World of O News

Norway had the best leg time on all three legs – very impressive! That did, of course, give Gold. Switzerland were 2nd, 3rd and 2nd on the three legs. Good, but no good enough. Sweden had a very bad start – but were saved by Bergman (2nd best leg time) & Lind ...

The WOC 2016 Women’s relay featured a very interesting battle between the six favourite teams Russia, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway. The decision points are marked in the splits graph with letters A-J. For each decision point, there is a GPS animation video. Under each video there is a quick-link ...

Gold for Norway in the Men’s class and Russia in the Women’s class in the Men’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) relay today.  While Norway won a clear victory in the men’s class, the battle for the medals was very tight in the women’s class. Men: Norway from the start Norway won ...

[Start Men 14:00 CET. Start Women 16:00] Can Sweden’s Gustav Bergman come back on top in the relay again after struggling in the individual races as in Italy in 2014? Will Tove Alexandersson be the Queen of the championships with 3 Gold medals? Can the Danish women show excellent team performance ...

The Women’s WOC 2016 Long distance race was special in that there were big time difference already at the 2nd control. Many runners lost the race already at the 3.5 kilometer long leg to the 2nd control. The battle for victory was between the eventual winner Tove Alexanderseson (Sweden) and Russian silver medalist ...

The WOC 2016 Long distance course was characterized by several challenging long legs where both routechoice and execution was important in order to perform well. Olav Lundanes solved the long legs best – giving him his third World Championships title on the long distance. The first part of the analysis is focused ...

[Updated with GPS animations] The two biggest favourites Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long distance.  According to several runners the race was tougher than expected – and the very long route already to the second control after a short first control was ...

[First Start 12:20 CET. Top 20 Women from 13:45, Top 20 Men from 15:30] Can Tove Alexandersson take another Gold medal even though she was really tired at the end of Tuesday’s Middle distance? Can Thierry Gueorgiou win his 4th WOC long distance title in a row even though his orienteering was ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Olav Lundanes (Norway) and Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) had a very tight battle for victory in the Men’s World Orienteering Championships Middle distance 2016 in Tanum, Sweden. At the arena passage 6 minutes before the finish, the three runners were within 15 seconds with Olav Lundanes first. In the ...

Tove Alexandersson was the big favourite for the WOC middle distance in Tanum, but the Swedish runner got a surprisingly tough fight from Canadian Emily Kemp. After a miss by Kemp towards the end of the course,  Heidi Bagstevold (Norway, silver) and Natalia Gemperle (Russia, bronze) passed Kemp on the results. ...