Orienteering News

Thierry Gueorgiou, Martin Johansson, the Secretary General of WOC 2009, Matthias Merz, Simone Niggli and hundreds of orienteers have written their opinion about the WOC 2009 relay. The orienteering community also got the possibility to give their opinion through a poll. Now it is time to wrap it all up ...

The Scary Team with manager Anders Skarholt secured its lead ahead of the final two World Cup races at the World Cup Final in Switzerland in the end of September. The Bushmen Team is still in second spot – now 29 points behind the Scary Team. However, everything is open ...

Double for Switzerland in todays long distance! Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann both won clear victories in todays though long distance in Hungary. Silver medals went to the two other big profiles of this world championships: Marianne Andersen and Thierry Gueorgiou. Simone Niggli is back in the absolute top again ...

The Long distance is the Marathon distance of the World Orienteering Championships. With winning times of 1:40 or more for the men – the runners are completely exhausted when they come to the last part of the course – and thus keeping the concentration all the way to the finish ...

Results and pictures sorted by country have been very popular during this World Championships. Now both results and pictures have been updated for Sprint and Relay – and almost every runners have now been identified and sorted by runner and country, and are published on this page. Feel free to ...

[Updated map links!] Utterly unbelievable last legs seems to be the new standard in WOC relays in the mens class. Switzerland took the Gold in the mens relay and Norway in the womens relay of the WOC 2009 relay – but this race will not be remembered for who took ...

The Scary Team and the Bushmen Team have been fighting for the lead in the World of O Fantasy World Cup for some time now. Bushmen took the lead back after the Middle distance – but now Scary is back on top. Sheffield Steelers – Best in World Cup race ...

For many both runners and spectators the Relay is the climax of the World Orienteering Championships. The 2008 edition of the WOC Relay was one of the most exciting in the orienteering history – especially the mens class. This year the French team is surely ready to get the medal ...

[Maps updated] Andrey Khramov (Russia) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) took the Gold medals in todays WOC Sprint. – It is very nice to win a gold medal every year, a very happy Andrey Khramov said after winning the gold medal in todays WOC Sprint. Big day for Sweden It was ...

Hanny Allston did not make it to the Sprint Final – that was the biggest surprise in todays WOC Sprint Qualification. All the other favourites made it to the final. We also had a few nice surprises: 18 year old Antonio Martinez from Spain made it to the final in ...