World of O News

The women’s class got very interesting in the final race in the Swedish League chasing start on Sunday. Before the start the task looked impossible for Tove Alexandersson – starting 12 minutes behind leader – Danish Emma Klingenberg – but in the end it got very close. In the men’s ...

This year the Finnish Champs middle distance was a WRE race – open for all foreign runners. The best orienteer in the men’s class was Fredric Portin, Halden SK who was 1 minute and 12 seconds faster than silver medalist Severi Kymäläinen.  Saila Kinni had a tight fight with  Merja Rantanen (Jämsän ...

Belgian orienteer Yannick Michiels ran a strong 5000 meter in 13:47 in IFAM in Oordegem on Saturday. Michiels has inched closer and closer to the top orienteering elite in sprint orienteering the last years – and his strong times on the track indicate that he can take another step this season. Michiels ...

The Norwegian and Swiss national teams are in Scotland preparing for the World Orienteering Championships this week. Saturday they ran the Scottish Championships long distance. The women’s class was won by Norwegian Silje Ekroll Jahren while Swiss Daniel Hubmann won the men’s class. Hollie Orr (Great Britain) was only 2 ...

  Gustav Bergman and Helena Jansson won the tricky and interesting middle distance race in Swedish League in Umeå Saturday.  Gustav Bergman did a technically very stable race and won 13 of 23 legs in the detailed, flat terrain. Jonas Leandersson and Olle Boström finished second and third – both ...

[GPS-tracking Saturday from 11:53 CET – from 11:00 CET Sunday] Gustav Bergman and Emma Klingenberg are in the lead in the high profile race series Swedish League before the decision in Umeå, Sweden this weekend. The last two races of a total of seven races in Swedish League is a middle distance ...

David Andersson and Olle Boström are back in the big Swedish team for the World Cup racesi n Norway and Sweden in June. These World Cup races are very important for Sweden. Firstly they are selection races for the World Championships in Scotland later this year – and secondly they ...

Edgars Bertuks and Liga Valdmane win Latvian Championships long distance on Sunday. Bertuks won with nearly 6 minutes – building on a 3rd place in the Latvian Sprint Champs on Saturday. From Bertuks’ official Facebook page: Sundays long distance was “ultimate survival” experience – terrible terrain (the map was surprisingly ...

Vincent Coupat and Amelie Chataing won the French Championships middle distance this weekend. While Coupat’s victory was narrow, Chataing won with more than 4 minutes. Several of the top French men were not at the start. According to Coupat’s entry in his Doma-archive, Basset got an injury towards the end ...

IOF is calling an Extraordinary General Assembly during WOC in Scotland in order to discuss a proposal for organising the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) alternating years as a “forest WOC” and a “sprint/urban WOC”. Story at the IOF webpage: Orienteering.org: IOF President calls Extraordinary General Assembly Excerpt: The Extraordinary General Assembly is ...