World of O News

Double for Switzerland in todays long distance! Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann both won clear victories in todays though long distance in Hungary. Silver medals went to the two other big profiles of this world championships: Marianne Andersen and Thierry Gueorgiou. Simone Niggli is back in the absolute top again ...

The Long distance is the Marathon distance of the World Orienteering Championships. With winning times of 1:40 or more for the men – the runners are completely exhausted when they come to the last part of the course – and thus keeping the concentration all the way to the finish ...

Results and pictures sorted by country have been very popular during this World Championships. Now both results and pictures have been updated for Sprint and Relay – and almost every runners have now been identified and sorted by runner and country, and are published on this page. Feel free to ...

[Updated map links!] Utterly unbelievable last legs seems to be the new standard in WOC relays in the mens class. Switzerland took the Gold in the mens relay and Norway in the womens relay of the WOC 2009 relay – but this race will not be remembered for who took ...

The Scary Team and the Bushmen Team have been fighting for the lead in the World of O Fantasy World Cup for some time now. Bushmen took the lead back after the Middle distance – but now Scary is back on top. Sheffield Steelers – Best in World Cup race ...

For many both runners and spectators the Relay is the climax of the World Orienteering Championships. The 2008 edition of the WOC Relay was one of the most exciting in the orienteering history – especially the mens class. This year the French team is surely ready to get the medal ...

[Maps updated] Andrey Khramov (Russia) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) took the Gold medals in todays WOC Sprint. – It is very nice to win a gold medal every year, a very happy Andrey Khramov said after winning the gold medal in todays WOC Sprint. Big day for Sweden It was ...

Hanny Allston did not make it to the Sprint Final – that was the biggest surprise in todays WOC Sprint Qualification. All the other favourites made it to the final. We also had a few nice surprises: 18 year old Antonio Martinez from Spain made it to the final in ...

After a very exciting WOC Middle Final yesterday, we are ready for the WOC Sprint today. The Qualification starts at 09:00 CET – whereas the final starts at 16:20 CET. Tip: Take a look at the WOC 2009 Team page with pictures of most runners taken at WOC 2009 sorted ...

The Bushmen with manager Kristoffer Fiane Pedersen took the lead in the Fantasy World Cup after the WOC Middle distance. The Scary team is now in second spot – and these two teams have a solid lead down to the Accelerate Team in third spot. The Fantasy World Cup continues ...