Orienteering News

– It was terrain all the way! I think I ran for like 100 meters on a real path, Ida Bobach comments. The world’s best long distance orienteer in 2015 – Ida Bobach – is another top elite runner who chooses the WOC long distance as the best course of 2015 ...

Cat Taylor has had big success in 2015 – with two top 6 result at the World Champs on home ground and a World Cup victory at the very end of the season. Her favourite course this year was a long and tough one! Read on for a long interview with ...

– There are almost no boring courses when you push hard, Ukrainian Ruslan Glebov comments in this interview about the Course of the Year 2015. Glebov impressed the orienteering world with a 2nd place in the World Cup final middle distance – but his favorite courses from the 2015-season are nevertheless ...

– Man, this race is going to be amazing, no matter how you feel today! This is what this year’s new French start Lucas Basset thought when he stood at the start line in the race which featured his favourite course of 2015.   Read on for a long interview with Basset. ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2015? The World Champs middle in Italy won in 2014 – and the two years before we had Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in 2013 and some great technical orienteering in 2012. In 2011 the WOC middle distance in France took the first ...

The WOC 2015 Long distance in the women’s class was decided on the long legs like a real long distance race should be decided – and both choice of route and execution of route was important for the medals. Above the longest leg in the course is shown – the ...

[Updated with maps and splits analysis] The King is back – and Ida Bobach could very well be the new Queen of the long distance. After 99 minutes of running in the men’s class, the gap was only 25 seconds to silver. In the women’s Bobach had a “massive” gap ...

In many ways the men’s World Championships relay at WOC 2015 was decided already at the first real forking at the first leg – to the 6th control. In this quite easy terrain, the runners did very few significant mistakes. The exception was the first leg runners who had trouble with the ...

When watching the relay as a spectator, it looked like Denmark’s second leg runner, Ida Bobach, was clearly the strongest runner in the relay as her second leg decided the relay – increasing the gap to the followers from 1 minute to more than 4 minutes. However, looking at the split times, ...

[Updated with comment from Gueorgiou] Extremely tight: Four runners were only one control from beating the winner Daniel Hubmann – Lucas Basset, Olle Boström, Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou. Magne Dæhlie had a slow start, but ran faster than Hubmann from the 2nd control to the finish. In this race a ...