World of O News

Did you know that Jukola 1972 was organized in the same terrain as this year’s Jukola relay? This year’s map does not resemble the map from 1972, but the courses may have some of the same characteristics although modern maps with more detailed have also introduced shorter legs and more ...

22:00 CET (23:00 local time) on Saturday Jukola  starts – the largest orienteering relay event in the world. 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay – the Venla relay. Here you find all the information you need about the  Jukola and Venla relays. This is the ...

– In Jukola-Manager you can create your own virtual team and choose your seven runners from hundreds of orienteers, Kimmo Vilska tells in an e-mail. Vilska has set up a Jukola Manager team – above you see some of the most expensive runners. Your team’s performance is based on the ...

The Swiss team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in August has been selected. Especially in the men’s class the fight for a place in the team is tough – this year Baptiste Rollier did not make it into the team. Switzerland has gold favourites in all disciplines – ...

Emma Klingenberg had the highest speed – especially on the long legs – but Tove Alexandersson ran the best technical race and got the fastest time of the day. Judith Wyder did also a very good race except for two bad routechoices in the second half of the course. Nadiya ...

The most interesting legs in the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil were leg 2, the long leg to control 5, leg 6, leg 8, leg 9 and leg 11. For these legs a significant part of the start field chose a slower route than the ideal route – and ...

The Swedish team for the World Orienteering Championships has been selected. The goal is 6 medals – of which two gold medals.  Source: Orientering.se Damer Tove Alexandersson, Stora Tuna – sprint, medel, stafett, lång Annika Billstam, Linné – medel, stafett, lång Lena Eliasson, Domnarvet – sprintstafett, Sprint Lilian Forsgren, Tisaren ...

Swiss World Champion sprint from 2011, Daniel Hubmann, uses Twitter to complain about the map quality at the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil last Saturday.  – Never ran a WC-Sprint on such a bad map. Too many thicknesses of lines, Hubmann writes on Twitter. The above map sample and picture ...

The commentary will be in English by Jørn Sundby (NOR). Several expert commentators as well as former top level athletes will be present in the studio. A lot of live GPS tracking and interesting interviews will be included. This international broadcast also has its own director, with 20 cameras in ...

[With 30+ illustrations] Finding the good micro-routechoices seemed to be the main problem for the runners in the men’s class in the World Cup middle distance race in Munkedal, Sweden Sunday. The fight for victory was close; William Lind (lost 26 seconds at leg 10, finished 25 seconds behind in 2nd) ...