Consistency was the key to win a medal in the tricky Czech terrain of World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Middle distance. All runners did mistakes – but Matthias Kyburz made less mistakes than the others, and in addition had a physical edge in the last part of the race. Read ...

Big day for Sweden: Isac von Krusenstierne and Tove Alexandersson (both Sweden) took the gold medals in today’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint. In the men’s class Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Tim Robertson (New Zealand) took the other medals, while Natalia Gemperle (Russia) and Maja Alm (Denmark) were closest to Alexandersson ...

The first World Orienteering Championships (WOC) since 2019 will offer spectacular terrain and great competitions from Saturday July 3rd in Czech Republic! The first weekend is a sprint weekend, with the Sprint Saturday (14:50 CET) and Sprint Relay Sunday (18:10 CET).  After a rest day on Monday, WOC 2021 continues ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 starts already in 3 weeks time – at July 3rd – in Czech Republic. Several international WOC selection races for the forest disciplines have been organized the last weekends – here we take a look at some of the results and courses, to help ...

Double gold for Sweden with Tove Alexandersson and Emil Svensk in today’s European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Sprint. In the women’s class Alexandersson won ahead of two Swiss runners – Elena Roos and Simona Aebersold. In the men’s class Yannick Michiels (Belgium) took silver ahead of Gustav Bergman (Sweden) and Kasper ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the first Knock-Out Sprint in a championship when winning the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Knock-Out Sprint in Neuchatel today. Kyburz won a tight battle with another Swiss runner – Joey Hadorn. Norwegian Kasper Fosser took bronze, and finished with that a long ...

Finally! Thursday May 13th at 16:40 CET the international orienteering elite will compete for medals again as the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) starts off with the Sprint Relay. EOC 2021 is the first pure sprint EOC, and is organized in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Excellent live coverage is promised, with live TV broadcasts of all ...

Just a few days ahead of the European Orienteering Championships (EOC), the Swiss Championships Sprint – with a large international start field – marks the restart of the international orienteering scene after a long Covid-19 break. In addition to all the Swiss EOC-favourites, athletes from Russia, Norway, Ukraine, Estonia, Spain, ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting Runners’ Choice challenge from Sprintliga Oslo, with extensive analysis provided by Oskar Størmer.  In my opinion this is how a Knock Out Sprint can be made truly interesting, both for athletes and TV. Future course setters and stake holders: Take a ...

4 years ago MapAnt Finland was released – last week MapAnt Norway was released in a beta release: A gigantic orienteering map covering lots of extraordinary orienteering terrain which has never been mapped for orienteering before. Dive in and enjoy the wonders of Norway! You find MapAnt Norway here: MapAnt ...