World of O News

In many events, even at championships level, the results have been heavily influenced by runners not running completely independently. Co-working, and to some extent following is a major problem in orienteering, and has been for a long time. Different types of separating methods have been tried to separate runners to ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the Hungarian National RouteGadget Database. The chosen leg is leg number 17 in the men 21 Elite course from Hosszutavu Orszagos Bajnoksag at April 4th 2009. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at ...

Do you think the women should run night-orienteering at 10mila? Alternativet.nu had an interesting article about the topic yesterday – suggesting that the women’s class in 10mila should have six legs and include night orienteering from 2011. Do you think the women are ready for that kind of challenge? The ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from a night race in Norway. The race in question is the first leg in the 9.6 km long course from “Vinter-Tiomila – Longa Natten” (with mass start as far as I am aware of). The competition was held at November 18th 2009, ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is another leg from Finland. This time we have chosen a leg from the local race Espoorastit number 9 in Kellonummi. The chosen leg is leg number 6 in course 9 at June 2nd 2009 organized by Espoon Akilles. The leg is as usually ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is another leg from Switzerland – this time from the World Cup Final weekend. The leg chosen is leg 13 in the mens course the Saturday’s middle distance on September 26th 2009. Why choose more than one leg from Switzerland? Because the Swiss are ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Great Britain. We have got a long leg from Northern Champs in Graythwaite – organized by Lakeland OC on April 19th 2009. The chosen leg is leg number 14 in Course 1. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Germany. The chosen leg is leg number 16 in the Men 20 course from the JEC 2009 Long Distance organized by USV TU Dresden at October 24th 2009. Thanks to Bjarne Friedrichs for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided ...

We have got one of the highlights in this years Route to Christmas today – Karst terrain from Slovenia with comments from several of the runners and the route planner. Todays leg is leg number 7 in the M21E course from the last event in OO.cup 2009 on July 26th. ...

For todays leg in Route to Christmas we are returning to Switzerland. This time we are looking at leg 12 in the HAL course at the 5. National Swiss race in Hürital at August 30th 2009 organized by OLV Zug. Thanks to Marcel Schiess for the tip! The question this ...