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Kasper Fosser (NOR) won his silver medal on the two long legs – winning both with nearly half a minute. Olav Lundanes (NOR) won his gold medal due to his fast finish – from the 11th control to the finish, the Norwegian 6 times WOC Gold medalist was 1:51 faster ...

[Article updated with some split time analysis] The big pre-race favourites Olav Lundanes (NOR) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) won the World Orienteering Championships Long distance – each of them taking the fourth Long distance title in a row. For Lundanes this was his 6th WOC Long gold medal! While Alexandersson ...

[First start men 10:24, first start women 13:15, men’s race decided 16:00, women’s race decided 18:10, TV-broadcast from 13:30] The Long distance on Wednesday August 14th is the first medal race at the World Orienteering Championships – a very tough race with around 100 minutes running time for the men and 80 ...

Olav Lundanes (NOR), Lucas Basset (FRA), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR), Kamilla Olaussen (NOR) and Cecilie Friberg Klysner (DEN) won the qualification heats when the WOC Middle Qualification opened this year’s World Orienteering Championships in Østfold, Norway. All top runners made it to Friday’s final – no big ...

[First start 10:00, last start women 11:08, last start men 11:21, expected winning time 25 min] WOC 2019 starts Tuesday August 13th with Middle Qualification. The Middle Qualification is mostly a nice warm-up exercise for the top runners – but especially in the men’s class it is still possible to ...

The World Orienteering Championships 2019 (#WOC2019) starts on Tuesday August 13th at 10:00 CET with Middle qualification in Østfold, Norway. This is the first forest only WOC – with the first medals battled for in the Long distance Wednesday (Men from 10:24, Women from 13:14). The Middle distance final is decided on Friday (Women from 13:30, men from 15:45) ...

Norway’s men and Great Britain’s women won the JWOC 2019 relay – finishing off this year’s Junior World Championships. Norway was the big favourite in the men’s class after great runs by Kasper Fosser throughout the championship – Fosser took his third gold medal in the championships with the relay ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Isa Envall (SWE) won the JWOC 2019 Middle distance in Denmark. This was Fosser’s second victory at this JWOC – after winning the long distance earlier this week.  Envall won 54 seconds ahead of Fiona Bunn (GBR) with Tereza Janosikova (CZE) in 3rd at 1:24. In ...

Kasper Fosser (NOR) won the men’s Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance just like last year, while Ida Haapala (FIN) and Veronika Kalinina (RUS) took a shared victory in the women’s class (still unofficial as of Tuesday morning) after a late jury decision moving Kalinina from silver to shared gold. While the ...

Aston Key (AUS) and Eline Gemperle (SUI) took the victories at the Junior World Championships Sprint in Denmark.  Key won 13 seconds ahead of Samuel Pihlstrom (SWE) with Guilhem Elias (FRA) in 3rd at 0:14. In the women’s class Gemperle won only 3 seconds ahead of Tilda Ostberg (SWE) with Grace ...