Orienteering News

Early Christmas present: Check here if you won any of the prizes worth more than 5500 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2018″!  For each sponsor, the winner of event prizes are written in red below. All winners will receive an e-mail with information about ...

There are some legs where it seems impossible to find any really good solution, where you have to choose between several tricky and tough options. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is one of those – a long leg from the District Champs Long for the Stockholm area in Sweden. ...

Ahmet Kacmaz (Turkey) and Csilla Gardonyi (Hungary) have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2018″ titles in the men’s and women’s class, respectively! The vote has been decided by the big international readership of WorldofO.com – more than 5500 unique votes from around 60 different countries have been delivered. Read interviews with the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the recent Guangdong Historical Road Orienteering Championships where some of the World’s best sprint orienteers have been gathered for a test ahead of next years’ World Cup races in China. The chosen leg is the 3rd leg from the WRE race in Sanjiang. Sanjiang ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Baltic Championships Long in Latvia near the city of Rēzekne on the Tartaks lake map. This is fascinating terrain, and a great course with many nice and long route choices made this a day to remember. The chosen leg is the 19th leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really intricate sprint leg from Czech Republic – which includes some interesting bridge crossings. The chosen leg is leg 5 in the M21 course from a World Ranking race in Plzen in May 2018. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja for the tip, ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a sprint leg – this time from one of the most important sprint races of the year, the European Championships Sprint in Switzerland. The chosen leg is used both in the men’s and the women’s class – for the men it is the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from one of this year’s best long distance courses: The Swedish Championships long distance. The chosen leg is the 7th leg which was suggested by Ruslan Glebov in the interview made with Glebov in relation to Course of the Year ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 9 in from the Men 21 course from Beograd Open 2018. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a course from the women elite class of the Czech Champs Long distance. This is a leg in a typical continental terrain (we already had a leg from the men’s class here earlier). The question is the same as often in this type ...