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Audun Weltzien and Annika Billstam took the overall MOC victories – whereas Vaajakosken Terä and Halden SK took the victories in the Spring Cup Relay. See maps from all three MOC and Spring Cup days below. At the Mediterranean Open Championship (MOC), Weltzien did three strong races – and won ...

Olav Lundanes and Signe Søes took the victories on the long distance race at Spring Cup today. Lundanes took the victory two minutes ahead of Francois Gonon with Runesson in third. Søes was two minutes ahead of Maja Alm with Annika Rihma in third. Note also Ida Bobach, winning D19-20E ...

After a webTV production with great potential from the mixed relay on Thursday, the long distance mass start on the program for the ski-orienteers in Tänndalen, Sweden today. According to the reports there should be live GPS tracking, live web-TV and live results from the race. The start has been ...

In a startfield with many strong sprinters, Øystein Kvaal Østerbø won the first stage in MOC 2011 ahead of Audun Weltzien and Daniel Hubmann. In the womens class, Ines Brodmann took the victory ahead of Annika Billstam. The sprint was held in a small towns with many small street – ...

The live headcam footage from the course was a first within orienteering – and made it possible to feel the speed of the athletes – and see some of the challenges the athletes met on the course. Even without GPS Tracking, the Mixed relay at Ski WOC yesterday showed good ...

The GPS tracking from today’s Ski WOC Mixed Relay with one man and one woman on the team – each skiing approximately 3 x 10 minutes should be interesting to watch! (Update: No GPS tracking – but still very interesting with live headcam from the course – following the top ...

Another fun day in Sweden with live GPS tracking and live web-TV from the Ski WOC in Sweden. The Championships continues with a middle distance today – starting from 10:00 CET. The organisers offered demanding courses yesterday (see mens course here) – expect even more excitement in the middle distance ...

The Route to Christmas series has been very popular here at World of O the last years, and there have been many requests to offer some of these “O-puzzles” throughout the year. I have therefore decided to launch a similar series of “O-puzzles” throughout the rest of the year – ...

Live GPS tracking, live web-TV – and even live TV feed from a control on the course is promised for this years Ski WOC in Sweden. The Championships start off with a sprint today – starting from 10:00 CET. The organisers promise good terrain, demanding courses and the new touch ...

The WOC in the future groups suggestions are up: A prologue + chasing start race and a sprint relay is introduced – and all qualifications are removed except for the sprint. – It is proposed that WOC is divided into three blocks, “Sprint”, “Middle” and “Traditional” with a rest day ...