Orienteering News

Both Gold medals went to Switzerland at the EOC long distance: Judith Wyder takes over after Simone Niggli as the new Swiss EOC Queen with her second Gold medal after winning the sprint on Sunday. Daniel Hubmann also takes his second Gold medal with the long distance Gold – after ...

Signe Søes (Denmark) won the women’s race in her comeback – and Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) got his revenge after the “bitter” 4th place in yesterday’s sprint. The terrain was fast and seemingly easy – but many runners did direction mistakes. [Note! This article is based on unofficial results] Signe Søes ...

The decisive leg in the men’s race was the leg from 11 to 12 – when leaving the castle. The most decisive leg in the women’s race was a very similar leg – but run in the opposite direction (leg 5-6). Several athletes lost their medal chances on these legs. ...

In a cooperation between the EOC 2014 organizers and World of O, a SPAS Analysis has been set up for the EOC Sprint A-Finals. All athletes competing in the A-finals are kindly asked to click through the multiple-choice form leg-by-leg, and assign routes to each leg. “Spectators” and other interested ...

Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) took gold medals in today’s European Championships Sprint in Portugal. The athletes met challenging courses in the hilly town Palmela just south of Lisboa. [Note! This article is based on unofficial results] In the men’s class there was big drama before the winner ...

There has been some discussion about the “forking” between the heats at EOC Long Qualification. The EOC qualification is run as three heats for men and three heats for women – where normally the courses in each heat are not forked, but rather completely different courses with a few controls ...

EOC 2014 starts for real with the Sprint Final this Sunday at 17:30 CET. GPS-tracking, live results and a video feed is promised – and from the old map it looks like we should get very interesting and challenging sprint orienteering in this first EOC final. With the finals approaching, ...

[Updated with higher quality maps] Another great sprint day for Switzerland and Sweden: Heat winners in today’s EOC Sprint Qualification were Martin Hubmann (SUI), Jan Prochazka (CZE), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Rahel Friedrich (SUI), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Karolin Ohlsson (SWE). Note! This article is based on unofficial results! See full ...

The final(!) decision for EOC Middle Qual was made late last night. All men AND women who started in the qualification on Thursday are allowed to start in the final on Monday. The complete qualification race is voided (both men and women). Qualification races April 10th were voided late tonight ...

Heat winners in today’s EOC Long Qualification were William Lind (SWE), Fredric Portin (FIN), Gernot Kerschbaumer (AUT), Signe Søes (DEN), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Svetlana Mironova (RUS). Most favourites went on to the A-final. Notably Nikolov (BUL), Rüdlinger (SUI) and Oskarsson (NOR) missed the final according to the unofficial results. ...