World of O News

The women’s class in the Junior World Championships (JWOC) Long distance 2016 featured decisive routechoice legs, big mistakes by top runners and drama. Below we take a look at the race from start to finish and take a look at all the decision points in the race. Anna Haataja (Finland) won ...

The men’s class in the Junior World Championships (JWOC) Long distance 2016 had many potential winners who had the speed to win the race, but of these nobody got through the race without technical mistakes.  As the following analysis will show, Swiss Joey Hadorn had so high running speed that he ...

  Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) and Anna Haataja (Finland) took the Gold medals at today’s Junior World Championships Long distance in Engadin, Switzerland. A great day for Switzerland again with four medals of six possible! Same podium In the men’s class the medal podium at the long distance looks exactly like yesterday’s ...

Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) wins the Junior World Championships Sprint 2016 despite taking the wrong route choice on the long route choice leg, costing him 27(!) seconds to the fastest split time. The Swiss runner Hadorn takes the title due to high running speed and a consistent race (except for this long leg). ...

Simona Aebersold took the lead at the first control and kept it all the way to the finish – never challenged by her competitors. – I stopped several times when I was uncertain, Aebersold said after the race. Obviously a good tactic in this hilly sprint with some tricky route ...

A fantastic day for Switzerland at the opening race of the Junior World Championships (JWOC) in Scuol, Switzerland today: A clear gold for Simona Aebersold in the women’s class – and both gold and silver in the men’s class with Joey Hadorn ahead of Thomas Curiger. In the women’s class Anna Dvorianskaia (RUS) was ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championship (JWOC) starts in Scuol, Switzerland with the Sprint tomorrow at 09:00 CET. Below is a quick look at earlier results of the athletes. See also: JWOC 2016 – All You Need To Know and  JWOC 2016 team overview. There will be live GPS-tracking, live results, live web-TV ...

JWOC starts Sunday with Sprint: Expect great live coverage, spectacular scenery and intricate orienteering when the Junior World Orienteering Championships starts in Engadin, Switzerland the coming weekend. After Sunday’s Sprint, the championship continues with Long on Monday, Middle Qualification on Wednesday, Middle Final on Thursday and Relay on Friday.  Central parts ...

[Updated with more maps/courses] Finland won the overall team competition at this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) ahead of Czech Republic and Hungary. Finland won two individual gold medals and two relay gold medals. Both home nation Poland and France won two gold medals.  EYOC is the step before the ...

Long distance Friday, Relay Saturday, Sprint Sunday. This is the program for this years’ European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) which is organized in Poland this weekend from Friday July 1st until Sunday July 3rd. Nearly 400 athletes from 33 countries will be on the start line this weekend. EYOC is ...