World of O News

Jerker Lysell (Sweden) and Simone Niggli (Switzerland) took the victories in today’s World Cup sprint organized in St. Gallen, Switzerland. A very interesting sprint with a lot of route choice options was offered. In the men’s class it was very close to being a fully Swiss day – three Swiss ...

A great day for Switzerland in the World Cup middle distance #4 in Appencell: Matthias Kyburz won the mens class 4 seconds ahead of Olav Lundanes while  Simone Niggli won the womens class ahead of Judith Wyder and Minna Kauppi in a shared 2nd place. The comments about the course ...

St. Gallen in Switzerland is the arena for the last big test ahead of the World Championships for the World Orienteering Elite. The PostFinance Sprint weekend has been moved from the end of the season to June this year. With the World Championships in Switzerland only 3 weeks into the ...

What a Jukola night! Getting through the night without big mistakes was the road to success in this year’s Jukola. A lot of interesting mistakes to study now when the GPS tracking has been released. Only a few of the “highlights” are included in this article – please add a ...

21:30 CET on Saturday the largest Jukola relay ever starts – with 16558 orienteers registered. More than 1600 men head into the forest at 21:30 CET – nearly 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET nearly 1250 women start their relay. Here you find all the information you need about the ...

Extraordinary performance by Simone Niggli – and another great win by Olav Lundanes! No matter if middle distance and long distance – Niggli and Lundanes take the gold medals. Niggli had four(!) minutes down to Tatiana Riabkina in second – Lundanes victory margin was one minute down to Matthias Merz. ...

Simone Niggli (Switzerland) and Olav Lundanes (Norway) took clear victories in today’s middle distance at the European Championships in Skattugnbyn, Sweden. Lundanes won ahead of Valentin Novikov (Russia) and Carl Waaler Kaas (Norway) whereas Tatiana Riabkina (Russia) and Minna Kauppi (Finland) were closest to the Swiss star Niggli. – I ...

Valentin Novikov, Olav Lundanes, Johan Runesson, Minna Kauppi, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg and Helena Jansson took the heat victories in EOC Middle Qualification which opened the Eurorpean Championships in the Falun area, Sweden, today. No big surprises, but as always some big names went out in the qualifications Among the ...

Get set for an intense and interesting week of orienteering in and around Falun, Sweden. The European Championships kicks of the World Cup season – and with most of the World Orienteering elite in place, this is one of the absolute highlights of the season! This article will be updated ...

More than 230 people set up their tips in the 10Mila Tips 2012.  According to the preliminary unofficial results, Alexander Lubina won the 10Mila 2012 Tips with 784 points – 23 points ahead of Johan Runesson. Congratulations to the winners! The key to Lubina’s (unofficial as of now) victory was ...