World of O News

Minna Kauppi (Finland) and Gustav Bergman (Sweden) took the victories in the long distance race in the sand dunes in Portugal at the first day of Porgual O-Meeting 2015. Bergman was 90 seconds faster than Frederic Tranchand (France) with Baptiste Rollier (Switzerland) in third. – It was a demanding race, ...

Long Saturday, Middle Sunday, Long WRE Monday and a chasing start Long on Tuesday. Live GPS tracking on Monday – live results and speaker sound planned for all foud races. This is the program and the live services of Portugal O-Meeting – the largest elite event in Portugal annually. This ...

Antonio Martínez Pérez (Spain)  and Jana Knapova (Czech Republic) took the WRE victories in Spain (see map above) and Kiril Nikolov (Bulgaria) and Nadiya Volynska (Ukraine) took the WRE victories in Portugal. Two WRE races were organized this past weekend; Saturday’s middle distance race of the XIV Trofeo Costa Blanca ...

Two of the big names in international orienteering last year, Olav Lundanes of Oleksandr Kratov, had a tight fight for victory at Norte Alentejano O’ Meeting in Portugal last weekend. Finally Kratov won the NAOM overall while Lundanes won the World Ranking sprint race. In the women’s class Nadiya Volynska ...

[Updated with split time analysis] Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) were strongest in today’s long distance World Cup race in Tasmania. With 13.2 km for the men and 9.4 km for the women in very hilly terrain – described as “cool” by the athletes. This was a very ...

The toughest leg of the year? Good luck finding a solution you are really happy with on this one. The long leg to the third control in the men’s course at the Tasmania World Cup race long distance is not an easy one. Try to solve it yourself below! See ...

Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) were the best in the tough and tricky middle distance World Cup race in Tasmania today. Alexandersson did an amazing performance and was nearly 3 minutes ahead of Mari Fasting (Norway) in second. In the men’s class the race was much closer – ...

In the following leg-by-leg analysis of the Men’s World Cup sprint in Tasmania on January 3rd 2015 you can see the route choice alternatives with lengths (in meters) for each leg – along with the split times and accumulated split times of the top athletes. The men’s course was nearly ...

Several women were trapped by the course setters “tricks” in the first World Cup race of the year – the sprint race organized around the buildings of  Launcetown, Tasmania. The first part of the course was the most tricky one seen purely from the map – but most time was ...

Mathias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the first World Cup race of the 2015 season – a sprint race in Tasmania dominated by Swiss and Swedish runners. In the men’s class Kyburz won ahead of Daniel Hubmann (also Switzerland) with Gustav Bergman (Sweden) in third. Both Kyburz and ...