World of O News

[First start 10:00, last start women 11:08, last start men 11:21, expected winning time 25 min] WOC 2019 starts Tuesday August 13th with Middle Qualification. The Middle Qualification is mostly a nice warm-up exercise for the top runners – but especially in the men’s class it is still possible to ...

The World Orienteering Championships 2019 (#WOC2019) starts on Tuesday August 13th at 10:00 CET with Middle qualification in Østfold, Norway. This is the first forest only WOC – with the first medals battled for in the Long distance Wednesday (Men from 10:24, Women from 13:14). The Middle distance final is decided on Friday (Women from 13:30, men from 15:45) ...

Norway’s men and Great Britain’s women won the JWOC 2019 relay – finishing off this year’s Junior World Championships. Norway was the big favourite in the men’s class after great runs by Kasper Fosser throughout the championship – Fosser took his third gold medal in the championships with the relay ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Isa Envall (SWE) won the JWOC 2019 Middle distance in Denmark. This was Fosser’s second victory at this JWOC – after winning the long distance earlier this week.  Envall won 54 seconds ahead of Fiona Bunn (GBR) with Tereza Janosikova (CZE) in 3rd at 1:24. In ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) won the men’s Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance just like last year, while Ida Haapala (FIN) and Veronika Kalinina (RUS) took a shared victory in the women’s class (still unofficial as of Tuesday morning) after a late jury decision moving Kalinina from silver to shared gold. While the ...

Aston Key (AUS) and Eline Gemperle (SUI) took the victories at the Junior World Championships Sprint in Denmark.  Key won 13 seconds ahead of Samuel Pihlstrom (SWE) with Guilhem Elias (FRA) in 3rd at 0:14. In the women’s class Gemperle won only 3 seconds ahead of Tilda Ostberg (SWE) with Grace ...

Finland won the overall team competition at this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) after winning three of the four relays. The Finnish team had to travel back home without individual gold medals this year, though – with runners from Czech Republic (3 gold), Hungary (2 gold) and Germany, Poland and Denmark winning ...

[Updated with links to maps and full GPS-tracking] Stora Tuna (Sweden) took the victory in the 2019-edition of Jukula after a strong last leg by Emil Svensk. Stora Tuna was a surprise victory with their very young team. Actually more than half of the team are brothers: Emil, Joakim, Viktor ...

Norway’s Fredrikstad SK took the victory in the 2019 edition of the Venla relay after a strong leg by Kamilla Olaussen on the last leg. IFK Göteborg went out onto the last leg in the lead, but after first a bad routechoice and later a quite big mistake, IFK’s Sara ...

Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world is even larger this year – 21.500 is a record number of competitors for the men’s relay Jukola and the women’s relay Venla! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 ...