Orienteering News

[Updated with results] The World Cup race in sprint in Imatra today offered one of the most complex labyrinths of artificially built fences seen in the World Cup so far. This made the race very interesting and challenging – but still the top runners managed to make the right choices ...

The EOC Sprint winners Judith Wyder (Switzerland) and Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the sprint qualification in the World Cup race in Imatra today in a very tight sprint race. The men’s race featured all 40 men going to the final within 58 seconds – in the women’s class the first ...

Oleksandr Kratov (Ukraine) won the men’s class in a very exciting long distance race in the World Cup in Kongsberg today – in the end the Norwegian slow starters Hans Gunnar Omdal and Magne Dæhlie were only 21 and 31 seconds behind. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class with ...

Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) took the victories in the World Cup race middle in Kongsberg, Norway today. The typically Nordic terrain suited the Nordic runners well – Top 3 in both the men’s and women’s class went to Sweden, Norway and Finland. The courses had a though ...

[Updated for Imatra] Middle and Long distance races in Norwegian wilderness around Kongsberg (June 7th-8th) and a sprint race and a mixed sprint relay in Imatra, Finland (June 11th-12th) as a “warm-up event” to Jukola. This is what the third round of the 2014 Orienteering World Cup offers. The races ...

– If you look at the number of “controlpacks”, you can see that the average number of controls attacked alone for the women’s Top 10 is 4 controls (out of 20), Martin Lerjen of O-zeugs comments the women’s middle distance in the “pre-WOC” races in Italy this weekend. This weekend ...

The IOF is planning to renew the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) program – now is your chance to influence the decisions on the future program. Is there a need for qualification or quotas for the long distance or the sprint distance? Should the mixed sprint relay also be introduced at ...

Daniel Hubmann, Baptiste Rollier and Tove Alexandersson impressed in the Swiss and Swedish WOC selection races in the Asiago area this weekend. In today’s long distance Alexandersson (Sweden) won with 6.5 minutes ahead of Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – while Daniel Hubmann  (Switzerland) won the men’s class one minute ahead of ...

GPS-tracking, maps and 2DRerun from 10-mila is now available using the links below. Men relay Men leg 1: Omaps – 2DRerun Men leg 2: Omaps – 2DRerun Men leg 3: Omaps – 2DRerun Men leg 4: Omaps – 2DRerun Men leg 5: Omaps – 2DRerun Men leg 6: Omaps – ...

OK Pan Århus won the women’s relay and Kalevan Rasti the men’s relay – both after exciting fights through all legs. Both OK Pan Århus and Kalevan Rasti were big favourites ahead of the race – being tipped by more than 50% in the poll at WorldofO ahead of the ...