Orienteering News

After silver on yesterdays sprint, Olav Lundanes won a magnificent gold medal on today’s long distance at the Junior World Championships in Dubbo, Australia. Lundanes goal for the JWOC this year was a medal on all distances – and with one gold and one silver after two of four distances, ...

Below you see pictures of the four best men and two best women in todays JWOC Sprint in the Dubbo Zoo. Congratulations to all these fine runners! Pictures: Rob Preston. From the top left: Sarka SVOBODNA (Silver, women – the left runner in the picture), Eva SVENSSON (Gold, women), Ivan ...

The start list for the JWOC sprint is available at the JWOC homepage – and we can also show some pictures from the model event earlier today. In the mens class, the three favorites named in the previous posting – Søren Bobach, Mikael Kristensson and Olav Lundanes start at 11:05, ...

The night between the coming Saturday and Sunday – at 01:30 CET (09:30 in the morning local Dubbo time) the sprint distance starts the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Dubbo, Australia. Two and a half hours later, at 04:00 CET, the two first Junior World Champions in the 2007 Championships ...

Press release, WOC 2007: The newly released Bulletin 3 gives the athletes and other some more information about how the WOC-races will be. And the longdistance will create a historic moment with the longest WOC-courses ever for both men and women. The men will fight on a course of 18,1 ...

All four courses from World Cup round 2 in Bykle, Norway (both A and B-finals), are now available in Routegadget. The B-final courses where by some test-runners said to be better and more interesting than the A-final courses, as they did not have to pass the finish area. Now you ...

Above you see the mens course from the World Cup in Bykle, Norway – including the route choice of Thierry Gueorgiou. Gueorgiou did a very good race – making only some minor errors in the end.

The two absolute world number one runners – Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder – were again the best here at the second World Cup round in Bykle, Norway. They both had fantastic runs – and got very clear victories. Results (unofficial)

Fabien Pasquasy and Becky Carlyle are the first man and woman to head into the forest at this second World Cup race of the year here in the beautiful Norwegian mountains at Bykle/Hovden. Everything is set for a very interesting middle distance race, with most of the absolute world elite ...

Kalevan Rasti with Thierry Gueorgiou went out in the lead about 1 minute before Halden’s Mats Haldin on the last leg of this years Jukola relay – and everything looked like this would be another Jukola thriller. However, Gueorgiou and Haldin decided the race already at the very start of ...