World of O News

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 ...

The 2DRerun CoursePlanning Module is a brand new tool for planning orienteering courses – with special emphasis on sprint courses. Focus has been on giving the course setter a fun way to plan courses – which again hopefully will lead to better sprint courses. The basic functionality has been available ...

Gernot Kerschbaumer (Austria) and Minna Kauppi (Finland) took the victories in the highlight of this year’s Portugal O Meeting – the World Ranking Long distance race at Day 3. Kerschbaumer – from start until finish Gernot Kerschbaumer had a steady race, in the end beating Albin Ridefeldt (Sweden) with 1:07 ...

Lucas Basset (France) and Catherine Taylor (Great Britain) took the victories in the middle distance race  at the second day of Porgual O-Meeting 2015. Monday’s third day of Portugal O Meeting is the main event of Portugal O Meeting – a long distance World Ranking Event. Expect all runners to ...

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 ...