World of O News

On the 7th day in this Christmas calendar we travel to the country (or one of the countries) of Santa Claus – Finland. The place is Vuokatti – and the race is WOC middle. Today we take a look at the women’s course – the long leg to control number ...

Today we have got the longest leg so far in Route to Christmas 2013 – and even with comments from the course setter. That’s exactly how we like it – all other course setters with interesting courses are of course encouraged to follow Revenger’s example and submit a nice leg ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Norwegian Championships in night orienteering – a very tough race this year. After several years with mass start, the race was back with the traditional interval start scheme and a very challenging course. After a lot of wilderness in the start ...

Read about the fantastic achievements of 13 athletes and 3 teams who are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2013. Then post your votes for your favourites – and be part of the drawing for prizes worth nearly 4500 Euros! The stories behind the medals and the achievements  is what ...

– The first control on the M20/M18 and W20/W18 caused the runners some headache, our tipster wrote us in an e-mail about today’s leg in Route to Christmas – which is the first leg in the Jugendcupstaffel (a youth relay) organized in Switzerland at August 17th 2013. Thanks a lot ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg in Kongsberg, Norway – used for the Norwegian Championships long distance. The chosen leg is leg number two – after a very short first leg. The Norwegian Champs Long was organized at September 12th 2013. This leg might be ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Matera course which finished second in Course of th Year 2013. This 7th leg in the M21E course is one of the longest legs on the course. This particular course had a lot of challenging legs – the shorter ones being ...

Suggest a nomination for the Orienteering Achievement of 2013 and win some great prizes! Remember that we are not necessarily looking for the best orienteer/team of 2013 – but rather the best achievement. There is one class for men and one for women – juniors can also be suggested, the ...

The first day of Route to Christmas 2013 takes us to Sweden – and the best long distance course from 2013 according to “Course of the Year 2013″. The race in question is the Swedish Championships long distance – organized at September 22nd 2013 – and we are looking at ...

As a big thank you for all voting and nominating courses, I have the possibility to share some fantastic sponsor prizes with you! Thanks a lot to both YOU out there and the sponsors – without you this would not be possible. Below in the sponsor section the winners for ...