World of O News

Very challenging orienteering met the runners at today’s middle distance finals. A tricky start with several rocky areas was a problem for several runners. Then came an easy middle part, before the really tricky last part where many runners did mistakes. In the end, Olli-Markus Taivainen won the mens class ...

The most tricky and rocky areas around San Martino have been saved for todays JWOC Middle Final – the worlds best junior orienteers are going to meet really challenging orienteering today. The A-Finals start at 10:10 CET for the women and 10:21 CET for the men, respectively – whereas B- ...

Live speaker sound, quite a lot of technical orienteering and the most interesting leg for routechoices in the JWOC so far. That’s what the JWOC Middle Qualification gave us today. Most favourites when on to the final – and tomorrow we are ready for the big day – The Middle ...

With technically demanding rocky terrain, and only 60 of 170 men to the A-final in todays JWOC Middle Qualification, the race is going to be an exciting one even if it is ‘only’ a qualification race. The small nations are particularly interested in the Middle Qualification, as a A-final qualification ...

With two of three JWOC competitions finished, the L-Team with manager Lukas has taken the lead in the Fantasy JWOC. For the first Fantasy JWOC competition – the Sprint Final – the all-Swiss team OLG Herzogenbuchsee took the lead. The Swiss however didn’t manage that well on the Long distance, ...

… and also routechoice of the three best women from the JWOC Long distance are now available. Above you see the top three womens routechoice for two decisive controls. The blue line is Jenny Lönnkvist – who looses 35 seconds to Marika Teini (purple) to the 3rd control and another ...

[Update: Now with WebRoutes and complete map] Silvermedalist from the sprint yesterday Ida Bobach (DEN) took the victory in the womens class a minute ahead of yesterdays winner Jenny Lönnkvist (SWE). Thus the two switched positions. In the mens class, Gustav Bergman took the victory with a fantastic race. 1:05:55 ...

Here you find all the information you need to follow the JWOC Long distance – including the popular interactive startlist. Above you see the old map of Passo Rolle – a very interesting alpine terrain. The JWOC Long distance is a lengthy affair – lasting nearly 7 hours from the ...

[Press Release – 06/07/09 – Mario Facchini – Newspower Press Office] – First races today, in Valle di Primiero (Italy) for the Jr. World Orienteering Championships -The sprint race was held in the centre of Imer and Mezzano -Switzerland and Sweden on the first steps of the podium -Tomorrow the ...

Remember to update your Fantasy JWOC Team before the long distance starts tomorrow. Last chance to change your team is Tuesday morning at 10:00 CET. As of 22:00 CET there are still no official results available from todays JWOC Sprint. Thus, based on unofficial results (and some guesswork), preliminary results ...