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06.08.2013 First WMOC medals decided in the urban Sprint in Sestriere
The first final of the World Masters Orienteering Championships 2013, Sprint, took place yesterday in Italy at the heart of the Olympic Mountains. The competitors fought over medals in the narrow streets and small parks of Sestriere village located 2000 m above sea level and only 17 km from the French boarder.

05.08.2013 Press release from WOC 2015 organiser
"We are pleased to announce that subject to final agreements with landowners and other bodies that Darnaway and Glen Affric will be used to stage Long, Middle and Relay World Orienteering Championships races in 2015. Forres and Nairn will be used to stage the Sprint Relay, Sprint Qualifiers and Sprint Final. [...]"

05.08.2013 Impressive gold for Switzerland – Kyburz King of the Games
As the first orienteer ever, Matthias Kyburz has won three World Games champion titles in one year. The last one he got with the help of his team mates – but he was without a doubt contributing a lot to the victory.

04.08.2013 Follow the mixed sprint relay live
The World Games orienteering events conclude today with Sprint relay. The running order in the relay is man-woman-man-woman.

04.08.2013 Tove’s “not so good day” resulted in silver
Tove Alexandersson on her way to the last control, followed by Maja Alm and Ida Bobach, Denmark. Photo: Anna Jacobson Tove Alexandersson did not have the best day on Friday in the sprint race. The beginning went well, but after the spectator control she started to run towards a wrong control. After that she lost [...]

04.08.2013 Safe race brought victory
Second victory in a row for Matthias Kyburz! Photo: Anna Jacobson Matthias Kyburz, yesterday’s sprint winner, says he wasn’t especially tired after the sprint race. His legs felt good today as well, and “the speed seems to be good enough”. He had to fight a bit harder in the middle of the race, but the [...]

04.08.2013 Bronze for Lithuania! – Vilius Aleliunas
You’d think that when an orienteer for the first time reaches an international medal, he would have had the race of his life. But that is not the case for Vilius Aleliunas, today’s bronze medallist on The World Games middle distance.

03.08.2013 Kyburz and Kauppi mastered the middle distance
Matthias Kyburz took another convincing victory at The World Games in Cali, Colombia, today. An amazing 1:37 min gap on the middle distance to the silver medallist Daniel Hubmann was a surprise event to the winner himself.

03.08.2013 Annika had to fight hard
Annika Billstam, The World Games Sprint Champion, says she did not make any mistakes on the course. Her biggest challenge was to start in a pace that she could keep up until the finish. “I really had to fight hard halfway through the course to be able to keep up the speed”, Annika says. “The [...]

03.08.2013 Three seconds from an American medal
Alison was able to run fast today, and that resulted in a fifth place. Photo: Anna Jacobson Before the race, Alison Crocker had thought that it would be really good if she was amongst the ten best in sprint. She finished fifth – just three seconds from bronze medal! “I had a technically solid run, [...]