World of O News

Today we have got a great leg from Slovenia in early spring – with several world class runners participating. The race is Lipicia Open, the terrain is both hilly and stony – and you have got several paths of various size to choose from. The leg in question is the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to the WOC 2016 area – we are only one kilometer away on the other side of the fjord. That is probably also part of the reason why we have so many top names on the startlist on a cold November day. ...

Today we travel all the way to USA to a nice, long leg in the US Championships Ultralong which was organized less than a month ago close to Washington. The area for the first part of the course were we found today’s leg has never been used for orienteering before. ...

Read about the fantastic achievements of 14 athletes and 2 teams who are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2014. Then post your votes for your favourites – and be part of the drawing for prizes worth more than 4000 Euros! The stories behind the medals and the achievements  is ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the last leg of the World’s lagest orienteering relay – Jukola. The chosen control is the 17th control – a leg towards the end of the course where all teams are running in full daylight. The leg is as usually first provided ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas the challenge we have got this year’s first sprint leg – a leg from the Women 21 course in Vårsprinten in Halden, Norway in April this year. The chosen leg is the 7th leg in a course prepared by former sprint World Champion ...

Today we visit Switzerland for some tough alpine orienteering! The chosen leg is a very decisive long route choice leg from the M21E course in the last national race in Switzerland in the 2014 season – organized at October 19th 2014. Starring are Swiss world stars like Daniel Hubmann, Matthias ...

Todays we travel to a “Paradise of Rocks” – to Fontainebleau close to Paris. The leg in question is taken from a long distance training from second training weekend of the winter for the French Team. The leg chosen for Route to Christmas is the 4th leg in the mens ...

Sharing the great sponsor prizes worth 4000 Euros with the readers is nearly as much fun as it was giving the course setter of “Course of the Year 2014″ – Cristian Bellotto – the happy message. Read on to see if YOU won a prize this year. A big thank ...

Today we travel to Finland for a really tough long distance competition: The Finnish Championships long distance. Already to the second control the runners met the longest leg of the day – a more than 2 kilometer long leg in a hilly terrain with many routechoice options. The race was ...