The “Orienteering Course of the Year 2025″ is a set of courses from the newest discipline in orienteering – the Knock-Out Sprint discipline, from the World Cup Final in Uster, Switzerland. And as you can read in the interview with the course setter below, a lot of work and passion was ...

We continue our countdown in Course of the Year 2025: In 4th place we find the European Championships Sprint and in 3rd place we find the third leg of the Jukola relay. Two high profile events that really challenged the athletes with great courses and intriguing orienteering!  See below the results for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday is the last chance to vote in “Course of the Year 2025″! Check out who is in the Top 10 as of today, and make your vote if you have not voted yet. Note that the order of the courses listed below is completely random. Voting is open until midnight CET ...

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 ...

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 ...