Orienteering News

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 ...

Victories went to Øystein Kvaal Østerbø ahead of Mikhail Mamleev and Jan Troeng in the mens class and to Sarka Svobodna ahead of Uotila Ulrika in the womens class in the first race of the Adriatic meeting 2009 – which is also a PWT race. Below you find maps and ...

Denmark Wins Both JEC Relay Races, Switzerland Gets the Cup. Today the Junior European Cup in Germany ended with an extremely exciting relay competition that left the decision about the winner of the nations ranking open until the very last metres. Up to ten teams fought both in the women’s ...