Orienteering News

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 ...

Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) won the men’s class 3 seconds ahead of French surprise Lucas Basset with Olle Bostrom (Sweden) in 3rd another 10 seconds behind. Annika Billstam (Sweden) won the women’s class 50 seconds ahead of Merja Rantanen (Finland) with Emma Johansson (Sweden) in 3rd at 1:18. Both in the ...

Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the men’s class 2 seconds ahead of Martin Hubmann (Switzerland) with Jerker Lysell (Sweden) in 3rd at 0:05. Maja Alm (Denmark) won the women’s class 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52.  See full analysis of the race ...

Yannick Michiels, Daniel Hubmann, Kris Jones and Martin Hubmann were all only control away from beating the eventual winner Jonas Leandersson. A sprint is however all about keeping concentration from start to finish. The World Championships Sprint in Forres offered courses with few complex routechoice legs – the main challenge ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Friday July 31st at 19:00 CET with sprint qualification in Forres – a small town on the coast northeast of Inverness. The first medals are fought for in the sprint relay in neighbour town Nairn the day after – with start from 19:05 CET. The championships continues with sprint final in ...