Orienteering News

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 ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Victorian Long Distance Championships at Mount Korong in Australia. This was an epic competition with some extraordinary long legs!  The 5th and 9th leg are even more spectacular than the 4th leg chosen here, but I found the 4th leg more ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a long leg from the 3+3 Long distance in Sälen, Sweden this summer – and the same leg was used both in the men’s and women’s elite course. This one looks fun and challenging! Thanks a lot to Hugo Claesson and Eva ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is an epic 3.8 km long leg from the “long night” of the largest international orienteering relay, Jukola. And what a leg – here you can get mentally exhausted just by trying to figure out where to run!  Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen for ...

After 5 days of voting, courses from 10 countries are represented in the Top 15 of “Course of the Year 2025″. And what a collection of great courses! Take a look at the courses below, and make your vote if you have not voted yet. Note that the order of the courses listed ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is the 14th leg from the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Czechia. A few days ago we featured a leg from the EYOC Long distance, so at EYOC the route setters really did a good job in great terrains. Thanks a lot ...