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Middle final race is over 22.08.2007 Today's middle final race was quite challendging for the runners. It is over now and we would like to congratulate new World Champions in middle distance, these are Thierry Gueorgiou from France and Simone Niggli from Switzerland. Full set of results co...

Results from Long Qualification are available 19.08.2007 Results of today's Long Qualification are published. Download it.

The Junior World Orienteering Championships today started at speed with the sprint discipline which was always likely to be the race that would go to form. Away from the tricky rocky terrain competitors will face over the rest of the championships, the sprint was on terrain less unique to Austral...

Over the past week several athletes from UK have travelled to sunny Portugal for some warm weather training and also test how their winter training has gone in the Portugal O Meet and Norte Alentejano “O” Meeting. Portugal O Meet: First up was the 4 Day Portugal O Meet based just east of P...

The 27th Venice Orienteering Meeting saw over 3000 competitors coming from all parts of the globe to navigate the multitude of alley ways, canals, and bridges (plus plenty of dead-ends!) that make this event quite unique. The weather was just about perfect for both the main event on Sunday and th...

The World Cup Finals continued today after the interruption of the storms. The Long final was held today in some very unique volcanic terrain. No surprises for guessing who reigned supreme in the mens class - Frances' very own Theirry Gueorgiou was the clear winner, just under 4mins ahead of Russ...

Tha final ever round of the 'traditional' world cup kicked off today in the Auvergne region of France, amid the twering green volcano's pictured on the label of Volvic water. Athletes from across the globe will be fighting it out over old lava flows rife with thick green forest this week, in t...

Scott Fraser finished an impressive 4th place today in the Norwegian Championships Long race. He trailed over 7 minutes behind the winner, former JWOC champion Olav Lundanes, but was only 15 seconds behind 2nd. The result will help Scott secure his 3rd place in the Craft-cup, a series of ra...

"In the olden days the British team would always win the banquet. That doesn't seem to happen any more" were the words of the Czech coach to Jon Musgrave, coach of the British Students team. Little did he know... All major international competitions conclude with a closing ceremony and banquet...

WUOC Sprint A great run by Murray Strain round the streets of Kosice resulted in a very nail-biting ending to the final individual race at the World Student Championships as the Scot ended up in 4th place, less than 10 seconds from getting a medal. The 3.3km course was won by Norwegian spri...

The World University Orienteering Championships kicked off today in Kosice, Slovakia and it was a good day for the GBR. Helen Bridle, fresh off her podium finish in Denmark last week, took a silver medal in the long. Helen said she had a really good run and was very pleased with Silver. It was qu...

A reasonable day for the British women in todays middle final. Sarah Rollins had a good run to finish in 16th place. Sarah spoke to the nopesport team at the end of her race. Sarah really wanted a good clean run today and wasn't focused on a good result. The route choices were all 'mega safe' ...

The results are in from the womens middle final and it is gold again for Simone Niggl-Luder. Like the long final, Simone had to put in a top performance to secure top spot as she was pushed the whole way again by Norways Marianne Anderson. Marianne put in another superb effort and ave it her all ...

Jani Lakanen and Simone Niggli are the new World Champions in the King Distance - the long race. For Simone it was her 11th world title and 3rd title in the long distance, while Jani described it as "the best day of my life, in sport". Jani is the first Finn to win the classic distance since 1...

Podium For GBR! Helen Bridle finished 6th in a historic race, where the young Australian junior Hanny Allston claimed a unique double by being JWOC and WOC champion in the same season. There were other strong British runs from Pippa Whitehouse who was an early leader and finished 12th, and ...