Today we travel to the World’s biggest multiday orienteering event – O-Ringen in Sweden. O-Ringen’s day 4 was pointed out as one of the best courses of the year by several in “Course of the Year 2018″, and the long leg from 11 to 12 in the men’s elite class ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 4 2018
In today’s Route to Christmas we travel to interesting continental terrain in Czech Republic. The chosen leg is leg 10 in the M21 course from Czech Championships Long 2018. This is not he longest leg in the course, and there are others which have more complex choices, but it is also ...
Read More »Course of the Year 2018: Last chance to vote!
Did you check out all the great courses nominated for “Course of the Year 2018″? Tonight is the last chance to vote – below are the courses which are in the Top 10 so far, arbitrary sorted. Still not devlivered your vote? Do so here: Vote for Course of the Year ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 3 2018
In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel to Switzerland and to the European Championships Long – one of the highlights on the international orienteering calendar this year. The chosen leg is leg 25 in the M21 course, the decisive leg for the overall victory where several top runners lost ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 2 2018
A crazy long leg for today’s edition of Route to Christmas: 4.7 kilometers along the straight line, and with several athletes running more than 6 kilometer on this single leg. Without paths. That’s orienteering! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 17 in the M21 course from Norwegian Championships ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 1 2018
BOOM! Off we go with a 3 km long leg from one of the finalists in “Course of the Year 2018″: The Finnish Championships Long – a race which has been praised by many readers the last weeks! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 9 in the M21 ...
Read More »Course of the Year: Top 15 as of now
Sweden, Norway, France, Latvia, Hungary, Portugal, Finland, Switzerland and Czech Republic. 9 countries among Top 15 – and more than 500 votes have been given for “Course of the Year 2018″ so far. Below are the courses which are in the Top 15 so far, arbitrary sorted. A tight fight in the ...
Read More »Vote for Course of the Year 2018 Now!
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 ...
Read More »Course of the Year 2018: Last chance to add suggestions
[See all nominations here] Monday November 26th 2018 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2018″. We already got nearly 70 nominations in the comments to the intro article – most of these are high quality courses which will be part of the voting in “Course of the Year 2018″. ...
Read More »Presentation of Course of the Year Sponsors: Part 3
OOCup, the International Thuringian 24-Hour relay, Variant 5 Days , Kapa 5-days, Orienteering Adventure and Easter4: Six great sponsors of “Course of the Year 2018″, giving YOU fantastic prizes – and making this poll possible. See below for a full presentation of each sponsor. Here some of the highlights are repeated: ...
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