Orienteering News

The World Orienteering Championships start Sunday morning 09:00 CET with Sprint qualification. Impressive coverage with live video, GPS-tracking and live results for the championships is promised by the organizers (somewhat less coverage for qualifications than for finals, though). The first WOC final where medals are awarded starts already Sunday from ...

The terrain from the Japan WOC selection races – held in Japan in April – does not at all look like the terrain the Japanese runners will meet in Trondheim in August. It is, however, not easy to find terrain in Japan which has much resemblance with the Trondheim marshes… ...

The Czech trainer Radek Novotny has gotten impressive results out of his team the last years – can they continue the same way in the Nordic terrain in Trondheim? The Czech Team had their selection races in parallel with the Nordic Orienteering Tour – skipping the NORT altogether in order ...

Updated: Victories for Lundanes and Hausken! Anders Nordberg, Francois Gonon, Anne Margrethe Hausken, Audun Weltzien, Helena Jansson and a lot of other top runners choose Fjord-o Nordvestgaloppen as part of their preparation for the World Orienteering Champs in Trondheim the second week of August. In the series “Road to WOC” ...

We are now ready for the last event in this years Junior World Championships in Denmark – the relay. The start is 10:00 CET for the women and 11:00 CET for the men. The internet coverage should be good in the relay area, and we therefore expect to have intermediate ...

Victories went to Gaute Hallan Steiwer (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) in today’s JWOC Middle distance in Denmark. Sweden took four of six medals – silver by Jonas Landersson, bronze by Olle Boström and silver by Lilian Forsgren. Sarina Jenzer (Switzerland) took the bronze in the womens class. The race ...

Get ready for the last individual discipline of this Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark – the middle distance with the A-finals starting from 11:00 CET. Expect a lot of short legs with tricky orienteering as in the qualification – and probably also at least one longer leg with some ...

The middle distance is the only JWOC discipline which has a qualification race – with more than 150 men on the start line there will be a fight to get to the finals. The first start is at 10:00 CET – and with 3 heats and 158 runners the last ...

Victories went to Pavel Kubat (Czech Republic) and Ida Bobach (Denmark) in today’s JWOC Long distance in Denmark. Sweden took silver medals in both categories – Johan Runesson among the men and Therese Klintberg among the women. The race development was very exciting – especially in the mens class were ...

One of the favorites Gustav Bergman heads out already at 10:00 CET – 2:30 later Manuel Horta starts into the course as the last starter. Thus a long wait for Bergman after he finishes his race in JWOC Sprint – a tough race to win with more than 150 runners ...