Orienteering News

Double for Sweden: Tove Alexandersson (SWE) won the women’s class 3:29 ahead of Kamilla Olaussen (NOR) with Karolin Ohlsson (SWE) in 3rd at 4:41. Gustav Bergman (SWE) won the men’s class 35 seconds ahead of Olav Lundanes (NOR) with Matthias Kyburz (SUI) in 3rd at 3:34.  The World Cup races in ...

[LIVE speaker/results/GPS from Long Friday August 31st at 09:30 CET, Prologue Saturday 09:00 CET. LIVE webTV from Chasing-start Saturday 17:00 CET, Relay Sunday 09:15 CET] The 3rd World Cup round of 2018 is the Pre-WOC in the Norwegian Østfold-region – a perfect way for the athletes to prepare for the ...

Here we study all the details of one of the most important orienteering races of the year: The World Orienteering Championships Long distance. Some of the questions we attempt to answer: Why did Lundanes win ahead of Glibov and Hertner, which legs where decisive, which routes where the best, and why. ...

Read on for a leg-by-leg analysis of the Women’s WOC 2018 Long. A nice course with several interesting routechoice legs was offered. As usual, execution of the route was often more important than the choice of route, but compared to many earlier championships the actual choice of route was crucial ...

[Article updated with GPS-illustrations] Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2018 Long distance after exciting races on interesting courses. The courses offered several interesting, longer routechoice legs – and also some intricate orienteering in the dense forest with low visibility. Both Lundanes and ...

A great course at #WOC2018 Long with many routechoice legs – even making the choices behind the computer is stressful. The WOC 2018 Long distance has just started, with GPS-tracking live via IOF Live center. Here we take a look at the course ahead of the race. Before you read ...

[First start #WOC2018 Long 10:14 CET. Last Woman starts 12:30. Women decision 13:50. Last Man starts 15:10. Men decision 16:50] Get ready for a long and exciting day following the classic discipline of orienteering – the Long distance – the race for real men and real women. The men head out ...

What a thriller of a relay with 8 teams with the chance to win with 10-15 minutes left to run! The course offered both tricky orienteering, varied difficulty, decisive forking and some interesting routechoices.  Here we take a look at the GPS-data and the split-times to understand how: Norway managed ...

Switzerland won the women’s relay and Norway the men’s after two very exciting races. The terrain offered very interesting orienteering were many top teams struggled both with mistakes on controls and routechoice misses. In the women’s race Switzerland and Sweden ran head to head through the last leg, with two ...

[Including team setups] Can Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson get back her self confidence after the big mistakes on the Middle and take Sweden to Gold on the last leg? Can Norway’s men take the third WOC Relay gold medal in a row? Or can Switzerland win the men’s relay after a very ...