2023 Orienteering World Cup
World Cup events
Individual7
Relay3
Men's World Cup
1st Matthias Kyburz (SUI)
2nd Kasper Fosser (NOR)
3rd Gustav Bergman (SWE)
Most wins Kasper Fosser (NOR) (3)
Women's World Cup
1st Tove Alexandersson (SWE)
2nd Sara Hagström (SWE)
3rd Simona Aebersold (SUI)
Most wins Tove Alexandersson (SWE) (5)
Team World Cup
1st Sweden
2nd  Switzerland
3rd Norway
Most wins Sweden (3)
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The 2023 Orienteering World Cup is the 28th edition of the Orienteering World Cup. The 2023 Orienteering World Cup consists of seven individual events and three relay events. The events are located in Norway, the Czech Republic, and Italy.[1] The 2023 World Orienteering Championships in Switzerland are not included in the World Cup, but the European Orienteering Championships in Italy[2] are part of the World Cup program. Non-European Orienteers can hence participate in the European Championships as well. Russian and Belarusian competitors are still banned, but this season saw Natalia Gemperle returning to the world cup, now competing for Switzerland.[3]

The season started in Østfold, Norway, with a long distance race won by reigning champions Tove Alexandersson[4] and Kasper Harlem Fosser. Fosser also won the middle distance[5][6] but Alexandersson finished in second place, ten seconds behind teammate Sara Hagström. Both the relays were won by Swedish teams.[7]

When the season continued in Česká Lípa all individual women's races were won by Tove Alexandersson, giving her a 130 point lead ahead of Sara Hagström in the world cup. Almost securing her ninth total world cup win. On the men's side the races where won by Ralph Street, Jannis Bonek and Kasper Fosser. The relay was won by the Swiss team before the Czech and Swedish teams.

The World Cup Finals included the European Orienteering Championships and competitions were held in northern Italy. In the Sprint, Matthias Kyburz won with 4 seconds ahead of Kasper Fosser, putting Kyburz only 23 points behind Fosser in the World Cup standings heading into the Knock Out Sprint. In the Women's class, Hagström was the winner ahead of Alexandersson, but Alexandersson's 80 points for finishing second place was still enough to guarantee her the overall world cup victory with one round still to go, her score of 560 points now being impossible to reach for second placed Hagström even if Alexandersson did not finish and Hagström won the final round. By winning the overall world cup, Tove Alexandersson tied with Simone Niggli with 9 overall wins and one overall second place.

In the Knock Out Sprint, Alexandersson won the final round to end her season with 5 victories from 7 races. In the Men's class, a quarter final collision between current world cup leader Kasper Fosser and Swiss runner Joey Hadorn lead to both runners being unable to finish, leaving the World Cup open to Kyburz to overtake Fosser and win the World Cup if he finished in 4th place or better in his semi-final. In the end, Kyburz easily surpassed this, winning the Knock Out Sprint outright to take his 6th World Cup overall victory and his first since 2018.

Events

Men

No. Venue Distance Date Winner Second Third Ref.
Round 1 – Norway
1 Norway Østfold, Norway Long 27 April  Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR)  Emil Svensk (SWE)  Martin Regborn (SWE) [8]
2 Middle 29 April  Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR)  Matthias Kyburz (SUI)  Gustav Bergman (SWE) [9]
Round 2 – Czech Republic
3 Czech Republic Česká Lípa, Czech Republic Sprint 2 August  Ralph Street (GBR)  Gustav Bergman (SWE)  Yannick Michiels (BEL)
4 Middle 5 August  Jannis Bonek (AUT)  Albin Ridefelt (SWE)  Matthias Kyburz (SUI) [10]
5 Long 6 August  Kasper Fosser (NOR)  Matthias Kyburz (SUI)  Gustav Bergman (SWE) [11]
Round 3 – Italy
6 Italy Verona, Italy Sprint 4 October  Matthias Kyburz (SUI)  Kasper Fosser (NOR)  Tuomas Heikkila (FIN) [12]
7 Knock-Out sprint 8 October  Matthias Kyburz (SUI)  Jonatan Gustafsson (SWE)  Emil Svensk (SWE) [13]

Women

No. Venue Distance Date Winner Second Third Ref.
Round 1 – Norway
1 Norway Østfold, Norway Long 26 April  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Sara Hagström (SWE)  Marie Olaussen (NOR) [8]
2 Middle 28 April  Sara Hagström (SWE)  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Natalia Gemperle (SUI) [9]
Round 2 – Czech Republic
3 Czech Republic Česká Lípa, Czech Republic Sprint 2 August  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Natalia Gemperle (SUI)  Sara Hagström (SWE)
4 Middle 5 August  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Simona Aebersold (SUI)  Sanna Fast (SWE) [14]
5 Long 6 August  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Simona Aebersold (SUI)  Sara Hagström (SWE) [11]
Round 3 – Finals
6 Italy Verona, Italy Sprint 4 October  Sara Hagström (SWE)  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Simona Aebersold (SUI) [12]
7 Italy Vicenza, Italy Knock-Out sprint 8 October  Tove Alexandersson (SWE)  Elena Roos (SUI)  Natalia Gemperle (SUI) [13]

Relay

No. Venue Distance Date Winner Second Third Ref.
1 Norway Østfold, Norway Men's relay 30 April  Sweden 1
Martin Regborn
Emil Svensk
Gustav Bergman
  Finland 1
Topi Syrjalainen
Olli Ojanaho
Miika Kirmula
  Norway 2
Gaute Steiwer
Eirik Langedal Breivik
Havard Sandstad Eidsmo
 [15]
2 Women's relay 30 April  Sweden 2
Karolin Ohlsson
Elin Månsson
Lisa Risby
   Switzerland 1
Elena Roos
Natalia Gemperle
Simona Aebersold
  Norway 1
Marianne Andersen
Tone Bergerud Lye
Andrine Benjaminsen
 [15]
3 Czech Republic Česká Lípa, Czech Republic Sprint relay 3 August   Switzerland 1
Simona Aebersold
Joey Hadorn
Matthias Kyburz
Elena Roos
  Czech Republic 1
Denisa Kosová
Jakub Glonek
Tomáš Křivda
Tereza Janošíková
  Sweden 1
Sara Hagström
Jonatan Gustafsson
Gustav Bergman
Emma Bjessmo
 [16]
4 Italy Soave, Italy Sprint relay 6 October  Sweden
Tove Alexandersson
Jonatan Gustafsson
Martin Regborn
Sara Hagstrom
   Switzerland
Simona Aebersold
Joey Hadorn
Matthias Kyburz
Elena Roos
  Finland
Inka Nurminen
Teemu Oksanen
Tuomas Heikkila
Venla Harju
 [17]

Points distribution

The 40 best runners in each event are awarded points. The winner is awarded 100 points. In WC events 1 to 7, the six best results count in the overall classification. In the finals (WC 8 and WC 9), both results count.

Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Points 100 80 60 50 45 40 37 35 33 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Overall standings

This section shows the standings after the events in Italy.[18]

Men

Rank Athlete Points
1  Matthias Kyburz (SUI) 520
2  Kasper Harlem Fosser (NOR) 461
3  Gustav Bergman (SWE) 290
4  Emil Svensk (SWE) 260
5  Ralph Street (GBR) 243
6  Martin Regborn (SWE) 237
7  Jannis Bonek (AUT) 220
8  Tomas Krivda (CZE) 184
9  Joey Hadorn (SUI) 182
10  Jonatan Gustafsson (SWE) 157

Women

Rank Athlete Points
1  Tove Alexandersson (SWE) 660
2  Sara Hagström (SWE) 495
3  Simona Aebersold (SUI) 367
4  Natalia Gemperle (SUI) 365
5  Elena Roos (SUI) 246
6  Marie Olaussen (NOR) 191
7  Aleksandra Hornik (POL) 166
8  Hanna Lundberg (SWE) 160
9  Andrea Svensson (SWE) 149
10  Elin Månsson (SWE) 143

Team

The table shows the standings after the final stage in Italy.[18][19]

RankNationPoints
1Sweden Sweden8135
2Switzerland Switzerland7510
3Norway Norway4715
4Finland Finland4104
5Czech Republic Czech Republic3806
6France France3021
7Denmark Denmark2549
8United Kingdom Great Britain2365
9Poland Poland2123
10Spain Spain2120

References

  1. ↑ "World Cup | International Orienteering Federation". orienteering.sport.
  2. ↑ "EOC 2023". Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "Gemperles lang ersehnte Premiere im Schweizer Dress" (in German). SRF. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  4. ↑ "Tove Alexandersson bäst i rafflande svenskduell – vann världscuppremiären". SVT. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  5. ↑ "Fosser vant i verdenscupåpningen" (in Norwegian). Aftenposten. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  6. ↑ "Fosser vant etter fantomavslutning". NRK Sport (in Norwegian). Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  7. ↑ "Ny svensk världscupseger i orientering: "Skönt"" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  8. 1 2 "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 1 - Long". International Orienteering Federation.
  9. 1 2 "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 1 - Middle"". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  10. ↑ "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 2 - Middle". Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 2 - Long". Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  12. 1 2 "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 3 with European Orienteering Championships 2023 - Sprint final". Retrieved 4 October 2023.
  13. 1 2 "Preliminary results for Orienteering World Cup Round 3 with European Orienteering Championships 2023 - Knock-Out Sprint". Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  14. ↑ "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 2 - Middle". Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  15. 1 2 "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 1 - Final - Relay". International Orienteering Federation.
  16. ↑ "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 2 - Sprint relay". Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  17. ↑ "Official results for Orienteering World Cup Round 3 - Sprint relay". Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  18. 1 2 "Standings, Orienteering World Cup 2023". International Orienteering Federation.
  19. ↑ "World Cup Team Standings". orienteering.sport. International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
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