Orienteering News

Live GPS tracking, live web-TV – and even live TV feed from a control on the course is promised for this years Ski WOC in Sweden. The Championships start off with a sprint today – starting from 10:00 CET. The organisers promise good terrain, demanding courses and the new touch ...

The WOC in the future groups suggestions are up: A prologue + chasing start race and a sprint relay is introduced – and all qualifications are removed except for the sprint. – It is proposed that WOC is divided into three blocks, “Sprint”, “Middle” and “Traditional” with a rest day ...

Thierry Gueorgiou scored the 17th highest number of World Ranking points ever at Portugal O-meeting Monday. 1426 points is 90 points off the highest ever – scored at Portugal O-meeting in 2007. Now 4 of the Top 20 WRE scored in the mens class are from Portugal – and 3 ...

Yet another victory for Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli in technical Portuguese terrain! This third day of the Portugal O-meeting was the highlight of the races – a fast paced middle distance race with World Ranking status. 6.1 km in 28:41 means that you have to keep full focus all ...

Middle distance in Portugal O-Meeting – and Thierry Gueorgiou is back on top. Gueorgiou won today’s rocky middle distance race with nearly 1:30 down to Søren Bobach in second spot.  In women elite Simone Niggli took another victory – today ahead of Maja Alm. Today’s terrain was more technical than ...

Portugal O-meeting 2011 (POM 2011)- the biggest of the winter time events in Spain/Portugal in February/March – started Saturday with a long distance race. The race was won by Philippe Adamski and Simone Niggli. The terrain on this first day of POM 2011 was quite fast and not the most ...

Runners choice, The 8-map format and Score-o sections – three different mass start spreading methods with a lot in common have surfaced in the orienteering community lately. I have received several emails about these methods – and some of them have also been discussed in several forums – thus I ...

I am currently working on an iPhone/iPad/Android App for World of O. The basis for this work is a WebApp which can be tested here: Test 1: Main test version World of O for iPhone/iPad/Android. Includes News, Maps and Map archive. Planned to be extended to Calendar and some other ...

Do we currently have a way to make mass start interesting for spectators and TV viewers? Watching the mass start in the European Championships (EOC) in Ski-orienteering on Saturday got me thinking about the topic, as it is well known that there is ongoing work in the “WOC in the ...

– Very good map, with details in the right places. And always great to race in Portugal, were the words of Thierry Gueorgiou after winning the season opening at the I Meeting de Orientação de Gouveia in Portugal today. Gueorgiou won with nearly 2:30 down to reigning World Champion on ...