The 29th World Orienteering Championships was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 14 to 21 July 2012.

Medalists

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
Sprint detailsMatthias Kyburz SwitzerlandMatthias Merz SwitzerlandMatthias Müller Switzerland
Middle distance detailsEdgars Bertuks LatviaValentin Novikov RussiaFabian Hertner Switzerland
Long distance detailsOlav Lundanes NorwayMatthias Merz SwitzerlandEdgars Bertuks Latvia
Relay detailsCzech Republic Tomáš Dlabaja Jan Šedivý Jan ProcházkaNorway Magne Daehli Carl Waaler Kaas Olav LundanesSweden Jonas Leandersson Peter Öberg Anders Holmberg

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
Sprint detailsSimone Niggli-Luder SwitzerlandMaja Alm DenmarkAnnika Billstam Sweden
Middle distance detailsMinna Kauppi FinlandTove Alexandersson SwedenTatyana Riabkina Russia
Long distance detailsSimone Niggli-Luder SwitzerlandMinna Kauppi FinlandAnnika Billstam Sweden
Relay detailsSwitzerland Ines Brodmann Judith Wyder Simone Niggli-LuderSweden Annika Billstam Helena Jansson Tove AlexanderssonNorway Silje Ekroll Jahren Mari Fasting Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg

Participating countries

A total of 46 countries participated at this World Championships.

ArgentinaArgentina AustraliaAustralia AustriaAustria BelarusBelarus BelgiumBelgium BrazilBrazil BulgariaBulgaria CanadaCanada ChinaChina Chinese TaipeiChinese TaipeiCroatiaCroatia Czech RepublicCzech Republic North KoreaDPR Korea DenmarkDenmark EstoniaEstonia FinlandFinland FranceFrance GermanyGermany United KingdomGreat Britain Hong KongHong KongRepublic of IrelandIreland ItalyItaly JapanJapan LatviaLatvia LiechtensteinLiechtenstein LithuaniaLithuania North MacedoniaMacedonia MoldovaMoldova NetherlandsNetherlands New ZealandNew ZealandNorwayNorway PolandPoland PortugalPortugal RomaniaRomania RussiaRussia SerbiaSerbia SlovakiaSlovakia SloveniaSlovenia South AfricaSouth Africa South KoreaSouth KoreaSpainSpain SwedenSweden SwitzerlandSwitzerland TurkeyTurkey UkraineUkraine United StatesUnited States

Results

Sprint

The sprint finals were held on 14 July 2012 at Lausanne-Ouchy.

Men's sprint

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Men (4.2 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Matthias KyburzSwitzerland15:32.0
Matthias MerzSwitzerland15:49.5
Matthias MüllerSwitzerland15:59.0
4Scott FraserGreat Britain16:11.2
5Andrey KhramovRussia16:22.7
6Tuomo MäkeläFinland16:32.9
7Jonas Vytautas GvildysLithuania16:33.8
8Zsolt LenkeiHungary16:39.5
9Søren BobachDenmark16:43.7
10Vojtìch KrálCzech Republic16:45.0
11Murray StrainGreat Britain16:46.1
12Anders HolmbergSweden16:49.9
13Jerker LysellSweden16:51.2
14Ionut ZincaRomania16:52.7
15Jonas LeanderssonSweden16:59.2
16Tomáš DlabajaCzech Republic16:59.5
17Wojciech KowalskiPoland17:02.5
18Vincent CoupatFrance17:04.2
19Alexey SidorovRussia17:05.2
20Rasmus Thrane HansenDenmark17:07.7
21Robert MerlAustria17:08.2
22Ádám KovácsHungary17:12.7
23Tuomas TervoFinland17:15.4
24Andreu Blanes ReigSpain17:21.0
25Vilius AleliunasLithuania17:28.1
26Jan ProcházkaCzech Republic17:30.0
27Nicolas SimoninIreland17:35.2
28Alexander LubinaGermany17:37.4
29Ulf Forseth IndgaardNorway17:38.0
30Antonio MartínezSpain17:42.2
31Yannick MichielsBelgium17:43.1
32Julian DentAustralia17:50.3
33Tim RobertsonNew Zealand17:51.7
34Simonas KrepstaLithuania17:52.4
35Ivaylo KamenarovBulgaria17:54.4
36Patrick GoeresCanada17:54.7
36Ross MorrisonNew Zealand17:54.7
38Dmitry NakonechnyRussia17:55.4
39David Brickhill-JonesAustralia18:00.6
40Wolfgang SiegertAustria18:01.2
41Robert KrügerGermany18:11.0
42Klaus SchgagulerItaly18:13.2
43Michael CroneSouth Africa18:41.3
99Kiril NikolovBulgariamiss 1 punch
99Frederic TranchandFrancemiss 1 punch

Women's sprint

WOC 2012 – Sprint final – Women (3.7 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Simone Niggli-LuderSwitzerland15:43.7
Maja AlmDenmark16:20.2
Annika BillstamSweden16:28.0
4Helena JanssonSweden16:30.2
5Rahel FriederichSwitzerland16:33.1
6Venla NiemiFinland16:39.4
7Claire WardGreat Britain16:49.4
8Lena EliassonSweden16:56.9
9Lizzie InghamNew Zealand17:07.2
10Silje Ekroll JahrenNorway17:12.8
11Tessa HillGreat Britain17:14.4
12Signe KlintingDenmark17:18.2
13Shuangyan HaoChina17:25.4
14Fanni GyurkóHungary17:33.6
14Marika TeiniFinland17:33.6
16Judith WyderSwitzerland17:36.7
17Heidi Østlid BagstevoldNorway17:37.1
18Iveta DuchováCzech Republic17:39.0
19Ausrine KutkaiteLithuania17:44.9
20Alison CrockerUnited States17:47.3
21Svetlana MironovaRussia17:47.7
22Ursula KadanAustria18:01.2
23Anastasiya TikhonovaRussia18:02.9
24Greta KnarstonNew Zealand18:05.0
25Anne Margrethe Hausken NordbergNorway18:06.3
26Inga KazlauskaiteLithuania18:19.1
27Kim GeypenBelgium18:26.9
28Ildikó SzerencsiHungary18:31.1
29Hanna WisniewskaPoland18:33.8
30Daria LajnPoland18:35.1
31Antoniya Grigorova-BurgovaBulgaria18:37.8
32Gabija RažaityteLithuania18:39.9
33Sofia HaajanenFinland18:46.9
34Mikiko MinagawaJapan18:52.8
35Celine DodinFrance19:05.8
36Lea VercellottiFrance19:07.5
37Mingyue ZhuChina19:24.1
38Catherine TaylorGreat Britain19:29.4
39Amélie ChataingFrance19:40.5
40Esther DoetschGermany20:03.7
41Yingwei WangChina20:28.6
42Raquel CostaPortugal21:19.7
43Nataliya DimitrovaBulgaria23:10.0
99Eva JureníkováCzech Republicmiss 1 punch
99Annika RihmaEstoniamiss 1 punch

Middle distance

The middle distance finals were held on 17 July 2012 at St-Cergue / La Givrine.

Men's middle distance

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Men (6.5 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Edgars BertuksLatvia36:45
Valentin NovikovRussia36:50
Fabian HertnerSwitzerland37:10
4Thierry GueorgiouFrance37:15
5Francois GononFrance37:18
6Peter ÖbergSweden37:22
7Magne DaehliNorway38:08
8Gustav BergmanSweden38:33
9Marc LauensteinSwitzerland38:48
10Jan ProcházkaCzech Republic39:01
11Hannu AirilaFinland39:02
11Oleksandr KratovUkraine39:02
13Kalvis MihailovsLatvia39:10
14Olav LundanesNorway39:19
15Philippe AdamskiFrance39:26
16Lauri SildEstonia39:42
17Pasi IkonenFinland39:46
18Johan RunessonSweden39:49
19Leonid NovikovRussia40:01
20Gernot KerschbaumerAustria40:19
21Mārtiņš SirmaisLatvia40:22
22Carl Waaler KaasNorway40:24
23Pavlo UshkvarokUkraine40:25
24Lucas BassetFrance40:30
25Tue LassenDenmark40:33
26Robert MerlAustria41:03
27Olle KärnerEstonia41:05
27Štanfel MatjažCroatia41:05
29Jonas Vytautas GvildysLithuania41:07
30Mikhail MamleevItaly41:11
31Vojtìch KrálCzech Republic41:21
32Zsolt LenkeiHungary41:40
33Simonas KrėpštaLithuania41:42
34Jarkko HuovilaFinland42:27
34Michal KrajčíkSlovakia42:27
36Graham GristwoodGreat Britain42:48
37Aleksei AlekseyonokBelarus43:28
38Ionut ZincaRomania43:37
39Ross MorrisonNew Zealand44:04
40Bjarne FriedrichsGermany45:53
41Ivaylo KamenarovBulgaria46:41
42Yury TambasovBelarus47:25
43Fabien PasquasyBelgium51:15
99Søren BobachDenmarkdropout (dnf)
99Baptiste RollierSwitzerlanddropout (dnf)

Women's middle distance

WOC 2012 – Middle distance final – Women (5.5 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Minna KauppiFinland37:37
Tove AlexanderssonSweden38:09
Tatyana RiabkinaRussia39:03
4Ida BobachDenmark39:52
5Simone Niggli-LuderSwitzerland40:00
6Annika BillstamSweden40:07
7Sara LüscherSwitzerland40:53
8Merja RantanenFinland41:03
9Inga DambeLatvia41:15
10Saila KinniFinland41:24
11Lina StrandSweden42:04
12Kristina RybakovaitėLithuania43:17
12Dana Šafka BrožkováCzech Republic43:17
14Fanni GyurkóHungary43:38
15Anastasia TrubkinaRussia43:46
16Nadiya VolynskaUkraine43:51
17Heidi Østlid BagstevoldNorway44:17
18Amélie ChataingFrance44:33
19Iveta DuchováCzech Republic44:37
20Judith WyderSwitzerland44:41
21Rachael RothmanGreat Britain45:22
22Signe KlintingDenmark45:26
22Claire WardGreat Britain45:26
24Aija SkrastiņaLatvia45:29
25Gabija RažaitytėLithuania45:46
26Helen PalmerGreat Britain45:58
27Inga KazlauskaiteLithuania46:10
28Maja AlmDenmark47:22
29Mari FastingNorway47:24
30Ida Marie Ness BjorgulNorway47:47
31Vanessa RoundAustralia47:58
32Ursula KadanAustria47:59
33Anna Serrallonga ArquésSpain48:26
33Elisa ElstnerAustria48:26
35Kirti RebaneEstonia50:11
36Anja ArbterAustria50:50
37Shuangyan HaoChina50:59
38Hanna WisniewskaPoland51:13
39Lizzie InghamNew Zealand53:01
40Ona Rafols PerramónSpain53:14
41Louise OramCanada53:31
42Liis JohansonEstonia53:58
43Christine KirchlechnerItaly54:34
44Iliana ShandurkovaBulgaria54:53
45Christiane TrößeGermany55:10

Long distance

The long distance finals were held on 19 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.

Men's long distance

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Men (18.3 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Olav LundanesNorway1:34:42
Matthias MerzSwitzerland1:37:34
Edgars BertuksLatvia1:39:13
4Philippe AdamskiFrance1:40:19
5Anders HolmbergSweden1:41:46
6Kiril NikolovBulgaria1:41:48
7Dmitriy TsvetkovRussia1:43:20
8Frederic TranchandFrance1:43:55
9Tue LassenDenmark1:44:46
10Anders NordbergNorway1:44:51
11Yury TambasovBelarus1:44:57
12Jan ŠedivýCzech Republic1:45:08
13Mikhail MamleevItaly1:45:11
14Fredric PortinFinland1:45:23
15Gernot KerschbaumerAustria1:45:39
16Kalvis MihailovsLatvia1:46:32
17Hans Gunnar OmdalNorway1:47:18
18Tomáš DlabajaCzech Republic1:47:24
19Matthias KyburzSwitzerland1:47:28
20Scott FraserGreat Britain1:48:31
21Vytautas BeliūnasLithuania1:48:59
22Ádám KovácsHungary1:49:22
23Rasmus DjurhuusDenmark1:50:06
24Ionut ZincaRomania1:50:37
25Vilius AleliunasLithuania1:51:36
26Bartosz PawlakPoland1:52:02
27Pavlo UshkvarokUkraine1:52:04
28Erik RostSweden1:52:22
29Rasmus Thrane HansenDenmark1:52:52
30Julian DentAustralia1:54:18
31Tuomas TervoFinland1:54:42
32Stepan KodedaCzech Republic1:55:21
33Diogo MiguelPortugal1:55:24
34Alessio TenaniItaly1:55:48
35Aleksei AlekseyonokBelarus1:56:42
36Yannick MichielsBelgium1:57:21
37Artem PanchenkoUkraine1:57:43
38Peeter PihlEstonia1:57:50
39Nicolas SimoninIreland1:58:54
99Gustav BergmanSwedenmiss 1 punch
99Fabian HertnerSwitzerlandpunch 1 wrong
99Andrey KhramovRussiadropout (dnf)
99Wojciech KowalskiPolandmiss 1 punch
99Valentin NovikovRussiadropout (dnf)
99Lauri SildEstoniamiss 1 punch

Women's long distance

WOC 2012 – Long distance final – Women (12.4 km)
RankCompetitorNationTime
Simone Niggli-LuderSwitzerland1:15:07
Minna KauppiFinland1:16.38
Annika BillstamSweden1:17:13
4Tatyana RiabkinaRussia1:19:17
5Anne Margrethe Hausken NordbergNorway1:20:05
6Eva JuřeníkováCzech Republic1:21:10
7Merja RantanenFinland1:22:51
8Ida BobachDenmark1:23:22
9Ines BrodmannSwitzerland1:23:23
10Venla NiemiFinland1:23:35
11Sara LüscherSwitzerland1:24:04
12Lina StrandSweden1:25:15
13Svetlana MironovaRussia1:25:38
14Mari FastingNorway1:26:10
15Fanni GyurkóHungary1:26:38
16Celine DodinFrance1:27:31
17Vendula KlechováCzech Republic1:28:40
18Tone WigemyrNorway1:28:52
19Dana Šafka BrožkováCzech Republic1:29:03
20Signe KlintingDenmark1:29:26
21Inga DambeLatvia1:29:30
22Ursula KadanAustria1:29:43
23Daria LajnPoland1:31:36
24Annika RihmaEstonia1:32:04
25Claire WardGreat Britain1:32:17
26Anastasiya TikhonovaRussia1:32:19
27Ausrine KutkaiteLithuania1:32:41
28Ildikó SzerencsiHungary1:35:08
29Nadiya VolynskaUkraine1:35:11
30Kristina RybakovaitėLithuania1:35:21
31Olga SlutaUkraine1:35:50
32Miek FabréBelgium1:36:26
33Louise OramCanada1:37:48
34Lea VercellottiFrance1:38:38
35Aislinn PrendergastAustralia1:39:58
36Helen BridleGreat Britain1:41:01
37Sarah RollinsGreat Britain1:41:02
38Inga KazlauskaiteLithuania1:41:23
39Anna Serrallonga ArquésSpain1:41:32
40Samantha SaegerUnited States1:41:39
41Kim GeypenBelgium1:43:48
42Kirti RebaneEstonia1:48:38
43Elisa ElstnerAustria1:52:08
44Antoniya Grigorova-BurgovaBulgaria1:56:52
99Lena EliassonSwedendropout (dnf)

Relay

The relay events were held on 21 July 2012 at Chalet-à-Gobet.

Men's relay

WOC 2012 – Relay – Men (6.9 + 6.9 + 6.9 km)
RankNationCompetitorsTime
Czech RepublicTomáš Dlabaja, Jan Šedivý, Jan Procházka1:40:00
NorwayMagne Daehli, Carl Waaler Kaas, Olav Lundanes1:40:06
SwedenJonas Leandersson, Peter Öberg, Anders Holmberg1:40:11
4SwitzerlandFabian Hertner, Matthias Müller, Matthias Merz1:41:21
5FrancePhilippe Adamski, Thierry Gueorgiou, Francois Gonon1:42:56
6DenmarkSøren Bobach, Rasmus Thrane Hansen, Tue Lassen1:43:08
7LatviaMārtiņš Sirmais, Kalvis Mihailovs, Edgars Bertuks1:45:31
8LithuaniaVilius Aleliunas, Simonas Krėpšta, Jonas Vytautas Gvildys1:45:42
9UkrainePavlo Ushkvarok, Oleksandr Kratov, Denys Shcherbakov1:47:01
10PolandBartosz Pawlak, Michal Olejnik, Wojciech Kowalski1:47:58
11ItalyKlaus Schgaguler, Alessio Tenani, Mikhail Mamleev1:48:08
12AustriaRobert Merl, Helmut Gremmel, Gernot Kerschbaumer1:48:38
13BelgiumTomas Hendrickx, Fabien Pasquasy, Yannick Michiels1:49:34
14SlovakiaPavol Bukovác, Michal Krajčík, Marián Dávidík1:49:53
15FinlandTuomas Tervo, Hannu Airila, Fredric Portin1:50:09
16Great BritainMark Nixon, Matthew Speake, Scott Fraser1:50:45
17EstoniaPeeter Pihl, Olle Kärner, Lauri Sild1:51:02
18SpainAntonio Martínez, Luis Nogueira de La Muela, Andreu Blanes Reig1:52:00
19HungaryMáté Baumholczer, Zsolt Lenkei, Ádám Kovács1:53:39
20BelarusYury Tambasov, Aleksei Alekseyonok, Dmitry Mikhalkin1:53:53
21BulgariaKiril Nikolov, Ivaylo Kamenarov, Ivan Sirakov1:54:21
22AustraliaDavid Brickhill-Jones, Simon Uppill, Julian Dent1:55:45
23GermanyChristoph Brandt, Bjarne Friedrichs, Sören Lösch1:57:29
24PortugalMiguel Silva, Diogo Miguel, Manuel Horta2:00:58
25New ZealandRoss Morrison, Thomas Reynolds, Toby Scott2:04:42
26IrelandNicolas Simonin, Colm Hill, Darren Burke2:07:12
27BrazilLeandro Pereira Pasturiza, Fábio Kuczkoski, Ronaldo Almeida2:11:35
28CanadaPatrick Goeres, Robbie Anderson, Will Critchley2:18:01
29USAEric Bone, Boris Granovskiy, Giacomo Barbone2:22:11
30TurkeyAhmet Kaçmaz, Musa Erdoğan, Fatih Bodur2:23:32
31JapanShigeyuki Koizumi, Toshiyuki Matsuzawa, Wataru Teragauchi2:25:30
32ChinaXiyuan Liang, Zhihui Yi, Qiaoping Li2:40:32
33Hong KongChi Kin Man, Gerald Yip, Chun Kit Tang3:13:09
99RussiaAndrey Khramov, Dmitriy Tsvetkov, Valentin Novikovdisqualified
99South KoreaByung-Gu Ryu, Geun-Hee Hong, Jong-Hyun Parkdisqualified

Women's relay

WOC 2012 – Relay – Women (5.9 + 5.9 + 5.9 km)
RankNationCompetitorsTime
SwitzerlandInes Brodmann, Judith Wyder, Simone Niggli-Luder1:44:54
SwedenAnnika Billstam, Helena Jansson, Tove Alexandersson1:47:18
NorwaySilje Ekroll Jahren, Mari Fasting, Anne Margrethe Hausken Nordberg1:48:11
4RussiaAnastasiya Tikhonova, Svetlana Mironova, Tatyana Riabkina1:48:38
5FinlandVenla Niemi, Merja Rantanen, Minna Kauppi1:51:41
6DenmarkEmma Klingenberg, Ida Bobach, Maja Alm1:52:21
7FranceCeline Dodin, Lea Vercellotti, Amélie Chataing1:53:13
8Czech RepublicIveta Duchova, Dana Šafka Brožková, Eva Juřeníková1:59:54
9EstoniaKirti Rebane, Liis Johanson, Annika Rihma2:00:24
10Great BritainSarah Rollins, Claire Ward, Catherine Taylor2:00:33
11UkraineAnastasiia Danylova, Nadiya Volynska, Olga Reznichenko2:01:02
12PolandPaulina Faron, Daria Lajn, Hanna Wisniewska2:03:38
13LithuaniaKristina Rybakovaitė, Gabija Ražaitytė, Ausrine Kutkaite2:03:52
14HungaryFanni Gyurkó, Éva Novai, Ildikó Szerencsi2:04:06
15USAAlison Crocker, Sandra Lauenstein, Samantha Saeger2:05:19
16AustriaUrsula Kadan, Elisa Elstner, Anja Arbter2:07:16
17ChinaMingyue Zhu, Yingwei Wang, Shuangyan Hao2:09:39
18GermanyEsther Doetsch, Christiane Tröße, Sieglinde Kundisch2:09:56
19New ZealandLizzie Ingham, Kate Morrison, Amber Morrison2:14:34
20ItalyCarlotta Scalet, Maria Novella Sbaraglia, Christine Kirchlechner2:14:47
21BulgariaNataliya Dimitrova, Iliana Shandurkova, Antoniya Grigorova-Burgova2:15:56
22AustraliaRachel Effeney, Aislinn Prendergast, Vanessa Round2:17:53
23SpainOna Rafols Perramón, Berta Meseguer Flaqué, Anna Serrallonga Arqués2:21:15
24TurkeyTuğba Cın, Selvihan Günaydin, Şengűl Űzen2:57:58
25Hong KongTsz Ying Yu, Pui Fung Chan, Yuen Ki Hilda Cheng3:20:15
99BelarusNastsia Klapouskaya, Maria Alekseyonok, Irina Yurokdisqualified
99LatviaLaura Vīķe, Aija Skrastiņa, Inga Dambedisqualified