World of O News

One running cameraman – 24 km of running – 46 km of MTB – in 13 hours. The Jukola TV production provided some great “runcam” footage of high-speed orienteering performed by some of the best orienteers in the World.  Below you can read  the story behind the footage. – I hope ...

[Updated with map] Scott Fraser (Great Britain) and Elise Egseth (Norway) won the British Sprint selection race for the World Orienteering Championships. Scott Fraser and Cat Taylor (2nd) were the best in the British selection. Note! There might be some issues with some of the split times. From the Nopesport ...

[Updated with map] Gueorgiou took another victory in the British selection races for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in August – this time over the long distance with a gap of 2 minutes down to Norwegian Carl Godager Kaas in second with Hans Gunnar Omdal (Norway) 7:20 down in ...

Two of the major favourites at the World Championships in Scotland in August used the Great Britain WOC selection races for part of their preparations. Thierry Gueorgiou was behind Norwegian Magne Dæhlie for most of the race, but took the victory after a strong finish. In the women’s race Alexandersson ...

– Double Junior World Champion Olli Ojanaho was considered for the team, but it was decided to not include him. He is only at the 270th place in the World Ranking, head coach Juha Taini comments the selection of the team. The Finnish Team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland ...

The Gold medalists from the long distance – Olli Ojanaho (Finland) and Sara Hagström (Sweden) – each anchored their teams to Gold medals at the Junior World Orienteering Championships relay in Rauland, Norway at the last day of the championships. While the Finnish men won a clear victory with few ...

Technical difficulties rather than major routechoice problems decided the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance 2015 in Rauland, Norway. Some of the top runners did several minutes of mistakes – often very close to the controls (see for example Markus Holter’s mistake at the 11th control above)   Analysis Men ...

Finnish Olli Ojanaho won a second Gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Rauland, Norway after a great race. Swedish Sara Hagström won a well deserved Gold medal in the women’s class after trouble on both sprint and middle. The fight for victory in the long distance was ...

[With great video] – His voice rose in excitement as he explained that the key to his dominance in the sport known as orienteering was an innate ability to quickly convert a two-dimensional piece of paper with a variety of symbols on it into a three-dimensional route through the woods, the ...

Veterans Hans Gunnar Omdal and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg are part of the Norwegian team for the World Championships in Scotland which was selected earlier this week. No Norwegian athlete will run all disciplines – and only one athlete, Anne Margrethe Hausken (photo above from WOC 2009), will run both urban ...