World of O News

What was the best orienteering course of 2018? The World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in 2017, the last stage of France 5 won in 2016, the World Champs long distance in Scotland won in 2015 and the World Champs middle distance in Italy won in 2014. Before that we had two years with Portuguese winners: a ...

[Update 10/10: Comment from course-setter about Long DSQ] Simona Aebersold dominated the Junior European Cup (JEC) on homeground in Switzerland with very clear victories both in Middle and Long – and also deciding the Sprint Relay for Switzerland. The Aebersold-family did not stop there, however: Younger brother Fabian also took a JEC ...

Jonas Leandersson and Tove Alexandersson (both SWE) won the World Cup Final Sprint in Czech Republic on demanding courses where routechoices where picking the correct routechoice was very important throughout the courses. In the men’s class the two Swiss runners in the top of the World Cup, Swiss Daniel Hubmann ...

[Updated with extra illustrations] Karolin Ohlsson (SWE) and Milos Nykodym (CZE) both won their first World Cup victories on a Middle distance on really tricky Czech sandstone terrain. Good execution and good routechoices was the key to victory in a race where many of the pre-race favourites got into trouble. ...

Switzerland won the World Cup Sprint Relay which was organized in Prague, Czech Republic as part of the 2018 World Cup Final. Sweden had a very good start of the relay, and after two legs Sweden seemed to be on the way to victory with a 31 second lead down ...

From Friday October 5th until Sunday October 7th Europe’s best juniors will compete at the Junior European Cup (JEC) in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. The races start with a Sprint Relay on Friday and continue with Middle distance on Saturday and a Long distance carried out a on Sunday. For the first time in ...

Vojtech Kral (Czech Republic) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) won the Knock-Out Sprint which was the first of four races in the World Cup Final Orienteering 2018 in Czech Republic.  We saw tight races already from the qualification in the morning, with two of the runners battling for the overall World ...

Kyburz, Leandersson, Kvaal Østerbø, Michiels, Glibov, D Hubmann won the men’s Quarter-finals and Strand, Hauswirth, Wyder, Ohlsson, Ruch and Närhi  won the women’s Quarter-finals in today’s World Cup in Knock-Out Sprint in Prague, Czech Republic. Most of the favourites made it to the semi-finals. Notably both Natalia Gemperle (RUS) and ...

The overall orienteering World Cup will be decided a sprint-dominated long weekend in Czech Republic from Thursday October 4th until Sunday October 7th. The World Cup final weekend consists of a Knock-out sprint event on Thursday, a Sprint Relay on Friday, a Middle distance on Saturday and a regular Sprint race on ...

[LIVE Friday September 20th – Sunday September 22nd] Around 130 national team runners are ready for Euromeeting  – offering three days of intensive sprint orienteering, featuring the same full program as the first sprint WOC which is organized in the same area in Denmark in 2020. That means Knock-Out Sprint, Sprint ...