World of O News

Sweden dominated both the Relay and the Middle distance at the World Orienteering University Championships in Hungary with four Gold medals of four possible, while Great Britain took a popular Gold medal at the Sprint Relay ahead of Czech Republic and Norway. Oskar Sjögren and Lilian Forsgren were the Swedish Gold medal ...

Kris Jones (GBR) and Denisa Kosova (CZE) won the sprint and Rassmus Andersson (SWE) and Anna Haataja (FIN)  won the long distance at the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) in Miskolc, Hungary. The championships has so far offered very interesting courses. The sprint race offered some very intricate orienteering – and the ...

July 31st – August 4th: The World Orienteering University Championships (WUOC) is organized in Miskolc, Hungary, from Sunday July 31st until Thursday August 4th. The program is intense – 5 races in 5 days – starting with Sprint on Sunday, Long on Monday, Sprint Mixed Relay Tuesday, Middle Wednesday and ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Fjord-O 2016, organized in Western Norway – this year with two races in the Stryn area and two races around Olav Lundanes’ home in the Ålesund area. Fjord-O offers the runners a combination of interesting orienteering and fantastic scenery – partly above the ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Swiss O-Week, organized every second/third year in Switzerland. Swiss O-Week was organized in St. Moritz in Engadin this year – and the runners met a combination of interesting orienteering and fantastic scenery. Most of the Swiss top runners were participating – but ...

Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is FIN5 in Finland. FIN5 was organized close to Hamina in southeastern Finland from July 10th until July 16th 2016. Overall winners in FIN5 2016 were Frederic Tranchand (France) and Marika Teini* (Finland) Julia Novikova (Russia).  The terrain did offer quite a few routechoice alternatives due ...

Today’s quick look at summer holiday races takes us to France and O’France 2016. One of the most tricky events of the o-summer 2016? “De la pure technique!”  Taking a look at the maps posted from O’France 2016, it surely looks like some athletes were challenged by the terrain. Partly ...

Switzerland wins both relays with big margins. With this the Swiss junior athletes show that they are the best both physically and technically in Swiss Alpine terrain. On the Swiss winning team in the women’s class (see photo below by Remi Steinegger) Paula Gross started in 5th place. Sofie Bachmann ...

Two runners had the speed to win the Middle distance at the Junior World Championships Middle 2016: Thomas Curiger and Joey Hadorn (both Switzerland). In the end Thomas Curiger (Switzerland) won the Junior World Championships Middle due to excellent orienteering combined with one of the highest running speeds in the start field. Only the ...

Simona Aebersold was the fastest runner of the day – and that with an excellent technical race. With a lead from the first control until the end, Aebersold won 1:50 ahead of Aleksandra Hornik (Poland) with Johanna Öberg (Sweden) in 3rd at 2:11. Aebersold did a stable race and lost 16 ...