Orienteering athletes race for World Games medals in USA
Orienteering fans around the world are having some busy weeks this summer trying to keep up with all the international championships going on. As the WMOC in Italy and JWOC in Portugal are coming to an end this week, ori...
2022-07-14
World MTBO Championships to begin in Sweden
We’ve already handed out medals at WOC, EYOC, JWOC and WMOC during the last three weeks and now it’s time for the world’s best mountainbike orienteers to compete for medals at the World Mountainbike Orienteering Champion...
2022-07-14
Norway wins close JWOC Sprint Relay
Norway’s relay team won by just two seconds, as the first ever Sprint Relay at the Junior World Orienteering Championships took place in Aguiar da Beira, Portugal. The Sprint Relay was added to the JWOC program just this...
2022-07-14
JWOC Sprint Golds for Finland and Sweden
Finland’s Elisa Mattila and Sweden’s Axel Elmblad are new Junior World Champions in Sprint after the first competition day at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Aguiar da Beira, Portugal. The courses in the o...
2022-07-11
Sprint Relay added to modified JWOC program in Portugal
This is an updated news article about the JWOC program – see the original article from July 9 below: The athletes at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Portugal will run a Sprint Relay in addition to th...
2022-07-09
World Orienteering Championships: Sweden heads medals table
Sweden finished the championships in first place in the medals table with 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze, whilst second-placed Great Britain’s medal haul was 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. Switzerland took third place, 1 ...
2022-07-01
Sprint success for Great Britain and Norway
New Sprint World Champions are Megan Carter Davies, Great Britain and Kasper Harlem Fosser, Norway at the end of two fascinating and eventful races in Vejle, Denmark. Favourite Tove Alexandersson was beaten into 6th plac...
2022-06-30
WOC Sprint Qualification: 21 nations in both men’s and women’s finals
Great Britain achieved three heat wins, Switzerland two and Belgium one in this morning’s qualification races. Twenty-six nations in all will take part in the finals, with Denmark, France, Norway and Switzerland having a...
2022-06-30
Alexandersson and Kyburz take Knock-Out Sprint titles
A very exciting day of orienteering ended with Final wins for Tove Alexandersson, Sweden and Matthias Kyburz, Switzerland in the first-ever WOC Knock-Out Sprint. The one winner with supreme strength, speed and concentrat...
2022-06-28
WOC Knock-Out Sprint: four nations with 6 qualifiers
The first-ever World Championship Knock-Out Sprint takes place today in Fredericia, Denmark. This morning the Qualification heats have determined the 36 qualifiers for the Quarter-Finals, which start with the men’s...
2022-06-28
World Championships Sprint Relay: Sweden success in title defence
Sweden powered to victory on the last leg, winning by 1.02 seconds after leading for most of the race. Closest challengers were Great Britain, leading by a second at the final changeover, and the bronze medals went to No...
2022-06-26
WOC 2022 preview – the king of Knock-Out Sprint?
There is so much to look forward to when the World Championships in Denmark begin Sunday afternoon with the Sprint Relay in Kolding. The worlds best orienteers have been training for years to perform their best at the fi...
2022-06-23