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Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach is the founder of WorldofO.com - taking care of everything from site development to writing articles, photography and analysis.

Route to Christmas: Day 10 2025

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is from a really cool terrain in southern France. Looking at the map you get the feeling that this is an artifically generated map for theoretical route choice training, but this terrain and leg was actually used for second stage of the Provence Orienteering ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg from the men’s Superelite in the Maximus O Meeting 2025, organized in Spain in the middle of February. Very stony terrain – and also quite hilly! What would you choose here? The leg is as usually first provided without ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 8 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Italy – a country we visit every pre-Christmas! This time we have chosen a long leg in very hilly terrain that challenged the world’s best junior orienteers at the Junior Orienteering World Championships this July. Thank you very much to Terje Mathisen ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 7 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is from the 7th race of the Swedish League in June – and this time we take a look at a tricky leg in the women’s class. This is actually the first tip we received in Route to Christmas 2025 – back in the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 6 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg from a night orienteering competition in pretty tricky terrain – here you really have to focus. The leg is from the Norwegian Championships Night Orienteering.  Thanks a lot to Halvor for suggestion this course as a candidate for Course of the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 5 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a very interesting leg from the Junior European Orienteering Cup (JEC) in Loch Ard Forest in Scotland this autumn. This is slow terrain, but it looks very long to go around – what would you choose? This course was suggested by Ivar Lundanes as ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 4 2025

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a 3.4 km long leg from the men’s H21 class in the Finnish Championships Long distance, organized close to Tampere in early September 2025.  This very interesting course from the Finnish Champs Long was suggested by Joni Parviainen for Course of the Year ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 3 2025

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In today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 we travel all the way to New Zealand! Here we offer a long leg from the JWOC trials and South Islands Championships in February. On this leg there were lots of different alternatives chosen by the runners – showing “a rainbow across ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 2 2025

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For the second day of this years’ Route to Christmas 2025 we have chosen a very interesting leg from the Norwegian Championships Long distance. This is a long leg towards the end of a tough long distance race – with several bigger hills that you have to choose how to ...

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Course of the Year 2025: Submit your suggestions!

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What was the best orienteering course of 2025? The middle distance race in Maximus O Meeting won in 2024, the World Champs middle distance in Switzerland won in 2023, the Pomeranian Sprint Cup won in 2022 and the WOC Long distance won in 2021. In the years before, we had a long distance race in Norway, the World Cup ...

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