Orienteering News

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the middle distance at the European Championships middle distance in Czech Republic Friday. Both won their second gold medal at this championships – Alexandersson in long and middle and Kyburz in sprint and middle. Alexandersson in own class Alexandersson ran fast and also had ...

Reigning champion Daniel Hubmann missed the cut while trying to save energy for the final in the tight European Championships middle distance qualification Thursday. Johan Runesson (Sweden), Carl Godager Kaas ( Norway), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Dana Safka Brozkova (Czech Republic), Cat Taylor (Great Britain) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland were heat ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class after a thrilling finish at the European Championships Long distance in Czech Republic today – nearly giving a way the gold medal at the last controls. Daniel Hubmann (Swizerland) won a clear victory in the men’s class. In the women’s class Tove Alexandersson ...

 [Updated with some GPS comparisons] Andreas Matthias Kyburz Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland), Magne Dæhlie (Norway), Milos Nykodym (Czech Republic), Svetlana Mironiva (Russia), Heidi Bagstevold (Norway) and Natalia Vinogradova (Russia) were the heat winners in today’s European Championships Long distance qualification. The athletes were met by (too) long courses in tough terrain with many ...

[Updated with info about women’s medals] Matthias Kyburz and Judith Wyder gave Switzerland two GOLD medals in today’s European Championships Sprint after strong finishes on technical and hilly courses. In the men’s class Kyburz was behind until the very last controls – and until the very last meters of Kyburz’s ...

[With maps and results] At the start of the last leg it looked like Sweden was the certain winner – then Denmark emerged as the clear winner candidate. But Russia’s Galina Vinogradova kept her head cool and orienteered safely to GOLD for Russia. At the start of the last leg Sweden’s Helena ...

Live TV streaming: The European Championships in Orienteering (EOC) starts off with a sprint weekend the coming weekend – with Sprint Relay on Saturday and Sprint qualification and final on Sunday.   On Monday the athletes move into the forest in long distance orienteering mode with long qualification on Monday and long ...

One of the main highlights of the spring season is coming up on Saturday & Sunday morning: 10Mila in Falun, Sweden. With increased focus on high quality webTV broadcast this year, spectators both at home and on the arena in Sweden can expect highly entertaining competitions.  The start for the men’s relay ...

[Updated with high quality maps and split time analysis] Swiss success at the World Cup Sprint in Poland today: Judith Wyder and Matthias Kyburz took the victories in a technical city sprint in Wroclaw.  Reigning World Champion Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) had the fastest start of the race, and had a ...

[Updated with info about best way to find race results&information] The Orienteering World Cup 2016 starts this Saturday – Monday with three races in Poland; a Middle distance on Saturday, a Sprint on Sunday and a Sprint Relay on Monday. This is a the same program as in World Games in 2017 ...