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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 ...

Sören Bobach, Timo Sild, Tore Bjørseth Berdal, Siri Ulvestad, Signe Klinting and Jenny Lönnkvist were the heat winners when the middle distance qualification of the JWOC 2008 was held in Gothenburg, Sweden today. 60 men and women found their way to the finals. 20 from each heat 20 runners from ...

Here at woO-TV you can now see video from the forest and urban areas of the sprint course – along with video interviews with the winners in over the JWOC Sprint distance. Confident and happy Kodeda A very happy winner in the mens class – Stephan Kodeda – shows confidence ...

Gold for Czech Republic and Denmark at the sprint distance in the Junior World Champs in Gothenburg today. The Czech Stephan Kodeda took home the victory for Czech Republic in the mens class. Kodeda was one of the big favourites, and managed to put off the pressure. Emma Klingenberg from ...

On todays tough long distance (click for large map) Tero Föhr and Minna Kauppi took home victories. Kauppi beat Hausken only by a few seconds after the two being together for long parts of the course. In the mens class, everything looked like a clear victory for Thierry Gueorgiou – ...

Victories went to Anne Margrethe Hausken and Anders Nordberg at todays middle distance race which counted as the fourth race in this years orienteering World Cup. For Hausken, this was the best international middle distance race – a discipline which has been difficult for Hausken in the past. For Nordberg ...

The middle distance courses in todays World Cup middle distance race at the O-festival in Siggerud south of Olso were challenging – with many of the top runners making large errors. The Norwegians mastered the terrain best on home ground – with Anne Margrethe Hausken and Anders Nordberg on top ...