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02.08.2015 The Danes had planned the courses!
The fantastic Danish victory in the Sprint Relay was not a result of luck at all. The Danes had done their preparations. 81 seconds was the margin for the Danes in front of Norway, after the four legs in Nairn. It was four incredible races by the four in the team. That was a result […]

02.08.2015 Bertuka: “I’m a professional Mum”
Kristine Kokina Bertuka was ten seconds late for running on Sunday evening. That isn’t a big problem for the wife of one of the men that can be one of the big names at WOC. Kristine finished as the first of all at WOC in Great Britain. “Nice to be the first finisher and it […]

02.08.2015 First WOC – into Sprint Final
Giacomo Zagonei had his first WOC start on Friday evening. He felt it was a first time championship in the start, but he managed well. There will be two Italians in the Final. The 22-year-old is from Primiero, where JWOC was in 2009. At that time he was too young to take part. Last year […]

02.08.2015 World Championships Sprint Relay: emphatic victory for Denmark
Denmark led almost throughout in today’s first medal event, the Sprint Relay, and finished with an emphatic victory, 1.21 ahead of their nearest rivals, Norway. Russia took the bronze medals.

01.08.2015 Yannick is taking a day off
Sunday is the day marked in red for Yannich Michiels. Due to that he will not take part in the Sprint Relay. “I am glad I have the opportunity to not take part in the Sprint Relay. That’s an advantage before the Final”, he says. “I can concentrate on my preparations for the individual Final”. […]

01.08.2015 Positive signal for last year’s champion
Søren Bobach won the Sprint on an incredible Danish day one year ago. This year he’s aiming for a position among the six best. The Dane was number four in the group that Kris Jones had the best time in. The runner from Great Britain was 15 seconds faster. “The race gave me a positive […]

01.08.2015 Kris Jones: nervous in quarantine
Kris Jones is really wondering how amazing the final will be, with his great start to the Championships in the qualification. He was one of the three heat winners with being nine seconds faster than Øystein Kvaal Østerbø in group two. Jones is one of the big British hopes at the third WOC in Scotland. […]

01.08.2015 Judith is speeding up again
Last year Judith Wyder was the queen of international orienteering. After that she hasn’t run that well, but now the Swiss star is back on track. Judith finished with the second best in one of the qualification groups on Friday evening. Only Maja Alm had a better time in group one. 14 seconds was the […]

01.08.2015 Minna finished with a smile
She is one of the biggest athletes in orienteering history, and after the Sprint qualification Minna Kauppi had a big smile. “Now I’m smiling again”, she says. The Finnish star with an incredible 17 WOC medals has had tough years with a lot of injuries to  struggle with. It has been few races and not […]

01.08.2015 World Orienteering Championships: 25 nations represented in Sprint Final
After today’s Sprint Qualification heats, twenty-five nations will be represented in the Finals on Sunday. Five nations had all their starting runners through to the Finals: Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain and Switzerland.