No more “zero points” World Ranking Events

04.11.2013

No more “zero points” World Ranking Events

As the new Orienteering World Ranking system comes into effect on January 1, 2014, one of the major changes is that there will no longer be any races where the competitors do not score points. In a standard World Ranking Event (WRE), the winners are guaranteed at least 800 points, and each participant at least 10 points. Please read more about the details in the previous news article.

IOF Vice President Mike Dowling, responsible for the World Ranking Review in IOF Council, comments:

“The IOF initiated the review of the Foot Orienteering World Ranking Review Project to address a number of issues. Among these were:

- to ensure that all WREs in all member Federations result in competitors receiving ranking points for finishing the race.
- to better match ranking point outcomes to the status of the IOF major events such as World Championships, World Cup, Regional Championships and other major IOF events such as our participation in The World Games.
- to meet the demands of the new WOC model for middle/long start order
- to recognise that there is a measure of specialisation and differential between urban and forest formats of our sport
- to provide more opportunities for a greater diversity of top level orienteers to be recognised.
- to make it clearer the ranking points that can be expected from each of the different levels of IOF events for the winners of  WR races.”

 To show how the new system will influence current lists, here is a sample testing of World Ranking on 13 October 2013, with the new system:

Sample Testing of WR Events to 13 Oct 2013 – Top 20.

Orienteering World Ranking List – Women

1          5900     SUI      Simone Niggli

2          5849     FIN       Minna Kauppi

3          5803     SWE    Tove Alexandersson

4          5681     RUS     Tatyana Riabkina

5          5618     SWE    Helena Jansson

6          5611     SWE    Annika Billstam

7          5605     DEN     Ida Bobach

8          5592     NOR     Anne Margrethe Hausken

9          5540     SUI      Judith Wyder

10        5476     FIN       Merja Rantanen

11        5446     SWE    Lena Eliasson

12        5430     SUI      Sara Luescher

13        5429     NOR     Mari Fasting

14        5406     LAT      Inga Dambe

15        5398     NOR     Tone Wigemyr

16        5391     SWE    Lina Strand

17        5386     FIN       Venla Niemi

18        5352     CZE     Eva Jurenikova

19        5346     GBR     Catherine Taylor

20        5341     FRA     Amelie Chataing

 

Sprint Orienteering World Ranking List – Women

1          5900     SUI      Simone Niggli

2          5795     SWE    Annika Billstam

3          5632     DEN     Maja Alm         

4          5622     SWE    Tove Alexandersson

5          5611     DEN     Emma Klingenberg

6          5569     NOR     Anne Margrethe Hausken

7          5499     DEN     Ida Bobach

8          5486     SWE    Helena Jansson

9          5476     FIN       Venla Niemi

10        5428     RUS     Tatyana Riabkina

11        5424     SUI      Judith Wyder

12        5396     SWE    Lena Eliasson

13        5381     SWE    Lina Strand

14        5346     SUI      Rahel Friederich

15        5326     FIN       Minna Kauppi

16        5318     FIN       Merja Rantanen

17        5298     RUS     Galina Vinogradova

18        5294     GBR     Tessa Hill

18        5294     NOR     Tone Wigemyr 

20        5341     SUI      Ines Brodmann

 

Orienteering World Ranking List – Men

1          5888     FRA     Thierry Gueorgiou

2          5848     NOR     Olav Lundanes

3          5830     SUI      Fabian Hertner

4          5813     SUI      Matthias Kyburz

5          5810     SWE    Gustav Bergman

6          5798     SUI      Matthias Merz

7          5772     RUS     Valentin Novikov

8          5771     SWE    Peter Oberg

9          5744     SUI      Daniel Hubmann

10        5711     NOR     Magne Daehli

11        5696     LAT      Edgars Bertuks

12        5684     NOR     Carl Waaler Kaas

13        5670     NOR     Anders Nordberg

14        5637     SWE    Johan Runesson

15        5617     UKR     Oleksandr Kratov

16        5608     FIN       Jani Lakanen

17        5606     SUI      Marc Lauenstein

18        5603     DEN     Tue Lassen

19        5599     FRA     Philippe Adamski

20        5581     FRUS   Dmitriy Tsvetkov

 

Sprint Orienteering World Ranking List – Men

1          5850     SUI      Matthias Kyburz

2          5787     SWE    Jonas Leandersson

3          5761     SWE    Jerker Lysell    

4          5703     SUI      Daniel Hubmann

5          5669     SUI      Matthias Merz

6          5668     GBR     Scott Fraser

7          5635     DEN     Rasmus Thrane Hansen

8          5611     SUI      Fabian Hertner

9          5593     SUI      Matthias Mueller

10        5577     BUL      Kiril Nikolov

11        5527     NOR     Olav Lundanes

12        5518     SUI      Andreas Kyburz

13        5514     GBR     Murray Strain

14        5511     SUI      Martin Hubmann

15        5506     RUS     Andrey Khramov

16        5500     FRA     Frederic Tranchand

17        5491     FIN       Morten B. Bostrom

18        5484     SWE    Gustav Bergman

18        5475     CZE     Jan Prochazka 

20           5472      NOR       Oystein Kvaal Osterbo

 

Edit: Please note that these results were created for testing purposes only, and they do not include, for example, results from Junior World Orienteering Championships.

To access the real situation on the World Ranking List as it was on 13 October 2013, please visit our World Ranking portal.

Source:  http://orienteering.org/no-more-zero-points-world-ranking-events/