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… a challenging middle distance course in technical terrain with varying visibility which was given high praise by many of the world’s top runners! Read the full interview with the course setters and see several different versions of the courses – from the early version to the final version. All ...

Closing in on 800 votes – number 828 will get one of the prizes! Wednesday at midnight CET is your last chance to vote for Course of the Year 2012! Set up your personal Top 5 List and win prizes worth around 1400 Euros from our sponsors! The nominated maps ...

– I never felt that I really managed the challenges that day, so that is why I think it was the best course this year, Olav Lundanes says about the course he has chosen as the best course he ran this year. Three out of four top choices for the ...

Set up your personal Top 5 List from the 82(!) nominated courses – and win prizes worth around 1400 Euros 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 ...

– The terrain of Skattungby was fantastic and demanding and I really got an orienteering flow during the race, Simone Niggli says when asked about her favourite course in 2012. This short interview with Niggli is the last in the row of interviews with top athletes about the “Course of ...

– I have been running so many good courses this season – in different types of terrains – so it is not so easy to choose just one, Norwegian sprint specialist Øystein Kvaal Østerbø says when asked about his favourite course for “Course of the Year 2012″. Being a sprinter ...

Mixed sprint relay: On the WOC program already from Italy in 2014. The first implementation of Sprint Relay in the World Orienteering Championships will be in 2014 in Italy, after which it will be a permanent format on the programme, the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) writes on their webpage today. ...

– I am hesitating between the World Ranking Event of Portugal O-meeting 2012 in Viseu and the long distance race of the Silva League in Göteborg this spring, the “King of Middle distance” Thierry Gueorgiou answers when asked to name his favourite course for “Course of the Year 2012″. I ...

– For European runners it was an experience like from another planet, the Czech Relay World Champion Tomas Dlabaja answers when asked about the best course he run in 2012. Some of the races Dlabaja considered for “The Course of the Year 2012″ were Portugal O Meeting, Euromeeting in Austria ...

– There were hard route-choices on every leg, and it was almost impossible to find the perfect routes, the young Swedish superstar of orienteering and ski-orienteering says when asked about her favourite course for “Course of the Year 2012″. The course Alexandersson chose was not a foot-orienteering course – but ...