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[Article updated with GPS-illustrations] Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2018 Long distance after exciting races on interesting courses. The courses offered several interesting, longer routechoice legs – and also some intricate orienteering in the dense forest with low visibility. Both Lundanes and ...

A great course at #WOC2018 Long with many routechoice legs – even making the choices behind the computer is stressful. The WOC 2018 Long distance has just started, with GPS-tracking live via IOF Live center. Here we take a look at the course ahead of the race. Before you read ...

[First start #WOC2018 Long 10:14 CET. Last Woman starts 12:30. Women decision 13:50. Last Man starts 15:10. Men decision 16:50] Get ready for a long and exciting day following the classic discipline of orienteering – the Long distance – the race for real men and real women. The men head out ...

What a thriller of a relay with 8 teams with the chance to win with 10-15 minutes left to run! The course offered both tricky orienteering, varied difficulty, decisive forking and some interesting routechoices.  Here we take a look at the GPS-data and the split-times to understand how: Norway managed ...

Switzerland won the women’s relay and Norway the men’s after two very exciting races. The terrain offered very interesting orienteering were many top teams struggled both with mistakes on controls and routechoice misses. In the women’s race Switzerland and Sweden ran head to head through the last leg, with two ...

[Including team setups] Can Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson get back her self confidence after the big mistakes on the Middle and take Sweden to Gold on the last leg? Can Norway’s men take the third WOC Relay gold medal in a row? Or can Switzerland win the men’s relay after a very ...

Eskil Kinneberg (Norway) and Natalia Gemperle (Russia) won the WOC 2018 Middle distance on a tricky course in a green Latvian forest where several of the top favourites lost their medal chances due to mistakes. In the men’s class the battle for the medals was very tight, with Daniel Hubmann ...

[First woman starts 10:56, last woman 13:16, first man 13:12, last man 15:46 (all times CET, local time one hour later) #WOC2018].  Tove Alexandersson is again the main favourite in the women’s race – the men’s race is more open with 10-15 runners who can win on a good day.    ...

Sweden won the #WOC2018 Sprint Relay despite a non-optimal race by Tove Alexandersson, due to excellent relay legs by second and third leg runners Svensk and Leandersson. Ohlsson on the last leg did not have a perfect race, but the 47 second gap to Switzerland and 1:40 gap to Denmark was ...

Sweden won the WOC Sprint Relay for the second time in a row – after replacing three of the runners from last year’s winning team, with Karolin Ohlsson deciding after a secure run on the last leg. Switzerland finished second after a good last leg by Judith Wyder. The strongest ...