World of O News

The middle distance is the only JWOC discipline which has a qualification race – with more than 150 men on the start line there will be a fight to get to the finals. The first start is at 10:00 CET – and with 3 heats and 158 runners the last ...

Victories went to Pavel Kubat (Czech Republic) and Ida Bobach (Denmark) in today’s JWOC Long distance in Denmark. Sweden took silver medals in both categories – Johan Runesson among the men and Therese Klintberg among the women. The race development was very exciting – especially in the mens class were ...

Update: “Live results” will only be finish-times, and they will be updated approximately every 5 minutes. There will be reports from Christian Bobach from the arena directly in the LiveBlog. The start goes from 09:00 to 14:10 – and the men have a course of 11.3 km – so prepare ...

One of the favorites Gustav Bergman heads out already at 10:00 CET – 2:30 later Manuel Horta starts into the course as the last starter. Thus a long wait for Bergman after he finishes his race in JWOC Sprint – a tough race to win with more than 150 runners ...

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint Monday July 5th at 10:00 CET – and continues with Long distance on Tuesday, Middle qualification on Thursday, Middle final on Friday and Relay on Saturday. The JWOC is followed with big interest all over the orienteering world – and starts just ...

Piotr Parfianowicz (POL), Jon A Osmoen (NOR), Katerina Chromá (CZE) and Franziska Dörig (SUI) took the victories in todays very technical European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance in Soria, Spain. Maps Map W18 Map W16 Map M18 Map M16 GPS Tracking from all four courses Results Men16 1 177 Piotr ...

The orienteering elite of tomorrow have arrived in hot Soria, Spain – and are ready for Friday’s long distance which marks the start of this years European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC). Demanding and varied terrain never previously used for orienteering awaits the runners -you can follow the championships live via ...

NORT stage 3 with live GPS tracking starts at 14:00 CET. Simone Niggli starts first among the women – heading into the forest at 14:00. Daniel Hubmann starts first among the men at 15:00 CET. Get ready for tricky orienteering – even with clear leads, there may be changes in ...

– In the future probably only head-to-head duels and sprint concepts are interesting for further development as TV sports. Within a short time frame this must have consequences for which disciplines are on the program when international championships are organized. This is part of Bjørnar Valstad’s comments after the two ...

Fabien Hertner and Helena Jansson won todays KnockOut-sprint at the Nordic Orienteering Tour after big mistakes by favorites Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann made in the finals. Hertner was in the lead all the way from the start in both the semifinal and the final – and nobody was even ...