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Fosser wins tight battle in World Cup Long distance, Alexandersson victorious in Swedish fight

The defending Orienteering World Cup champions, Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Kasper Fosser (NOR) took an important step in their title defence, when the 2023 World Cup season started with a long distance in Østfold, Norw...

European MTBO Championships: big win for Dane Nikoline Splittorff

Silver in Middle, now gold in Mass Start with a win by a whole 6 minutes! The Danish rider Nikoline Splittorff showed great strength and technical expertise in very warm conditions today. The men’s race ended with an exc...

European MTBO Championships: first gold medals to Denmark and Czechia

Camilla Søgaard, Denmark and Vojtech Stransky, Czechia won today’s Middle distance races, Søgaard by 13 seconds from fellow Dane Nikoline Splittorff and Stransky by 1.20 over compatriot Krystof Bogar. Both Denmark and Cz...

CX80 World Cup and EMTBOC 2023 kick off in Portugal this week

The 3-round CX80 MTBO World Cup gets under way Wednesday, 26th April with the 4-race European MTBO Championships (EMTBOC) in Loulé, southern Portugal. Last year’s World Cup winners, Camilla Søgaard DEN and Krystof Bogar ...

Podcast: Gustav Bergman on returning to Østfold for World Cup Round 1

Gustav Bergman (SWE) has been part of the international orienteering elite for more than a decade and won three championship medals in 2022 and finished third in the overall World Cup. This week, he’ll start the ne...

The pursuit of World Cup glory starts in Norway on Thursday

Worlds best orienteers are heading to Norway these days to compete at the first Orienteering World Cup Round of 2023, which begins Thursday in Østfold in the south-eastern corner of the country. Over the course of four d...

SkiO World Cup: Alexandersson and Baklid take pursuit wins

The pursuit discipline in ski orienteering often offers thrilling races and the final Ski O World Cup race of 2023 lived up to the expectations. Another day with great skiing conditions met the athletes Sunday morning an...

SkiO World Cup: Lindkvist and Baklid win sprint race

The world’s best ski orienteering athletes were met by another day of great skiing conditions as the sun rose over Beitostølen, Norway after another evening with snowfall. Starting at the arena the men were first take on...

Kudre Schnyder and Baklid march on in SkiO World Cup

After heavy snowfall on Thursday evening, the ski orienteering athletes started out in quiet, sunny weather on Friday morning at the first SkiO World Cup race in Beitostølen, Norway. The weather had given the organisers ...

Successive SkiO World Cup wins on the way in Norway?

After just four days of rest since the final day at the European Ski Orienteering Championships in Latvia, the world’s best SkiO-athletes will race again at the third and final World Cup round in Norway. Three race days ...

2023-02-09

SkiO World Cup: Baklid and Kudre Schnyder lead after 2 rounds

Jørgen Baklid, Norway and Daisy Kudre Schnyder, Estonia lead the World Cup standings at the end of the European SkiO Championships (ESOC) in Latvia, with one round to go starting in Norway in a few days’ time. Photo: Jør...

2023-02-06

ESOC final day: clear win for Norway in Sprint Relay

The Norwegian team of Jørgen Baklid and Anna Ulvensøen dominated today’s Sprint Relay, leading throughout and finishing 28 seconds in front of silver medallists Estonia. Bronze medals went to Sweden’s second team. Photo:...