World of O News

Sweden and Switzerland dominated a technical and interesting Middle qualifier at the opening of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC)  in Trin, Switzerland. Hanna Lundberg (Sweden), Tove Alexandersson (Sweden), Simona Aebersold (Switzerland), Joey Hadorn (Switzerland), Albin Ridefelt (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) took the victories. All favourites and biggest outsiders made ...

Very interesting and technical orienteering is expected when the 2023 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Flims Laax in Switzerland on Wednesday July 12th with the Middle Qualification. The championship continues with the Long distance on  Thursday  (no qualification), the Middle Final on Saturday after a rest day, and finally rounds of with the Relay on Sunday. ...

[LIVE from Monday July 3rd 15:30 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2023 in Romania starts with Sprint on Monday July 3rd, continues with Sprint Relay on Tuesday, Middle on Wednesday, Long on Friday and finishes off with Relay on Saturday.  The championship is organized around Baia Mare, Romania – and will offer GPS-tracking (all competitors ...

The 2023 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with more than 18.000 competitors on the start. Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their relay. Here ...

The test races for the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Flims Laax in Switzerland concluded with a long distance race in hilly terrain with many route choice options on Tuesday. As for the middle distance races, the start field was divided into two classes for men and two classes for women based ...

With only 5 weeks until the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Flims Laax in Switzerland, many countries hold their WOC test or selection races in Switzerland this long weekend with more than 300 top runners at the start. Saturday and Sunday Middle distance races were organized, while a Long distance ...

Ready for the most northerly 10Mila ever? The first of the big orienteering relays in the 2023 season is organized in Skellefteå the coming weekend, with high quality individual races organized also on Thursday and Friday. Read on for all you need to know about the 2023-edition of the 10Mila long weekend.  The start ...

Sweden won both the men’s and women’s relay in very exciting races at the final day of the World Cup opening weekend of 2023 – with Sweden’s second team being the winner in the women’s class. Both Kasper Fosser (Norway 1) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden 1) had off days after ...

In a very tight middle distance with less than 20 seconds separating the best runners both in the men’s and women’s classes Sara Hagström (Sweden) took her first World Cup victory ever while Kasper Fosser (Norway) took his second victory in two races.  In the women’s class Tove Alexandersson looked ...

After nearly 90 minutes of orienteering in tough terrain only seconds separated the top runners in both the men’s and women’s class in the long distance opening this year’s World Cup. Last years’ winners of the overall World Cup, Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Kasper Fosser (NOR), had the margins on ...