Orienteering News

Denmark won the World Orienteering Championships Sprint Relay for the second year in a row after a tight battle with Switzerland and Sweden. Cecilie Friberg Klysner, Tue Lassen, Søren Bobach and Maja Alm ran on the winning team. The secret behind the victory: Dedicated focus on the Sprint Relay. On ...

Maja Alm crushed her competitors in the World Championships Sprint in Strömstad – it was in the second part of the course she really accelerated and nobody could follow her. The course did not have many very decisive routechoice legs, but map reading and orienteering skills was still important.  As the analysis will show, ...

The World Championships Sprint courses in Strömstad did not have many very decisive routechoice legs – the way to victory was to run a stable race with good execution – and to avoid the few (quite obvious) routes were you could lose 10-15 seconds.  The above leg to the 13th ...

Gold for Maja Alm (Denmark) and Jerker Lysell (Sweden) in  World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden which opened this year’s championships. Three medals for Switzerland – but the Gold medals went to the Nordic countries Sweden and Denmark. Men: Lysell with strong middle part In the men’s class Jerker ...

Tue Lassen (DEN), Jonas Leandersson (SWE), Daniel Hubmann (SUI)/Martin Regborn (SWE),  Sari Anttonen (FIN), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Cecile Klysner (DEN) were the heat winners in the opening race of the World Orienteering Championships 2016 in Strömstad, Sweden. There were no big surprises in the qualification – one of the ...

[Qual Live From 09:00 CET, Finals from 15:41 CET] The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday August 20th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Strömstad.  Program: Qual Women 09:00. Qual Men 10:00. Final Women 15:41. Final Men 16:46 Web TV  (only final): Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, International (IOF Live Centre) Other Live ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday August 20th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Strömstad – a small town on the west coast of Sweden. The first medals are fought for in the Sprint final Saturday evening (start from 15:41 – all medal decisions ready at 18:00) and the Sprint Relay Sunday evening ...

3 Days from now the World Orienteering Championships 2016 (WOC 2016) starts with the individual Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden. We continue the countdown to the championships here at WorldofO.com continues with a look at old maps and terrain for the WOC 2016 races. The central part of any orienteering competition – event the World ...

4 Days from now – on Saturday August 20th – the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts with the individual Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden. The World Championships is the highlight on the international orienteering calendar.  The countdown to the championships here at WorldofO.com starts with publishing the WOC 2016 Team pages ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is FIN5 in Finland. FIN5 was organized close to Hamina in southeastern Finland from July 10th until July 16th 2016. Overall winners in FIN5 2016 were Frederic Tranchand (France) and Marika Teini* (Finland) Julia Novikova (Russia).  The terrain did offer quite a few routechoice alternatives due ...