World of O News

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the women’s class  and Jannis Bonek (Austria) won the men’s class in today’s World Cup Middle distance in very interesting sandstone terrain in Korce, Czechia. Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Sanna Fast (Sweden) took the second and third place in the women’s class, while Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) and Matthias ...

[Updated with analysis] With many very challenging route choices, today’s World Cup Sprint Relay in Česká Lípa, Czechia was a tough challenge for the runners. Switzerland took a clear victory after four good legs by Simona Aebersold, Joey Hadorn, Matthias Kyburz and Elena Roos.  Behind Switzerland, the battle for the podium ...

Ralph Street (Great Britain) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) were fastest in the tricky sprint course in the historic centre of Česká Lípa – with some challenging multi-level orienteering and some interesting route choice legs around an old castle. This was Street’s first World Cup victory – one year ahead of the ...

The second Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023 is about to begin in Ceska Lipa and Korce in Czechia from August 2nd until August 6th. The World Cup round starts with Sprint on Wednesday August 2nd, continues with a Sprint Relay on Thursday and finishes off with two forest races in the ...

Switzerland’s men and Sweden’s women took the Gold medals in today’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) relay in Flims Laax, Switzerland today. In the men’s class silver and bronze went to Finland and Sweden, while Switzerland and Norway joined Sweden on the podium in the women’s class. The terrain was quite different from ...

The WOC 2023 Middle courses challenged the runners in many different ways, like a good Middle distance course should do. The courses started with extremely technical terrain with very low visibillity where it was difficult to even move straight through the forest (see the first leg for the men above). After a longer ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) – both the silver medalists from the Long distance – took the Gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle distance 2023 in Flims Laax, Switzerland. In the women’s class Natalia Gemperle (Switzerland) took silver and  Hanna Lundberg (Sweden) bronze. In the ...

WOC Middle Race & Favourites Preview: Everybody expects an epic race in spectacular and very demanding terrain when the Middle final of the 2023 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) will be decided within 13:10 (women) and 14:50 (men) today. The women start from 10:33 until 12:30 with expected winning time of 34 minutes, and ...

The WOC 2023 Long courses offered an excellent mix of different terrain types and challenges. Here we take a look at the key legs that posed the toughest challenges for the runners, and how these legs decided the exciting battles for the medals.  The courses were built up of three different ...

Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won her first World Championships (WOC) title over the Long distance on homeground today, beating pre-race favourite Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) with half a minute. Kasper Fosser (Norway) won his second WOC Long title in a row after a tough battle with Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) all the way ...