[Including comparisons for all legs] Reigning World Champions Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) both defended their titles from Switzerland in 2023 over the long distance at the 2025 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Kuopio, Finland. For Aebersold the margin was only 9 seconds after a thriller finish – ...
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Eirik Langedal Breivik (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Middle distance in Kuopio, Finland on Wednesday. This was a big day for Sweden and Norway with four Swedish and two Norwegian medals. All three medals in the women’s class went to Sweden – Sanna Fast ...
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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 ...
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Interesting and varied orienteering is expected when the 2025 World Orienteering Championship starts in Kuopio, Finland on Tuesday July 8th with a Middle Qualification race. The action continues with three TV-broadcast forest races from Wednesday to Saturday: Middle Final on Wednesday, Long Final on Thursday and Relay on Saturday. The Kuopio region ...
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Sweden (Men) and Switzerland (Women) won the relay events as the first World Cup round of 2025 concluded in Idre Fjäll, Sweden – the last test ahead of the World Orienteering Championships in Finland in a few weeks’ time. Switzerland (Paula Gross, Natalia Gemperle, Simona Aebersold) won ahead of Norway ...
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Swedish success in tricky World Cup Midde distance in Idre Fjäll: Max Peter Bejmer and Tove Alexandersson won the World Cup Middle distance on home ground in the Swedish mountains in a race where we saw a lot of big mistakes by top runners. Bejmer won ahead of three (!) other Swedish runners – ...
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The two big favourites – Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) – won the World Cup Long distance race in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Both won with a big margin – Fosser by 4:04 ahead of Matthias Kyburz (SUI), while Alexandersson took the women’s race with a 3:12 margin ...
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The 2025 Orienteering World Cup season starts off in Swedish Idre Fjäll on Wednesday June 18th with a shortened long distance Qualification race. The action continues with three TV-broadcast forest races from Thursday to Sunday: Long Thursday, Middle Saturday and Relay Sunday. Idre Fjäll offered great races with tricky orienteering when the ...
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Today we offer a bonus leg in Route to Christmas 2024 – a second leg from the World Cup Final long race. This course was already featured on Day 19 – but the leg to control 13 was interesting enough to make a bonus leg. Especially with this being the area for next year’s ...
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Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 7000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2024″! To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make ...
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