World of O News

The European Orienteering Championships (EOC) starts off individual Sprint in Verona Italy on Wednesday October 4th – with qualification from 09:00 CET and the final from 14:30. The championships continues with Sprint Relay on Friday and KO-Sprint on Sunday. EOC 2023 is the second pure sprint EOC – after Switzerland in 2021 ...

The long distance competition in the sandstone area in Korce, Czechia offered many interesting routechoice legs in addition to tricky orienteering! Here we take a closer look at the decisive routechoice legs in the men’s course – read on to understand which controls were most challenging for the runners and ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class  and Kasper Fosser (Norway) won the men’s class in today’s World Cup Long distance in very challenging sandstone terrain in Korce, Czechia – featuring lots of interesting route choice legs along with tricky orienteering between the sandstones in the steep slopes.  Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Sara ...

The sandstone area in Korce, Czechia offered tricky orienteering in spectacular terrain! Read on to understand which controls were most challenging for the runners, how the best solved the challenges, and why Jannis Bonek (Austria) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) could finish the day on the top of the podium. For maps, results ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class  and Jannis Bonek (Austria) won the men’s class in today’s World Cup Middle distance in very interesting sandstone terrain in Korce, Czechia. Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Sanna Fast (Sweden) took the second and third place in the women’s class, while Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) and Matthias ...

[Updated with analysis] With many very challenging route choices, today’s World Cup Sprint Relay in Česká Lípa, Czechia was a tough challenge for the runners. Switzerland took a clear victory after four good legs by Simona Aebersold, Joey Hadorn, Matthias Kyburz and Elena Roos.  Behind Switzerland, the battle for the podium ...

Ralph Street (Great Britain) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) were fastest in the tricky sprint course in the historic centre of Česká Lípa – with some challenging multi-level orienteering and some interesting route choice legs around an old castle. This was Street’s first World Cup victory – one year ahead of the ...

The second Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023 is about to begin in Ceska Lipa and Korce in Czechia from August 2nd until August 6th. The World Cup round starts with Sprint on Wednesday August 2nd, continues with a Sprint Relay on Thursday and finishes off with two forest races in the ...

Switzerland’s men and Sweden’s women took the Gold medals in today’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) relay in Flims Laax, Switzerland today. In the men’s class silver and bronze went to Finland and Sweden, while Switzerland and Norway joined Sweden on the podium in the women’s class. The terrain was quite different from ...

The WOC 2023 Middle courses challenged the runners in many different ways, like a good Middle distance course should do. The courses started with extremely technical terrain with very low visibillity where it was difficult to even move straight through the forest (see the first leg for the men above). After a longer ...