Orienteering News

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 14 in the H17-20 course from JWOC Long – thanks a lot for Simon Hector for suggesting the leg and providing lots of analysis! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to a long leg in beautiful Karst-terrain in Italy – to the Italian Championships long distance in the Belluno-area. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is “a long way from anywhere” – and probably one of the most spectacular legs we have seen in competitions this year. The 3rd leg in the longest course in the Western Canadian Orienteering Championships Long 2017 does simply look amazing. What a leg! On the ...

See an overview of the suggestions for nominated athletes below – 16 in the men’s and 9 in the women’s. Monday December 4th at midnight CET is the last chance to suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2017.  Suggested athletes and achievements as of Sunday evening (through Facebook page, intro-article and e-mail) ...

Today we are traveling to Portugal in Route to Christmas. The course we consider placed third in “Course of the Year 2017″, and is definitely a very interesting course with lots of challenges: Aguiar da Beira Orienteering Meeting Long.  The chosen leg is the 7th leg – a quite long leg with ...

Today we travel to Finland and the Finnish Championships Long for Route to Christmas. The leg in question is the first leg – right out from the start in the middle of an alpine hill.  The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look ...

Today we are moving over to a long and decisive leg in the Swiss Alps. Fantastic nature and high altitude may make it tricky to do the right choice – can you take the right choice at Route to Christmas Day 2?  The chosen leg is the long leg from ...

Route to Christmas 2017 starts with a Boom: A 2.5 kilometer long challenging leg in mountain terrain from the Norwegian Championships Ultralong – a course which recently placed 4th in the “Course of the Year 2017″ contest. The chosen leg is the 6th leg from the women’s elite course. The men ...

Suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2017 and win great prizes! Remember that we are not necessarily looking for the best orienteer/team of 2017 – but rather the best achievements. There is one class for men and one for women – juniors can also be suggested, the same goes ...

A very technical middle distance course in Estonia took the honors as “Orienteering Course of the Year 2017″ – a course which really challenged the competitors. You had to handle both tricky orienteering in low visibility forest and be able to speed up/down when the difficulty changed. A very worthy winner! ...