Orienteering News

Route Choice Challenges while waiting for the real action: With the upcoming orienteering season indefinitely on hold in large parts of the the world due to COVID-19, regular orienteering route choice challenges may be one way to make sure those orienteering skills don’t get completely rusty. I’ll try to keep these ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) had a fantastic weekend and won all three World Ranking Events in the men’s superelite at the Maximus O-Meeting this weekend. In the women’s class Sanna Fast (Sweden), Anastasia Rudnaya (Russia), Svetlana Mironova (Russia) and won the Middle, Sprint and Long distances races, respectively. Maximus O-Meeting organized in the ...

Late Christmas present: Check here if you won any of the prizes worth more than 6000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2019″!  For each sponsor, the winner of event prizes are written in red below. All winners will receive an e-mail with information about how ...

At the final day of Route to Christmas 2019 we travel to Norway and take a look at two legs from the Norwegian Championships Long distance. Both legs are from the M21E course, and both are long legs in hilly, marshy terrain with some road/path options.  With this I also ...

For the second last day in Route to Christmas 2019 we are back to Finland. When you look at this leg you just keep searching for the easy way to solve the leg, but where is it? Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 8 in the M21E course ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very intimidating, long leg from the Bulgarian Championships long distance. Several classes had a similar long leg, crossing several valleys in a quite steep slope. We have chosen the leg from the men’s elite class here – the leg from the 13th ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from the largest individual orienteering race in the world: O-Ringen. The chosen leg is from the chasing start on the fifth and last day in the women’s elite class. The men had a similar leg which is also included in the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a 2.7 km long leg in Finland – organized in the same terrain as the first World Orienteering Championships back in 1966. The event this time was the Finnish Championships Long distance, and the chosen leg is the 6th leg in the M21E ...

A traditional long distance course with many long route choice legs interspersed with technical orienteering is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2019″!  The course was run by many of the world’s best orienteers, as the event was a selection race for the World Orienteering Championships for several countries. The ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a special edition showcasing the winner of the “Course of the Year 2019″, the M21 World course from the selection race for the World Orienteering Championships 2019 organized in the beginning of July. The chosen leg is the course setters favourite on the course, ...