Totallympics 55 Posted August 12, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Orienteering IOF World Championships 2019 Østfold (NOR) - 13 August 2019 - 17 August 2019 Official Website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belle 720 Posted August 14, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Tove Alexandersson of Sweden won her 4th straight Gold medal at long distance today. Sweden also won the silver medal with Lina Strand. Congratulations girls. Tove won with over six minutes ahead of Lina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted August 14, 2019 #3 Share Posted August 14, 2019 women's Long Distance Gold: Tove Alexandersson Silver: Lina Strand Bronze: Simona Aebersold Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3183/1/Official-Results-Women men's Long Distance Gold: Olav Lundanes Silver: Kasper Fosser Bronze: Daniel Hubmann Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3180/1/Official-Results-Men Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasit 849 Posted August 16, 2019 #4 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Why no sprint distance this time? Stopped watching sports, there are better things in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted August 16, 2019 #5 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Just now, Quasit said: Why no sprint distance this time? I was wondering the same thing. Middle Distance is kind of watchable. Long Distance is completely unwatchable. Sprint I’ve really enjoyed watching. Same with the relay. The sprint is the most marketable event and they left it off the program. It’s a bizarre choice to me. Plus, I wouldn’t watch it anyways since they expect me to pay €10 to watch it. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumo 2,795 Posted August 16, 2019 #6 Share Posted August 16, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Quasit said: Why no sprint distance this time? IOF decided to split the WCH into two. "Distances/Forest" championships every odd year and "Sprint/City" championships every even year. The reason for this decision is to make it possible for more countries to bid for a WCH. Some countries don't have "enough" forest to hold a WCH. IOF hopes that this new system makes it possible to bring more awareness of orienteering in the world. I have heard that Hong Kong is planning to bid for a Sprint WCH. Before that wouldn't have been possible for a country like Hong Kong to bid for a whole WCH, but now it is possible. Also, money I guess. More countries have the possibility to host a WCH which probably mean more federations in IOF, which can lead to more publicity in new countries, which can mean new sponsors to IOF. So yeah.... money! Edited August 16, 2019 by wumo26 Quasit and Olympian1010 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasit 849 Posted August 16, 2019 #7 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Wikipedia mentioned the alternation of forest/park events from 2019 on so I had a thought that might have been the reason. Thanks. Stopped watching sports, there are better things in life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted August 16, 2019 #8 Share Posted August 16, 2019 18 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said: I was wondering the same thing. Middle Distance is kind of watchable. Long Distance is completely unwatchable. Sprint I’ve really enjoyed watching. Same with the relay. The sprint is the most marketable event and they left it off the program. It’s a bizarre choice to me. Plus, I wouldn’t watch it anyways since they expect me to pay €10 to watch it. all races are live on Norwegian public channels NRK1 and NRK2, which are available in streaming (also ondemand) on their official website (provided you use a VPN)... Olympian1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted August 16, 2019 #9 Share Posted August 16, 2019 (edited) women's Middle Distance Gold: Tove Alexandersson Silver: Simona Aebersold Bronze: Natalia Gemperle & Venla Harju (tied) Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3192/1/Official-Results-Women men's Middle Distance Gold: Olav Lundanes Silver: Gustav Bergman Bronze: Magne Daehli Full Ranking https://eventor.orienteering.org/Documents/Event/3194/1/Official-Results-Men-Middle-Final Edited August 16, 2019 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted August 16, 2019 #10 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Just now, phelps said: all races are live on Norwegian public channels NRK1 and NRK2, which are available in streaming (also ondemand) on their official website (provided you use a VPN)... And on multiple YouTube channels about a day after the competition phelps 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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