[Start from 12:00 CET – last start at 15:12 CET] Thierry Gueorgiou, Daniel Hubmann, Olav Lundanes, Judith Wyder and Tove Alexandersson are the big favourites in the WOC long distance in Lavarone, Italy tomorrow. Read on to get the full background on the favourites – and see who the outsiders ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday July 5th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Burano – an island outside Venice. The first medals are fought for in the sprint final in Venice in the afternoon – with start from 15:20 CET. The championships continue with Mixed sprint relay ...

What will the future Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) look like? The future JWOC program could become a carbon copy of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) program: Introducing a mixed sprint relay and introducing a quota system for the forest races. Or it may stay exactly like it is today. ...

Thierry Gueorgiou did it again for Kalevan Rasti. After a difficult night for the Finnish team, with many mistakes in the tough and technical terrain, the world stars Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou decided the relay for Kalevan Rasti on the two last legs. The last leg was a real ...

22:00 CET on Saturday Jukola  starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the 66th edition of ...

Denmark won today’s unoffical World Cup race in sprint relay in the very tricky artificially built labyrinth-like streets of Imatra. Emma Klingenberg, Tue Lassen, Søren Bobach and Maja Alm run in the Danish team. Sweden had a clear 25 second lead on Denmark after three legs – Jonas Leandersson doing ...

The EOC Sprint winners Judith Wyder (Switzerland) and Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the sprint qualification in the World Cup race in Imatra today in a very tight sprint race. The men’s race featured all 40 men going to the final within 58 seconds – in the women’s class the first ...

[Updated for Imatra] Middle and Long distance races in Norwegian wilderness around Kongsberg (June 7th-8th) and a sprint race and a mixed sprint relay in Imatra, Finland (June 11th-12th) as a “warm-up event” to Jukola. This is what the third round of the 2014 Orienteering World Cup offers. The races ...

– If you look at the number of “controlpacks”, you can see that the average number of controls attacked alone for the women’s Top 10 is 4 controls (out of 20), Martin Lerjen of O-zeugs comments the women’s middle distance in the “pre-WOC” races in Italy this weekend. This weekend ...

10MILA countdown: One day left until one of the main highlights of the spring season for an orienteer: 10MILA. Kalevan Rasti, Halden, Lidingö, Hiidenkiertäjät, Kristiansand, Vaajakosken Terä, OK Linné and Södertälje are the biggest favourites among the men. Halden, OK Tisaren, Domnarvet, Tampereen Pyrintö and Pan Århus are some of the ...