World of O News

Most of  the favourites managed to continue to the final in today’s middle distance qualification in the World Champs in Savoie, France. The courses were less tricky than expected by some – with a lot of running on tracks. Still there were more competitors from “smaller nations” than usually in ...

Experience exactly what the World Champs competitors experience in the tricky French terrains by watching this HeadCam video synchronized with GPS position fromt the WOC Long distance Qualification. The synchronization is done in 3DRerun with the HeadCam/GPS synchronization feature. You can click anywhere on the map with the left mouse ...

The World Orienteering Championships continues with Middle distance qualification from 14:00 CET today. Follow the event live with LiveBlog, live results and live audio today. There are three qualification heats for both men and women – but the heats are not official until after the start. 15 runners from each ...

WOC team pages and athlete profiles updated with pictures – split times uploaded to WinSplits. Pictures are free to use on the Internet as long as you link back to WorldofO.com AND the runner profile for the runner. WOC 2011 Team page with pictures sorted by country Runner profiles – ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and the other French men set the standard with extremely strong races in the long distance qualification today. Three French heat winners among the men of three possible – Gueorgiou, Philippe Adamski and Francois Gonon. In the womens class Dana Brozkova, Minna Kauppi and Signe Søes won their ...

The World Orienteering Championships start today at 11:30 CET with Long distance qualification – the decisions in the qualifications will be ready around 16:00 CET. Follow the event live with LiveBlog, live results and live audio today. There are three qualification heats for both men and women – but the ...

The World Orienteering Championships start Saturday at 11:30 CET with Long distance qualification – and continues through the coming week with 3 qualification races, 3 final races and one relay – the relay finishing it off next Saturday. There will be good coverage with live video, GPS-tracking, live blog and ...

– The map was good. A big improvement from the old map, Thierry Gueorgiou commented after the middle distance model event today. Today’s WOC middle distance model event was on an updated version of the map Le Cruix de Sonne – a map which itself was new this spring. – ...

– This was easier than all the maps we have trained on during our preparations, one of the WOC participants said after visiting the model event for long distance today. Many of the competitors have already arrived in Savoie, France – and today it was time for the long distance ...

Saturday August 13th the World Champs in Orienteering starts off with Long Qualification – now all the top orienteers are in the last stages of their final preparations for the big highlight of the season. Read on for an early preview the action in Savoie, France from August 13th until ...