Tove and Kasper power ahead in the World Cup Final Long Distance
Today’s Long Distance competition at the Orienteering World Cup Final in Cansiglio, Italy will be remembered for 2 dominating performances by Tove Alexandersson of Sweden and Kasper Harlem Fosser of Norway in winni...
2021-09-30
World Cup Final preview – a new age coming?
Tomorrow September 30th, the Orienteering World Cup Final kicks off with the Long Distance competition in Cansiglio, Italy. It is certain that there will be a new World Cup winner among the men since the reigning Cup win...
2021-09-29
World Cup Final preview – Simona or Tove?
Only 2 days remain until the first competition of the Orienteering World Cup Final, the Long Distance in Cansiglio, Italy. With 2 individual competitions remaining in the 2021 World Cup it is looking to be a close battle...
2021-09-28
Orienteering World Cup Final coming up!
2021 has been a good year for orienteering followers around the world. After the cancelled season in 2020 and challenges with Covid pandemic restrictions, the IOF, Organisers, Teams and Athletes have so far met the chall...
2021-09-21
Sweden gold, Hungary silver in both JWOC relays
There were identical outcomes for gold and silver medals in both women’s and men’s relays in wet conditions today, with the winning margins 2.19 and 1.37 respectively. Bronze medals go to the Czech women and Swiss men. S...
2021-09-10
Swiss and French winners in JWOC Long
Lilly Graber, Switzerland and Basile Basset, France are the new JWOC Long Distance champions. Graber, silver medalist in the Middle race, won convincingly by 48 seconds whilst Basset’s victory was by just 7 seconds. Grab...
2021-09-09
JWOC Middle Final: huge success for Sweden
Two gold, one silver and one bronze is the impressive medal tally for Sweden today. Both Hanna Lundberg and Axel Elmblad enjoyed emphatic victories, by 1.42 and 2.13 respectively. Viktor Svensk took silver in the men’s c...
2021-09-07
26 nations represented in JWOC Middle A-Final
In the A-Finals at Middle Distance tomorrow, 23 nations will be represented in the men’s and 18 nations in the women’s, 26 nations in all. Only the Norwegian and Swedish women’s teams have got all their six athletes into...
2021-09-06
JWOC Sprint Golds to Denmark and Italy
The Sprint races provided demanding technical and physical challenges for the JWOC competitors today, resulting in two close finishes; Malin Agervig Kristiansson from Denmark and Francesco Mariani from Italy are the Spri...
2021-09-05
JWOC starts on Sunday in Turkey
257 athletes from 30 nations are entered for this year’s Junior World Orienteering Championships, to be held in Kocaeli Province, Turkey in the period 5-10 September. Five days of exciting competition for age classes W20...
2021-09-02
Mid-European success in EYOC Sprint
The gold medal tally was Hungary 2, Germany 1 and Czech Republic 1 after the Sprint in Vilnius old town, Lithuania, the final race of EYOC. The Czech team had a fine day with 4 medals in all – 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bron...
2021-08-22
EYOC Relay: gold medals to 4 nations
Four classes, gold to four nations. Athletes from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden all tasted glory today. Nine nations won medals; the highest number, silver medals in three classes, went to the Czech Republic. W16 &...
2021-08-21