Orienteering News

… here is one of the training maps from the WMOC in Brasil while waiting for the maps from yesterdays middle distance and todays long distance. [From I-OL forum – training map of Clemens Roos]. See also the middle warm-up course from Martin Pongratz page – We analyzed the races ...

Wikipedia integration, maps from competitions and results browsing are some of the new features that have been added in the WoO Calendar. Also thanks to all of you who have added competitions – more than 50 competitions have been added the last few days – more than 20 of them ...

There has not been much news about South Africa here at World of O. However, after the launch of the WoO Calendar last week, a few South African events have been added to the calendar, and this is definitely worth a news story. I also got a nice e-mail from ...

News Release: Just in time for the planning of your next summer holiday, World of O launches the World of O Calendar – an international orienteering event calendar giving you something extra. In addition to all standard event calendar features, location based searches are possible by clicking on a map ...

That was what I was looking for this summer when I had a few weeks of extra vacation due to a job change. Read on to see maps and pictures from where I decided to go after a long search on the Internet. It gave me 20 top orienteering races ...

I don’t know how many countries are so lucky that they have a yearly book with nearly 200 colorful pages about orienteering? In Norway we have “O-Boka”, the 2006 edition being available from the coming saturday at Blodslitet. I have been so lucky to be able to look through a ...

There have been a lot of comments to Sandy Hott Johansen’s long and interesting article regarding the WC 2007 at her homepage from many elite orienteers. It is worth to take another look at Sandy’s homepage and read the comments – and add your thoughts about the matter. Link: “Why ...

Ready for a bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz? Due to extremely good response (nearly 200 answers) – quite a few of them in english – Jo Inge Fjellstad has made an extra bonus round of the Routechoice Quiz, and also made an english translation. Expect answers to the first ...

The folks at Ås-UMB make some very nice routechoice quizzes – and now the october version of the routechoice quizzes are out. You can also see which routechoices where chosen in the previous quizzes. The quiz is in Norwegian, but even without knowledge of the language, I think it is ...

Just for completeness there is now available splits for the relay graphically using splitsbrowser as well. Maybe not as interesting as the individual competitions, but it gives some insight into the BIG mistakes some runners made today.