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The tricky Idre mountain terrain gave another set of very exciting competitions when World Cup relays were decided today. The Swedish runners dominated the race, with victories in both the men’s and women’s class, and several teams battling for the victory throughout the relay in both the men’s and women’s ...

Tricky orienteering with lots of mistakes from the top ranked runners led to a very interesting middle distance World Cup race in Idre Fjäll this rainy Saturday. We got surprise victories in both the women’s and men’s race – with junior Hanna Lundberg (Sweden) winning the women’s race from start ...

Sweden’s Idre Fjäll delivered as promised: Tough, tricky and interesting long distance orienteering in a fantastic area for orienteering just below the tree line. The young couple Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) handled the tough conditions best – and both took their first individual World Cup victories.  In ...

The Orienteering World Cup continues in interesting mountain terrain in Swedish Idre Fjäll with a long distance on Thursday (August 12th), a middle distance on Saturday and a relay on Sunday. This is the second round of the 2021 World Cup after the European Championships in May, as the World ...

Tove Alexandersson took the slower route choice on several of the most important route choice legs – but with Alexandersson’s speed she had no trouble winning the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Long distance – organized in very interesting sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic. Here you find a detailed analysis of all ...

Many nice route choice challenges – and a young man with very high speed: That is a short summary of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 Long organized in very interesting sandstone terrain in the Czech Republic. Here you find a detailed analysis of all legs in the course – ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long distance. Both Alexandersson had large winning margins of around 3 minutes – and both were the big favourites of the day. Women: Alexandersson with all gold medals In the women’s class Alexandersson took all gold medals ...

  With quarantine closing a few hours ahead of the TV-broadcast, there has been time to study the WOC 2021 Long course in depth. In this post we take a look at the important legs – this should be a nice companion for the TV broadcast. Focus is on the women’s ...

This will be tough! 1050 meter climb. 13.6 km. 99 minutes of running for the men. And 690 – 9.5 – for the women. The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long is the last competition in a tough championship, were some of the biggest favourites on the long distance have been competing in ...

  Sweden won the men’s WOC 2021 Relay 51 seconds ahead of Norway with Switzerland 2 minutes behind. Read on for GPS-illustrations and splitsbrowser illustrations of the women’s WOC 2021 Relay. The central parts of the WOC 2021 relay is already covered in the Maps, Results and GPS-animations article. This article is a collection ...