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 ...

Today’s edition of “January Classics” is a real Classic: Älgdrevet 1977.  An article about the race in the Swedish magazine Skogsport in 1979 described the winner Sigurd Dæhli’s race as “Världens bästa lopp på världens bästa bana” (“The best race in the world on the best course”). Thanks a lot ...

Today’s entry in “January Classics” is a nice long distance race in Sweden in – the European Championships long distance final 2012 in Skattungbyn, Sweden. A tough long distance with many long legs with route choice options. For this race there is a full GPS- and split time analysis available ...

One of the great classic races is the WOC classic in the USA in 1993 – won by Danish Allan Mogensen. The map is called ‘Surebridge mountain’ – and it is one of the maps featured in the sleeping project “101 Orienteering Maps you should run on before you die”. ...

Start the preparations for Jukola 2014: Here are two different maps of the Jukola 2014 terrain – both made based on LIDAR (laser data). As a bonus a “RunningWild” with a 11 km long course and a Webroute for a hypothetical first leg is also included. Complete map comparison – ...

– One of the best and most varied Long distance courses I have run. Nice terrain and interesting orienteering all the way, is Mats Troeng’s comment about the EOC Long Distance Final in 2008. Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to Latvia! From the official EOC 2008 webpage: The ...