Course of the Year 2025: 7, 6, 5 …

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We continue our countdown in Course of the Year 2025: In 7th place we find the Finnish Championships Long distance, in 6th place we find the JWOC Sprint and in 5th place we find the Maximus O Meeting Stage 1. Two challenging long distance courses in very different terrain – and one hilly ...

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Course of the Year 2025: 10, 9, 8 …

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Over the following days we will count down from 10 to 1 in the Course of the Year 2025, and present the “lucky voters” along the way. In 10th place we find the World Championships (WOC) Long distance, in 9th place we find the JWOC 2025 Sprint Relay and in ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a long leg from one of the highlights on this year’s World Cup calendar – the long distance race in Idre.  There were actually several interesting legs on this course. Here we chose the last of the long legs as the same ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2025

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a night orientering leg from the Swiss night orienteering championships, organized in October.  The terrain does maybe not look that exciting, but this is still an interesting leg, straight out from the start. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from the long distance race at Aguiar da Beira ‘O’ Meeting (ABOM), organized in Portugal in the end of February. The courses at the long distance of ABOM 2025 look very interesting overall, and Simon Hector wrote the following when ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is leg 14 from one of the most interesting sprint courses this year – the European Championships (EOC) Individual sprint in Belgium.  This course has also been suggested for Course of the Year 2025 (vote here until Monday December 22nd), and was one of ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg in spectacular surroundings from the 7th Swiss National Event this year at Long Heinzenberg.  – A never before mapped gem with as always in the swiss mountains stunning surroundings and views, Silvan Ullmann wrote when nominating this course for Course of the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Victorian Long Distance Championships at Mount Korong in Australia. This was an epic competition with some extraordinary long legs!  The 5th and 9th leg are even more spectacular than the 4th leg chosen here, but I found the 4th leg more ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a long leg from the 3+3 Long distance in Sälen, Sweden this summer – and the same leg was used both in the men’s and women’s elite course. This one looks fun and challenging! Thanks a lot to Hugo Claesson and Eva ...

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