Orienteering News

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the legendary “Harry Lagerts” final – a very, very long night orienteering race which is run as a chasing start based on the earlier races in the series. And the chosen leg is of course the longest one. Thanks a lot ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is again taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the very interesting World Cup Sprint race in Italy this spring.  Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are already nearly 40 nominated courses which you ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the Norwegian Long championships organized in the Verdal-area north of Trondheim.  Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a spectacular leg from the European Youth Championships (EYOC) organized in Poland this summer. This time the women’s W18 course is chosen.  As you can see from the map, this is quite hilly terrain, with quite a few paths and also some ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from one of the large spring-races in Norway – the Halden O-Meeting Long distance organized in the middle of April. This is typical terrain for the Østfold/Halden area, with quite soft ground, many smaller hills and some paths and roads ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is leg an interesting leg from the long distance competition Maximus O Meeting organized in Spain back in February this year. We look at the men’s super-elite course, and again the forest is fast. Comments from the map-makers from the race Bulletin: This ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2024? World Champs middle distance in Switzerland won in 2023, Pomeranian Sprint Cup won in 2022, WOC Long distance won in 2021, the Norwegian World Champs selection race long distance won in 2019, the World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won in 2018 and the World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance in Czech Republic. This is what the bulletin said about the terrain: The terrain is mostly hilly with rocks and stones in places high up on the hills. Mostly coniferous forest ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to an interesting leg in French karst terrain at OOCup 2024. Not the longest leg, but still challenging to decide what to do. In the bulletin the terrain was described as hilly terrain, nice mixed forest with many relief details, some ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 takes us to the long distance race Närkekvartetten in Sweden – the 5th race in this years’ Swedish League. A quite interesting long leg where you have to consider straight versus around. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...