Orienteering News

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – a long leg in hilly terrain. To pick a route on a long leg in this kind of terrain usually depends on how strong you are up the hills compared to running flat around. In addition there may be ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg from Hungary – a variant of the good old over-or-around-the-hill problem. The chosen leg is leg number 26 in the Men 21E course from the OCSB event at October 23rd 2010. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is an extremely long leg from Austria. The chosen event is Day 6 of the Tyrol 6 Days in the Innsbruck region organized at July 4th 2010. Leg number 27 in the M21 Elite course is chosen. Thanks to both Martin Veitsberger and Martin ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from Switzerland with several route choice options. The event is the 6th National event in Höhronen organized at October 3rd. The leg is from the Men 35 category – as the Men 35 in Switzerland seem to be better than ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Swiss Jura mountains – featuring Thierry Gueorgiou, Olav Lundanes, Daniel Hubmann among others. The race chosen is the middle distance in the World Cup final at the PostFinance Sprint – and the chosen leg is leg number 4 in the mens ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is chosen just as much because the map and terrain looks beautiful, as for the challenging routechoice on this particular leg. The leg is from the Canadian Orienteering Championships 2010 (COC), and the course was actually one of the nominations for “The Course of ...

– Maybe the best course I have ever run, was the comment from a very tired reigning World Champion Olav Lundanes after the race. – This is the kind of courses I long for all the year, he continued. The readers of World of O have voted the course to ...

With 4 days left to vote – the following are still in the Top 10 and fighting for the title “The Course of the Year 2010″ (randomized order): World Cup Final in France, the Norwegian Champs Long, OTomne en Savoie, WOC Long Final, EYOC Long, Jukola, Finnish Champs Middle Final, ...

The ‘Route to Christmas’ series at World of O was been very popular the last years – and I have therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget from 2010-competitions – or old forgotten ones which are still interesting ...

Set up your personal Top 5 List from the 60 nominated maps- and win prizes from our sponsors! The 60 nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the worlds top orienteers through the last two weeks. Now YOU can choose “The Course ...