St. Gallen in Switzerland is the arena for the last big test ahead of the World Championships for the World Orienteering Elite. The PostFinance Sprint weekend has been moved from the end of the season to June this year. With the World Championships in Switzerland only 3 weeks into the ...

21:30 CET on Saturday the largest Jukola relay ever starts – with 16558 orienteers registered. More than 1600 men head into the forest at 21:30 CET – nearly 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET nearly 1250 women start their relay. Here you find all the information you need about the ...

Extraordinary performance by Simone Niggli – and another great win by Olav Lundanes! No matter if middle distance and long distance – Niggli and Lundanes take the gold medals. Niggli had four(!) minutes down to Tatiana Riabkina in second – Lundanes victory margin was one minute down to Matthias Merz. ...

Valentin Novikov, Olav Lundanes, Johan Runesson, Minna Kauppi, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg and Helena Jansson took the heat victories in EOC Middle Qualification which opened the Eurorpean Championships in the Falun area, Sweden, today. No big surprises, but as always some big names went out in the qualifications Among the ...

Here is a selection of 10Mila videos to get you in the right mood ahead of 10Mila. Relive the Slowmotion video from 10Mila 2008, the tracking highlights from 10Mila 2007, the 10Mila Petzl video from 2008 or some of the other great 10Mila content available on the Internet. Enjoy! Do ...

10MILA countdown: Two days left until one of the main highlights of the spring season for an orienteer: 10MILA. World of O will of course follow 10Mila all night on the LiveBlog – I hope to see many of you there! As always in 10Mila, the women run 5 legs ...

While the IOF killed the WOC in the Future project in January, the Nordic Orienteering Federations believe that the WOC in the future project should be thoroughly evaluated and brought to a conclusion at the General Assembly in 2012. Consequently the Nordic Orienteering federations submitted a new proposal for a ...

The future of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) is getting more open after the IOF member federations’ feedback to the suggested WOC program have started being published. Of the responses posted so far, there is not exactly big support behind the WOC program suggested by the IOF. Update 20.01.2012 15:00: ...

– I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Thierry ...

Another Bonus sprint leg – this time from the Latvian Championships sprint. The suggestion is from Kalvis Bruns: – When I was running this race, Leg 7 was quite a challenge for me. After the 6th control, I was just standing still for like 3-4sec and trying to scan the ...