Orienteering News

Todays in Route to Christmas we are bringing back fond memories from WOC in France in 2011. Not the same courses, but the same challenging terrain! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 4 in the H21E course from a regional middle distance race – O’Tomne en Savoie 2012 ...

Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct country for the map sample – can you make it all the way ...

For those of you loving sprint – we have finally got two sprint legs for you. The legs are from a Czech National Team Sprint Training January 22nd 2012 prepared by Czech trainer Radek Novotny, and one of the legs has actually already been published here at World of O. ...

Today Route to Christmas travels to Switzerland to a long, tough race. The chosen leg is leg number 11 in the H21E course from Swiss Champs long distance 2012 at August 19th 2012. Thanks to Severin Howald for the tip. In addition to the leg to control number 11, we ...

Hint: It is not in Europe! Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct country for the map sample – can ...

Todays Route to Christmas travels to Germany – to the German Championships Ultralong at April 21st! As it is a rainy(?) Saturday today, I have prepared two long legs for you with the help of course setter Bjarne Friedrichs. – It was a great challenge to do the mapping and ...

A real classic for today! Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct country for the map sample – can you ...

Another day – another map! Nearly 2000 answers have been given in the WoO Christmas O-Quiz already – very impressive! And based on your comments, I think you may have spent in total about 3-400 work hours searching for the correct answers (some have used an hour for an answer ...

Today is your lucky day! Not one, but two(!) very interesting legs from Croatia are on offer in Route to Christmas today. And the legs offer very different orienteering challenges: Although significant parts of the map are extreme karst, the other part is more typical continental terrain, and the course ...

After a very flat map yesterday, I found some contours for you today! Can you guess which country this map is from? The WorldofO Christmas O-Quiz gives you one map sample each day from December 1st until December 24th. You get one point for each day you guess the correct ...