Orienteering News

Sweden’s women took a clear victory, 2:33 ahead of Switzerland with Norway more than 7 minutes down. Read on for GPS-illustrations and splitsbrowser illustrations of the women’s WOC 2021 Relay. The central parts of the WOC 2021 relay is already covered in the Maps, Results and GPS-animations article. This article is a collection ...

Sweden won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Relay in both the men’s and women’s class in very interesting and technical terrain in Czech Republic earlier today. In the women’s class Sweden (Lisa Risby, Sara Hagström, Tove Alexandersson) took a clear victory, 2:33 ahead of Switzerland (Elena Roos, Sabine Hauswirth, Simona ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) women’s relay starts at 16:20 CET, the men’s at 18:25 CET. Sweden is reigning champions in both the women’s and men’s class, and have won 4 of 5 gold medals in this championship so far. Can Sweden continue their success with another double? Follow the race live: ...

Tove Alexandersson again had the speed to win a clear victory even with mistakes at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Middle distance – but behind the Swede there was a tight battle for the medals. Read on to see GPS-tracks and split times for all legs throughout the course for ...

Consistency was the key to win a medal in the tricky Czech terrain of World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Middle distance. All runners did mistakes – but Matthias Kyburz made less mistakes than the others, and in addition had a physical edge in the last part of the race. Read ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) took the victories in the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle distance in Czech Republic today. Silver and bronze went to Gustav Bergman (Sweden) and Ruslan Glibov (Ukraine) in the men’s class and Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the women’s class. ...

Route choices were decisive in this very interesting Sprint Relay in Doksy, Czech Republic – the second race of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021. In mostly flat terrain, which looked straightforward on paper, course setter Radek Novotny had made some very interesting challenges for the runners.  As reported in ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle starts with a qualifier in the morning (09:00 CET) and continues later in the day with finals from 15:50 16:04 CET (Men) and 17:15 17:33 CET (Women). The Middle is the most open of all the races in the championships, especially in the men’s class with ...

  Sweden won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint Relay for the third time in a row after a fantastic start by Tove Alexandersson. The Swedish team ran an excellent relay alone in the lead, increasing the speed leg by leg with Emil Svensk and Gustav Bergman increasing the lead ...

The WOC Sprint Relay starts Sunday at 18:10 CET – and should be one of the highlights of the championships from a viewer’s viewpoint. The two big favourites are Sweden and Switzerland – with the battle for bronze being very open. The Sprint Relay is organized in the town centre ...