World of O News

[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 ...

See how Piotr Parfianowicz won his JWOC gold medal based on this GPS-analysis comparing the race of Parfianowicz and silver medalist Schneider. GPS data of all athletes (nearly 170 athletes) are now in 3DRerun/2DRerun – ready for your analysis. Thanks to great work by TracTrac who helped exporting the GPS-data in ...

Six heats – heat winners from six different countries: Latvia, Norway, Denmark, France, Sweden and Great Britain. Nice and technical courses met the competitors in Radvanice at today’s middle distance qualification. None of the biggest favourites missed the cut – we are ready for exciting finals tomorrow! Below you find ...

Victory to Lisa Risby (Sweden) and Piotr Parfianowicz (Poland) took the victory in tough courses with many routechoice options in Czech Republic today. Sara Hagström (Sweden) and Ekaterina Savkina (Russia) took the other medals among the women – and Florian Schneider (Switzerland) and Andrey Kozyrev (Russia) among the men. – ...

Follow the world’s best juniors LIVE from Czech Republic on Long Monday, Middle Qual Tuesday, Middle Final Wednesday, Sprint Friday and Relay Saturday. The organizers will provide live webTV, live results and live GPS-tracking – there should be excellent opportunities to follow the best junior orienteers from all over the ...

GPS tracking from all tracked teams from Jukola & Venla is now available. See also a comparison (autOanalysis) between the last leg races of Kalevan Rasti (Gueorgiou) and Kristiansand (D Hubmann) below – and a comparison between Matthias Merz (best time on the last leg) and Thierry Gueorgiou. Map: AutOanalysis ...

With Thierry Gueorgiou for Kalevan Rasti starting the last leg around 2 minutes ahead of Daniel Hubmann for Kristiansand OK, it looked like we could have a very interesting last leg with a fight between two of the best orienteers of the last 10 years. However both Gueorgiou and Hubmann ...

Around 1600 teams started into the night at 22:00 CET – Jukola 2013 has started. Favourites are Halden SK and Kalevan Rasti – but even if everyone expects the two big ones to fight for victory – everything can happen in the 7 leg relay. Follow the online results and ...