World of O News

The test races for the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Flims Laax in Switzerland concluded with a long distance race in hilly terrain with many route choice options on Tuesday. As for the middle distance races, the start field was divided into two classes for men and two classes for women based ...

With only 5 weeks until the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Flims Laax in Switzerland, many countries hold their WOC test or selection races in Switzerland this long weekend with more than 300 top runners at the start. Saturday and Sunday Middle distance races were organized, while a Long distance ...

Ready for the most northerly 10Mila ever? The first of the big orienteering relays in the 2023 season is organized in Skellefteå the coming weekend, with high quality individual races organized also on Thursday and Friday. Read on for all you need to know about the 2023-edition of the 10Mila long weekend.  The start ...

Sweden won both the men’s and women’s relay in very exciting races at the final day of the World Cup opening weekend of 2023 – with Sweden’s second team being the winner in the women’s class. Both Kasper Fosser (Norway 1) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden 1) had off days after ...

In a very tight middle distance with less than 20 seconds separating the best runners both in the men’s and women’s classes Sara Hagström (Sweden) took her first World Cup victory ever while Kasper Fosser (Norway) took his second victory in two races.  In the women’s class Tove Alexandersson looked ...

After nearly 90 minutes of orienteering in tough terrain only seconds separated the top runners in both the men’s and women’s class in the long distance opening this year’s World Cup. Last years’ winners of the overall World Cup, Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Kasper Fosser (NOR), had the margins on ...

The first Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023 is about to begin in Østfold, Norway, as the world’s best athletes gather from Thursday April 27th until Sunday April 30th for a Long distance race on Thursday, a Middle distance race on Saturday and a Relay race on Sunday. The races will ...

This weekend many runners will have their last big test ahead of the World Cup season in relevant terrain at the Norwegian World Cup selection races in Østfold. The 2023 orienteering season is now underway, and the first round of the World Cup is set to take place in Østfold, Norway ...

New Year’s Gift: Check here if you are one of winners of the 22 prizes worth more than 4000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2022″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize ...

The final leg in this 16th edition of Route to Christmas 2022 is a quite special long leg from the European Championships Long distance in Estonia. While the runners where allowed to cross the river wherever they wanted (at least some of the runners were aware of this during the race, but ...