Orienteering News

[Including full medal overview] 5 nations won gold medals at JWOC 2014 – Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand – Sweden dominating the championships with 5 gold medals and 4 further medals. Another four nations won medals – Czech Republic, Italy, Poland and Denmark. The men’s individual races were ...

O-Ringen, Swiss O-Week, FIN 5, Croatia Open, Cerkno Cup, Grand Prix Slovakia, Wavel Cup, Sørlandsgaloppen and the Italian 5 Days races are just some of the many orienteering races which have been organized or are ongoing this summer. These summer orienteering races are the highlights of all of the season ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria starts Tuesday with Sprint and continues with Long distance on Wednesday. After a rest day the championships continues with Middle distance qualification on Friday, Middle final on Saturday and Relay on Sunday. Read on to find all important details about the championships. If ...

Switzerland and Sweden won two very exciting relays at the World Orienteering Championships in Asiago, Italy today. The tricky terrain made for changes in the relay all the way through the race – and especially the women’s race had a lot of changes throughout the last leg. You can relive ...

1600 photos from Sprint, Mixed Sprint Relay, Middle and Long have now been uploaded – sorted by country. And with name and placing in the race embedded on the picture. Share & enjoy! All pictures Denmark France Finland Italy Norway Russia Switzerland Sweden Ukraine The photos will also be uploaded ...

There were three runners who had the speed to win the WOC middle distance – Annika Billstam, Ida Bobach and Tove Alexandersson. In the following analysis we go through where the women’s race was decided. There were made a lot of mistakes in the women’s class, even among the top ...

There were five runners who had the speed to win the WOC middle distance – Daniel Hubmann, Thierry Gueorgiou, Olav Lundanes, Fabian Hertner and Oleksandr Kratov. In the following analysis we go through where the race was decided – and why Lundanes was on top after 5.9 km with 290 ...

Olav Lundanes won the men’s class in the dramatic middle distance World Championships were main favourite Thierry Gueorgiou – King of Long distance – skipped a control and was disqualified. Annika Billstam won a tight battle against Denmark’s Ida Bobach in the women’s race – in the end all medalists ...

[Updated during the meeting] The XXVII IOF Ordinary General Assembly is held in Lavarone, Italy today. The General Assembly is where important decision for the sport of orienteering are made. This article will be updated during the General Assembly with interesting topics for the public. The report will be mostly ...

Svetlana Mironova decides the race by running a technically good race in the first part of the course – and executing the long legs very well. Wyder makes too many mistakes – Alexandersson does not have her normal speed after stomach problems, and also does some small mistakes. Mistakes are ...