World of O News

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 ...

[Qual Live From 09:00 CET, Finals from 15:41 CET] The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday August 20th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Strömstad.  Program: Qual Women 09:00. Qual Men 10:00. Final Women 15:41. Final Men 16:46 Web TV  (only final): Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, International (IOF Live Centre) Other Live ...

The World Orienteering Championships starts on Saturday August 20th at 09:00 CET with sprint qualification in Strömstad – a small town on the west coast of Sweden. The first medals are fought for in the Sprint final Saturday evening (start from 15:41 – all medal decisions ready at 18:00) and the Sprint Relay Sunday evening ...

3 Days from now the World Orienteering Championships 2016 (WOC 2016) starts with the individual Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden. We continue the countdown to the championships here at WorldofO.com continues with a look at old maps and terrain for the WOC 2016 races. The central part of any orienteering competition – event the World ...

Today’s events in the Summer-O 2016 series are the two companion events OOCup 2016 and Bubo Cup 2016. OOCup 2016 was a five day event organized in three(!) different countries; Slovenia, Italy and Austria with nearly 2000 competitors. Bubo Cup  a smaller companion race (around 500 competitors) organized on the island ...

Next week the World Orienteering Championships is organized in Strömstad, Sweden. In connection with the World Championships, there will be held a number of meetings which on different levels are important for the future of the sport. Below a summary of the meetings is given. Except for the IOF General ...

4 Days from now – on Saturday August 20th – the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts with the individual Sprint in Strömstad, Sweden. The World Championships is the highlight on the international orienteering calendar.  The countdown to the championships here at WorldofO.com starts with publishing the WOC 2016 Team pages ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Slovak Karst Cup 2016, also called Grand Prix Slovakia 2016.  Slovak Karst Cup is one of the smaller summer orienteering events – but it still offers interesting terrain and orienteering – this type of fast karst terrain is well worth a visit.  None ...

Nydalen SK won the men’s class nearly 9 minutes ahead of Ikaalisten Nouseva-Voima and NTNU won the women’s class 1:30 ahead of  Halden SK in this year’s edition of NightHawk in Oslo, Norway. In NightHawk half of the legs (4 of 8 for men, 3 of 6 for women) start together ...

Sweden with twelve Gold medals and Finland with eleven Gold medals were the strongest nations then the World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) were organized in Estonia the last week. More than 3000 athletes were at the start. The championships consists of a sprint final along with a single qualification race and a ...