Orienteering News

The US team is not the strongest team at the WOC – and for most runners the main goal is to reach the A-final at one or more distances. The sprint distance is probably the distance for which the changes are highest to manage a Top 30 placement. Results, maps ...

The Israeli team was selected in the middle of May, and consists of 5 runners. Israel’s main goal this year is to get a runner in one of the finals for the first time ever. Results You can see the results from this years Israeli Chamionships here. The race was ...

It is now excactly three weeks until this years World Orienteering Championships starts in Denmark with Middle Distance Qualification at saturday the 29th of july. Most teams have already had their team selections – and in the coming weeks most of the teams will be presented here at World o ...

The WOC team presentations here at World of O start today with Australia. The rising star in the Australian WOC team is Hanny Allston, who just makes some impressive performances in the JWOC in Lithuania, with one gold and one silver thus far. The best male runner in the Australian ...

Route choice analysis from Jukola 2006 is now available through Routegadget, and tracking for 2./4. leg women and 3./5./7. leg men is available through TracTrac. Click here to get to Routegadget from Jukola 2006. Click here to get to tracking from Jukola 2006 at TracTrac. Read complete story »

See this years Jukola map in 3D in Google Earth, and fly through the course of Matthias Merz. A video recording of the flythrough is also included for those of you who do not have Google Earth installed. Unfortunately the satellite map quality and the height information in Google Earth ...

Investigate old Jukola maps close to this years site and fly to the Jukola terrain in Google Earth and see it in 3D with a map overlay which is not an orienteering map, but does nevertheless show some details regarding the area. This is part of my preparations for the ...

Maps with courses from 10 competitions/trainings in Denmark, Finland, Austria, Sweden, France and Norway the last 5 days taken from news-stories here at World of O are to be found in the table below. Enjoy! Danish WOC Training, Denmark Mikkel Lund [Middle distance 1] [Middle distance 2] [Clas … Read ...

NM statistics are now updated, courses from Norwegian Champs ultralong are available at OPN. Splitsbrowser for analysis of the competition is also available. More information will probably be available at the runners personal pages soon. It was a very nice competition in fantastic scenery! You sho … Read complete story ...

Links to maps from many competitions all over the world last weekend are now collected here. I have been going through news stories in World of O from the last day and taken out some interesting maps/courses from different places. Below you find information regarding the competitions and direct … ...