Orienteering News

The men start from 10:55 CET – the men from 12:45 CET. 19.5 km tough long distance orienteering with estimated winning time of 91 minutes will meet the men qualified for the final – 13.4 km with estimated winning time of 71 minutes will meet the women. The qualification courses ...

Mårten Boström won a very popular Gold medal on home ground in the World Championships Sprint today – literally running away from his competitors with higher running speed on the longer legs. In the women’s class Simone Niggli took an expected gold medal – but Annika Billstam got very close ...

[Updated with change in results in Men heat 2 after jury decision] Two heat victories for Denmark – and no big surprises in today’s WOC Sprint Qualification – all favourites went on to the final. Heat winners were Rasmus Thrane Hansen (Denmark), Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (Norway), Jerker Lysell (Sweden), Simone ...

The first final in this year World Championships is the sprint final which start Monday early evening at 16:54 CET. The  qualifications are run in the morning from 08:00 CET. Three heat for men and three for women – 15 runners from each heat qualify for the finals. Links to live ...

The Long Qualification courses had one really interesting route choice leg – the long leg from 4-5 in the men’s heats / 2-3 in the women’s heats. The rest of the course was all about accurate orienteering – especially direction running and actually finding the control point. Typically, the route ...

Maps and GPS-tracking from WOC Long Qualification are now available. Map Heat 1 GPS-tracking (paid service – will cost you 10 Euro) Maps will be available here See also: WOC 2013: All you need to know WOC Long Qual: Live from 08:30 CET – including a look at the favourites, ...

Live GPS (men only), live results and a “simple” live webTV production is promised from the opening race in this years World Orienteering Championships in Vuokatti, Finland.  The long distance qualification starts early Sunday morning – with the final being run on Tuesday. 15 runners from each of the 3 ...

[Update: Direct link to live services] The World Orienteering Championships starts on Sunday July 7th at 08:30 CET (09:30 local Finnish time) with Long distance qualification east of Vuokatti, Finland. The first medals are handed out Monday evening in sprint – after a busy day with sprint qualification in the ...

Gold went to Heidi Mårtensson (Norway) and Florian Schneider (Switzerland) in JWOC sprint in Hradec Kravlove, Czech Republic today. In the mens class it was very close to a Czech victory on homeground – with Michal Hubacek only 4 seconds behind Schneider – whereas Tim Robertson (New Zealand) secured New ...

Miri Thrane Ødum and Emil Svensk won Gold medals on tricky middle distance courses in Czech Republic today. Very stony terrain (see the women’s course above) made the orienteering difficult – and few managed to get through the course without mistakes. The tricky orienteering seemed to favor the Scandinavian runners ...