World of O News

The first World Orienteering Championships (WOC) since 2019 will offer spectacular terrain and great competitions from Saturday July 3rd in Czech Republic! The first weekend is a sprint weekend, with the Sprint Saturday (14:50 CET) and Sprint Relay Sunday (18:10 CET).  After a rest day on Monday, WOC 2021 continues ...

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2021 starts already in 3 weeks time – at July 3rd – in Czech Republic. Several international WOC selection races for the forest disciplines have been organized the last weekends – here we take a look at some of the results and courses, to help ...

Double gold for Sweden with Tove Alexandersson and Emil Svensk in today’s European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Sprint. In the women’s class Alexandersson won ahead of two Swiss runners – Elena Roos and Simona Aebersold. In the men’s class Yannick Michiels (Belgium) took silver ahead of Gustav Bergman (Sweden) and Kasper ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the first Knock-Out Sprint in a championship when winning the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Knock-Out Sprint in Neuchatel today. Kyburz won a tight battle with another Swiss runner – Joey Hadorn. Norwegian Kasper Fosser took bronze, and finished with that a long ...

Switzerland won a clear victory in the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) 2021 Sprint Relay on homeground in Neuchatel today, nearly a minute ahead of Sweden with Norway in third place. This was exactly the same podium as in the last EOC in 2018 – also organized in Switzerland. Simona Aebersold, ...

Finally! Thursday May 13th at 16:40 CET the international orienteering elite will compete for medals again as the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) starts off with the Sprint Relay. EOC 2021 is the first pure sprint EOC, and is organized in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Excellent live coverage is promised, with live TV broadcasts of all ...

Just a few days ahead of the European Orienteering Championships (EOC), the Swiss Championships Sprint – with a large international start field – marks the restart of the international orienteering scene after a long Covid-19 break. In addition to all the Swiss EOC-favourites, athletes from Russia, Norway, Ukraine, Estonia, Spain, ...

For the final leg in Route to Christmas 2020 we found an interesting relay leg from Finland! The leg is from the Klaaniviesti 3-leg relay in Lappeenranta, Finland. Metsälä describes the terrain as very, very tough terrain. – The hills are steep, the ground is rocky and there’s lots of nasty ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting Runners’ Choice challenge from Sprintliga Oslo, with extensive analysis provided by Oskar Størmer.  In my opinion this is how a Knock Out Sprint can be made truly interesting, both for athletes and TV. Future course setters and stake holders: Take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Estonia! The chosen leg is the first leg from the men elite course at the Suunto Games middle distance race at September 7th this year. Thanks a lot to course setter Markus Puusepp for the tip and the analysis. [PS! I still ...