World of O News

The Junior World Championships continues with a very long long distance day in Poland today. The first start is at 09:00 CET – and the winners will be ready nearly 7 hours later. Nevertheless an exciting race is expected – it will be well worth following the race on the ...

The Swiss, Czech and German had WOC selection races in France this weekend – and the French in Slovenia. Some of the maps and results are available online: A lot of challenging orienteering, and quite a few interesting results which made the job interesting for the selection of the respective ...

The first ever JWOC victory for France by Lucas Basset – and another JWOC victory for Denmark with Ida Bobach. That is the results of Day 1 of the Junior World Championships in orienteering in Poland today. The championships continue with long distance Monday. Maps Map men Map women – ...

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint today at 14:00 CET – follow the race through live results and LiveBlog here! The sprint in JWOC is usually a very open competition – as there is no qualification. Can runners from any of the “smaller orienteering nations” manage to take ...

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint Sunday July 3rd at 14:00 CET – and continues with Long distance on Monday, Middle qualification on Wednesday, Middle final on Thursday and Relay on Friday. Expect a lot of interesting route choices in  the hilly terrain – above you see one ...

Daniel Hubmann and Annika Billstam won the exciting last stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour south of Oslo today. It was a big day for Swiss and Swedish orienteering with 3 Swiss men on top and 3 Swedish women among the top 4. Both Hubmann and Billstam decided the victory ...

With double World Champion Håvard Tveite as one of the course setters – a big fan of real forest orienteering on good maps – everything is set for a very interesting chasing start as the final competition in the Nordic Orienteering Tour. 4 x Switzerland – Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and ...

With 200 World Cup points for the winner and quite easy to pick out the favourites, NORT Stage 3 starting on Saturday 14:00 CET will probably be the stage in this years Fantasy World Cup where you MUST pick out a good team to not loose out in the overall. ...

Lundanes will be chasing four Swiss men in real forest orienteering – only 1:05 behind. Hubmann, Kyburz, Merz and Müller are 4 x Switzerland in the lead of the Nordic Orienteering Tour, but probably don’t feel to safe with Lundanes chasing right behind in the final of NORT south of ...

Jerker Lysell and Galina Vinogradova both took their first World Cup victories in the KnockOut sprint which was the second stage of the Nordic Orienteering Tour in Göteborg, Sweden today. Both Lysell and Vinogradova must be counted as KnockOut sprint specialists. Their only Top 3 World Cup results are from ...