Orienteering News

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Russia. The leg in question is leg number 10 in M21 from a competition on April 26th this year found on the Russian site o-site.spb.ru. According to my source, the name of the competition may be translated to “The Bright World” – ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Czech Championships Long distance 2009 – featuring Michal Smola and Lukas Bartak among others. The event was held on September 20th earlier this year. Leg number 8 in the Men 21 course is chosen. The leg is as usually first provided ...

Today we are off to New Zealand in Route to Christmas. Open, hilly terrain met the runners when Wairarapa Orienteers and Wellington OC organized the SuperSeries competition in February 2009. None other than the good old Danish World Champion from Grimstad in 1997 Carsten Jørgensen took the victory – and ...

One 18 year old Danish junior world champion, one French multiple World Champion, one Norwegian star who got her first World Championships gold medal this year, one Finish multi-talent who got gold medals in both ski- and foot-orienteering this year, three Swiss runners from the best national team in 2009 ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a monsterleg from Men 21 Elite in the Finnish Champs Long distance held at September 6th 2009. Runners drawing their route on this leg include Jani Lakanen, Petteri Muukkonen and Jörgen Wickholm. Keep e-mailing me with tips about good cases to make sure ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from a France. This time we have chosen leg number 11 in the A course from a French National event at May 3rd 2009. The terrain is very different from what we have seen the previous two days. The leg is as usually ...

We have got a really long and challenging leg from the USA in todays Route to Christmas – with a best time of around 18 minutes. Todays leg in Route to Christmas 2009 is leg 8 from the Blue course in Return to Boggs Mountain A-Meet at May 3rd 2009. ...

The ‘Route to Christmas’ series at World of O was very popular the two last year – and I’ve therefore decided to continue the series this Christmas as well. If you have got any good legs in RouteGadget from 2009-competitions – or old forgotten ones which are still interesting – ...

In this third part of the series, we look at how to show your position on an orienteering map on your phone – using your phones built-in GPS receiver. In a few years, most mobile phones will come with built-in GPS receiver. This will be the chance for the orienteering ...

[Updated with Venice O-meeting maps] Mikhail Mamleev won both the second PWT race in Vizena on Saturday and the Venice O-meeting on Sunday ahead of Øystein Kvaal Østerbø. Kvaal Østerbø however won the overall Adriatic Meeting. In the womens class Sarka Svobodna won the Adriatic meeting with victories both Friday ...