Orienteering on the World Games kick off Friday morning

80 athletes from 24 totally different federations may have an enormous expertise this week, the place orienteering is as soon as once more a part of the World Games, which this 12 months takes place in Chengdu, China.

From August seventh to seventeenth, round 4000 athletes are gathered within the Chinese metropolis of thousands and thousands, the place they’ll compete in 34 totally different sports activities with a complete of 256 medal occasions.

This is the seventh time that orienteering is a part of the occasion, which is for sports activities that aren’t within the programme of the Olympic Games.

Spain’s Ana Cernicharo and Maria Prieto throughout Thursday’s Model Event in Chengdu.

In Chengdu, orienteering features a center distance, a dash and a dash relay on Friday, Sunday and Monday respectively.

The World Games 2025 orienteering competitions are to be held in Chengdu’s Eastern New Area. The Middle distance competitors takes place within the space surrounding Gaoming Town, whereas the Sprint and Sprint Relay competitions are organised alongside the Jiangxi River Ecological Greenway in a park constructed for the International Horticultural Exposition 2024.

The athletes should adapt to the Chinese terrain and get used to the climate, because the temperatures are properly above 30 levels and there’s a towering humidity.

Team Italy appears on the map after the Model Event.

Strong fields set for racing
Several of the medalists from the final World Games within the USA three years in the past are collaborating. The newly topped world champion Simona Aebersold (SUI), who gained each the dash, center distance and dash relay with the Swiss workforce, is collaborating, as is Tim Robertson (NZL), who took the dash title in Birmingham. The Czechs Tereza Rauturier and Tomas Krivda, who gained silver and bronze within the dash respectively, are additionally in China.

Also from Switzerland are the world champion within the Knock-Out Sprint, Riccardo Rancan, and the silver winner from final 12 months’s dash, Tino Polsini in Chengdu. Jonatan Gustafsson (SWE), who gained bronze within the KO Sprint in Edinburgh, can be right here, so there can be a combat for the World Games medals.

All three races will be adopted through GPS monitoring and reside ends in IOF Live, whereas Sunday’s dash can be produced for TV with English commentary by Katherine Bett and will be adopted through the World Games Live portal.

Orienteering on the 2025 World Games
Time zone: UTC +8

Friday, 8 August
Middle
9:41 First begin M
10:20 First begin W

Sunday, 10 August
Sprint
9:30 – 11:22 TV Broadcast in World Games Live
9:31 First begin W
10:21 First begin M

Monday, 11 August
Sprint Relay
10:10 – 11.30 Sprint Relay