Orienteering News

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long distance. Both Alexandersson had large winning margins of around 3 minutes – and both were the big favourites of the day. Women: Alexandersson with all gold medals In the women’s class Alexandersson took all gold medals ...

  With quarantine closing a few hours ahead of the TV-broadcast, there has been time to study the WOC 2021 Long course in depth. In this post we take a look at the important legs – this should be a nice companion for the TV broadcast. Focus is on the women’s ...

This will be tough! 1050 meter climb. 13.6 km. 99 minutes of running for the men. And 690 – 9.5 – for the women. The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long is the last competition in a tough championship, were some of the biggest favourites on the long distance have been competing in ...

  Sweden won the men’s WOC 2021 Relay 51 seconds ahead of Norway with Switzerland 2 minutes behind. Read on for GPS-illustrations and splitsbrowser illustrations of the women’s WOC 2021 Relay. The central parts of the WOC 2021 relay is already covered in the Maps, Results and GPS-animations article. This article is a collection ...

Sweden’s women took a clear victory, 2:33 ahead of Switzerland with Norway more than 7 minutes down. Read on for GPS-illustrations and splitsbrowser illustrations of the women’s WOC 2021 Relay. The central parts of the WOC 2021 relay is already covered in the Maps, Results and GPS-animations article. This article is a collection ...

Sweden won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Relay in both the men’s and women’s class in very interesting and technical terrain in Czech Republic earlier today. In the women’s class Sweden (Lisa Risby, Sara Hagström, Tove Alexandersson) took a clear victory, 2:33 ahead of Switzerland (Elena Roos, Sabine Hauswirth, Simona ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) women’s relay starts at 16:20 CET, the men’s at 18:25 CET. Sweden is reigning champions in both the women’s and men’s class, and have won 4 of 5 gold medals in this championship so far. Can Sweden continue their success with another double? Follow the race live: ...

Tove Alexandersson again had the speed to win a clear victory even with mistakes at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Middle distance – but behind the Swede there was a tight battle for the medals. Read on to see GPS-tracks and split times for all legs throughout the course for ...

Consistency was the key to win a medal in the tricky Czech terrain of World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Middle distance. All runners did mistakes – but Matthias Kyburz made less mistakes than the others, and in addition had a physical edge in the last part of the race. Read ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) took the victories in the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle distance in Czech Republic today. Silver and bronze went to Gustav Bergman (Sweden) and Ruslan Glibov (Ukraine) in the men’s class and Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the women’s class. ...