As an elite orienteer in 2010, you seldom get the chance to run a championships race in completely unknown terrain. This is something many of today’s elite orienteers envy the top runners of 20-30 years ago. At the Norwegian Champs Long distance this year, Olav Lundanes got this chance, a ...

Daniel Hubmann is yet another athlete who found the best course of the year in the north of Norway around Trondheim – but not at the World Championships (WOC), but rather on an important race on the way to WOC. – The Craft Cup in May was a nice and ...

As a course setter, Asplövet is probably most famous for the “Orienteering in the Olympics sprint course” he set back in 2006 (see course above). WorldofO.com has interviewed Asplövet for “The Course of the Year 2010″, to see if the Swedish blogger has seen any courses in this quality range ...

– I really enjoyed to run such a big event in a challenging forest on a course that offered demanding orienteering from the first to the last step, Swedish orienteering star Peter Öberg answers when asked about the best course he run in 2010. Öberg’s pick is the Jukola relay, ...

Both the best and one of the worst courses in 2010 were at the World Champs – the best in one of the qualification races and the “worst” in one of the WOC finals. At least that is the opinion of Czech National Team coach Radek Novotny when asked about ...

– It was such a cool place and really fun and demanding orienteering, Helena Jansson explains about her favourite course in 2010 – the NAOM WRE-competition in Crato, Portugal at the 20th of Febuary. Helena Jansson – who won silver in the sprint at the World Champs in Norway this ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2010? Finding THE ONE won’t be easy, but the search for it will be fun, for sure! The rules are simple: Suggest a course from a competition or training in 2010, and state the reason why you think this course deserves to be ...

See some of the top Norwegian stars running fast in French forest – including Holger Hott and Lars Skjeset – in this video from the Team Norway training camp in France the first week in October. Starring Holger Hott, Lars Skjeset, Anders Nordberg, Audun Weltzien and Petter Thoresen. HeadCam runners ...

Whereas Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann took clear victories in the real World Cup, it was a lot tighter in the Fantasy World Cup. The team OrientExpress with manager Ulis took the victory with 7745.45 points according to the unofficial results – only 11.3 points ahead of the BennyB-team. With ...