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The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle starts with a qualifier in the morning (09:00 CET) and continues later in the day with finals from 15:50 16:04 CET (Men) and 17:15 17:33 CET (Women). The Middle is the most open of all the races in the championships, especially in the men’s class with ...

  Sweden won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint Relay for the third time in a row after a fantastic start by Tove Alexandersson. The Swedish team ran an excellent relay alone in the lead, increasing the speed leg by leg with Emil Svensk and Gustav Bergman increasing the lead ...

The WOC Sprint Relay starts Sunday at 18:10 CET – and should be one of the highlights of the championships from a viewer’s viewpoint. The two big favourites are Sweden and Switzerland – with the battle for bronze being very open. The Sprint Relay is organized in the town centre ...

[Updated with detailed analysis leg-by-leg] The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint 2021 was a very special sprint in an old fortress area, with high walls, tunnels and tricky orienteering from start until finish.  Here we take a detailed look at some of the most interesting legs on the women’s course. ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint 2021 was a very special sprint in an old fortress area, with high walls, tunnels and tricky orienteering from start until finish.  Here we take a detailed look at some of the most interesting legs on the men’s course. One example leg is the ...

Big day for Sweden: Isac von Krusenstierne and Tove Alexandersson (both Sweden) took the gold medals in today’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint. In the men’s class Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Tim Robertson (New Zealand) took the other medals, while Natalia Gemperle (Russia) and Maja Alm (Denmark) were closest to Alexandersson ...

[Qual from 09:00 CET, Final from 14:31 CET] Maja Alm (DEN) and Daniel Hubmann (SUI) are reigning champions, Tove Alexandersson is the big favourite in the women’s class and the men’s class is wide open with 8-10 potential winners on the individual Sprint which opens the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Czech Republic.. ...

The first World Orienteering Championships (WOC) since 2019 will offer spectacular terrain and great competitions from Saturday July 3rd in Czech Republic! The first weekend is a sprint weekend, with the Sprint Saturday (14:50 CET) and Sprint Relay Sunday (18:10 CET).  After a rest day on Monday, WOC 2021 continues ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 starts already in 3 weeks time – at July 3rd – in Czech Republic. Several international WOC selection races for the forest disciplines have been organized the last weekends – here we take a look at some of the results and courses, to help ...

Double gold for Sweden with Tove Alexandersson and Emil Svensk in today’s European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Sprint. In the women’s class Alexandersson won ahead of two Swiss runners – Elena Roos and Simona Aebersold. In the men’s class Yannick Michiels (Belgium) took silver ahead of Gustav Bergman (Sweden) and Kasper ...