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This is the headline for the trailer of Virtual-O – the upcoming orienteering game which the developer Peter Furucz aims to make more realistic than any other orienteering games or simulators out there. World of O wrote about Virtual-O six months ago – now big things are on the horizon for Virtual-O. ...

Thierry Gueorgiou and Tove Alexandersson won the World Ranking event middle distance in Portugal at Norte Alentejano O’ Meeting 2016 last Saturday. The same day a long distance World Ranking event was organized in Spain: Lorca O-Meeting with Andreu Blanes Reig and Svetlana Mironova as winners. The Portugal race offered the ...

Overall victories in POM 2016 went to Thierry Gueorgiou and Annika Billstam. Gueorgiou has dominated POM with victory every day – finally winning with a 16 minute margin ahead of Albin Ridefelt. Billstam has run four stable races with one win – winning the overall with 4 minute margin down to ...

[9/2: Updated with split analysis & maps!] Big 4 minute wins with excellent competition in a tough long distance in Portugal shows that Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) are well prepared for the 2016 season. Down to 6th place the gap was 8 and 13(!) minutes, respectively. In ...

Thierry Gueorgiou took also the victory in Men Superelite at the second day of Portugal O-Meeting 2016 – while Annika Billstam took the victory in the women’s class. But Day 1 and 2 are only warm-up for the long distance WRE race on day 3. Gueorgiou and Billstam are among ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Marika Teini (Finland) won the first day of Portugal O-Meeting 2016 ahead of the Swedes Gustav Bergman and Helena Jansson, respectively.  The first day of POM 2016 was a middle distance held in open terrain with many big boulders. Note that the most important day of POM ...

Middle Saturday and Sunday, Long WRE Monday and a chasing start Long on Tuesday. In addition there is the popular night sprint Saturday evening. This is the program for Portugal O-Meeting – the largest elite event in Portugal annually – and also the international season opening for many of the world’s elite orienteers. ...

Former World Championships silver medalist on the long distance in Japan 2005 and Denmark 2006, Marc Lauenstein (Switzerland), did a fantastic race in South Africa last October at the Otter Run. Take a look at the video below to learn more about the race. “On the 17th of October one of the ...

Daniel Hubmann and Cat Taylor each took one stage win in the first big orienteering weekend in Portugal this past weekend – Lisbon International Orienteering Meeting (LIOM 2016). The major part of the world’s orienteering elite turns to Portugal and Spain for training and competitions the coming weeks – with Portugal ...

Which birthday present do you want World of O to get for its 21st birthday? A new front page which is responsive and works on mobile and tablets? An improved 2DRerun front page which works well on mobile? A fully working events.worldofo.com? An official and fully working version of WoOSplits? Strava-integration ...