What was the best orienteering course of 2017? The last stage of France 5 won in 2016, the World Champs long distance in Scotland won in 2015 and the World Champs middle distance in Italy won in 2014. Before that we had two years with Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old ...

Switzerland was on top in both the men’s and the women’s class in the World Cup final long distance in Grindelwald, Switzerland on Friday. Matthias Kyburz took yet another World Cup victory while Elena Roos took her first World Cup victory. The athletes got very interesting orienteering challenges in steep, ...

The overall orienteering World Cup will be decided in beautiful surroundings in Grindelwald, Switzerland this coming weekend. A Long distance event, a Middle distance event and a Sprint Relay will be organized between Friday September 29th and Sunday October 1st. All three competition areas were never mapped before, so this will ...

[With race development graphs] Jerker Lysell (SWE) and Maja Alm (DEN) won the Sprint, Matthias Kyburz (SUI) and Helena Jansson (SWE) won the Middle distance and Denmark won the Sprint Relay at World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. Although some of the biggest stars were absent at World Games 2017, the ...

[Program: Sprint Tuesday July 25th, Middle distance Wednesday July 26th and Sprint Relay Thursday July 27th] The Orienteering disciplines in the World Games starts on Tuesday July 25th with an individual Sprint race. The World Games sets out to be the Olympic Games for non-Olympic sports. Around 3500 athletes compete ...

The third gold in a row for both Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Olli Ojanaho (Finland) at today’s Junior World Championships Long distance. Very impressive by these two runners who manage to deliver top performances under high pressure day after day. Men: Close battle all the way to the finish In ...

Olli Ojanaho (Finland), Simon Imark (Sweden), Akseli Ruohola (Finland)/Mathieu Perrin (France, shared victory) , Veera Klemettinen (Finland) , Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Sofia Bachmann (Switzerland) won the heats in the Middle distance qualification which opened the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) in Tampere, Finland today. The qualification was dominated by ...

More than 2500 pictures from WOC 2017 have been sorted by athlete & country and have been posted at WorldofO.com’s Facebook page and at the WorldofO athlete profiles. Feel free to use the pictures online with photo-byline “Photo: WorldofO.com”. By country on Facebook  Australia  Austria  Azerbaijan  Belgium  Belarus  Brazil  Canada Bulgaria  China  Croatia  Cyprus  Czech Republic ...

The Junior World Championships 2017 start with Middle Qual on Monday July 10th, continues with Middle Final on Tuesday, Sprint Wednesday, Long Friday and Relay Sunday. The championship is organized around Tampere, Finland – and will offer GPS-tracking, online internet results, video feed in internet and live speaker at all ...

The tricky terrain at the WOC 2017 lead to bigger mistakes than we normally see at a WOC relay – also among the top teams. Norway’s winning team in the men’s class and Sweden’s winning team in the women’s class each had three good technical races. This is a very quick ...