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WOC 2025 Middle Qual: Maps, Results and Analysis

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The 2025 World Orienteering Championships started off on Tuesday in Kuopio, Finland with a challenging Middle distance qualification at the Tahko ski resort Tuesday morning. All the big favorites made it safely through to Wednesday’s final, but the technical Finnish terrain served up lots of challenging orienteering. 

The final will use different very terrain from the qualification. With all the favorites through and the technical qualification behind them, Wednesday’s final promises to be an exciting battle for the first medals of WOC 2025. The Swiss team looks particularly strong after their dominant qualification performance, but the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish athletes showed they’re ready to challenge.

Tomorrow’s Middle Distance Final starts at 13:40 for men and 15:30 for women (local time).

Men’s qualification

  • Heat 1: World champion Matthias Kyburz (SUI) won in 25:17, with Eetu Savolainen (FIN) 11 seconds back and Timo Sild (EST) third. Savolainen said to woc2025.fi, “The top guys didn’t have to give their all today. I managed to perform as I had hoped,” and expects a faster terrain in Neulaniemi tomorrow. – The terrain will definitely not be this rocky.

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  • Heat 2: Fabian Aebersold (SUI) won, Topi Syrjäläinen (FIN) was second and Jannis Bonek (AUT) third. Syrjäläinen called his run “okay,” noting “my pace is good” despite a small mistake to woc2025.fi. Gustav Bergman: “It was a bit sloppy into the second control, and I lost time on the long leg.”

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  • Heat 3: Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR) finished first, followed by Lauri Sild (EST) and New Zealand’s Zefa Faavae. Two big mistakes by Miika Kirmula, but managed to qualify with a strong finish. Max Peter Bejmer: “Maybe it was nerves—I had a parallel error to six but finished strong.”

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Women’s qualification

  • Heat 1: Natalia Gemperle (SUI) topped the field, Evely Kaasiku (EST) was second and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) third. Tove Alexandersson: “It was quite hard for a qualifier. You really had to keep your orienteering tight.”

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  • Heat 2: Simona Aebersold (SUI) won ahead of Marie Olaussen (NOR) and Lucie Dittrichova (CZE). Hanna Lundberg: “I was totally lost at one point—it’s rare to feel ‘I don’t know how to solve this.’”

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  • Heat 3: Venla Harju (FIN) won ahead of Andrine Benjaminsen (NOR) and Sara Hagstrom (SWE).
    • Sanna Fast: “I had a really bad start when I missed the trail through the green, but then I tried to pull it together.”

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Finland’s head coach Thierry Guergiou pointed out to woc2025.fi that the final’s terrain in Neulaniemi will be quite different—faster and less rocky than today’s slopes.

Maps and GPS-tracking

See GPS-tracking and maps below:

WOC Midde Qual, Men heat 1 (9.05)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com
WOC Midde Qual, Men heat 2 (9.05)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com
WOC Midde Qual, Men heat 3 (9.05)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com
WOC Midde Qual, Women heat 1 (11.10)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com
WOC Midde Qual, Women heat 2 (11.10)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com
WOC Midde Qual, Women heat 3 (11.10)

» See map in omaps.worldofo.com

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Results

Top 15 in each heat qualified automatically for the final. In addition selected runners from countries not in the Top 15, see rules in the WOC 2025 All You Need To Know article.

Men A

1 Matthias Kyburz SUI 25:17 6:28
2 Eetu Savolainen FIN 25:28 +0:11 6:31
3 Timo Sild EST 26:01 +0:44 6:40
4 Anton Johansson SWE 26:28 +1:11 6:47
5 Daniel Hubmann SUI 27:09 +1:52 6:57
6 Jorgen Baklid NOR 27:22 +2:05 7:01
7 Quentin Moulet FRA 27:45 +2:28 7:06
8 Tomas Krivda CZE 27:46 +2:29 7:07
9 Marius Thrane Oedum DEN 27:55 +2:38 7:09
10 Luis Nogueira ESP 28:22 +3:05 7:16
11 Simon Harden GBR 28:48 +3:31 7:23
12 Boyan Ivandjikov BUL 28:58 +3:41 7:25
13 Daniel Pompura SVK 29:16 +3:59 7:30
14 Johan Langerak NED 30:23 +5:06 7:47
15 Mathias Peter AUT 30:35 +5:18 7:50
16 Matiss Saulite LAT 30:42 +5:25 7:52
17 Konstantin Kunckel GER 30:57 +5:40 7:56
18 Fryderyk Pryjma POL 31:24 +6:07 8:03
19 Nitsan Yasur ISR 31:25 +6:08 8:03
20 Kylian Wymer AUS 32:03 +6:46 8:13

Men B

1 Fabian Aebersold SUI 25:50 6:37
2 Topi Syrjalainen FIN 26:02 +0:12 6:40
3 Jannis Bonek AUT 26:55 +1:05 6:54
4 Mathieu Perrin FRA 27:23 +1:33 7:01
5 Alastair Thomas GBR 27:31 +1:41 7:03
6 Ruslan Glibov UKR 27:36 +1:46 7:04
7 Gustav Bergman SWE 27:49 +1:59 7:07
8 Lukas Liland NOR 28:16 +2:26 7:14
9 Matt Doyle AUS 28:56 +3:06 7:25
10 Jonas Hubacek CZE 29:01 +3:11 7:26
11 Mateusz Kula POL 29:20 +3:30 7:31
12 Ole Hennseler GER 29:50 +4:00 7:38
13 Francesco Mariani ITA 29:58 +4:08 7:41
14 Hiroki Komaki JPN 30:01 +4:11 7:41
15 Tim Robertson NZL 30:05 +4:15 7:42
16 Peter Nagy HUN 30:27 +4:37 7:48
17 Rasmus Moeller Jess DEN 30:28 +4:38 7:48
18 Christian Michelsen CAN 30:29 +4:39 7:48
19 Rudolfs Zernis LAT 30:47 +4:57 7:53
20 Ayhan Bikir TUR 31:06 +5:16 7:58

Men C

1 Kasper Harlem Fosser NOR 25:39 6:34
2 Lauri Sild EST 25:42 +0:03 6:35
3 Zefa Faavae NZL 25:45 +0:06 6:36
4 Eirik Langedal Breivik NOR 26:07 +0:28 6:41
5 Lucas Basset FRA 26:08 +0:29 6:42
6 Jonas Egger SUI 27:10 +1:31 6:57
7 Max Peter Bejmer SWE 27:21 +1:42 7:00
8 Daniel Bolehovsky CZE 28:16 +2:37 7:14
9 Michal Olejnik POL 28:28 +2:49 7:17
10 Mattia Debertolis ITA 28:40 +3:01 7:21
11 Bojan Blumenstein GER 28:57 +3:18 7:25
12 Miika Kirmula FIN 29:15 +3:36 7:30
13 Mathias Blaise BEL 29:17 +3:38 7:30
14 Simon Tobler AUT 29:22 +3:43 7:31
15 Ferenc Jonas HUN 30:07 +4:28 7:43
16 Jacob Steinthal DEN 30:10 +4:31 7:44
17 Ben Mitchell GBR 30:50 +5:11 7:54
17 Jakub Chupek SVK 30:50 +5:11 7:54
19 Henry McNulty AUS 31:07 +5:28 7:58
20 Itsuki Ito JPN 31:09 +5:30 7:59

Women A

1 Natalia Gemperle SUI 24:25 7:23
2 Evely Kaasiku EST 25:05 +0:40 7:36
3 Tove Alexandersson SWE 25:55 +1:30 7:51
4 Marika Teini FIN 26:09 +1:44 7:55
5 Megan Mitchell GBR 27:24 +2:59 8:18
6 Aleksandra Hornik POL 28:13 +3:48 8:33
7 Isia Basset FRA 28:23 +3:58 8:36
8 Gabija Razaityte LTU 29:02 +4:37 8:47
9 Pia Young Vik NOR 29:25 +5:00 8:54
10 Line Cederberg DEN 30:18 +5:53 9:10
11 Eef van Dongen NED 30:34 +6:09 9:15
12 Rachel Baker NZL 30:40 +6:15 9:17
13 Ana Isabel Toledo ESP 30:56 +6:31 9:22
14 Ying Yau Chu HKG 31:52 +7:27 9:39
15 Signe Sirma LAT 32:03 +7:38 9:42
16 Anna Groell AUT 32:19 +7:54 9:47
17 Denisa Kralova CZE 34:13 +9:48 10:22
18 Dominika Mero HUN 34:34 +10:09 10:28
19 Luboslava Weissova SVK 34:43 +10:18 10:31
20 Ellen Klueser GER 34:49 +10:24 10:33

Women B

1 Simona Aebersold SUI 24:11 7:19
2 Marie Olaussen NOR 25:19 +1:08 7:40
3 Lucie Dittrichova CZE 26:07 +1:56 7:54
4 Ida Haapala FIN 26:49 +2:38 8:07
5 Elza Kuze LAT 26:55 +2:44 8:09
6 Hanna Lundberg SWE 26:58 +2:47 8:10
7 Alina Niggli SUI 27:10 +2:59 8:13
8 Jo Shepherd GBR 27:14 +3:03 8:15
9 Agnes Noergaard Kracht DEN 27:23 +3:12 8:17
10 Cecile Calandry FRA 27:47 +3:36 8:25
11 Tereza Smelikova SVK 28:06 +3:55 8:30
12 Birte Friedrichs GER 28:21 +4:10 8:35
13 Hanna Wisniewska POL 28:33 +4:22 8:39
14 Marianne Haug EST 30:19 +6:08 9:11
15 Csilla Gardonyi HUN 30:29 +6:18 9:14
16 Iliana Ilieva BUL 30:53 +6:42 9:21
17 Kaia Joergensen NZL 31:54 +7:43 9:40
18 Marta Guijo Alonso ESP 32:15 +8:04 9:46
19 Yevheniia Veremeienko UKR 32:30 +8:19 9:50
20 Anna Pradel ITA 32:48 +8:37 9:56

Women C

1 Venla Harju FIN 25:06 7:36
2 Andrine Benjaminsen NOR 25:27 +0:21 7:42
3 Sara Hagstrom SWE 26:02 +0:56 7:53
4 Paula Gross SUI 27:04 +1:58 8:12
5 Sanna Fast SWE 27:11 +2:05 8:14
6 Tereza Rauturier CZE 27:40 +2:34 8:23
7 Jasmina Gassner AUT 28:23 +3:17 8:36
8 Grace Molloy GBR 28:45 +3:39 8:42
8 Sandra Grosberga LAT 28:45 +3:39 8:42
10 Hanna Mueller GER 30:04 +4:58 9:06
11 Ida Agervig Kristiansson DEN 30:15 +5:09 9:10
12 Marine Sillien BEL 30:41 +5:35 9:17
13 Caitlin Young AUS 31:00 +5:54 9:23
14 Margret Zimmermann EST 32:10 +7:04 9:44
15 Ewa Bernaciak POL 32:15 +7:09 9:46
16 Florence Hanauer FRA 32:45 +7:39 9:55
17 Zsofia Sarkozy HUN 33:23 +8:17 10:06
18 Liliana Gotseva BUL 34:24 +9:18 10:25
19 Katherine Babington NZL 34:45 +9:39 10:31
20 Aoi Yamasaki JPN 34:53 +9:47 10:34

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