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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Czech Republic – a long leg in hilly terrain. To pick a route on a long leg in this kind of terrain usually depends on how strong you are up the hills compared to running flat around. In addition there may be ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg from Hungary – a variant of the good old over-or-around-the-hill problem. The chosen leg is leg number 26 in the Men 21E course from the OCSB event at October 23rd 2010. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the United States with several routechoice options. The competition is the 31st West Point Orienteering Meet on May 2nd 2010, and control 2 in the blue course is chosen. This is one of those legs where you feel you have ...

Olav Lundanes and Simone Niggli have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2010″ titles in the mens and womens class, respectively! Among the men Olav Lundanes got an impressive 28.5% of the votes – more than twice as many as Daniel Hubmann – last years winner – in second ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Spain – in a maze-like area full of rocks, paths and green areas. The chosen leg is leg number 18 in the Men Elite course from the CEO 2010 event at April 4th 2010. This leg is not of those very long ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is an extremely long leg from Austria. The chosen event is Day 6 of the Tyrol 6 Days in the Innsbruck region organized at July 4th 2010. Leg number 27 in the M21 Elite course is chosen. Thanks to both Martin Veitsberger and Martin ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from Switzerland with several route choice options. The event is the 6th National event in Höhronen organized at October 3rd. The leg is from the Men 35 category – as the Men 35 in Switzerland seem to be better than ...

From the nearly 3000 votes given, great prizes from our sponsors Trimtex, OOCup,  Kopaonik Open, Portugal O-meeting and Fjord-o Arctic Midnattsolgaloppen have been drawn. In addition 5 websites who helped spread the news about the poll have been awarded with free ads. Check below if you took home one of ...

With more than 2000 votes given, we have a very tight fight for the top spot in the womens class in this years edition of “The Orienteering Achievement of the Year” . In the mens class there is a clear leader – but anything can happen with one day left ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a really long leg from Pinseløpene in Kongsberg, Norway. Kongsberg is famous in the orienteering world for having many interesting terrain types within a small area – and several important competitions have been held around Kongsberg. One example is this year Military World ...