World of O News

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 ...

The women’s race was very dramatic. An early starting Emma Johansson had a fantastic race until a mistake at the second last control – costing her more than 90 seconds. Runner after runner failed to beat her despite the big mistake, but in the end both Annika Billstam and Merja ...

[Live from 14:55 CET (Women) and 17:00 CET (Men)] The relay is the highlight of the World Championships for many – and this year it comes before the long distance. Some top runners like Thierry Gueorgiou and Olav Lundanes skip the relay in order to be better prepared for the ...

[Updated with comment from Gueorgiou] Extremely tight: Four runners were only one control from beating the winner Daniel Hubmann – Lucas Basset, Olle Boström, Fabian Hertner and Thierry Gueorgiou. Magne Dæhlie had a slow start, but ran faster than Hubmann from the 2nd control to the finish. In this race a ...

Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) won the men’s class 3 seconds ahead of French surprise Lucas Basset with Olle Bostrom (Sweden) in 3rd another 10 seconds behind. Annika Billstam (Sweden) won the women’s class 50 seconds ahead of Merja Rantanen (Finland) with Emma Johansson (Sweden) in 3rd at 1:18. Both in the ...

[LIVE from 13:00 CET. Decision women 15:20. Decision men 17:50 CET] Reigning champions Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Annika Billstam (Sweden) have so far this year not shown the same exceptional performance which gave them the World Champion titles last year, but they are both athletes with a lot of routine ...

Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) won the men’s class 2 seconds ahead of Martin Hubmann (Switzerland) with Jerker Lysell (Sweden) in 3rd at 0:05. Maja Alm (Denmark) won the women’s class 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52.  See full analysis of the race ...

[Updated with correct illustrations] Maja Alm (Denmark) won 40 seconds ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) with Galina Vinogradova (Russian Federation) in 3rd at 0:52. Maja Alm won 16 of 22 legs and did nearly no mistakes. Maja Alm took the lead at the first control. Then Rachel Effeney (leading at ...