World of O News

Did you know that the Swiss men never have taken a medal at the Middle distance? Or that Russia never has taken an individual gold medal in the womens class? Or that Norway after Hausken’s Gold medal at the sprint Sunday now have a WOC Gold medal in all disciplines ...

China, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia, Norway, Slovakia and Italy all set new national records with respect to best result achieved at a WOC Sprint ever at the Olomouc WOC Sprint Final on Sunday. Below National records for WOC Sprint 2008 are listed. See also pictures of all of these runners ...

Sprint Final pictures have now been added to World of O Runners WOC 2008 Team Pictures. All pictures are sorted by name and country to make it easy to find the runner you are interested in. You are free to use all these pictures on any webpage as long as ...

Andrey Khramov (RUS) won the Gold medal in the mens opening distance in this years WOC in Olomous, Czech Republic, with Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Martin Johansson (SWE) in the next spots. – Some small mistakes – I had some small mistakes. 6-7 seconds, maybe 10 seconds mistake three times, ...

Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) continued her success from the EOC by winning todays WOC sprint with 9 seconds in front of Minna Kauppi (FIN) and Helena Jansson (SWE). – I had some really nice days at the European Champs, but this is a lot better, a very happy Norwegian said ...

Pictures of all runners (except a handful) from the WOC Sprint Qual is now available sorted by Team and Name. Thus you can easily find your favourite. You are free to use all these pictures on your webpage as long as the source to the pictures are given as described ...

Helena Jansson (SWE), Signe Søes (DEN), Dana Brožková (CZE), Alex Lubina (GER), Daniel Hubmann (SUI), and Matthias Müller (SUI) were the winners in a tight WOC Sprint qualification in Czech Republic today. The course was rather easy – leading to the cut to get to the final being between 40 ...

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for Highlands Open 2008? Highlands Open 2008 – staged from August 29th until August 31st in Italy – is the last event featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – giving you ...

QuickRoute is a computer program for Windows that allows you to display a route from a GPS device, such as a GPS-clock, on an orienteering map saved as an image file. There are several other alternatives to do the same, but QuickRoute made by Swedish Elite runner Mats Troeng has ...

After being very close at the Sprint distance in both mens and womens categories, Sweden got its Gold medal at todays Middle distance with Johan Runesson after an excellent race in a very technical middle distance. In the womens class the Finn Venla Niemi took the victory after beating Swedens ...