The orienteering World Cup visits China for the first time ever the last October-weekend of 2019 with three races being organized: Middle Distance Saturday afternoon (14:00 local time/08:00 CEST), Sprint Relay Sunday afternoon (14:30 local/ 07:30 CET) and Sprint Tuesday afternoon (14:00 local / 07:00 CET). This is the fourth and ...

  Friday’s World Cup Middle distance in Switzerland gave Swiss success as usually on homeground: Double victory in the men’s class with Joey Hadorn and Daniel Hubmann ahead of Swedish Martin Regborn, and Swiss second and third place in the women’s class with Simona Aebersold and Sabine Hauswirth behind Swedish ...

Middle, Knock-Out Sprint and Sprint: The third Orienteering World Cup round in 2019 is organized in Laufen, Switzerland from Friday September 27th to Sunday September 29th. This is the second last World Cup round in 2019, with the last round being organized in China. World Cup leaders Tove Alexandersson and ...

The women’s WOC 2019 Middle distance offered a tight battle for the gold medal between Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Simona Aebersold (SUI) – and an equally exciting battle for the bronze medal between Venla Harju (FIN), Natalia Gemperle (RUS), Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg (NOR), Sabina Hauswirth (SUI) and Lina Strand ...

[Including team setups] Can Norway’s men take the fourth WOC Relay gold medal in a row? Can Sweden’s women continue their strong results in this championships with a third gold medal of three possible? Or will we finally get some non-Nordic gold-medals in this championship which has been dominated by Norway and ...

Where did the top runners lost time in the World Orienteering Championships Middle Final for the men? This article looks into the details – showing how Olav Lundanes (NOR) managed to decide the race against Gustav Bergman (SWE), early leader Emil Svensk (SWE) and Magne Dæhli (NOR). Emil Svensk took ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) won his silver medal on the two long legs – winning both with nearly half a minute. Olav Lundanes (NOR) won his gold medal due to his fast finish – from the 11th control to the finish, the Norwegian 6 times WOC Gold medalist was 1:51 faster ...

[Article updated with some split time analysis] The big pre-race favourites Olav Lundanes (NOR) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) won the World Orienteering Championships Long distance – each of them taking the fourth Long distance title in a row. For Lundanes this was his 6th WOC Long gold medal! While Alexandersson ...

Olav Lundanes (NOR), Lucas Basset (FRA), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR), Kamilla Olaussen (NOR) and Cecilie Friberg Klysner (DEN) won the qualification heats when the WOC Middle Qualification opened this year’s World Orienteering Championships in Østfold, Norway. All top runners made it to Friday’s final – no big ...

[First start 10:00, last start women 11:08, last start men 11:21, expected winning time 25 min] WOC 2019 starts Tuesday August 13th with Middle Qualification. The Middle Qualification is mostly a nice warm-up exercise for the top runners – but especially in the men’s class it is still possible to ...