Orienteering News

Finally! Thursday May 13th at 16:40 CET the international orienteering elite will compete for medals again as the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) starts off with the Sprint Relay. EOC 2021 is the first pure sprint EOC, and is organized in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Excellent live coverage is promised, with live TV broadcasts of all ...

Just a few days ahead of the European Orienteering Championships (EOC), the Swiss Championships Sprint – with a large international start field – marks the restart of the international orienteering scene after a long Covid-19 break. In addition to all the Swiss EOC-favourites, athletes from Russia, Norway, Ukraine, Estonia, Spain, ...

For the final leg in Route to Christmas 2020 we found an interesting relay leg from Finland! The leg is from the Klaaniviesti 3-leg relay in Lappeenranta, Finland. Metsälä describes the terrain as very, very tough terrain. – The hills are steep, the ground is rocky and there’s lots of nasty ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting Runners’ Choice challenge from Sprintliga Oslo, with extensive analysis provided by Oskar Størmer.  In my opinion this is how a Knock Out Sprint can be made truly interesting, both for athletes and TV. Future course setters and stake holders: Take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Estonia! The chosen leg is the first leg from the men elite course at the Suunto Games middle distance race at September 7th this year. Thanks a lot to course setter Markus Puusepp for the tip and the analysis. [PS! I still ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas  is another leg from the  chasing start final of the legendary night orienteering cup “Harry Lagerts Nattcup” in Oslo – a race which was already featured on Day 11. Thanks a lot to Søren Jonsson for the tip, and for course setter Kenneth Buch for pointing out this leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the second day of the Swedish 3-day race Kvarnsjötrippeln with some top names on the start list. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really nice route choice leg from Czech Republic! The chosen leg is leg 11 from the Czech Long Distance Championships in september. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from Portugal. This time we travel to a junior national team training camp where the athletes ran a competition on an interesting course. Thanks a lot to Tomás Lima for the tip and providing some analysis. Here is some background information from Lima: ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is leg 6 in the M21 course from Norwegian Championships Ultralong. Thanks a lot to Tibor Vari for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack ...