience in the tricky French terrains by watching this HeadCam video synchronized with GPS position fromt the WOC Long distance Qualification. The synchronization is done in 3DRerun with the HeadCam/GPS synchronization feature. You can click anywhere on the map with the left mouse ...

The World Orienteering Championships continues with Middle distance qualification from 14:00 CET today. Follow the event live with LiveBlog, live results and live audio today. There are three qualification heats for both men and women – but the heats are not official until after the start. 15 runners from each ...

WOC team pages and athlete profiles updated with pictures – split times uploaded to WinSplits. Pictures are free to use on the Internet as long as you link back to WorldofO.com AND the runner profile for the runner. WOC 2011 Team page with pictures sorted by country Runner profiles – ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and the other French men set the standard with extremely strong races in the long distance qualification today. Three French heat winners among the men of three possible – Gueorgiou, Philippe Adamski and Francois Gonon. In the womens class Dana Brozkova, Minna Kauppi and Signe Søes won their ...