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For those looking to take on some of the world's best orienteers in Perth at the Park World Tour, get your entry in by the end of July to take advantage of cheap entry rates - prices rise on August 1.

Graham Gristwood recovered from a troublesome start to take a Bronze medal from today's World University Orienteering Championships middle race, as Matthias Merz once again took Gold ahead of Patrik Karlsson of Sweden. Radka Brozkova of the Czech Republic won the women's race over 90 seconds clear of Sofia Haajanen of Finland and Ines Brodmann of Switzerland.

It was a Swiss double header today in the World University Orienteering Championships, as Sara Lüscher and Matthias Merz won the Long Distance, with Merz winning convincingly by over four and a half minutes.

Kristian Jones got the Junior World Orienteering Championships off to a flying start for the British team with a silver medal in today's sprint.

The Junior World Orienteering Championships gets underway tomorrow with the sprint distance event around the grounds of Aalborg University, Denmark.

2009 has been another year full of great orienteering achievements and as we now are moving towards 2010, it is time to decide the greatest of achievements of the year. World of O and Ultimate Orienteering are hosting an annual poll to find the biggest Orienteering Achievements of the year - but be quick, voting ends December 4th!

As the European orienteering community gradually starts to wake up from it's winter slumber the World's ski orienteers go East to compete for international glory on the ski and scooter tracks of Rusutsu, Japan.

Emily Benham once again took sprint silver in the European Mountain Bike Orienteering championships, replicating last year's result but missing out on Gold by an agonising one second margin. Following on from yesterday's bronze medal, Emily blasted round the 3km course on the somewhat flatter ...

Jukola 2008, first leg for JOK. It's really hard to know where to begin. There were so many emotions and sensations and activities and actions and reactions and thoughts and people and challenges and triumphs and disasters. And other things. And they all happened at once! For 97 really really ...

The British Team for the World University Orienteering Championships, held in Estonia from 28th July to 3rd August, has now been announced. Men: Oleg Cheplin (Edinburgh) Matthew Crane (Sheffield) Scott Fraser (Edinburgh) Ewan McCarthy (Stirling) Neil Northrop (Sheffield) Women: Racha...

Sweden and Latvia looked the strongest of the teams at the opening event of ISF World School Championship Orienteering in Scotland today. In wet conditions at Devilla Forest, both nations had six top three finishes, with Sweden taking convincing victories in both the D1 School and Select classes,...

England took overall victory, along with eight class victories, at Interland at Weerterbergen in the south of Holland this weekend. Interland takes place on a yearly basis and comprises of representatives from England, two Belgian teams (Flemish and French speaking), the Dutch and a NW Germany te...

In about seven months, Portugal will be the centre of the Orienteering world: here will be held the World Masters Orienteering Championship 2008. The International Orienteering Federation (IOF), during the Congress in Japan in August 2005, awarded to the Portuguese Federation of Orienteering (FP...

For the first of in a series of winter interviews we are pleased to introduce the charismatic young Finn, Måen BoströHaving started orienteering at 4 years old and going on to a successful junior career (including JWOC silver in classic distance, 2001), Måen decided to try to realise his potentia...

Last week while some of the world's elite were building up for the final World Cup races of the year, a host of other world ranking events were taking place in the southern hemisphere. The Oceanic Championships took place around Canberra during the first week of October, with World Ranking rac...