Orienteering News

[Updated with analysis and splitsgraphs] Surprise Gold to Søren Bobach (Denmark). Judith Wyder (Switzerland) handles the pressure and wins the women’s sprint at WOC 2014. The sprint in Venice was spectacular and exciting – Denmark was the big winner with three medals at the first day of the World Championships ...

[Updated with better quality picture] The big surprise of the day was Mårten Boström failing to qualify for the final – except for that everything went according to plan for the big favourites in today’s sprint qualification in Burano by Venice. Heat winners were Daniel Hubmann, Jonas Leandersson and Yannick ...

[Live from 09:00 CET] We have taken a look at what happened in the international sprint scene the last year. Who performed well – and who didn’t? Travel with us one year back in time along the timeline – and afterwards lean back and enjoy the action in Burano and ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday July 5th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Burano – an island outside Venice. The first medals are fought for in the sprint final in Venice in the afternoon – with start from 15:20 CET. The championships continue with Mixed sprint relay ...

– We want to make the race series more attractive for all partners: Athletes, spectators, organizers and media, says Matthias Niggli on behalf of the project group WorldCup 16/20. Niggli is heading the project together with his wife Simone. [Disclaimer: The author of this article/interview has been part of the ...

What will the future Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) look like? The future JWOC program could become a carbon copy of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) program: Introducing a mixed sprint relay and introducing a quota system for the forest races. Or it may stay exactly like it is today. ...

[Including some analysis from the races] Maps and full GPS tracking from the Jukola and Venla relays are now available both in GPSSeuranta and in 3DRerun. Upload your own track to compare with the GPS-tracked teams. See below for instructions on how to add your own GPS tracks to the ...

Thierry Gueorgiou did it again for Kalevan Rasti. After a difficult night for the Finnish team, with many mistakes in the tough and technical terrain, the world stars Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou decided the relay for Kalevan Rasti on the two last legs. The last leg was a real ...

The Danish favourite team OK Pan Århus took their second Venla relay victory in a row after very strong performances by all four runners. Signe Søes decided it all on the first 2 km of the second leg – catching up 1 minute to the lead and opening a gap ...

22:00 CET on Saturday Jukola  starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the 66th edition of ...