Orienteering News

– The course really used the tough Estonian terrain to create a challenging race that kept me on my toes and adapting my technique the whole time, Emily Kemp explains about the course which she has chosen as the finest orienteering course of the year in the 2017 season. Read on ...

The course Elena Roos chooses as her absolute favourite this year is one of the toughest races this year – a course which featured hard battles with the forest nearly from start to finish: The World Orienteering Championships Long distance. Read on for a long interview with the new rising Swiss ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2017? The last stage of France 5 won in 2016, the World Champs long distance in Scotland won in 2015 and the World Champs middle distance in Italy won in 2014. Before that we had two years with Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old ...

In a dramatic relay, Sweden’s second team won the World Cup Sprint Relay during the World Cup final in Grindelwald, Switzerland this Sunday. Norway’s first team was closest to the Swedes after leading the relay with nearly half a minute before the last leg. Switzerland’s second team finished third. The ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Cup final middle distance in Grindelwald, Switzerland – both also securing the overall World Cup victory with this win. Kyburz won the men’s race 56 seconds ahead of his teammate Daniel Hubmann with Emil Svensk (Sweden) in third nearly 2 ...

Switzerland was on top in both the men’s and the women’s class in the World Cup final long distance in Grindelwald, Switzerland on Friday. Matthias Kyburz took yet another World Cup victory while Elena Roos took her first World Cup victory. The athletes got very interesting orienteering challenges in steep, ...

The overall orienteering World Cup will be decided in beautiful surroundings in Grindelwald, Switzerland this coming weekend. A Long distance event, a Middle distance event and a Sprint Relay will be organized between Friday September 29th and Sunday October 1st. All three competition areas were never mapped before, so this will ...

Olav Lundanes, Natalia Gemperle, Vojtech Kral and Tove Alexandersson won the individual Middle and Sprint races while Sweden 2 and Switzerland 1 won the forest relays at the World Cup round in Latvia. With next years’ World Championships (WOC) being organized in Latvia, this World Cup round can be counted as ...

[LIVE Friday from 09:00 CET, Saturday 09:00 CET, Sunday 15:00 CET] The 3rd round in the 2017 Orienteering World Cup is organized in Cesis, Latvia this weekend with a Middle distance Friday August 25th, a Relay on Saturday and a Sprint on Sunday. With next year’s World Orienteering Championships organized in ...

[With race development graphs] Jerker Lysell (SWE) and Maja Alm (DEN) won the Sprint, Matthias Kyburz (SUI) and Helena Jansson (SWE) won the Middle distance and Denmark won the Sprint Relay at World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. Although some of the biggest stars were absent at World Games 2017, the ...