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The runner profiles at runners.worldofo.com are updated with about 1200 pictures from WOC in Ukraine last week. Enjoy! Pictures and results from WOC 2007 will be presented in an alternative way in the near future, so it will be even easier for you to navigate to the pictures you are ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder are still on top of the World of O Ranking after the World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine. Excellent WOC performance has though brought Minna Kauppi and Heli Jukkola a lot closer to Niggli-Luder in the womens class – and in the World of O Ranking ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder are still on top of the World of O Ranking after the first two WOC finals – long and middle. Excellent WOC performance with one gold and one silver has though brought Heli Jukkola a lot closer to Niggli-Luder in the womens class – and ...

The WOC 2007 top-of-page at World of O is saved here for future reference. Pre-WOC info » What happened last year? See videos from WOC 2006! » World of O Ranking: All favourites at a glance for each discipline! » WOC 2007 Live – Including results and maps + live ...

Three woO-TV production from the Middle Final in WOC 2007 are now available below. Hear Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli tell about their races, and how they prepared for them in long interviews – 8 and 4 minutes long, respectively. Also, see a very happy Jonn Are Myhren after his ...

Just in time for the start of WOC in Ukraine the coming Saturday, World of O today launches its new ranking scheme for the worlds orienteering elite. The World of O Ranking is designed to tell who is the best orienteer – both in each discipline and overall – when ...

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, ...