World of O News

Alfta-Ösa won the 2017 edition of Venla after a very strong team effort. Alfta-Ösa was in the lead already out from the start – and except for some trouble at the third leg the Swedish team was in the lead all the way until the finish. Swiss OL Norska took ...

Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world – starts Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the ...

Magne Dæhli (Norway) took his first World Cup victory and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class when the first World Cup round of 2017 was decided in Finland today. The World Cup round was organized as a “tour” consisting of Sprint on Thursday, Middle on Saturday and a Long ...

The nice course at the World Cup  Sprint in Lohja (Finland) deserves some analysis. There were several legs were significant parts of the field took a slower choice as you can see in the leg-by-leg GPS-analysis below. An excellent example of how a  good modern sprint course can be made ...

[With Maps and Results] Yannick Michiels has been fighting his way towards the top for several years – today the fast athlete from Belgium took his and Belgium’s first World Cup victory on the Sprint in Lohja, Finland which marked the opening of the Orienteering World Cup 2017. Maja Alm ...

Helena Jansson decided the first race in the World Cup Sprint Relay 2017 for Sweden in a close fight with Denmark’s Maja Alm. Alm was later disqualified due to a miss-punch, and Switzerland’s Elena Roos did thus lead Switzerland in to second place 13 seconds behind with Great Britain in ...

[Follow races LIVE on webTV] The 2017 Orienteering World Cup starts in Turku, Finland this week with a Sprint Relay Wednesday May 24th and continues in Lohja with a Sprint race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Long distance chasing start race on Sunday.  The chasing start ...

WOD on May 24th is a great opportunity to help getting more people around you to experience the joy of orienteering. Have you got your plan ready for how you will help more people try out orienteering on May 24th?  The goal of the World Orienteering Day is to increase to visibility ...

More than 250 runners participated in WOC 2017 selection races over sprint, middle and long distance in Estonia this weekend.  Some of the biggest favourites Maja Alm, Judith Wyder, Matthias Kyburz, Daniel Hubmann and Olav Lundanes confirm that they will be fighting for the medals in Estonia again – many ...

[With GPS-tracking and live results] More than 300 top orienteers come to South-Estonia to compete for their place in national teams with Sprint Friday, Middle Saturday and Long Sunday.  Many nations participate with their national teams in this competition, including Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Lavtia, Germany, Estonia, Belarus, Ireland, Denmark, France, Ukraine ...