World of O News

March is another month in which typically athletes from Northern Europe travel to Southern Europe to be able to combine a training camp with a few orienteering races. However, in March you don’t have to travel that far south to get good conditions in a normal winter, and therefore we ...

It is time to dig into the extensive report on separating runners in orienteering again. This time we take a look at the different separating methods discussed in the report – and their applicability to a long distance race with a high quality start field. We also take a look ...

In the Top O-Travel Picks-series of articles we will take a look at the most interesting events of 2010 for travelers – month by month – to guide you through the fixture list. Focus is on multiday-events and World Ranking events, as these are events which typically attract traveling orienteers. ...

A new knock-out sprint format will be used at the Nordic Orienteering Tour (NORT) in June in Sweden – the second race in NORT and also the 5th World Cup race in 2010 – following the format used in Cross Country skiing closely. The qualification race in the morning for ...

Thierry Gueorgiou found the password to access his webpage again – and now he is not only the “King of Middle”, but also the most popular at World of O. – Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, after one year of desperate attempts, I finally managed to remember my password to update this page, Gueorgiou ...

What start interval would you prefer for the World Orienteering Championships Long distance? Fairness and Spectator-friendliness (and Media-friendliness) are the two main aspects here – and for now it may seem like Fairness is loosing the battle, and that we are going towards shorter start intervals rather than larger (ref. ...

In the last Route to Christmas of 2009 we have found a leg with Simone Niggli starring in the mens course. The chosen leg is leg number 7 in the HAL course from a national Swiss competition – the “Emmentaler OL” – organized by OLG Skandia at October 25th. Thanks ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Northern Norway – in a terrain which might have some relevancy for WOC in Trondheim in 2010. The chosen leg is leg number 6 in the Men 21 course from the regional championships in Ultralong distance (KM Ultralang) organized by Korgen IL ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – and this time a leg from a sprint competition is chosen. The chosen leg is leg number 3 in the H21E course from the Hummel sprint cup organized at September 5th 2009. The leg is as usually first provided ...

In many events, even at championships level, the results have been heavily influenced by runners not running completely independently. Co-working, and to some extent following is a major problem in orienteering, and has been for a long time. Different types of separating methods have been tried to separate runners to ...