World of O News

Fly through the areas where the World Orienteering Champs will be decided the coming week – and see what kind of hilly challenges the best orienteers will face! Below a video from Google Earth is embedded which includes old maps of embargoed areas and traning areas – and you can ...

Who is in the WOC Team for my country? Where can I see the GPS tracking? When is the Long Final? WOC 2009 starts in Miskolc, Hungary with the Long distance Qualification the coming Sunday August 16th at 10:00 CET. Here you find all the information you need – including ...

Live radio controls, finish times, and some live comments are promised from the MTB WOC in Israel which start off Monday 10/8 at 08:30 CET with Qualification Long. The map above is the old map for the long qualification – see MTB WOC 2009 webpage for more old maps. This ...

[Updated with Long and Relay maps] Antti Nurmonen (FIN), Heinni Wennman (FIN), Johan Bäckman (FIN) and Charlotte Bouchet (FRA) and the Swiss Relay Teams took the gold medals in Euromeeting which was organized as a part of the Swiss 6 Days this weekend. See also in-depth articles about Euromeeting at ...

Vinogradova decided a very exciting World Games mixed relay for Russia. Minna Kauppi (Finland), Hanny Allston (Australia) and Elise Egseth (Norway) had a hard fight for the silver medal – Minna Kauppi deciding it for silver for Finland. Elise Egseth took the Bronze medal for Norway after beating Hanny Allston ...

Sunday July 18th at 08:00 CET the mixed Relay in the World Games starts. There will again be LiveBlog, Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the World Games. The same map as for the middle distance will be used – ...

Comeback for Allston – Revenge for Hubmann. Hanny Allston has done a real comeback here at the World Games with Gold medal at the middle distance today and Silver medal at the sprint yesterday. Hubmann was beaten by less than a second yesterday – today he took revenge and run ...

Saturday July 18th at 06:30 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 Middle distance starts – we start the LiveBlog at 07:30 CET – when Minna Kauppi heads into the forest. There is Live video streaming, GPS tracking and online results – so expect a nice Saturday morning from the ...

Minna Kauppi and Andrey Khramov took the victories in the World Games sprint today. Kauppi took a clear victory ahead of Hanny Allston and Elise Egseth – whereas Khramov had a hard fight with Daniel Hubmann, finishing off only 4 tenths of a second ahead of Hubmann. Tero Föhr took ...

Friday July 17th at 08:00 CET the Orienteering in World Games 2009 start. In addition to Live video streaming and GPS tracking, there will be a WorldofO Live Blog from the World Games. As there is both Live video streaming and TracTrac available, the LiveBlog will mainly be focused on ...