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08.07.2013 World Orienteering Championships, men’s sprint qualification: defending champion safely through
Defending sprint world champion Matthias Kyburz, Switzerland qualified easily for this evening’s final, finishing 2 seconds down on the Swedish sprint star Jerker Lysell in his heat. The other heat winners were Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Denmark and Öystein Kvaal Österbö, Norway, who both had clear victories.

08.07.2013 World Orienteering Championships, women’s sprint qualification: win again for Simone Niggli
Defending Sprint World Champion Simone Niggli, Switzerland won her heat in the qualification this morning, by the big margin of 35 seconds. The other heat winners, and therefore last starters in the final this evening, are Galina Vinogradova, Russia and Maja Alm, Denmark.

07.07.2013 Gueorgiou – year without injury
Last year it was clear only just before the WOC started that Thierry Gueorgiou could take part, since he had had a lot of injuries. This year there is no doubt that he can run and do very well. The ‘French phantom’ was second in his qualification group, 40 seconds behind the Finn Jani Lakanen. [...]

07.07.2013 You can’t ring Minna!
Minna Kauppi is one of those orienteers who has become a national star in her home country. That has given the whole WOC a lot of extra publicity and interest. In just the last couple of months, the Finnish Federation has had four–five requests for an interview with Minna Kauppi every week. 60 Finnish journalists [...]

07.07.2013 Norway and Finland to organise World Cup 2014 Round 3
The IOF Council has appointed Norway and Finland as organisers of Orienteering World Cup 2014 Round 3.

07.07.2013 World Orienteering Championships, Long distance qualification: 28 nations in finals
Twenty-three nations in the women’s final and twenty-four in the men’s. Those are the bare statistics from a warm and dry race-day in Vuokatti, Finland, where the first race has taken place today.

07.07.2013 What a day for the Czechs!
Also among the men it was a win for the Czech Team in the relay at JWOC on home ground. Adam Choupek ran especially well. Adam started as number seven on the second leg. When he finished the gap was 2.10 minutes to Sweden in second place and he was by far the fastest on [...]

07.07.2013 A surprise gold for the Czech!
Lenka Knapova (left), Vendula Horcickova and Katerina Chroma from the Czech Republic won the women’s relay at JWOC in Hradec Králové. Photo: Erik Borg When Vendula Horcickova finished the relay she and the rest of her team didn’t know that they were going to be Junior World Champions. “We will cry at the prize-giving”, said [...]

07.07.2013 Junior World Championships: Double Czech gold in relay
Women’s and men’s teams from the Czech Republic were winners of the last race of the championships, the relay. Finland and Sweden took silver and bronze in the women’s race, and in the men’s race Sweden took silver and Russia bronze.

06.07.2013 Orienteering on TV also online in the USA
The World Orienteering Championships will be broadcast in the USA for the first time in history. Please make sure everybody knows the updated schedule per Universal Sports.com.