World of O News

  Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won both the long distance, the middle distance and anchored Sweden to victory on the women’s relay in this weekend’s World Cup final in Kuopio, Finland. In the men’s class Miika Kirmula (Finland) won the long distance, Eirik Langedal Breivik (Norway) the middle distance and Sweden won ...

Starting with a long distance race on Thursday – and continuing with a middle distance on Saturday and a relay on Sunday – the World’s best orienteers will gather in Kuopio, Finland to compete for the final time on the international scene this season. The terrain looks amazing as always in ...

Norway’s men and Switzerland’s women won the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) relay in Hungary. Silver and bronze went to Sweden and Switzerland in the men’s class, while Norway and Sweden took the remaining medals in the women’s class. After very technical orienteering on the middle distance and tricky routechoices on the ...

The big favourites Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) took clear victories at the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Long distance in Hungary – both with a margin of around 4 minutes to their closest competitors. In the men’s class Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) took an impressive silver medal – 18 ...

Eirik Langedal Breivik (Norway) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) won the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) Middle on very technical, Hungarian terrain that really challenged the runners. We saw big mistakes by many athletes, with Breivik and Aebersold managing to navigate well in the steep hills while keeping high speed. In the ...

Challenging forest terrain, interesting routechoices and high temperatures await as European Orienteering Championships (EOC) start in Hungary on Friday with Middle Qualification. The championships continue with Middle Final on Saturday, Long on Sunday and finishes off with the Relay on Tuesday. The world’s top orienteers return to the forest when ...

Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Riccardo Rancan (Switzerland) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Knock-Out Sprint – the last race of the championships. Silver and bronze went to Karolin Ohlsson (Sweden) and Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) in the women’s class, and Jørgen Baklid (Norway) and Jonatan Gustafsson (Sweden) in the men’s class. While ...

Graeme Ackland in the WOC 2024 course setting team has made a detailed analysis of the WOC Sprint Relay 2024, published here at WorldofO.com. – It was a very exciting race with lots of small errors and  changes of lead, Ackland comments.  The race analysis goes through the race and discusses ...

Switzerland won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint Relay after a very strong performance by Simona Aebersold on the last leg where she outran Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson, who was later disqualified for skipping a control. Finland took the second place with Norway in third. The two big favourites, Switzerland and ...

The Scottish organizers served one of the most tricky World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Sprint races ever – and the Swedish duo Martin Regborn and Tove Alexandersson made the day a big Swedish success with two gold medals for Sweden.  Alexandersson with her 20th WOC gold medal – Regborn with his first. ...