Orienteering News

Very popular victories to Carl Waaler Kaas (NOR) and Minna Kauppi (FIN) in today’s middle distance at the World Champs in Trondheim.  While Kauppi had a clear victory, the mens class was tight all the way until the end – Kaas finishing only a few seconds ahead of Peter Öberg. ...

The middle distance starts at 12:40 CET – with the winner in the mens class in the finish around 16:20 CET. Again the excellent live services including live GPS tracking, video streaming and Live Blog will make this a very interesting day for all orienteering lovers. The two big favorites ...

With a GPS on all runners, it is now possible to analyze how the runners interact in the forest – also inbetween the controls. The World Champs in Trondheim is the last(?) WOC Long distance with 2 minute start interval (that is, at least for a while, due to an ...

Double Norway with gold for Olav Lundanes and silver for Anders Nordberg. A very disappointed Thierry Gueorgiou (FRA) took the bronze and is very hungry for showing his strength on the middle distance on Saturday. Francois Gonon (FRA) came 27 seconds too late for the bronze medal in 4th. The ...

Gold for Simone Niggli ahead of Marianne Andersen in the WOC Long distance in Trondheim, Norway today. The bronze went to Emma Claesson after an impressive last half of the course. This was Simone Niggli’s 17th WOC gold medal for Simone Niggli – that is a hard one to beat! ...

The long distance starts at 13:00 CET – with the winner in the mens class in the finish around 18:00 CET. Thus it will be a long day for the spectators both at the venue in Granåsen, Trondheim – and the ones following the race in the Internet. Excellent live ...

Pictures for you to use on the Internet from all qualification races and the sprint final are now sorted by runner and country – and are available at the team pages. As long as the source is given as WorldofO.com along with a link back to WorldofO.com, you may use ...

Starttimes for WOC Middle Qual sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2010 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification which starts today from 14:00 CET. Important links and information The LiveBlog from the WOC Middle is ...

Pictures of almost all starters from the WOC Sprint qualification and final are now available at the World of O Runner profiles – and at the WOC 2010 Team picture page – a feature which became very popular at last years WOC. In addition, the World of O Ranking has ...

Another double for Switzerland with gold for Matthias Müller and Simone Niggli. Get the statements from the runners, the maps and the results here. For Niggli it was yet another gold medal – the 16th in the row – for Müller it was the first WOC gold medal. The biggest ...