Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Norway – starring Daniel Renard and Jon Duncan among others. The leg is from the last day of “Pinseløpet” in Kongsberg. Actually we give you two legs from the same course today. The first leg presented is interesting because there is more ...
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Niggli and Hubmann: Orienteering Achievement of 2009
Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2009″ titles in the womens and mens class, respectively! Among the women, Simone Niggli got an impressive 48% of the votes – winning ahead of Ida Bobach with 20% of the votes. In the mens class Daniel ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 8 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg in technical Karst terrain in Croatia – and we even have the course planners thoughts about the leg included. The leg is from the leg 10 in the M21E course from day 3 of Croatia Open on July 5th 2009. ...
Read More »Lucky voters: Check if you won!
From the nearly 3300 votes given, 11 prizes from our sponsors Trimtex, Highlands Open, Nordvestgaloppen and OOCup have been drawn. Check below if you took home one of the prizes. At first we would like to thank Trimtex, the Highlands Open, OOCup and Nordvestgaloppen for sponsoring “The Orienteering Achievement of ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 7 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Russia. The leg in question is leg number 10 in M21 from a competition on April 26th this year found on the Russian site o-site.spb.ru. According to my source, the name of the competition may be translated to “The Bright World” – ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 6 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Czech Championships Long distance 2009 – featuring Michal Smola and Lukas Bartak among others. The event was held on September 20th earlier this year. Leg number 8 in the Men 21 course is chosen. The leg is as usually first provided ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 5 2009
Today we are off to New Zealand in Route to Christmas. Open, hilly terrain met the runners when Wairarapa Orienteers and Wellington OC organized the SuperSeries competition in February 2009. None other than the good old Danish World Champion from Grimstad in 1997 Carsten Jørgensen took the victory – and ...
Read More »3000 votes – 16 hours left to vote
One 18 year old Danish junior world champion, one French multiple World Champion, one Norwegian star who got her first World Championships gold medal this year, one Finish multi-talent who got gold medals in both ski- and foot-orienteering this year, three Swiss runners from the best national team in 2009 ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 4 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a monsterleg from Men 21 Elite in the Finnish Champs Long distance held at September 6th 2009. Runners drawing their route on this leg include Jani Lakanen, Petteri Muukkonen and Jörgen Wickholm. Keep e-mailing me with tips about good cases to make sure ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 3 2009
Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from a France. This time we have chosen leg number 11 in the A course from a French National event at May 3rd 2009. The terrain is very different from what we have seen the previous two days. The leg is as usually ...
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