Leonid Novikov and Simone Niggli have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2013″ titles in the mens and womens class, respectively! Niggli – who finished her international career after this season – won the award for the 5th time with nearly 50% of the votes. Among the men, Leonid ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Latvia – the Latvian Championships middle distance at September 7th 2013. The chosen leg is leg number 10 in the men elite course. To get an indication of the terrain – the winner Lauri Sild said the following about the terrain: “The ...

Today we have got another recent night orienteering race on the program in Route to Christmas – from Höias Trimtex Night Cup race 2 November 15th 2013 – a race run with chasing start. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Poland – the longest leg in the Polish Championships night orienteering organized at September 27th 2013. Thanks to Rafal Podzinski for both suggesting the leg and preparing a map with routes. Rafal writes the following in his introduction to the leg: – ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a very fresh one – from a long distance night orienteering race just two days ago. It is a long leg – more than 1.5 km long – and the choice you have to make is a typical one for night orienteering: Straight ...

Check here if you won any of the prizes worth nearly 4500 Euros in total in your voting for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2013″! The athletes winning “The Orienteering Achievement of 2013″ will be announced on Monday December 16th – today only the “Lucky voters” are published. Sponsors for the ...

We are back in Finland at the World Championships – but instead of looking at the finals which most have probably taken a good, long look at, we look at the long distance qualification. Here we had a long leg with interesting route choice options. Todays leg in Route to ...

Todays we travel to Norway for the Night Hawk relay – looking at leg number 8. A long leg in tough Norwegian forest – at night. Do you master the orienteering well enough to go straight? Note that you may choose to look at this challenge as a day leg ...

Nearly 4000 unique votes have been posted for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2013″ – we are now into the last day of voting. Voting closes at 23:59 CET tonight. The stories behind the medals and the achievements  is what makes the sport truly fascinating Winning a gold medal at the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a Night sprint at Bergen Sprint Camp in February 2013 in Bergen, Norway. This course had quite a few tricky legs, but we have chosen leg 3 for the analysis with leg 5 as a bonus leg. Thanks to Niklas Profors for ...