World of O News

[Sprint Friday Oct 3rd 17:30 CET, Long Saturday Oct 4th 10:30 CET, Relay Sunday Oct 5th 10:30 CET] The Junior European Cup (JEC) is in 2014 organized in Lommel, Belgium from October 3rd to October 5th. The organizers promize “live broadcast from the field” (probably speaker sound ) – this ...

[Sprint Relay Friday 15:00 CET / Middle Saturday 12:30 CET / Sprint Sunday 13:31 CET] The World Cup 2014 will be decided in Switzerland this weekend – starting with a mixed sprint relay on Friday as part of the unofficial sprint relay World Cup, continuing with a middle distance on ...

Switzerland won the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) after strong races by Sarina Jenzer, Martin Hubmann, Julia Gross and Matthias Kyburz. Reigning World Champion in mixed sprint relay Switzerland was the big favourite ahead of the race – and managed to take the victory ahead of Sweden and Czech Republic. ...

[Update: Live Results Link] The World University Orienteering Championships starts with a mixed sprint relay in Olomouc Tuesday August 12th at 15:30 CET. With 5 races in 5 days – including a tough long distance race at day 2 – this will be a tough 5-day week for the athletes. ...

[Including full medal overview] 5 nations won gold medals at JWOC 2014 – Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand – Sweden dominating the championships with 5 gold medals and 4 further medals. Another four nations won medals – Czech Republic, Italy, Poland and Denmark. The men’s individual races were ...

O-Ringen, Swiss O-Week, FIN 5, Croatia Open, Cerkno Cup, Grand Prix Slovakia, Wavel Cup, Sørlandsgaloppen and the Italian 5 Days races are just some of the many orienteering races which have been organized or are ongoing this summer. These summer orienteering races are the highlights of all of the season ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria starts Tuesday with Sprint and continues with Long distance on Wednesday. After a rest day the championships continues with Middle distance qualification on Friday, Middle final on Saturday and Relay on Sunday. Read on to find all important details about the championships. If ...

Switzerland and Sweden won two very exciting relays at the World Orienteering Championships in Asiago, Italy today. The tricky terrain made for changes in the relay all the way through the race – and especially the women’s race had a lot of changes throughout the last leg. You can relive ...

1600 photos from Sprint, Mixed Sprint Relay, Middle and Long have now been uploaded – sorted by country. And with name and placing in the race embedded on the picture. Share & enjoy! All pictures Denmark France Finland Italy Norway Russia Switzerland Sweden Ukraine The photos will also be uploaded ...

There were three runners who had the speed to win the WOC middle distance – Annika Billstam, Ida Bobach and Tove Alexandersson. In the following analysis we go through where the women’s race was decided. There were made a lot of mistakes in the women’s class, even among the top ...