World of O News

[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 ...

William Lind and Josefine Engström won the 5th Swedish League race of the season – a long distance race which was also the last of three World Cup (and therefore World Championships) selection races for Sweden. Lind had a strong start and had a 2 minute lead after two thirds ...

Wyder and Hertner were on top when the last Swiss World Cup selection race – the Swiss + Austrian Sprint Champs – was organized in Austria. In the women’s class retired Simone Niggli finished in 2nd place – 11 seconds behind Wyder – with Julia Gross and Silje Ekroll Jahren ...

[Updated with map] The last of three Swedish WOC selection races is organized in Dalarna today – a tough long distance race which will be interesting to follow with live GPS-tracking and live results. The middle distance on Friday was won by French Thierry Gueorgiou and Danish Emma Klingenberg (photo above) – both ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (Kalevan Rasti) won 26 seconds ahead of Johan Runesson (Göteborg-Majorna OK) with Oleksandr Kratov (OK Orion) in 3rd at 1:18. Thierry Gueorgiou won 4 of 22 legs and did less than a minute of mistakes. As can be observed from the performance index curve below, Gustav Bergman (finished ...

Simone Niggli and Matthias Kyburz won the second Swiss test race for the World Cup round in Norway/Sweden on Saturday – a middle distance race organized in Austria. This was the second of three test races – the long distance test race was organized on Thursday with Daniel Hubmann and ...