The 30th World Orienteering Championships was held in Vuokatti, Finland, from 6 to 14 July 2013.

Medalists

Men Sprint Mårten Boström Scott Fraser Jonas Leandersson Middle distance Leonid Novikov Thierry Gueorgiou Gustav Bergman Long distance Thierry Gueorgiou Jani Lakanen Edgars Bertuks Relay Leonid NovikovValentin NovikovDmitriy Tsvetkov Anders HolmbergPeter ÖbergGustav Bergman Pavlo UshkvarokOleksandr KratovDenys Sherbakov

Women Sprint Simone Niggli Annika Billstam Venla Niemi Middle distance Simone Niggli Tove Alexandersson Merja Rantanen Long distance Simone Niggli Tove Alexandersson Lena Eliasson Relay Heidi BagstevoldAnne M. Hausken NordbergMari Fasting Venla NiemiAnni-Maija FinckeMinna Kauppi Sara LüscherJudith WyderSimone Niggli

Participating countries A total of 44 countries participated at this World Championships.

Results

Sprint The sprint finals were held on 8 July 2013 at Hiukka, Sotkamo.

Men's sprint + WOC 2013 – Sprint final – Men (3.9 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Mårten Boström 14:19.6 Scott Fraser 14:36.7 Jonas Leandersson 14:37.8 4 Fabian Hertner 14:41.3 5 Matthias Kyburz 14:45.8 6 Rasmus Thrane Hansen 14:47.3 7 Øystein Kvaal Østerbø 14:49.4 8 Jerker Lysell 14:52.3 9 Murray Strain 14:56.4 10 Jan Procházka 14:56.8 11 Andreas Kyburz 14:58.2 12 Yannick Michiels 15:06.3 13 Pavlo Ushkvarok 15:06.7 14 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 15:13.6 15 Tuomo Mäkelä 15:17.9 16 Kristian Jones 15:18.8 17 Gustav Bergman 15:19.9 18 Bjørn Ekeberg 15:21.8 19 Petteri Muukkonen 15:23.2 20 Oleksandr Kratov 15:24.3 21 Carl Waaler Kaas 15:24.6 22 Martin Hubmann 15:25.5 23 Gernot Kerschbaumer 15:25.6 24 Kiril Nikolov 15:32.4 25 Robert Merl 15:35.0 26 Andreas Boesen 15:38.6 27 Vincent Coupat 15:49.2 28 Ivan Sirakov 15:50.1 29 Roman Ryapolov 15:56.8 30 Simon Uppill 15:58.0 31 Ivaylo Kamenarov 16:00.3 32 Wojciech Kowalski 16:00.8 33 Andreu Blanes 16:06.6 34 João Figueiredo 16:07.2 35 Pieter Hendrickx 16:07.6 36 Artūrs Pauliņš 16:08.5 37 Milos Nykodym 16:17.7 38 Mārtiņš Sirmais 16:18.6 39 Máté Baumholczer 16:18.9 40 Antonio Martínez 16:24.0 41 Christian Wartbichler 16:31.8 42 Alexander Lubina 16:43.5 43 Frédéric Tranchand 16:54.9 44 Marc Serrallonga 16:59.2 45 Kenny Kivikas 17:20.1 99 Vilius Aleliunas DQ

Women's sprint + WOC 2013 – Sprint final – Women (3.4 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Simone Niggli 14:10.6 Annika Billstam 14:18.7 Venla Niemi 14:48.5 4 Maja Alm 14:53.0 5 Tessa Hill 14:58.2 6 Galina Vinogradova 15:04.3 7 Emma Klingenberg 15:08.9 8 Merja Rantanen 15:15.9 9 Heidi Østlid Bagstevold 15:20.8 10 Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg 15:22.8 11 Nadiya Volynska 15:34.5 12 Lina Strand 15:35.0 13 Iveta Duchova 15:38.4 14 Lizzie Ingham 15:39.6 15 Olga Reznichenko 15:49.3 16 Rahel Friederich 15:53.9 17 Lea Vercellotti 15:54.3 18 Irina Nyberg 15:54.7 19 Ausrine Kutkaite 15:54.9 20 Sarah Rollins 16:01.5 21 Sabine Hauswirth 16:07.5 22 Tereza Novotna 16:10.1 23 Ursula Kadan 16:12.6 24 Alva Olsson 16:15.6 25 Alison Crocker 16:16.7 26 Ekaterina Nikitina 16:21.0 27 Annika Rihma 16:24.7 28 Gabija Ražaitytė 16:33.0 29 Miek Fabré 16:33.3 30 Kristina Rybakovaitė 16:51.1 31 Felicity Brown 16:53.8 32 Vanessa Round 16:56.4 33 Paulina Faron 16:57.5 34 Elisa Elstner 17:00.2 35 Celine Dodin 17:09.3 36 Fanni Gyurkó 17:12.5 37 Laura Vīķe 17:31.3 38 Carlotta Scalet 17:37.6 39 Yingwei Wang 17:52.3 40 Christine Kirchlechner 17:55.5 41 Nataliya Dimitrova 18:07.3 42 Jasmine Neve 18:36.5 43 Alicia Cobo 20:02.0 99 Michela Guizzardi DQ 99 Judith Wyder DQ

Middle distance The middle distance finals were held on 12 July 2013 at Koulurinne, Vuokatti.

Men's middle distance + WOC 2013 – Middle distance final – Men (6.3 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Leonid Novikov 37:45 Thierry Gueorgiou 37:54 Gustav Bergman 38:21 4 Matthias Kyburz 39:08 5 Daniel Hubmann 39:16 5 Fabian Hertner 39:16 7 Carl Waaler Kaas 39:21 8 Edgars Bertuks 39:51 9 Denys Sherbakov 39:59 10 Peter Öberg 40:22 11 Oleksandr Kratov 40:30 12 Mārtiņš Sirmais 40:33 13 Lauri Sild 41:02 14 Johan Runesson 41:08 15 Gernot Kerschbaumer 41:10 16 Anders Nordberg 41:42 16 Valentin Novikov 41:42 18 Zsolt Lenkei 41:46 19 Olle Kärner 42:20 20 Tomáš Dlabaja 42:22 21 Jan Procházka 42:28 22 Tue Lassen 42:44 23 Hannu Airila 42:46 24 Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 42:51 25 Rasmus Thrane Hansen 42:54 26 Robert Merl 42:56 27 Pavlo Ushkvarok 43:11 28 Philippe Adamski 43:24 29 Bjørn Ekeberg 43:32 30 Alexey Bortnik 44:01 31 Andreu Blanes 44:03 32 Mikhail Mamleev 44:26 33 Simon Uppill 44:55 34 Simonas Krėpšta 45:39 35 Michal Krajčík 45:54 36 Hector Haines 46:50 37 Christoph Prunsche 47:16 38 Roger Casal 47:31 39 Daniel Barkasz 47:43 40 Kalvis Mihailovs 47:56 41 Mateusz Wenslaw 48:24 42 Pavel Gvozdev 48:44 43 Timo Sild 48:46 44 Tiago Aires 51:17 99 Mark Nixon DNF

Women's middle distance + WOC 2013 – Middle distance final – Women (5.0 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Simone Niggli 0:35:25 Tove Alexandersson 0:37:10 Merja Rantanen 0:37:59 4 Minna Kauppi 0:38:39 5 Irina Nyberg 0:38:45 6 Annika Billstam 0:38:49 7 Amélie Chataing 0:38:50 7 Tatyana Riabkina 0:38:50 9 Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg 0:38:56 10 Maja Alm 0:39:13 11 Ida Bobach 0:39:43 12 Inga Dambe 0:39:46 13 Judith Wyder 0:39:50 14 Venla Niemi 0:40:03 15 Ausrine Kutkaite 0:40:24 16 Nadiya Volynska 0:40:30 17 Vendula Haldin 0:40:42 18 Tone Wigemyr 0:40:45 19 Mari Fasting 0:41:10 20 Saila Kinni 0:41:13 21 Hollie Orr 0:41:39 22 Sara Lüscher 0:41:48 23 Ursula Kadan 0:41:54 24 Dana Brožková 0:42:01 25 Eva Juřeníková 0:42:09 26 Emily Kemp 0:42:43 27 Lina Strand 0:42:45 28 Claire Ward 0:43:01 29 Alison Crocker 0:44:49 30 Anu Åkerman 0:45:34 31 Olga Reznichenko 0:45:49 32 Charlotte Bouchet 0:46:36 33 Hanny Allston 0:46:38 34 Paulina Faron 0:47:24 35 Elisa Elstner 0:47:31 36 Indrė Valaite 0:47:53 37 Tessa Hill 0:48:46 38 Christiane Tröße 0:49:08 39 Laura Vīķe 0:49:19 40 Annabel Valledor 0:50:05 41 Louise Oram 0:50:09 42 Michela Guizzardi 0:53:07 43 Vanessa Round 0:53:20 44 Jasmine Neve 0:54:28 45 Hinako Inage 1:01:24

Long distance The long distance finals were held on 9 July 2013 at Kumpula, Sotkamo.

Men's long distance + WOC 2013 – Long distance final – Men (19.8 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Thierry Gueorgiou 1:41:39 Jani Lakanen 1:42:57 Edgars Bertuks 1:43:29 4 Dmitriy Tsvetkov 1:43:43 5 Magne Daehli 1:43:57 6 Matthias Merz 1:44:20 7 Daniel Hubmann 1:44:48 8 Tue Lassen 1:46:21 9 Kiril Nikolov 1:46:40 9 Valentin Novikov 1:46:40 11 Anders Holmberg 1:47:03 12 Philippe Adamski 1:47:36 13 Anders Nordberg 1:47:40 14 Fredrik Johansson 1:47:58 15 Simonas Krėpšta 1:48:11 16 Jan Šedivý 1:48:15 17 Tero Föhr 1:48:37 18 Stepan Kodeda 1:48:55 19 Timo Sild 1:49:53 20 Ralph Street 1:50:19 21 Vilius Aleliunas 1:50:37 22 Hans Gunnar Omdal 1:50:44 23 Yury Tambasov 1:51:42 24 Simo-Pekka Fincke 1:51:45 25 Leonid Novikov 1:51:52 25 Artem Panchenko 1:51:52 27 Peeter Pihl 1:53:04 28 Zsolt Lenkei 1:53:09 29 Jan Petržela 1:53:47 30 Baptiste Rollier 1:54:51 31 Sören Lösch 1:55:40 32 Aleksei Alekseyonok 1:57:11 33 Nicolas Simonin 1:57:13 34 Søren Schwartz Sørensen 1:57:44 35 Mikhail Mamleev 1:58:17 36 Tiago Aires 1:58:44 37 Diogo Miguel 1:58:45 38 Kalvis Mihailovs 1:59:44 39 Johan Runesson 2:00:29 40 Jānis Kūms 2:02:35 41 Markus Lang 2:04:25 42 Roger Casal 2:05:43 43 Mateusz Wenslaw 2:07:02 44 Pavel Gvozdev 2:11:10 45 Andrey Salin 2:26:32

Women's long distance + WOC 2013 – Long distance final – Women (13.9 km) Rank Competitor Nation Time Simone Niggli 1:20:02 Tove Alexandersson 1:23:01 Lena Eliasson 1:23:08 4 Minna Kauppi 1:23:44 5 Tatyana Riabkina 1:23:45 6 Anni-Maija Fincke 1:25:51 7 Emma Johansson 1:26:32 8 Mari Fasting 1:26:40 9 Tone Wigemyr 1:28:06 10 Catherine Taylor 1:28:11 11 Ida Bobach 1:28:46 12 Eva Juřeníková 1:29:26 13 Dana Brožková 1:29:41 14 Amélie Chataing 1:31:01 15 Sara Lüscher 1:31:27 16 Anastasiya Tikhonova 1:31:28 17 Natalia Efimova 1:31:37 18 Alison Crocker 1:32:30 19 Aija Skrastiņa 1:33:03 20 Sarina Jenzer 1:34:05 21 Inga Dambe 1:34:53 22 Hanny Allston 1:35:17 23 Ines Brodmann 1:35:48 24 Rasa Ptašekaitė 1:36:56 25 Emily Kemp 1:38:03 26 Gabija Ražaitytė 1:38:13 27 Helen Palmer 1:38:37 28 Līga Ārniece 1:39:33 29 Anu Åkerman 1:39:38 30 Olga Sluta 1:41:05 31 Indrė Valaite 1:43:22 32 Nataliya Dimitrova 1:44:50 33 Miek Fabré 1:45:08 34 Kirti Rebane 1:46:26 35 Michaela Omová 1:46:52 36 Ursula Kadan 1:48:20 37 Anastasia Kruglenia 1:49:19 38 Daria Lajn 1:50:19 39 Alicia Cobo 1:52:33 40 Karoliina Sundberg 1:53:51 41 Anna Serrallonga 1:55:30 42 Maryna Suzdalova 1:56:29 43 Louise Oram 1:56:50 44 Michela Guizzardi 1:58:03 99 Emma Klingenberg DQ

Relay The relay events were held on 13 July 2013 at Koulurinne, Vuokatti.

Men's relay + WOC 2013 – Relay – Men (5.2 + 5.2 + 5.6 km) Rank Nation Competitors Time Leonid Novikov, Valentin Novikov, Dmitriy Tsvetkov 1:41:47 Anders Holmberg, Peter Öberg, Gustav Bergman 1:42:47 Pavlo Ushkvarok, Oleksandr Kratov, Denys Sherbakov 1:42:55 4 Matthias Merz, Daniel Hubmann, Matthias Kyburz 1:43:39 5 Mårten Boström, Jani Lakanen, Tero Föhr 1:44:55 6 Øystein Kvaal Østerbø, Carl Waaler Kaas, Magne Daehli 1:45:00 7 Olle Kärner, Timo Sild, Lauri Sild 1:45:50 8 Frederic Tranchand, Philippe Adamski, Thierry Gueorgiou 1:46:20 9 Tomáš Dlabaja, Jan Šedivý, Jan Procházka 1:46:56 10 Gernot Kerschbaumer, Helmut Gremmel, Robert Merl 1:50:14 11 Murray Strain, Hector Haines, Ralph Street 1:50:21 12 Kalvis Mihailovs, Mārtiņš Sirmais, Edgars Bertuks 1:50:23 13 Klaus Schgaguler, Alessio Tenani, Mikhail Mamleev 1:50:37 14 Antonio Martínez, Roger Casal, Andreu Blanes 1:57:29 15 Zsolt Lenkei, Máté Baumholczer, Máté Kerényi 1:57:34 16 Vilius Aleliunas, Simonas Krėpšta, Jonas Vytautas Gvildys 1:58:00 17 Ivan Sirakov, Ivaylo Kamenarov, Kiril Nikolov 1:58:10 18 Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Andreas Boesen, Søren Schwartz Sørensen 2:01:01 19 Aleksei Alekseyonok, Yury Tambasov, Andrey Salin 2:04:24 20 Simon Uppill, Joshua Blatchford, Bryan Keely 2:04:27 21 Nicolas Simonin, Darren Burke, Neil Dobbs 2:07:52 22 Christoph Brandt, Bjarne Friedrichs, Sören Lösch 2:09:22 23 Mateusz Wenslaw, Wojciech Dwojak, Wojciech Kowalski 2:10:55 24 Diogo Miguel, Miguel Silva, Tiago Aires 2:12:37 25 Will Critchley, Robbie Anderson, Eric Kemp 2:15:46 26 Ross Morrison, Tane Cambridge, Tim Robertson 2:19:45 27 Eric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Ross Smith 2:23:46 28 Pavel Gvozdev, Guy Sabo-Bar, Alexey Marchenko 2:25:21 29 Tomas Hendrickx, Pieter Hendrickx, Yannick Michiels 2:28:27 30 Roman Ciobanu, Igori Postica, Ivan Fomiciov 2:42:41 31 Tsz Wai Yu, Kin Wai Lee, Gerald Yip 3:12:13 32 Xiyuan Liang, Yefeng Luo, Qiaoping Li 3:42:33 99 Hirokazu Osaki, Yuta Tanikawa, Yoichi Shimbo DQ

Women's relay