Orienteering News

Switzerland won the World Cup Sprint Relay which was organized in Prague, Czech Republic as part of the 2018 World Cup Final. Sweden had a very good start of the relay, and after two legs Sweden seemed to be on the way to victory with a 31 second lead down ...

From Friday October 5th until Sunday October 7th Europe’s best juniors will compete at the Junior European Cup (JEC) in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. The races start with a Sprint Relay on Friday and continue with Middle distance on Saturday and a Long distance carried out a on Sunday. For the first time in ...

Vojtech Kral (Czech Republic) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) won the Knock-Out Sprint which was the first of four races in the World Cup Final Orienteering 2018 in Czech Republic.  We saw tight races already from the qualification in the morning, with two of the runners battling for the overall World ...

Kyburz, Leandersson, Kvaal Østerbø, Michiels, Glibov, D Hubmann won the men’s Quarter-finals and Strand, Hauswirth, Wyder, Ohlsson, Ruch and Närhi  won the women’s Quarter-finals in today’s World Cup in Knock-Out Sprint in Prague, Czech Republic. Most of the favourites made it to the semi-finals. Notably both Natalia Gemperle (RUS) and ...

The overall orienteering World Cup will be decided a sprint-dominated long weekend in Czech Republic from Thursday October 4th until Sunday October 7th. The World Cup final weekend consists of a Knock-out sprint event on Thursday, a Sprint Relay on Friday, a Middle distance on Saturday and a regular Sprint race on ...

[LIVE Friday September 20th – Sunday September 22nd] Around 130 national team runners are ready for Euromeeting  – offering three days of intensive sprint orienteering, featuring the same full program as the first sprint WOC which is organized in the same area in Denmark in 2020. That means Knock-Out Sprint, Sprint ...

Sweden’s women and Norway’s men won tight battles on tricky courses at the pre-WOC/World Cup relay in Østfold, Norway this Sunday. For many runners this was the fourth race in three days this weekend – starting with a tough (a little bit shortened) long distance on Friday, continuing with an ...

Tove Alexandersson and William Lind continued the Swedish dominance with another double for Sweden in today’s chasing start. A new chasing start concept was tested in the orienteering World Cup today. The concept consists of a prologue in the morning (short middle distance), followed by a chasing start in the afternoon (long ...

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 ...