Orienteering News

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships starts with the sprint distance at 14.45. The last runner, Matthias Müller, starts at 17.28. It has often been said that it is more difficult to win the Nordic Champs than the World Championships, as all the Nordic countries can have up to 10 runners ...

For all of you going to Tiomila this weekend: At http://mob.worldofo.com you can access “World of O” from your mobile phone, giving you the latest 6 news items at World of O. Each file is only about 6 Kb. To get only pages from Sweden (including news from the 10Mila ...

Macr-o orienteering is a further development of the micr-o concept, a concept originally developed mainly to market orienteering as a better TV sport. Macr-o is however something very different from micr-o. The motivation here is not mainly to promote orienteering as a TV sport, but rather macr-o is brought forward ...

Saturday there were Finnish NOC tests long distance (won by Petteri Muukkonen and Minna Kauppi), Elitserien in Sweden (won by David Andersson and Simone Niggli-Luder), as well as Danish NOC tests long distance (same venue as Elitserien in Sweden – won by Chris Terkelsen and Signe Søes). Parallel to Elitserien ...

This weekend there are Finnish testruns for the Open Nordic Champs. In the sprint on Friday, victories went to Tuomas Tervo and Minna Kauppi. Read more: SuunnistusNet (Finnish) Kim Fagerudd (Swedish) Map + course sprint men, from Kim Fagerudd Results

The new norwegian TV channel TV2 SPORT today announced that they will transmit 10Mila live. – 10 hours, 10 orienteers on every team, is the message from the big boss in the sport department of TV2 – Bjørn Taalesen. – When we get a separate TV channel for sport, there ...

There is an interesting discussion going on over at Attackpoint regarding the future of punching in orienteering. [As you might have noticed, you now get to see the latest messages in several of the most important orienteering forums here at World of O (just scroll down to the day before ...

Videos are getting more and more used within the orienteering sport as part of invitations, race reports, race analysis or just for fun. The number of orienteering videos at YouTube and other online Video Hosting sites is growing every day – a YouTube search for “Orienteering” at YouTube now gives ...

Close to all WRE competitions in Foot-orienteering are now entered into WoO Calendar – but quite a few of them are not entered with position. With YOUR help, all of these events can be positioned! This will make it easier for people to consider which WRE competitions to attend to, ...

Today the impressive winner maps in the Catching Features Map contest have been announced – and it looks like this map contest has been another step forward in making the orienteering simulator (or game – choose the one most appropriate for you) Catching Features (CF) even more realistic. Using the ...