The Norwegian junior Kasper Fosser represented one of the biggest surprises in the 2019-season with his fantastic silver medal at the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Long distance in Østfold, Norway this summer. In this article you can read about his favourite courses and terrains in the past season. Fosser has ...

[See all nominations here] Monday December 9th 2019 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2019″. We already got more than 75 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 Year 2019″. Based ...

– There is something really nice about a very good long distance. You don’t get many of those in a year! Those are Gustav Bergman’s words about one of the best forest orienteering courses he ran in 2019 – one of the Swedish League races in the middle of April. Read ...

– In these kind of races, the TV-production doesn’t set any limits so it is easier to make the whole course really challenging, Finnish rising start Miika Kirmula says about his two favourite forest races of the year. Read on to get to know more about what kind of courses ...

Yannick Michiels was one of the biggest names on the international orienteering scene this autumn after winning two straight World Cup Sprint races – in Switzerland and in China, and topping the World Ranking Sprint after the season. The fast Belgian athlete is a sprint orienteering specialist, but still enjoys ...

– A long run through the Scandinavian forest, only few controls and a deep experience, is Denisa Kosova’s description of her favourite orienteering course in 2019. Read more about Kosova’s experiences in the forest the last year further down. Denisa Kosova is a Czech orienteer who is knocking on the door to ...

– It was a true long distance challenge in a tough Norwegian terrain, with several long and medium-length legs, Lucas Basset explains when talking about his favourite course of the year. And no, it is not the World Championships Long distance, but another Long distance course in Norway without spectators ...

Simona Aebersold has impressed the orienteering world with her strong performances this season! The first year in the senior class the young Swiss took silver and bronze at the individual races at the World Orienteering Championships in Østfold, Norway – and impressed overall throughout the season.  Read on to look ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2019? The World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won in 2018, the World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in 2017 and the last stage of France 5 won in 2016. Other recent winners are a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in Portugal in 2013 and some great technical ...

A hugely surprising win by Chinese athlete Shuangyan Hao in the women’s class and an even more surprising third place by Li ZhuoYe (also CHN) in the men’s class was the big headline at the World Cup final Sprint in Songtang, China on Sunday. This was the first ever Sprint World ...