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Eirik Langedal Breivik (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Middle on very technical, Hungarian terrain that really challenged the runners. We saw big mistakes by many athletes, with Breivik and Aebersold managing to navigate well in the steep hills while keeping high speed. In the ...

Challenging forest terrain, interesting routechoices and high temperatures await as European Orienteering Championships (EOC) start in Hungary on Friday with Middle Qualification. The championships continue with Middle Final on Saturday, Long on Sunday and finishes off with the Relay on Tuesday. The world’s top orienteers return to the forest when ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Riccardo Rancan (Switzerland) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Knock-Out Sprint – the last race of the championships. Silver and bronze went to Karolin Ohlsson (Sweden) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the women’s class, and Jørgen Baklid (Norway) and Jonatan Gustafsson (Sweden) in the men’s class. While ...

Graeme Ackland in the WOC 2024 course setting team has made a detailed analysis of the WOC Sprint Relay 2024, published here at WorldofO.com. – It was a very exciting race with lots of small errors and  changes of lead, Ackland comments.  The race analysis goes through the race and discusses ...

Switzerland won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint Relay after a very strong performance by Simona Aebersold on the last leg where she outran Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson, who was later disqualified for skipping a control. Finland took the second place with Norway in third. The two big favourites, Switzerland and ...

The Scottish organizers served one of the most tricky World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint races ever – and the Swedish duo Martin Regborn and Tove Alexandersson made the day a big Swedish success with two gold medals for Sweden.  Alexandersson with her 20th WOC gold medal – Regborn with his first. ...

Fast-paced urban orienteering with challenging route choices is expected when the 2024 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Edinburgh, Scotland on Friday July 12th with the Sprint Qualification and Final. The championship – which is a sprint-only WOC – continues with the Sprint Relay on Sunday July 14th, and finally ...

[LIVE from Monday July 1st 16:00 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2024 in Czech Republic starts with the Sprint Relay on Monday July 1st, continues with Sprint on Tuesday, Long on Wednesday, Middle on Friday and finishes off with Relay on Saturday.  The championship is organized around Pilsen, Czech Republic – and will offer a full ...

The 2024 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with more than 3000 teams on the start in total! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their ...

From flat and relatively easy orienteering in the first World Cup round on Swiss ground, to tricky, hilly orienteering in the second World Cup round in Geona, Italy. Victories went to Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) in the individual Sprint, while Switzerland won the Sprint Relay. With more varied ...