World of O News

The future for orienteering on TV – if the goal is to attract a wide audience – will probably involve 3D Terrain Models. This will make broadcasts more spectacular, and it will also be easier to describe differences between routechoices to non-orienteers with limited orienteering map reading ability. – The ...

JWOC Dubbo, Australia: July 8th – July 15th – JWOC homepage Worth a look: – Introduction to JWOC 2007, including program and pictures Sprint distance: – Results Sprint Distance (Gold: Svensson + Kral). See also splits. – Pictures JWOC sprint winners. See also Map sprint Long distance: – Results long ...

The terrain from today’s JWOC long distance looks very challenging with very stony ground. As you can see from the winner Olav Lundanes’ route choice (excerpt from the first part of the course to the right), the trick was to avoid the stony areas as much as possible, and only ...

After silver on yesterdays sprint, Olav Lundanes won a magnificent gold medal on today’s long distance at the Junior World Championships in Dubbo, Australia. Lundanes goal for the JWOC this year was a medal on all distances – and with one gold and one silver after two of four distances, ...

Below you see pictures of the four best men and two best women in todays JWOC Sprint in the Dubbo Zoo. Congratulations to all these fine runners! Pictures: Rob Preston. From the top left: Sarka SVOBODNA (Silver, women – the left runner in the picture), Eva SVENSSON (Gold, women), Ivan ...

The start list for the JWOC sprint is available at the JWOC homepage – and we can also show some pictures from the model event earlier today. In the mens class, the three favorites named in the previous posting – Søren Bobach, Mikael Kristensson and Olav Lundanes start at 11:05, ...

The night between the coming Saturday and Sunday – at 01:30 CET (09:30 in the morning local Dubbo time) the sprint distance starts the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Dubbo, Australia. Two and a half hours later, at 04:00 CET, the two first Junior World Champions in the 2007 Championships ...

Press release, WOC 2007: The newly released Bulletin 3 gives the athletes and other some more information about how the WOC-races will be. And the longdistance will create a historic moment with the longest WOC-courses ever for both men and women. The men will fight on a course of 18,1 ...

All four courses from World Cup round 2 in Bykle, Norway (both A and B-finals), are now available in Routegadget. The B-final courses where by some test-runners said to be better and more interesting than the A-final courses, as they did not have to pass the finish area. Now you ...

The jury in the Jukola video competition along with the Jukola organizers have made its decision: The winner of the Jukola video competition came from Sweden: Jukola promotion video, made by Jesper Eriksson, OK Ravinen was chosen the best video. The winner takes it all – and the prize will ...