World of O News

Several mistakes of 5 minutes or more were made by the World Orienteering Elite at yesterdays Nordic Orienteering Championships over the Long distance in Salo, Finland. The GPS Tracking on all runners makes it possible to get a glimpse at how the best orienteers in the world tackle the Finnish ...

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The tabloid title is copied from the Norwegian Broadcaster TV2. With the Open Nordic Champs and the start of the World Cup season coming up on Saturday, Norwegian TV2 – the biggest Norwegian private Broadcaster – gets some focus on orienteering again. The title above is from their short preview ...

The short version: Passive GPS devices are allowed – sealed/taped GPS watches may not be used. The “ban against GPS watches” imposed by the IOF in WRE events and above according to their modified rule 21.3 has stirred a lot of discussion the last days. As an answer to all ...

Today we present a Webroute from JK 2009 day 3 submitted by Dave Schorah. To make it more interesting for the reader to draw your route, we have included routechoices and splits for some of the runners in the graphic below the Webroute. You can also find the complete course ...

– This is really sad news, especially for me as the QuickRoute developer. The result of hundreds of hours of unpaid work is now banned to use at major international events. At least for the vast majority of athletes that do not have a non-display GPS watch, Mats Troeng – ...

You won’t be allowed to carry a GPS watch like the Forerunner 405/305 on WRE races, World Cup races and WOC races from June 1st according to the new IOF rules published by the IOF today. Note that the IOF rules are not applicable to events which are not organized ...

[Updated with complete course] The Norwegian NOC Test races over the long distance east of Oslo got as hard as expected – Nordberg taking the win in the mens class in 92:08. Nordberg was 25 seconds ahead of the winner of yesterday – Carl Waaler Kaas, with Håvard Lucasen in ...

[Updated 1800] Carl Waaler Kaas and Anne Margrethe Hausken took victories today – Swiss Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann where left far behind. In the mens class Waaler Kaas took a very clear victory – more than a minute ahead of Olav Lundanes – and with another minute down to ...

Marianne Andersen and Anders Skarholt won the Norwegian NOC test race over the sprint distance held just outside Oslo today. Andersen was only 3 seconds ahead of Anne Margrethe Hausken – the two being more than 20 seconds ahead of Elise Egseth in third spot. In the mens class, Skarholt ...