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The overall orienteering World Cup will be decided in beautiful surroundings in Grindelwald, Switzerland this coming weekend. A Long distance event, a Middle distance event and a Sprint Relay will be organized between Friday September 29th and Sunday October 1st. All three competition areas were never mapped before, so this will ...

Olav Lundanes, Natalia Gemperle, Vojtech Kral and Tove Alexandersson won the individual Middle and Sprint races while Sweden 2 and Switzerland 1 won the forest relays at the World Cup round in Latvia. With next years’ World Championships (WOC) being organized in Latvia, this World Cup round can be counted as ...

[LIVE Friday from 09:00 CET, Saturday 09:00 CET, Sunday 15:00 CET] The 3rd round in the 2017 Orienteering World Cup is organized in Cesis, Latvia this weekend with a Middle distance Friday August 25th, a Relay on Saturday and a Sprint on Sunday. With next year’s World Orienteering Championships organized in ...

[With race development graphs] Jerker Lysell (SWE) and Maja Alm (DEN) won the Sprint, Matthias Kyburz (SUI) and Helena Jansson (SWE) won the Middle distance and Denmark won the Sprint Relay at World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland. Although some of the biggest stars were absent at World Games 2017, the ...

[Program: Sprint Tuesday July 25th, Middle distance Wednesday July 26th and Sprint Relay Thursday July 27th] The Orienteering disciplines in the World Games starts on Tuesday July 25th with an individual Sprint race. The World Games sets out to be the Olympic Games for non-Olympic sports. Around 3500 athletes compete ...

Norway won the men’s class and Sweden won the women’s class in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Relay 2017 in Tampere, Finland. This was exactly the same result as in the World Orienteering Championships in Estonia one week ago – the juniors clearly go in the footsteps of their more ...

The third gold in a row for both Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Olli Ojanaho (Finland) at today’s Junior World Championships Long distance. Very impressive by these two runners who manage to deliver top performances under high pressure day after day. Men: Close battle all the way to the finish In ...

Olli Ojanaho (Finland) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the Junior World Orienteering Championships Sprint – just as they did on the Middle distance yesterday.  In the men’s class New Zealand’s Tommy Hayes showed yet again that New Zealand is a top Sprint nations -taking the Silver medal only 8 seconds ...

[Take a look in case you missed any of the 26 articles at World of O during a hectic WOC week] WOC in Estonia has offered great orienteering challenges for the world’s best athletes in 5 competitions; Sprint, Sprint Relay, Middle, Long and Relay.  Below a summary of the analysis are given for ...

Favourite victories to Olli Ojanaho (Finland) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the Junior World Orienteering Championships Middle in Tampere, Finland. Ojanaho was the big favourite in the men’s class after winning his qualification heat with more than 2 minutes. His victory in the final was also a clear one, with Norwegian ...