Orienteering News

No big surprises in todays Middle Qualification in the World Orienteering Champs in Miskolc, Hungary. The biggest surprise was maybe that the king of the middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – did not win the middle distance qualification – a first since 2001! For the athletes, it was good to ...

Starttimes for WOC Qual Middle sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2009 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification. Important facts 15 runners will go to the final from each qualification heat in both mens and ...

Fly through the areas where the World Orienteering Champs will be decided the coming week – and see what kind of hilly challenges the best orienteers will face! Below a video from Google Earth is embedded which includes old maps of embargoed areas and traning areas – and you can ...

Who is in the WOC Team for my country? Where can I see the GPS tracking? When is the Long Final? WOC 2009 starts in Miskolc, Hungary with the Long distance Qualification the coming Sunday August 16th at 10:00 CET. Here you find all the information you need – including ...

Live radio controls, finish times, and some live comments are promised from the MTB WOC in Israel which start off Monday 10/8 at 08:30 CET with Qualification Long. The map above is the old map for the long qualification – see MTB WOC 2009 webpage for more old maps. This ...

[Updated with Long and Relay maps] Antti Nurmonen (FIN), Heinni Wennman (FIN), Johan Bäckman (FIN) and Charlotte Bouchet (FRA) and the Swiss Relay Teams took the gold medals in Euromeeting which was organized as a part of the Swiss 6 Days this weekend. See also in-depth articles about Euromeeting at ...

The English translation through Google of an interview with Thierry Gueorgiou in the French magazine Forez is absolutely worth a read. Focus is a bit different than in the “usual” interviews in orienteering magazines. For example, – “We must learn to see the field in 3D. It is not clear ...

These days many orienteers are deciding where to go for orienteering holidays next year – and it is thus time for race organizers and other interested to add their events to the World of O Calendar. The World of O Calendar is the first place many go searching for this ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder are still on top of the World of O Ranking after the World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine. Excellent WOC performance has though brought Minna Kauppi and Heli Jukkola a lot closer to Niggli-Luder in the womens class – and in the World of O Ranking ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder are still on top of the World of O Ranking after the first two WOC finals – long and middle. Excellent WOC performance with one gold and one silver has though brought Heli Jukkola a lot closer to Niggli-Luder in the womens class – and ...