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05/08/2018 || Reigning champions Sweden wins Sprint Relay ||FootO, News, WOC news||

The reigning champions Sweden won the Sprint Relay at the Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships in Riga, Latvia.

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04/08/2018 || Maja Alm and Daniel Hubmann World Champions in Sprint ||FootO, News, WOC news||

Maja Alm won her fourth sprint gold in a row and Daniel Hubmann his second at Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships in Latvia.

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03/08/2018 || Latvia welcomes world’s Trail Orienteers too! ||News, TrailO||

The main spotlights in Latvia next week will be on the World Orienteering Championships, but Latvia is also hosting the World Trail Orienteering Championships (WTOC), at the same time but at a completely different venue.

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03/08/2018 || IOF and WOC 2018 organiser team up with Pfizer to inform about Tick-Borne Encephalitis TBE ||News||

The IOF is proud to announce a partnership with Pfizer and the WOC 2018 organisers to provide information about TBE, a disease which is very relevant to talk about in the orienteering community. In connection with WOC 2018, more specifically in connection with the WOC Middle distance competition on Tuesday August 7th and the Latvian […]

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02/08/2018 || Follow WOC LIVE! ||News||

All competitions will be broadcasted live on TV and LIVE Orienteering. Sweden, Finland and Estonia will have full TV coverage, Czech Republic and Switzerland will have parts covered. Latvia will have all competitions broadcasted on a web-stream platform with Latvian commentators. All broadcasts on LIVE Orienteering will have livestream with English language commentators, GPS tracking and LIVE results.

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02/08/2018 || WOC: Thierry Gueorgiou from a different and new point of view ||FootO, News, WOC news||

This WOC Thierry Gueorgiou will return to the main orienteering competition but to play a different role, as one of the coaches of the Swedish Team. In this interview, he talks about his career as an orienteer and how he has exchanged the role of the runner to become the coach.

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01/08/2018 || WOC: LIVE Orienteering expert’s expectations ||FootO, News, WOC news||

It is going to be a special World Orienteering Championships – the last one with both sprint and forest disciplines.  But already this year, we will have the world championships divided into two parts – the urban part in Riga with the sprint and sprint relay in the beginning of the WOC week, followed by the forest disciplines in Sigulda.

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01/08/2018 || First World Orienteering Championships for Latvia ||FootO, News, WOC news||

The 35th World Orienteering Championships (WOC) will be held in Riga and Sigulda, Latvia starting on Saturday. 345 athletes from 49 nations are entered for the competitions – three individual plus Relay and Sprint Relay.

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