Today we bring a real old time classic for January Classics: Finnich Championships classic distance 1974 (thanks to Tapani Partanen for map and additional info). The map is taken from the book Suuri Suunnistusteos 1 (Rauno Liimatainen). Click the map for full size – The winner in H21 was Hannu ...

Today’s edition of January Classics is a ultralong race from 2006: The Norwegian Championships ultralong 2006. This is a different kind of “Classic” than the good old WOC races from the 80ies and 90ies – but still a nice course which has many of the qualities of the good, old ...

Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to Ukraine and WOC 2007. A hot day in fast terrain with a long route choice leg (see above). This is not one of the real classic classics – but still an interesting race. A new forking method was tested – giving some ...

Les Alpettes, Switzerland, 1981. The classic WOC race in 1981 was one of those classic long distance races. Varied terrain and course – from the long legs in the steep hills in the start of the course to the shorter legs in the flat parts towards the end. Map and ...

Today’s edition of “January Classics” is from the relay formerly known as “Krokskogstafetten” which now has changed name to Night Hawk. The year is 1979 – and the course we bring is the 8th leg. We have got some nice, long legs here! Map and course in omaps.worldofo.com NightHawk 2014 ...

The World Championships in Kongsberg in 1978 featured a tough long distance course. The route choices were not the most tricky ones though – is was a lot about running direct here. Note also how “modern” the map looks – this doesn’t really look like a map from 1978? The ...

November 16th 1980: Nation match in Pecs, Hungary. Again we dive into Lars Pamqvist’s map archive – a real gem for orienteers interested in the good old Classics. It is a mystery that they managed that well on this map in this tricky terrain – although Palmquist got some trouble ...

Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to a nice, classic World Cup race in Engelsberg (Austria) back in 1988. We are again diving into the great map archive of Lars Palmqvist where the community helped placing all the maps geographically. Thanks a lot to “Cha” for the tip! This ...

If orienteers are asked to remember one race from 1984 – they will probably remember the Nordic Championships long distance in Aursfjord Hamnvåg. Great course in great terrain! Here is the map in the map archive of Lars Palmqvist: NOC 1984 – part 1 NOC 1984 – part 2 See ...

A different type of Classic for today: Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Night time trial” in Guardamar. As Gueorgiou put it back in 2010 when he set a new one minute PB: “Some orienteer likes to keep their best times on track; I prefer to chase my record in the forest”. Since then ...