Orienteering News

– It is one of the most difficult terrains I have ever been to, is Simona Aebersold’s description of the terrain of today’s leg in Route to Christmas. The map is Les Plans d’Hotonnes, and the race is a Swiss Selection Race over the long distance in May this year. The chosen leg ...

Simona Aebersold has impressed the orienteering world with her strong performances this season! The first year in the senior class the young Swiss took silver and bronze at the individual races at the World Orienteering Championships in Østfold, Norway – and impressed overall throughout the season.  Read on to look ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg in Norwegian terrain from a selection race for the World Orienteering Championships 2019. The leg goes through two different terrain types, and has two different components: Intensive mapreading and an interesting routechoice. Thanks a lot to Lucas Basset for ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2019? The World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won in 2018, the World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in 2017 and the last stage of France 5 won in 2016. Other recent winners are a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in Portugal in 2013 and some great technical ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting leg from the Swedish Championships Long distance, organized on September 15th. The chosen leg has been used both in the men and women elite course – and in both cases it is the 14th leg.  The leg is as usually ...

Ready for some fun? We start off this year’s Route to Christmas with an interesting leg from the Oceania 2019 Long Distance in Australia. The chosen leg is the 4th leg in the men’s class. This is not the longest leg in the race – we save that one for later ...

A hugely surprising win by Chinese athlete Shuangyan Hao in the women’s class and an even more surprising third place by Li ZhuoYe (also CHN) in the men’s class was the big headline at the World Cup final Sprint in Songtang, China on Sunday. This was the first ever Sprint World ...

An issue involving runners crossing an out-of-bounds area in the men’s class at the World Cup Middle distance race in China this weekend has led to a lot of discussions. The jury decided to not disqualify any of the runners crossing the out-of-bounds area, and the International Orienteering Federation has promised ...

Switzerland with Elena Roos on the last leg won the Sprint Relay in the World Cup Final in China after a tight battle against Sweden (3 teams in the battle for the win on the last leg) and Norway. In the end one top Swiss teams was better than three Swedish, ...

Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Gustav Bergman (SWE) won the Middle distance race at the orienteering World Cup final in China today. With this win Bergman secured the overall World Cup win in the men’s class while Alexandersson – who was already overall World Cup winner ahead of these races – ...