World of O News

Sweden tops the medal overview with 3xgold, 3xsilver and 2xbronze ahead of France with 2xgold and 1xbronze, Switzerland with 1xgold and 1xbronze. In fourth we have Finland, Denmark and Czech Republic – all with 1 silver – and finally Norway with 1 bronze medal. Below you find all results of ...

The WOC relay is the last WOC event – and if it lives up to the drama of the last years, it will be the highlight of the championships. The start in the womens class is at 13:15 CET – in the mens class at 15:15 CET. Startlist relay (from ...

Another HeadCam video – this time from the WOC Middle Final synchronized with GPS data in 3DRerun. Note that the quality is not the best as the bandwidth was too low to upload it all – but it should be good enough to get some experience of how it was ...

See how the WOC Middle distance was decided from this step by step comparison between Gueorgiou and Öberg using autOanalysis on the GPS-data. Öberg is nearly as fast in the start, but gets tired and can not keep up the orienteering all the way to the finish. In the autOanalysis ...

– It was a lot easier than what we have trained for, Thierry Gueorgiou commented after crushing everybody in todays WOC middle distance. – I nearly felt disappointed when I realized that the visibility was quite good, as I have felt weak physically yesterday after the long distance. I really ...

Finally the routechoice analysis for WOC Long Men is up! There were not many long and decisive routechoices in the WOC Long distance for men this year were top runners choose different routes – from an orienteering point of view it was more of an orienteering technical challenge. And of ...

Experience the tricky first 6 controls of the WOC long distance course for the men using a HeadCam video syncronized with GPS and map. The synchronization is done in 3DRerun with the HeadCam/GPS synchronization feature. You can click anywhere on the map with the left mouse button while holding down ...

The WOC middle distance will be an intense event featuring live GPS tracking, live results, webTV and LiveBlog to make this a great experience. The first start in the womens class is at 13:31 CET – in the mens class at 15:10 CET. The women will finish just around 15-20 ...

We have seldom seen this kind of spreading of chosen routes on the way to the first control in a World Championships. Many seemed to be tricked into taking a more risky direct route than the optimal one due to the good runnabillity in the forest to the first control ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Annika Billstam both won very clear victories in the WOC Long distance today. Gueorgiou was the big favourite before the race – and he also managed to live up to the expectations – now being the first men to win gold medals in all individual disciplines. Billstam ...