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Tove Alexandersson was the big favourite for the WOC middle distance in Tanum, but the Swedish runner got a surprisingly tough fight from Canadian Emily Kemp. After a miss by Kemp towards the end of the course,  Heidi Bagstevold (Norway, silver) and Natalia Gemperle (Russia, bronze) passed Kemp on the results. ...

[With GPS animations] Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) middle distance 2016 in Tanum, Sweden in varied and technical courses.   In the men’s class Kyburz won ahead of Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland). Kyburz decided the race by a very good finish. Both ...

Nearly 1000 pictures from WOC 2016 Sprint & Sprint Relay have been sorted by country & runner and have been posted at WorldofO.com’s Facebook page and at the WorldofO athlete profiles. There is one album for each country in the WorldofO.com’s Facebook page. There were eight countries sharing the 27 medals handed out – ...

[First Start 11:40 CET. Top 35 Men from 13:10, Top 35 Women from 16:00]  The forest part of the World Orienteering Championships in Strömstad starts on Tuesday August 22th at 11:40 CET with the middle distance in Tanum. The TV broadcast starts at  13:00 CET for the men and 16:00 CET for the women. Web ...

The World Orienteering Championships Sprint Relay was a tight battle between Denmark, Switzerland and Sweden. In the end Denmark’s super-sprinter Maja Alm decided the relay for Denmark for the second year in a row after having been served a perfect start position by her teammates Cecilie Friberg Klysner, Tue Lassen and Søren Bobach. Denmark’s ...

Denmark won the World Orienteering Championships Sprint Relay for the second year in a row after a tight battle with Switzerland and Sweden. Cecilie Friberg Klysner, Tue Lassen, Søren Bobach and Maja Alm ran on the winning team. The secret behind the victory: Dedicated focus on the Sprint Relay. On ...

Maja Alm crushed her competitors in the World Championships Sprint in Strömstad – it was in the second part of the course she really accelerated and nobody could follow her. The course did not have many very decisive routechoice legs, but map reading and orienteering skills was still important.  As the analysis will show, ...

The World Championships Sprint courses in Strömstad did not have many very decisive routechoice legs – the way to victory was to run a stable race with good execution – and to avoid the few (quite obvious) routes were you could lose 10-15 seconds.  The above leg to the 13th ...

Gold for Maja Alm (Denmark) and Jerker Lysell (Sweden) in  World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden which opened this year’s championships. Three medals for Switzerland – but the Gold medals went to the Nordic countries Sweden and Denmark. Men: Lysell with strong middle part In the men’s class Jerker ...

Tue Lassen (DEN), Jonas Leandersson (SWE), Daniel Hubmann (SUI)/Martin Regborn (SWE),  Sari Anttonen (FIN), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Cecile Klysner (DEN) were the heat winners in the opening race of the World Orienteering Championships 2016 in Strömstad, Sweden. There were no big surprises in the qualification – one of the ...