World of O News

The World Games Orienteering (TWG) 2022 consists of three races – Sprint, Middle distance and Sprint Relay – organized on July 15th – July 17th 2022 in Birmingham, USA. All races will be broadcast live on webTV. Most of the world’s top orienteers are on the start line, although some ...

Norway won the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) Sprint Relay ahead of Hungary and Czech Republic. The Individual Sprint was won by Elisa Mattila (Finland) and Axel Elmblad (Sweden). Due to the current situation in Portugal, the forest races are cancelled and were replaced by the first ever official JWOC ...

The women’s Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2022 Sprint offered some very interesting routechoices and a very tight finish – were the clear leader lost so much time towards the end that she was out of the battle for the medals. Read on to see how the women’s race was decided. The ...

The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2022 Sprint offered some very interesting routechoices, good GPS-tracking which made it interesting to make performance analysis – and tight battles for the medals. Read on to see how the men’s race was decided. The race was won by Axel Elmblad (Sweden) ahead of ...

Kasper Fosser (Norway) and Megan Carter Davies (Great Britain) took the gold medals in the individual sprint at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2022 in Denmark – the last race of the championships.  Fosser was the biggest favourite ahead of the race in the men’s race – and took a ...

The two first World Champions in Knock Out Sprint are the two biggest favourites ahead of the race – Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland). While Alexandersson took a very clear victory, running alone more than half of the race, Kyburz had to fight for his gold medal all the ...

Qualification for the WOC Knock Out Sprint was done this morning – the Quarterfinals start at 16:00 CET (available on free webTV)  and semi-finals start from 17:45 with full TV broadcast. Heat winners in the qualification were Aston Key (Australia), Jakob Edsen (Denmark), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Charlotte Ward (Great Britain), ...

Sweden took the gold medal in the Sprint Relay in the 2022 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) ahead of Great Britain and Norway. The world’s best female orienteer the last years, Tove Alexandersson, decided the relay on the last leg with a fantastic run. Lina Strand, Max Peter Bejmer and Gustav Bergman ran ...

The first ever Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Denmark on Sunday June 26th with the Sprint Relay. The championship continues with the first ever WOC Knock-Out Sprint on Tuesday June 28th – and rounds of with the traditional Sprint on Thursday June 30th. With this being the first ...

The 2022 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with nearly 17.000 competitors on the start. With about 11.000 on the start in the open Jukola relay and 6.000 in the women’s Venla relay, Jukola is not all the way back to ...