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What was the best orienteering course of 2024? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the world’s top orienteers. Now YOU can choose “The Course ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the 2nd Austria Cup of the year – a long distance race in a quite hilly area between Graz and Vienna. Thanks a lot to Martin Veitsberger for the tip – Martin has given many tips for good legs ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is another Sprint leg – this time a leg from a high profile event – the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) Knock-Out Sprint.  Thanks a lot to Jon Cross for the suggestion and analysis. Jon writes that it would perhaps be interesting with a leg ...

[See all nominations here] Wednesday December 11th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2024″. We already got more than 40 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 2024″. ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from the build-up to the European Championships in Hungary, at the Spring Spatarcus Cup Long distance race. Note that this is again one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024 – today is the last day to suggest nominations (already more ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the legendary “Harry Lagerts” final – a very, very long night orienteering race which is run as a chasing start based on the earlier races in the series. And the chosen leg is of course the longest one. Thanks a lot ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is again taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the very interesting World Cup Sprint race in Italy this spring.  Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are already nearly 40 nominated courses which you ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is taken from one of the nominations for Course of the Year 2024, the Norwegian Long championships organized in the Verdal-area north of Trondheim.  Make sure to check out Course of the Year 2024 and submit your nominations in the comment field – there are ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a spectacular leg from the European Youth Championships (EYOC) organized in Poland this summer. This time the women’s W18 course is chosen.  As you can see from the map, this is quite hilly terrain, with quite a few paths and also some ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is an interesting leg from one of the large spring-races in Norway – the Halden O-Meeting Long distance organized in the middle of April. This is typical terrain for the Østfold/Halden area, with quite soft ground, many smaller hills and some paths and roads ...