World of O News

William Lind and Josefine Engström won the 5th Swedish League race of the season – a long distance race which was also the last of three World Cup (and therefore World Championships) selection races for Sweden. Lind had a strong start and had a 2 minute lead after two thirds ...

Wyder and Hertner were on top when the last Swiss World Cup selection race – the Swiss + Austrian Sprint Champs – was organized in Austria. In the women’s class retired Simone Niggli finished in 2nd place – 11 seconds behind Wyder – with Julia Gross and Silje Ekroll Jahren ...

[Updated with map] The last of three Swedish WOC selection races is organized in Dalarna today – a tough long distance race which will be interesting to follow with live GPS-tracking and live results. The middle distance on Friday was won by French Thierry Gueorgiou and Danish Emma Klingenberg (photo above) – both ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (Kalevan Rasti) won 26 seconds ahead of Johan Runesson (Göteborg-Majorna OK) with Oleksandr Kratov (OK Orion) in 3rd at 1:18. Thierry Gueorgiou won 4 of 22 legs and did less than a minute of mistakes. As can be observed from the performance index curve below, Gustav Bergman (finished ...

Simone Niggli and Matthias Kyburz won the second Swiss test race for the World Cup round in Norway/Sweden on Saturday – a middle distance race organized in Austria. This was the second of three test races – the long distance test race was organized on Thursday with Daniel Hubmann and ...

Domnarvets GOIF and IFK Göteborg were the winners in two very exciting relays in 10Mila 2015. In the women’s class Domnarvets’ Emma Johansson was less than 40 seconds ahead of Järla’s Elin Hemmy Skantze – while the men’s race was a very close race between Eskil Kinneberg (IFK Göteborg), Magne ...

10MILA countdown: One day left until one of the main highlights of the spring season for an orienteer: 10MILA. Kalevan Rasti, Halden, Lidingö, Kristiansand, Vaajakosken Terä, KooVee, OK Linné and Södertälje are the biggest favourites among the men. Halden, Järla, Tampereen Pyrintö, OK Tisaren, SK Pohjantähti, Göteborg-Majorna and Pan Århus are some ...

Follow last year’s first leg with a HeadCam, see the complete 2014 10Mila arena broacast or take a look behind the scenes for last year’s winner in the women’s class, OK Pan Århus. Here is a selection of 10Mila videos to get you in the right mood ahead of 10Mila. ...

[Updated with NZ champs maps] JK in Great Britain, Kolmårdsmedeln in Sweden and New Zealand Championships are some of the events which have been held these Easter holidays. Read on for results and courses. Above a snapshot of the first part of the JK long distance is shown. With the ...

Daniel Hubmann, Svetlana Mironova, Yannick Michiels, Leonid Novikov, Thomas Natvig Årstad and Emily Kemp won the World Ranking events in Spain and Turkey the past weekend. Andalucia O-Meeting in Spain had the strongest start field – with reigning world champions Daniel Hubmann and Svetlana Mironova at the top of the ...