Orienteering News

[Updated with some analysis and splits graphs] Maja Alm (DEN) and Daniel Hubmann (SUI) took the victories in the WOC 2018 Sprint (#WOC2018) after very tight races where we saw some decisive routechoices in the narrow streets of Riga, with lots of added artificial fences. The silver and bronze medals ...

[Qual from 08:00 CET – Final from 13:50 CET – #WOC2018] Daniel Hubmann (SUI), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Maja Alm (DEN) are the biggest favourites on the individual Sprint which opens the World Orienteering Championships in Riga, Latvia – but the race is open with 10-15 runners or ...

The World Orienteering Championships 2018 (#WOC2018) starts on Saturday August 4th at 08:00 CET (09:00 local time) with sprint qualification in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The first medals are fought for in the Sprint final the same day from (from 13:50 CET) and the Sprint Relay Sunday afternoon (from 15:50 CET).  After a rest day on Monday, ...

Labyrinth of green and yellow: Jesper Svensk (Sweden) mastered the technical challenges best and won the men’s race while Csilla Gardonyi (Hungary) won the women’s race in the last individual race of the Junior World Orienteering championships 2018 in Hungary. The runners met extremely challenging orienteering – with fast yellow areas interspersed ...

JWOC Sprint brought a surprise win for Germany’s Colin Kolbe in the men’s class and a favourite win by Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the women’s class. Kolbe took Germany’s first victory in the Junior World Orienteering championships in 27 years – on a course which was described as very technical with ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Simona Aebersold (SUI) won the Junior World Orienteering Championships long distance in Hungary today. Both winners had clear margins – Fosser was more than 4 minutes faster than Mathieu Perrin (France) with Daniel Vandas (CZE) another minute down. Aebersold’s winning margin down to Hungary’s Zsofia Sarkozy ...

[LIVE from Monday July 9th 10:00 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2018 (#JWOC2018) starts with Long on Monday July 9th, continues with Sprint on Tuesday, Middle Qual on Thursday, Middle Final on Friday and Relay on Sunday. The championship is organized around Kecskemét, Hungary – and will offer GPS-tracking, online internet results and live ...

Oleksandr Kratov took Koovee from a 12th place at +5:46 to a 1:18 lead on the 4th leg – beating IFK Göteborg’s runner with 7 minutes. Kenny Kivikas increase the lead to more than 3 minutes on the 5th leg – and Lauri Sild managed to keep a big enough lead ...

Stora Tuna wins the 2018 Venla relay ahead of Göteborg Majorna and MS Parma after a very strong last leg by Tove Alexandersson. Alexandersson was nearly 5 minutes faster than her competitors on the last leg – catching 3 minutes on the leaders already halfways and from there only speeding ...

Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world – starts Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the ...