World of O News

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 ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Dana Brozkova took the gold medals in todays World Orienteering Champs middle distance. – My first middle distance victory since last year in Olomouc, a very happy Gueorgiou said after receiving his Gold medal. Brozkova has also not been on the top the since winning gold in ...

Finally we are ready for the first big day of WOC 2009 – the Middle Final. It is going to be a very exciting race, and the organizers have promised both live video streaming and GPS tracking (pay-service – 5 Euro – see details below). Tip: Take a look at ...

The Fantasy World Cup continues with tomorrows WOC Middle Final in Miskolc, Hungary. 09:30 CET tomorrow is your latest chance to change your Fantasy World Cup Team – make sure to check the startlists to see that your favourites are really in the race! Fantasy World Cup Schedule during WOC ...

Pictures for almost every runners have now been identified and sorted by runner and country, and are published on this page. Feel free to use the pictures online as long as you put on a photobyline “Photo: WorldofO.com” and link back to WorldofO.com. Sorry that the pictures are not the ...

Graham Gristwood, Baptiste Rollier, Thierry Gueorgiou, Minna Kauppi, Simone Niggli and Marianne Andersen won the six qualification heats in todays Long Qualification. All the top names got through to the finals – but some of the outsiders like Carl Waaler Kaas (old injury got worse during the race) did not ...

Starttimes for WOC Long Middle sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2009 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification. There you will also find the results for each country in a nice table. Important facts 15 ...

No big surprises in todays Middle Qualification in the World Orienteering Champs in Miskolc, Hungary. The biggest surprise was maybe that the king of the middle distance – Thierry Gueorgiou – did not win the middle distance qualification – a first since 2001! For the athletes, it was good to ...

Starttimes for WOC Qual Middle sorted by country are now available at the WOC 2009 Team page and will be a good tool to follow your favourite countries in the WOC Middle Qualification. Important facts 15 runners will go to the final from each qualification heat in both mens and ...

Fly through the areas where the World Orienteering Champs will be decided the coming week – and see what kind of hilly challenges the best orienteers will face! Below a video from Google Earth is embedded which includes old maps of embargoed areas and traning areas – and you can ...