Orienteering News

–  It started with a short leg uphill, where you directly could feel the roughness of the terrain and feel that it would be a long and tough day at work, Lina Strand explains about her favourite forest course in 2019. Long legs with interesting routechoices interspersed with some tricky shorter legs ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg in “broken” terrain at O-festivalen in Norway this summer. We have chosen a leg in the women’s class with several distinct options – including some tricky micro-routechoices. Thanks to Terje Mathisen for the tip – highly appreciated as always.  The tip ...

The Norwegian junior Kasper Fosser represented one of the biggest surprises in the 2019-season with his fantastic silver medal at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long distance in Østfold, Norway this summer. In this article you can read about his favourite courses and terrains in the past season. Fosser has ...

Today’s Route to Christmas takes us to a long leg in a hilly terrain in Denmark. – Lots of challenging route-choices and I think the course-planner did a good job out of a limited terrain, Junior World Champion Kasper Fosser said about the Junior World Orienteering Championship (JWOC) Long distance M20 course ...

[See all nominations here] Monday December 9th 2019 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2019″. We already got more than 75 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 2019″. Based ...

– There is something really nice about a very good long distance. You don’t get many of those in a year! Those are Gustav Bergman’s words about one of the best forest orienteering courses he ran in 2019 – one of the Swedish League races in the middle of April. Read ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is the first one in the 2019-edition which comes from a sprint race. The chosen leg is from the Swedish League Sprint race in  Fisksätra. In an interview with Gustav Bergman for “Course of the Year 2019″ today, Bergman named this course the best sprint course he had been ...

– In these kind of races, the TV-production doesn’t set any limits so it is easier to make the whole course really challenging, Finnish rising start Miika Kirmula says about his two favourite forest races of the year. Read on to get to know more about what kind of courses ...

With the World Championships in Czech Republic coming up in 2021, elite orienteers are posting lots of interesting routechoice legs from the area. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 19 in the M21 course from a WOC 2021 Training Camp Long distance training at the Skalacek map. This ...

Yannick Michiels was one of the biggest names on the international orienteering scene this autumn after winning two straight World Cup Sprint races – in Switzerland and in China, and topping the World Ranking Sprint after the season. The fast Belgian athlete is a sprint orienteering specialist, but still enjoys ...