World of O News

For the second day of this years’ Route to Christmas 2025 we have chosen a very interesting leg from the Norwegian Championships Long distance. This is a long leg towards the end of a tough long distance race – with several bigger hills that you have to choose how to ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2025? The middle distance race in Maximus O Meeting won in 2024, the World Champs middle distance in Switzerland won in 2023, the Pomeranian Sprint Cup won in 2022 and the WOC Long distance won in 2021. In the years before, we had a long distance race in Norway, the World Cup ...

The 19th edition of the traditional Route to Christmas here at World of O starts with a long and interesting leg from the Czech race INOV-8 CUP organized in north-eastern Czechia in early September. Straight or around – climb or not? Enjoy the challenges – just like the competitors! Your job in Route to Christmas ...

Tomáš Křivda (CZE) took his first ever World Cup race win, while Simona Aebersold (SUI) crushed the competitors as this year’s World Cup Final started off with the individual sprint race on Friday afternoon. Sweden followed up with a Sprint Relay win ahead of Switzerland on Saturday, while the weekend and the international orienteering season ...

Starting with a sprint on Friday from 15:00 CET on live TV – and continuing with a sprint relay on Saturday and a knock-out sprint on Sunday – the world’s best orienteers will gather in Uster, Switzerland to compete for the final time on the international scene this season for ...

Pia Young Vik (Norway) and Barros Vallet (France) won surprise gold medals when the 2025 European Orienteering Championships (EOC) concluded on Sunday with thrilling individual sprint finals in Lier, Belgium. Some tricky long route choices challenged the pre-race favourites – with many runners losing significant time.  France’s Mathias Barros Vallet produced the ...

August Mollén secured his first international championship title with a smart route choice in the final meters, leading a Swedish 1-2 ahead of Jonatan Gustafsson, while Cécile Calandry claimed her first major title in the women’s race at the European Championships Knock-Out Sprint in Geel, Belgium. The Market Square in ...

The 2025 European Orienteering Championships opened with lots of drama in the Belgian city of Hasselt, when Norway claimed their first ever Championships Sprint Relay title. Finland’s anchor run first into the finish, but what should have been Finland’s moment of glory transformed into Norwegian celebration when Maija Sianoja’s jumped ...

Fast orienteering in flat city centers – probably with many artificial barriers – await the runners when the European Orienteering Championship (EOC) starts in Belgium on Wednesday with the Sprint Relay, and continues with Knock-Out Sprint and Individual Sprint the rest of the week. The championship is organized in the Flemish cities of Hasselt, Geel and ...

Swedens’s women and Norway’s men took clear victories in the relay that finished off the World Orienteering Championships 2025 in Kuopio, Finland. The battle for silver and bronze was a lot closer, with Norway beating Switzerland in a tight battle on the last leg in the women’s leg, while the ...