World of O News

Next week during the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Scotland a decision will be taken about the future of the WOC: IOF is calling an Extraordinary General Assembly in order to discuss a proposal for splitting today’s WOC into a forest part and an urban part. In July 2015 Matthias Niggli, Janne ...

[With animations] WOC runners William Lind (Sweden) and Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg (Norway) won O-Ringen overall in two exciting chasing starts. William Lind fought a tight fight with Olle Boström (also in the Swedish WOC team) all the way until the last control, and decided with a few seconds in ...

[Rest day in Sweden – Analysis time at World of O] William Lind and Simone Niggli have been most impressive so far at O-Ringen – each with victories in the two first tough long distance stages (course from men’s first stage above). Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg is not far behind Niggli, ...

LIVE Sunday – Friday: Only a selected few of the World Championships favourites are on the start list in the orienteering race with the biggest money prizes in the sport. The ones on the start – including most of the Swedish WOC team and Norwegian Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg – will ...

– It is completely feasible that in a few years, we will be up in the air for more than an hour, plus also have a lot of smaller kopters chasing the leading teams from above, David Brickhill-Jones, CEO of KopterCam, says when asked about the future for the technology. Seeing the ...

Silver medalist from the World Championships Sprint in Finland in 2013 and bronze medalist from the European Championships Long in Portugal last year, Catherine Taylor are central parts of the British Team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in July/August which has now been selected. The British runners have ...

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 ...