World of O News

After 14 Silver and Bronze medals in World Champs, European Champs and Nordic Champs, the Gold medal was finally there – Thanks to an intense fear for ruining this possibility for a World Championships Gold medal, I managed to get a 4-5 seconds lead to Helena Jansson on the way ...

Gueorgiou’s silver medal on the WOC long distance was even more impressive The King of Middle did it again! After several big disappointments in the spring season, Thierry Gueorgiou came back 100% prepared for the World Orienteering Champs in Hungary, and took his 6th WOC Gold medal over the middle ...

Trimtex, Highlands Open, OOCup and Nordvestgaloppen are the sponsors of “The Orienteering Achievement of 2009″. That means that you can win Extreme O-pants from Trimtex or starts in Highlands Open 2010, OOCup 2010 or Nordvestgaloppen 2010. The winners of “The Orienteering Achivement of 2009″ get the brand new Softshell Air ...

2009 has been another year full of great orienteering achievements – and as we now are moving towards 2010, it is again time to decide the greatest of achievements of the year. The annual poll to find the biggest Orienteering Achievements of the year is organized by two of the ...

In this third part of the series, we look at how to show your position on an orienteering map on your phone – using your phones built-in GPS receiver. In a few years, most mobile phones will come with built-in GPS receiver. This will be the chance for the orienteering ...

[Updated with Venice O-meeting maps] Mikhail Mamleev won both the second PWT race in Vizena on Saturday and the Venice O-meeting on Sunday ahead of Øystein Kvaal Østerbø. Kvaal Østerbø however won the overall Adriatic Meeting. In the womens class Sarka Svobodna won the Adriatic meeting with victories both Friday ...

Victories went to Øystein Kvaal Østerbø ahead of Mikhail Mamleev and Jan Troeng in the mens class and to Sarka Svobodna ahead of Uotila Ulrika in the womens class in the first race of the Adriatic meeting 2009 – which is also a PWT race. Below you find maps and ...

Denmark Wins Both JEC Relay Races, Switzerland Gets the Cup. Today the Junior European Cup in Germany ended with an extremely exciting relay competition that left the decision about the winner of the nations ranking open until the very last metres. Up to ten teams fought both in the women’s ...

Junior European Champs, Germany: Clear Decisions in the Sandstone Rocks on the JEC Long Distance Courses. The long distance race of the Junior European Cup showed today that the courses in all four classes were of a very selective nature and lead to distinct intervals even between the winners of ...

Swiss, Czech and Scandinavian Dominance in the JEC Sprint. Today’s sprint race of the Junior European Cup on the premises of the Bad Gottleuba Health Clinic bore testimony to the top condition especially of the runners from Switzerland, Denmark, Norway and Czech Republic. Victories went to Pavel Kubat (CZE), Matthias ...