World of O News

Nearly all women made mistakes today according to the split times – and many of the men as well. A tricky middle distance was offered – a lot like the World Orienteering Championships in France last year. Heat winners were Thierry Gueorgiou, Gernot Kerschbaumer, Carl Waaler Kaas, Tatiana Riabkina, Simone ...

Thierry Gueorgiou is back on the start line today for the WOC middle distance qualification. That will give both him and everybody else a first answer as to wether he can get yet another middle distance title.  The middle distance is the most open race – and the middle distance ...

Looking at the routes and races of the top runners in the qualification may give an indication of what to expect in the long distance final on Thursday. Below routes of the heat winners in the Long Qualification and some selected favourites and/or outsiders are shown. In addition to the ...

[Update: Improved map quality]- One of the terrains with best runnability we I have been in on the trainings, Anders Norberg (Norway) said after running a steady qualification run in today’s WOC long qualification. Heat winners today were Olav Lundanes, Matthias Merz, Edgard Bertuks, Tatiana Riabkina, Simone Niggli and Minna ...

Pictures of almost all runners – 800 pictures in total – for the WOC Sprint day have now been added to the World of O runner database along with WOC 2012 Team overviews. What a great sprint day in Lausanne! The pictures are sorted by runner or by country. Take ...

The WOC long distance goes in typical Swiss “Mittelland” terrain (see old map above)- the qualification being better runnable than the final according to the terrain description. This “Mittelland” terrain suits the Swiss runners especially well – and the biggest favourites in this race are no doubt Swiss Matthias Merz and Simone ...

What a day for Switzerland! In courses with a lot of technical route choices, nobody could beat the Swiss runners in the WOC Sprint in Lausanne today. Simone Niggli took her 18th WOC gold medal – Matthias Kyburz his first. In the women’s class Danish Maja Alm gave Niggli a ...

Some good runners missed the cut in the WOC sprint qualification today – on a course which by many of the runners was described to be “less technical than expected”. Some of the negative surprises of the day were Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (Norway), Fredric Portin (Finland), Christian Bobach (Denmark) and ...

With live TV & streaming, LiveBlog & GPS tracking in the afternoon, this is going to be an exciting day for everybody interested in orienteering. Switzerland and Sweden are the big favourites, but as Simone Niggli put it on yesterday’s press conference for the Swiss Team: – Sprint is a ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts Saturday at 09:01 CET with Sprint qualification in Lausanne – and the first medals are handed out in the evening after the Sprint final. The championships continues through the coming week with 3 qualification races, 3 final races and one relay – the relay finishing ...