Orienteering News

Today we have a 2700 meter long leg in Hungary on the menu for Route to Christmas! The race we are visiting today is the World University Championships (WUOC) Long distance – a competition which has gotten  a lot of praise. The leg chosen for Route to Christmas is the 3rd ...

25 sponsor prizes to be given away! A big thank you all for voting and nominating courses for “Course of the Year 2016″  – in the end the 5th stage of O’France won the “Course of the Year 2016″ overall. Read on to see if YOU won a prize as ...

Suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2016 and win great prizes! Remember that we are not necessarily looking for the best orienteer/team of 2016 – but rather the best achievements. There is one class for men and one for women – juniors can also be suggested, the same ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to a national youth competition in southwestern Norway – O-Idol. The terrain is quite tricky the first times you run there – and choosing the best route might also prove a bit difficult if you are not familiar with the terrain.  You ...

The first day of Route to Christmas 2016 takes us to Italy – to the Italian Championships Long distance in some interesting karst terrain at September 24th 2016. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 4 in the M21 course. Thanks a lot to Matjaz Stanfel for the tip! ...

A very technical French Long distance course takes the honors as “Orienteering Course of the Year 2016?. The winning course is the Men Elite course at the last stage of O’France 2016 – probably one of the most difficult long distance courses set this year – with a lot of “WOW”-factor ...

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 ...

[See all nominations here] Monday November 21st 2016 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2016″. We already got more than 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 big surprise on international orienteering scene in 2016, Anastasia Denisova, shares her favourite orienteering courses of 2016 with the readers in this interview. Her best race of the season was the medal giving World Championships Sprint – but it was another race in the World Championships which impressed the Belarus ...

[Updated with M21E course and higher quality map] – The terrain was amazing and the course challenging as there were many different terrain types in the same race, Swiss national team runner Baptiste Rollier says about his favourite orienteering course in 2016 – the 4th day of Swiss O-Week.  Rollier ...