An incredible race by Olav Lundanes – winning the WOC Long distance nearly 3 minutes ahead of Swiss Matthias Merz. The Norwegian runner was fastest all the way from the start until the finish. Both his speed and his technical performance was one step ahead of the competitors. With this ...

Probable outcome: Removal of WOC Qualification races seems very probable as all suggested programs are without qualification.  A split WOC – Forest and Urban alternating years – is one possible scenario – but as of now it is difficult to know if this has enough support among the member federations. ...

Live from 11:31 CET! None of the Top 6 men from WOC Long 2011 are on the start in today’s WOC long distance. Actually only 2 of the best 10 from last year are on the start – and only 4 of the best 10 women from 2011 are on ...

Bertuks against all odds! With Maps and Results and autOanalysis! – My goal was to improve my personal best – a 9th place, Edgars Bertuks  said after his surprising gold medal in WOC middle distance. The Latvian runner introduced himself to the orienteering world by winning the first leg in the ...

Live from 12:00 CET! Who are the favourites to take the WOC Middle title in this year’s WOC in Switzerland? The technical terrain makes the race more open in the women’s class – and usually more suited for Thierry Gueorgiou in the men’s class. However, with Gueorgiou just back from ...

With live TV & streaming, LiveBlog & GPS tracking in the afternoon, this is going to be an exciting day for everybody interested in orienteering. Switzerland and Sweden are the big favourites, but as Simone Niggli put it on yesterday’s press conference for the Swiss Team: – Sprint is a ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts Saturday at 09:01 CET with Sprint qualification in Lausanne – and the first medals are handed out in the evening after the Sprint final. The championships continues through the coming week with 3 qualification races, 3 final races and one relay – the relay finishing ...

A completely different terrain from the long distance met the runners in the JWOC middle distance qualification. Away with the depressions – instead a lot of contour details and tricky short legs. Even with very different terrain, most of yesterdays medalists from the long distance did very well. The three ...

Swiss dominance continues on tricky middle distance: Another one for Hubmann in the mens middle distance at the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) in Spain. Sweden also showed that they have top runners: Double Sweden with Forsgren on top among the women. The Swiss men took their third gold medal ...

With live GPS tracking, webTV/radio and live results this years European Youth Orienteering Championships in France should be a very interesting competition to follow. EYOC is the step before the Junior World Championships were the Gueorgiou’s and Niggli’s of tomorrow get the first opportunity to test themselves against competitors from ...