WOC 2025 Relay: Maps and Results

Jan Kocbach 7 hours ago Orienteering News Leave a comment

Swedens’s women and Norway’s men took clear victories in the relay that finished off the World Orienteering Championships 2025 in Kuopio, Finland.

The battle for silver and bronze was a lot closer, with Norway beating Switzerland in a tight battle on the last leg in the women’s leg, while the Swiss men took silver, with Finland taking the bronze after a very tight battle with Sweden and France.

Women: Sweden dominant again

Sweden’s women were the big favourites after being dominant as a team in the individual races, and with three strong races by Hanna Lundberg, Sanna Fast and Tove Alexandersson, last leg runner Tove Alexandersson could run Sweden in to a clear victory. Norway’s Pia Young Vik opened very strongly on the first leg – even ahead of Sweden after the first leg – and built up quite a big lead over the Swiss women. After two legs the gap from Norway’s last leg runner Andrine Benjaminsen to Switzerland’s Simona Aebersold was nearly two minutes – and even if Aebersold got the gap down to around 30 seconds before the last arena passing, it was not enough to challenge Norway for the silver medal.

Aebersold also did a technical mistake at the arena passage – throwing away the map instead of turning it – that cost her around 45 seconds, but even without this mistake it would probably not have been possible to catch Benjaminsen.

Czechia finished 4th ahead of Finland and Denmark.

Men: Norway’s first since 2018

In the men’s class, Norway were the biggest favourites with both the gold medalist from the long and middle distance in the team, but with 7 years since the last Norwegian gold medal, and very strong Swedish and Swiss teams, the men’s relay was a lot more open than the women’s relay. All favorite teams were close together after the first leg, and also the first part of the second leg did not see big gaps between the top teams, but then on the long leg after the arena passage at the second leg big gaps started opening up due to different route choices among the top teams (see key routechoices for the leg at the top of the page). Norway’s Eirik Langedal Breivik took the best route choice here, and manage to open up a gap of more than 30 seconds to Switzerland – with Sweden more than 90 seconds behind. Norway never gave away this lead again, and Kasper Fosser on the last leg increased the lead to around 90 seconds to Switzerland througout the leg.

The battle for bronze was a lot more exciting, though. Sweden’s Max Peter Bejmer seemed to be on his way to a relatively clear bronze medal in a battle with Finland’s Miika Kirmula, but Bejmer then did a big mistake at the 15th control, and even took the wrong control and got disqualified. Kirmula also did a big mistake, though, and let France’s Lucas Basset into the battle for the bronze medal. They ran together to the second last control, but Kirmula was stronger towards the end and could celebrate Finland’s first and only medal in the championships on home ground.

France finished 4th ahead of Estonia in 5th and Denmark in 6th.

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Maps and courses

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Men leg 1 & 2:

Men leg 3:

Results

Men

1	Norway 1				1:41:38
	1. Jorgen Baklid	35:02	5	+0:14	35:02	5		+0:14
	2. Eirik Langedal Breivik	33:06	1		1:08:08	1	-4		-0:14
	3. Kasper Harlem Fosser	33:29	1		1:41:38	1	0		0:00
2	Switzerland 1				1:43:28			+1:50
	1. Daniel Hubmann	35:04	6	+0:16	35:04	6		+0:16
	2. Fabian Aebersold	33:36	2	+0:30	1:08:40	2	-4	+0:32	+0:16
	3. Matthias Kyburz	34:48	2	+1:19	1:43:28	2	0	+1:50	+1:18
3	Finland 1				1:46:27			+4:49
	1. Topi Syrjalainen	34:51	2	+0:03	34:51	2		+0:03
	2. Akseli Ruohola	35:21	3	+2:15	1:10:12	3	+1	+2:04	+2:01
	3. Miika Kirmula	36:14	4	+2:45	1:46:27	3	0	+4:49	+2:45
4	France 1				1:46:49			+5:11
	1. Mathieu Perrin	34:48	1		34:48	1
	2. Quentin Moulet	36:13	6	+3:07	1:11:01	5	+4	+2:53	+2:53
	3. Lucas Basset	35:48	3	+2:19	1:46:49	4	-1	+5:11	+2:18
5	Estonia 1				1:50:57			+9:19
	1. Jurgen Joonas	35:01	4	+0:13	35:01	4		+0:13
	2. Timo Sild	36:51	7	+3:45	1:11:53	6	+2	+3:45	+3:32
	3. Lauri Sild	39:04	10	+5:35	1:50:57	5	-1	+9:19	+5:34
6	Denmark 1				1:51:42			+10:04
	1. Linus Agervig Kristiansson	37:11	13	+2:23	37:11	13		+2:23
	2. Marius Thrane Oedum	38:07	11	+5:01	1:15:19	9	-4	+7:11	+4:48
	3. Jacob Steinthal	36:23	5	+2:54	1:51:42	6	-3	+10:04	+2:53
7	Czechia 1				1:53:02			+11:24
	1. Jonas Hubacek	35:50	7	+1:02	35:50	7		+1:02
	2. Kral Vojtech	37:47	9	+4:41	1:13:37	7	0	+5:29	+4:27
	3. Daniel Bolehovsky	39:25	11	+5:56	1:53:02	7	0	+11:24	+5:55
8	Hungary 1				1:55:06			+13:28
	1. Zoltan Bujdoso	35:55	9	+1:07	35:55	9		+1:07
	2. Mate Baumholczer	40:32	18	+7:26	1:16:27	12	+3	+8:19	+7:12
	3. Ferenc Jonas	38:38	7	+5:09	1:55:06	8	-4	+13:28	+5:09
9	New Zealand 1				1:56:00			+14:22
	1. Zefa Faavae	37:01	12	+2:13	37:01	12		+2:13
	2. Tim Robertson	37:48	10	+4:42	1:14:49	8	-4	+6:41	+4:28
	3. Joseph Lynch	41:11	14	+7:42	1:56:00	9	+1	+14:22	+7:41
10	Great Britain 1				1:57:19			+15:41
	1. Luke Fisher	37:13	14	+2:25	37:13	14		+2:25
	2. Joshua Dudley	41:09	21	+8:03	1:18:23	16	+2	+10:15	+7:50
	3. Simon Harden	38:56	8	+5:27	1:57:19	10	-6	+15:41	+5:26

Women

1	Sweden 1				1:41:32
	1. Hanna Lundberg	33:53	2	+0:10	33:53	2		+0:10
	2. Sanna Fast	33:17	1		1:07:11	1	-1		-0:10
	3. Tove Alexandersson	34:21	2	+0:14	1:41:32	1	0		0:00
2	Norway 1				1:44:00			+2:28
	1. Pia Young Vik	33:43	1		33:43	1
	2. Marie Olaussen	35:55	5	+2:38	1:09:39	2	+1	+2:28	+2:28
	3. Andrine Benjaminsen	34:21	3	+0:14	1:44:00	2	0	+2:28	0:00
3	Switzerland 1				1:45:32			+4:00
	1. Paula Gross	36:19	6	+2:36	36:19	6		+2:36
	2. Natalia Gemperle	35:05	3	+1:48	1:11:24	5	-1	+4:13	+1:37
	3. Simona Aebersold	34:07	1		1:45:32	3	-2	+4:00	-0:13
4	Czechia 1				1:46:18			+4:46
	1. Denisa Kralova	35:57	5	+2:14	35:57	5		+2:14
	2. Lucie Dittrichova	33:42	2	+0:25	1:09:39	3	-2	+2:28	+0:14
	3. Tereza Rauturier	36:39	5	+2:32	1:46:18	4	+1	+4:46	+2:18
5	Finland 1				1:46:29			+4:57
	1. Amy Nymalm	35:15	3	+1:32	35:15	3		+1:32
	2. Ida Haapala	35:54	4	+2:37	1:11:09	4	+1	+3:58	+2:26
	3. Venla Harju	35:19	4	+1:12	1:46:29	5	+1	+4:57	+0:59
6	Denmark 1				1:55:46			+14:14
	1. Ida Agervig Kristiansson	35:49	4	+2:06	35:49	4		+2:06
	2. Agnes Noergaard Kracht	37:27	7	+4:10	1:13:16	6	+2	+6:05	+3:59
	3. Malin Agervig Kristiansson	42:29	10	+8:22	1:55:46	6	0	+14:14	+8:09
7	Great Britain 1				1:56:37			+15:05
	1. Jo Shepherd	39:15	11	+5:32	39:15	11		+5:32
	2. Grace Molloy	39:04	9	+5:47	1:18:20	9	-2	+11:09	+5:37
	3. Megan Mitchell	38:17	7	+4:10	1:56:37	7	-2	+15:05	+3:56
8	Poland 1				1:56:49			+15:17
	1. Ewa Bernaciak	39:34	13	+5:51	39:34	13		+5:51
	2. Hanna Wisniewska	39:06	10	+5:49	1:18:40	11	-2	+11:29	+5:38
	3. Aleksandra Hornik	38:08	6	+4:01	1:56:49	8	-3	+15:17	+3:48
9	France 1				2:00:21			+18:49
	1. Florence Hanauer	41:52	19	+8:09	41:52	19		+8:09
	2. Isia Basset	39:06	10	+5:49	1:20:59	13	-6	+13:48	+5:39
	3. Cecile Calandry	39:22	8	+5:15	2:00:21	9	-4	+18:49	+5:01
10	Latvia 1				2:00:24			+18:52
	1. Sandra Grosberga	39:07	10	+5:24	39:07	10		+5:24
	2. Signe Sirma	40:21	13	+7:04	1:19:28	12	+2	+12:17	+6:53
	3. Elza Kuze	40:55	9	+6:48	2:00:24	10	-2	+18:52	+6:35