Orienteering News

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is another interesting leg from Czech Republic. This time we look at a quite short leg – leg 18 in the M21E course from Czech Cup Long distance organized in early June 2019. Thanks a lot to Vojtěch Netuka for the tip! The leg is ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a very hilly terrain in northern Italy. The leg was used in both the men’s and the women’s elite classes at Coppa Italia long distance at the Viote map. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from the Swiss Championships Long distance. Already early in the race the runners were met by a 2.5 km long leg in a very hilly terrain with some big valleys and many roads and paths. As always in this kind of ...

Did you check out all the great courses nominated for “Course of the Year 2019″? Tomorrow is the last chance to vote – below are the courses which are in the Top 15 so far, arbitrary sorted.  Still not devlivered your vote? Do so here: Vote for Course of the Year ...

Today we travel to wonderful alpine terrain between 1400 and 2000 masl. in the Austrian Alsp. The chosen leg is leg number 9 in the M21 course from the Austrian Long distance championships, organized as part of Zirbenland Open. Thanks to Axel Koppert for the tip, and for providing some ...

Ready for a 4 km long leg. At night? Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 4 in the M21 course from the final of Harry Lagerts night orienteering cup – a traditional night orienteering competition in the Oslo-area in Norway. If you dare to start in this race, you ...

In today’s Route to Christmas we travel to Estonia and the Baltic Championships Long distance, organized in the WOC 2017 long distance terrain. This race was organized in spring time, with the runnability being much better than at WOC in the middle of summer. Thanks a lot to Tõnis Laugesaar ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long, special leg from a traditional night-orienteering series in Jyväskylä, Finland (since 1998). The race is JNC Kurko – and the leg is the 6th leg, a really long one, with lots of options.  Thanks to Arttu Syrjäläinen for the tip! Arttu writes the ...

Today’s edition of Route to Christmas to Christmas travels to Spain where we study a 2600 meter long leg in hilly terrain. – I was struggling to decide where is fastest to move through the terrain, Ivan Sirakov comments in his Doma archive. Paths and roads are thus a tempting ...

Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the worlds top orienteers through the last weeks. Now YOU can choose “The Course of the Year ...