World of O News

Portugal O-meeting (POM) has been the international season opening the last years – with most of the world elite on the startlist. With the World Cup opening in New Zealand this year, the start field is a little bit weaker than normal ; still 5 of the 10 highest ranked ...

Portugal is THE place to run in February – with Portugal O-Meeting next weekend being the biggest race . Many top runners are already present in Portugal – the start field at last weekend’s NAOM 2013 had very high quality. Two middle distance races were offered – the second one ...

Learn what the route setter thinks about the different legs in “One of the most tricky sprints I have ever run” – as several runners put it after the race. – What makes Government House a very interesting area for sprint racing is a combination of the hilliness and the ...

Double for Sweden: Victories for Tove Alexandersson and Jerker Lysell in today’s World Cup chasing start in New Zealand. Alexandersson did it all herself – running alone in the lead from start to finish. Lysell had a different race setup – running with Olav Lundanes for most of the race ...

Tove Alexandersson and Peter Öberg won the Prologue of the World Cup in New Zealand today according to unofficial results. – each will get an extra 30 bonus seconds ahead of the chasing start later today compared to number 2. The 12 first runners in the prologue will get bonus ...

Saturday evening at 21:00 CET (09:00 AM local time) the Prologue of the third World Cup race this season starts. 6 hours later the World Orienteering elite is ready for a chasing start based on the Prologue results. This is the last race in this World Cup round – the ...

[Updated with Maps and WebRoute!] Victories for Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) in today’s very long World Cup sprint in Wellington, New Zealand. Winning times were 17:52 for Kyburz and 19:32 for Tove Alexandersson. The map sample above shows the last part of the men’s course – this ...

Tonight at 22:00 CET the final in the second World Cup race of the season is held in the Capital City of New Zealand, Wellington. The qualification was held on an interesting and technical terrain yesterday. – It was an interesting course, with some narrow streets (not as narrow as ...

Fabian Hertner and Helena Jansson won the first World Cup race of the season in very detailed and sandy terrain in New Zealand. Very intricate contour details made map reading and orienteering challenging. I am probably the one who did the least amount of mistakes, and that was rewarding It ...

– The World Cup middle distance race is held on a brand new map which is coastal open sand dune and then 15% pine forest. I expect to be very sandy and rough in the open so not that fast km rates, event speaker Duncan Morrison explains about the first World Cup ...