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06/07/2013 || Orienteering on TV also online in the USA ||News||
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.
05/07/2013 || Junior World Championships: Sprint golds for Norway and Switzerland ||News||
Newly-crowned Sprint Junior World Champions are Heidi Mårtensson, Norway and Florian Schneider, Switzerland. The medals were divided between six different nations, including a bronze for Belarus.
04/07/2013 || World elite foot and trail orienteers gather in Finland ||News||
The final countdown has begun to the start of the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) and World Trail Orienteering Championships (WTOC), both of which take place around the Finland town of Vuokatti during the coming week.
04/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships to be an international messenger for clean sport ||News||
Things will heat up in the forests of Vuokatti on 6–14 July, when orienteers compete in the World Orienteering Championships. The message of clean sport will be on display at the event, symbolised by the Golden Baton which travels around to international sporting events organised in Finland. The event organisers, the International Orienteering Federation, the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA and the Finnish Antidoping Agency FINADA are working together to bring forth the message of clean sport.
03/07/2013 || Junior World Championships, men’s Middle distance final: Sweden power show ||News||
Sweden took all the medals in the men’s Middle distance final, with Emil Svensk winning the gold by just 1 second from Anton Johansson. Bronze medallist, 9 seconds down on the winner, was Jens Wängdahl.
03/07/2013 || Junior World Championships: Danish winner in women’s Middle distance ||News||
Gold medal in the women’s Middle distance final has gone to Miri Thrane Ødum, Denmark, who won by 31 seconds on a technically demanding course in the Czech Republic today. Silver medallist is Lisa Risby, who won gold at Long distance earlier in the week, and Norway’s Mathilde Rundhaug takes the bronze.
02/07/2013 || Junior World Championships: Middle qualification – six heats, winners from six nations ||News||
The fastest in today’s Middle distance qualification heats were from six nations: Denmark, France, Great Britain, Latvia, Norway and Sweden.
02/07/2013 || The Ukrainian with a big passion for orienteering ||News||
Oleksandr Kratov is aiming to get a medal at the upcoming World Orienteering Championships in Finland. Still, he says his only “talent” is his passion for orienteering. Read in Athlete of the Month the achievements the talent has given him so far, and why it has taken him to Sweden!
02/07/2013 || US television schedule for WOC confirmed ||News||
The World Orienteering Championships will be broadcast on US television for the first time in history, and the schedule has now been confirmed.
01/07/2013 || Finally a Polish gold at the Junior World Championships again ||News||
The long distance race for junior men was 9.9 kilometres long with 620 metres of climbing. The fastest of all was Piotr Parfianowicz, Poland, who won with the time 69:21.
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