World of O News

Seven-time and reigning World Orienteering Champion and the King of International middle distance orienteering, Thierry (Tero) Gueorgiou, recently toured Ontario (or is that onTEROio?) with three countrymen including Francois Gonon (a former WOC bronze medalist). The one week visit to Ontario was part of a three week visit to North ...

Sandstones are always popular among orienteers. Not only because they are nice to look at, but also because they make interesting orienteering problems. One of the most popular place to find sandstone orienteering in Europe is in Czech Republic – the participants in the World Masters Orienteering Champs in Australia ...

The Halikko Relay in Finland offers full GPSSeuranta GPS Tracking, online results and speaker – whereas Blodslitet in Norway offers online results and speaker. Both will be interesting events to follow online. Halikko Relay. First start at 11:00 Finnish time. Tracking at 2nd, 14th and 15th legs. GPS Tracking Live ...

Now it is really simple – and it looks perfect! It takes less than 5 minutes to get a orienteering map on your Garmin GPS device – and then you can see exactly where you are on the map using your GPS. And the map looks exactly like it does ...

Recommended read: A lot of nice maps and an interesting review of the US Team training camp at Harriman State Park. The training camp was attended by several French national team runners, including multiple world champion Thierry Gueorgiou and Francois Gonon. The review is written by Peter Gagarin over at ...

Ever wanted to get orienteering maps on your GPS device, and see exactly where you are using the GPS? Read on to see how you can convert any OCAD file to a Garmin map which you can use on your Garmin GPS unit supporting Garmin .img maps – using freely ...

Olav Lundanes and Jon Pedersen of the Halden SK winning team of 25-manna today already put their map onto the web – you find their maps in omaps.worldofo.com. Expect many more maps from 25-manna in World of O maps the coming days. 11/10/2009: Updated with more maps. Map Olav Lundanes ...

At approximately 21:45 CET Saturday evening Live GPS Tracking from Finnish Champs Night will start – tracking is provided by GPSSeuranta. There will also be live audio in both Swedish and Finnish along with live results. 20 runners will be tracked in both mens and womens category. Night orienteering is ...

Helena Janssons disqualification due to running into a forbidden area at the Sprint race in the World Cup Final cost the leading team of manager Anders Skarholt and the Scary Team a lot of World Cup points – but so did it for a majority of the other top teams ...

The map from the World Cup Final middle distance is now available – either via Routegadget at olternativet.ch or from the page of Klaus Schgaguler. You find both variants in omaps.worldofo.com. The World Cup final weekend continues with a Sprint with double world cup points Sunday for which there will ...