World of O News

Today we are off to New Zealand in Route to Christmas. Open, hilly terrain met the runners when Wairarapa Orienteers and Wellington OC organized the SuperSeries competition in February 2009. None other than the good old Danish World Champion from Grimstad in 1997 Carsten Jørgensen took the victory – and ...

One 18 year old Danish junior world champion, one French multiple World Champion, one Norwegian star who got her first World Championships gold medal this year, one Finish multi-talent who got gold medals in both ski- and foot-orienteering this year, three Swiss runners from the best national team in 2009 ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a monsterleg from Men 21 Elite in the Finnish Champs Long distance held at September 6th 2009. Runners drawing their route on this leg include Jani Lakanen, Petteri Muukkonen and Jörgen Wickholm. Keep e-mailing me with tips about good cases to make sure ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from a France. This time we have chosen leg number 11 in the A course from a French National event at May 3rd 2009. The terrain is very different from what we have seen the previous two days. The leg is as usually ...

We have got a really long and challenging leg from the USA in todays Route to Christmas – with a best time of around 18 minutes. Todays leg in Route to Christmas 2009 is leg 8 from the Blue course in Return to Boggs Mountain A-Meet at May 3rd 2009. ...

The ‘Route to Christmas’ series at World of O was very popular the two last year – and I’ve therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget from 2009-competitions – or old forgotten ones which are still interesting – ...

Thierry Gueorgiou, Daniel Hubmann, Olli-Markus Taivainen, Peter Öberg, Fabian Hertner, Simone Niggli, Helena Jansson, Ida Bobach, Marianne Andersen and Linnea Gustafsson. These are the 10 runners who have been nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2009 – a poll organized by two of the major sources for international orienteering news ...

He looked like the happiest of all the medal winners in Miskolc this August – I started the WOC sprint qualification with enormous self confidence. The secret behind Fabian Hertner’s self confidence was 3.5 weeks high altitude training camp followed by 3 weeks of training focused fully on the Sprint ...

Probably one of the biggest setbacks for Simone in her career – but it might have given her that little extra she needed for the Long distance two days later? In 2007 Simone Niggli was close to unbeatable – with victory in 8 of 10 World Cup races – taking ...

Before last years JWOC she was the only one of them without a JWOC medal – now she has passed both of her older brothers She is only 18 years old – and with 4 medals of 4 possible in the Junior World Champs in Italy she got the Queen ...