World of O News

– The competition area in the middle of the forest allowed for high technical orienteering from the beginning until the last control, Swiss star Matthias Kyburz explains about his choice for the Course of the Year 2015 – the middle distance at the first World Cup round in Tasmania. Read ...

– A real long distance is a unique adventure every time you do it, Olle Boström says when asked about the Course of the Year 2015.  – You get a type of relationship with the course you do not get in the other distances. And thus Boström chooses a long distance ...

– It was terrain all the way! I think I ran for like 100 meters on a real path, Ida Bobach comments. The world’s best long distance orienteer in 2015 – Ida Bobach – is another top elite runner who chooses the WOC long distance as the best course of 2015 ...

Cat Taylor has had big success in 2015 – with two top 6 result at the World Champs on home ground and a World Cup victory at the very end of the season. Her favourite course this year was a long and tough one! Read on for a long interview with ...

– There are almost no boring courses when you push hard, Ukrainian Ruslan Glebov comments in this interview about the Course of the Year 2015. Glebov impressed the orienteering world with a 2nd place in the World Cup final middle distance – but his favorite courses from the 2015-season are nevertheless ...

– Man, this race is going to be amazing, no matter how you feel today! This is what this year’s new French start Lucas Basset thought when he stood at the start line in the race which featured his favourite course of 2015.   Read on for a long interview with Basset. ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2015? The World Champs middle in Italy won in 2014 – and the two years before we had Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in 2013 and some great technical orienteering in 2012. In 2011 the WOC middle distance in France took the first ...

With a very strong start field, Olav Lundanes and Helena Jansson won 25mannakorten this Sunday. Especially the men’s race was very close with three runners within 3 seconds. Olav Lundanes (Halden SK) won 2 seconds ahead of Fredric Portin (Halden SK) with Emil Svensk (Stora Tuna OK) in 3rd at 0:03. Thierry ...

Halden SK won the 25manna relay for the 6th time this weekend. 25manna is one of the largest relays in the world – each team consisting of 25 runners in all ages. With more than 350 teams, almost 9000 runners attended the competition – among them many of the best orienteers ...

Some very interesting long legs met the young runners at the Junior European Cup in Germany this weekend. Especially the long distance was interesting – above you see the longest leg in the men’s oldest junior class (M20) from the men’s long distance. This leg – and similar long legs ...