Orienteering News

The first ever Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Denmark on Sunday June 26th with the Sprint Relay. The championship continues with the first ever WOC Knock-Out Sprint on Tuesday June 28th – and rounds of with the traditional Sprint on Thursday June 30th. With this being the first ...

The 2022 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with nearly 17.000 competitors on the start. With about 11.000 on the start in the open Jukola relay and 6.000 in the women’s Venla relay, Jukola is not all the way back to ...

The Orienteering World Cup 2022 starts with a Sprint Round in Borås, Sweden from Thursday May 26th until Sunday May 29th. The races start off with an individual Sprint on Thursday, continues with a Knock-Out Sprint on Saturday and finishes off with a Sprint Relay on Sunday. This is the first of three World Cup rounds in ...

Finally 10Mila again! After two long years without 10Mila, Saturday’s  2022 edition of 10Mila marks the real start of the 2022-season for many. Spectators both at home and on the arena in Sweden can expect highly entertaining competitions – read on for all you need to know about the 2022-edition of 10Mila. ...

New Year’s Gift: Check here if you are one of the 24 winners of the prizes worth more than 6000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2021″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won ...

For the second time in the history of the “Orienteering Course of the Year”, the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) long distance takes the honors! Just as back in Scotland in 2015, this years’ WOC long distance in Czech Republic was set in special and exciting terrain, and highly anticipated by the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is leg 4 from the Norwegian Championships night – a leg with some interesting route choice options! Thanks a lot to Mathias Benjaminsen for the tip. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think ...

The voting for “Course of the Year 2021″ is now closed. Winners and lucky voters will be presented between Christmas and New Year when the interview with the course setter for “Course of the Year 2021″ is ready for publication.  See below for the Top 10 in the final standings ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2021 is the last sprint leg in this year’s edition of Route to Christmas. This time we travel to Estonia to the Estonian Championships sprint. Thanks a lot to Uku-Laur Tali for the tip! Uku-Laur Tali was the head organizer while the course setter was Eduard ...

On the last day of voting, courses from the following countries are in the Top 10: Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy,  Finland & Spain – with Czech Republic having most courses in the Top 10.  Check out the list of the courses within Top 10 below – and vote for your ...