Gleb Tikhonov and Maria Keckina won the Russian Championships Long in Perm this weekend. Anastasia Trubkina  and Sergej Detkov won the Long Mass start. Challenging and interesting terrain met the athletes in Perm. The above map sample is from the mass start race. Maps All maps via AndyBary.com. Results Long Note that results are transliterated ...

Here updates will be posted from the International Orienteering Coaches Conference 2015 during the three days the conference lasts. From Monday August 24th until Wednesday August 26th representatives of seven of the leading orienteering nations – Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland – will gather in southern Austria ...

The WOC 2015 Long distance in the women’s class was decided on the long legs like a real long distance race should be decided – and both choice of route and execution of route was important for the medals. Above the longest leg in the course is shown – the ...

[Live all day – starting 11:00 CET, decided 16:45 CET – no live GPS-tracking expected] This may very well be the last “real long distance World Championships race”; it is staged in so remote Scottish wilderness that there is not even mobile phone coverage, thus there will be no live ...

When watching the relay as a spectator, it looked like Denmark’s second leg runner, Ida Bobach, was clearly the strongest runner in the relay as her second leg decided the relay – increasing the gap to the followers from 1 minute to more than 4 minutes. However, looking at the split times, ...

Denmark’s women and Switzerland’s men were in a different league than the others today – running in the lead nearly from start until finish, and deciding the relay already after two legs. The Danish women had a 4 minute lead after two legs – Switzerland’s men “only” around 2 minutes. Fantastic race ...

[Live from 14:55 CET (Women) and 17:00 CET (Men)] The relay is the highlight of the World Championships for many – and this year it comes before the long distance. Some top runners like Thierry Gueorgiou and Olav Lundanes skip the relay in order to be better prepared for the ...

[Updated with comment from Gueorgiou] Extremely tight: Four runners were only one control from beating the winner Daniel Hubmann – Lucas Basset, Olle Boström, Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou. Magne Dæhlie had a slow start, but ran faster than Hubmann from the 2nd control to the finish. In this race a ...

Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) won the men’s class 3 seconds ahead of French surprise Lucas Basset with Olle Bostrom (Sweden) in 3rd another 10 seconds behind. Annika Billstam (Sweden) won the women’s class 50 seconds ahead of Merja Rantanen (Finland) with Emma Johansson (Sweden) in 3rd at 1:18. Both in the ...

[LIVE from 13:00 CET. Decision women 15:20. Decision men 17:50 CET] Reigning champions Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Annika Billstam (Sweden) have so far this year not shown the same exceptional performance which gave them the World Champion titles last year, but they are both athletes with a lot of routine ...