World of O News

Daniel Hubmann won a clear victory in the men’s class in the first World Cup race in 2014 – with last year’s overall World Cup winner Matthias Kyburz in second. In the women’s class Sweden tookt he double: Tove Alexandersson ahead of Helena Jansson. It was again a Swiss/Swedish day ...

[Updated with map] Lena Eliasson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the Qualification in the first World Cup race in Turkey today. A fast middle distance with less than 25 minutes winning time was on the program. With only 30 runners qualifying for the A-final, some top runners missed the ...

Middle Qual on Friday, Middle Final on Saturday and Mixed Sprint Relay on Sunday. Live GPS-tracking and  – that’s the program for the first World Cup round of 2014, organized in Turkey. Turkey offers varied and technically interesting terrain – this will be an interesting weekend for orienteering fans. The ...

[Updated with Maps + 2DRerun Long distance] Three World Ranking races in two days: Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli dominated the high profile WRE race weekend at the Mediterranean Championships (MCO) in Portugal this weekend. The French and Swiss World Ranking leaders* both won the middle and long distance races. ...

– A really hard long distance race in really hard terrain – with some interesting long legs, Jonas Mathys writes in an e-mail about today’s “January Classic”. It is not old enough to be a real classic – but this Elitserien race from 2011 is still one of the nicer ...

[With GPS comparison] At the second stage of NAOM 2014 Thierry Gueorgiou was back were he wants to be – on top of the M21 Elite class – with Daniel Hubmann in second. In the overall Gueorgiou got the upper hand with some seconds. In the women’s class Amelie Chataing ...

The World Cup in Tasmania in 1998 is a real classic! Note that the courses are not shown on the original map – but overlaid on a new map of the area. Thanks a lot to Timo Sild for the tip! Tasmania is coming into the attention of the orienteering ...

Daniel Hubmann beat Thierry Gueorgiou with 22 seconds on the opening stage of NAOM 2014 – with that setting the stage for the 2014 season [Update with GPS!]. Anastasia Tikhonova won the women class ahead of Amelie Chataing. Most of the orienteering elite visits Portugal/Spain as part of their winter ...

The course is from 2011 – but can still maybe be categorized as a “classic”. Today’s course in “January Classics” is the National event in Savoie in May 2011 – used for several teams as WOC selection race ahead of WOC in France later the same year. Thanks to Jonas ...

Today’s edition of January Classics is a tip sent in by Martin Hoset: The district championships long distance of middle Norway (Midt Norsk) 2009. – This is maybe not a classic, but it is a nice long distance race from 2009, Hoset writes. – This race is maybe the most ...