Orienteering News

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships continues with the relay with the first start at 10.00. There will be online tracking available at TracTrac.dk (according to the TracTrac page). With no relays in the Orienteering World Cup anymore, the relay in the Nordic Orienteering Champs is the only fight left between ...

Simone Niggli lost nearly 3 minutes at the 9th of 14 controls – after being in the lead at control number 8 with nearly a minute. This was because she did not see the 9th control at the map, as it was exactly between the 8th and 10th control on ...

Victories for Matthias MerzMatthias Merz (Switzerland) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) in todays sprint in the Nordic Orienteering Championships at Bornholm, Denmark. Home favorite Søren Bobach took the Gold medal in the mens junior class, whereas Siri Ulvestad (Norway) won gold in the womens junior class. Below you find the six ...

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 ...