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Nearly 2000 pictures from WOC 2015 have been sorted by country & runner and has been posted at WorldofO.com’s Facebook page and at the WorldofO athlete profiles. There is one album for each country in the WorldofO.com’s Facebook page. There were eight countries sharing the 27 medals handed out – here are ...

The WOC 2015 Long distance in the women’s class was decided on the long legs like a real long distance race should be decided – and both choice of route and execution of route was important for the medals. Above the longest leg in the course is shown – the ...

The WOC 2015 Long distance in the men’s class was a very tight race where the lead changed 8(!) times during the race. Although there were not many routechoice legs at first sight, the runners did choose a lot of different routes in the Scottish wilderness. The short routechoice leg ...

[Updated with maps and splits analysis] The King is back – and Ida Bobach could very well be the new Queen of the long distance. After 99 minutes of running in the men’s class, the gap was only 25 seconds to silver. In the women’s Bobach had a “massive” gap ...

[Updated with statement from Thierry Gueorgiou] The second last control in the WOC Middle was decisive for the medals in both the men’s and the women’s class. In the women’s class Emma Johansson lost a certain gold medal due to a mistake at this control. In the men’s class Thierry ...

[Live all day – starting 11:00 CET, decided 16:45 CET – no live GPS-tracking expected] This may very well be the last “real long distance World Championships race”; it is staged in so remote Scottish wilderness that there is not even mobile phone coverage, thus there will be no live ...

In many ways the men’s World Championships relay at WOC 2015 was decided already at the first real forking at the first leg – to the 6th control. In this quite easy terrain, the runners did very few significant mistakes. The exception was the first leg runners who had trouble with the ...

World of O is following the IOF Ex General Assembly in Inverness, Scotland, today. The question to be discussed is the splitting of the World Orienteering Championships into a forest part and an urban part. See some background information here

When watching the relay as a spectator, it looked like Denmark’s second leg runner, Ida Bobach, was clearly the strongest runner in the relay as her second leg decided the relay – increasing the gap to the followers from 1 minute to more than 4 minutes. However, looking at the split times, ...

Denmark’s women and Switzerland’s men were in a different league than the others today – running in the lead nearly from start until finish, and deciding the relay already after two legs. The Danish women had a 4 minute lead after two legs – Switzerland’s men “only” around 2 minutes. Fantastic race ...