World of O News

What was the best orienteering course of 2016? The World Champs long distance in Scotland won in 2015 and the World Champs middle distance in Italy won in 2014. Before that we had two years with Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in 2013 and some great technical orienteering at Portugal O-Meeting in ...

  The Swiss runners dominated on home ground in the World Cup final this year again – with 4 victories of 5 possible. Switzerland started the weekend with Sprint Relay victory Friday. Saturday brought a double for Switzerland with Matthias Kyburz and Judith Wyder winning the Long distance. In Sunday’s ...

[LIVE webTV with Per Forsberg/Thomas Bührer commentating + GPS-tracking. Sprint Relay Friday 16:00 CET, Long Saturday 13:00 CET, Sprint Sunday 14:15 CET] The overall World Cup will decided this weekend when Aarau in Switzerland welcomes the world orienteering elite to the World Cup Final the coming weekend from Friday October 14th until Sunday ...

Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) were strongest at Suunto Games Middle distance in Estonia. Suunto Games is organized in the area of next year’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC), with many of the world’s top ranked runners on the start list.  It was a good day for Sweden in ...

Helena Jansson and Olav Lundanes were fastest in the Long distance race of Suunto Games 2016 in next years’ World Orienteering Championships (WOC) area in Estonia. Lundanes had another tight battle with Swiss Matthias Kyburz – winning with only 16 seconds. Jansson had a crushing victory with nearly 6 minutes ...

Many of the world’s best orienteers will compete in Estonia at Suunto Games this weekend in preparation for next years’  World Orienteering Championships (WOC). In addition there will be an official WOC 2017 training camp in Estonia this week. Two World Ranking events are organized this weekend – one long ...

[LIVE Results: Sprint Friday 16:50 CET, Relay Saturday 11:50 CET, Long Sunday 10:30 CET] The Junior European Cup (JEC) 2016 is organized in Stirling, Scotland. JEC is an annual event for junior national teams – a good opportunity for the best and second best juniors to compete.  The athletes compete in M/W18 ...

[LIVE GPS-tracking Friday 15:05 CET, Saturday 14:30 CET, Sunday 11:05 CET] Euromeeting starts Friday 23/9 at 14:00 CET with a Middle distance, continues with Long distance on Saturday and finishes off with a Sprint on Sunday. Several top runners choose the high quality Euromeeting races in Latvia to prepare for ...

The World Orienteering Championships is the major orienteering event of the year – an event were everybody expects top map quality, with maps drawn according to the international standards for orienteering maps. There have been some discussions on the map quality for WOC 2016, however.  Was the map quality for the WOC ...

[With summary of all analyses & direct link to the original analyses] WOC in Strömstad has offered intriguing 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 each race. In addition you find ...