World of O News

The 2024 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with more than 3000 teams on the start in total! Start of the Jukola relay is Saturday at 22:00 CET (23:00 local time). 9 hours earlier at 13:00 CET the women start their ...

From flat and relatively easy orienteering in the first World Cup round on Swiss ground, to tricky, hilly orienteering in the second World Cup round in Geona, Italy. Victories went to Simona Aebersold (Switzerland) and Kasper Fosser (Norway) in the individual Sprint, while Switzerland won the Sprint Relay. With more varied ...

Sweden and Switzerland dominated the first World Cup weekend of 2024 in Olten, Switzerland – taking two victories each – but with four different winners. Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) took the victories on the KO-Sprint while Natalia Gemperle (Switzerland) and Emil Svensk (Sweden) took the victories on ...

The first two Orienteering World Cup rounds of 2024 are about to start in Olten, Switzerland and Genoa, Italy – both organized as pure sprint weekends. It all kicks off in Switzerland from Friday May 24th until Sunday May 26th with a KO-Sprint and an individual Sprint – and continues with another individual Sprint and a Sprint Relay in ...

Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 5500 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2023″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make ...

A very varied middle distance course in Switzerland is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2023″ – the women’s course in the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance Final! The course really challenged the competitors – with some very tricky orienteering in the start,  a challenging routechoice leg, and some faster but still challenging ...

Monday December 25th is the last chance to vote in Course of the Year 2023 – and win prizes worth more than 5500 Euro! Did you already deliver your vote?  See Top 8 for now above – and deliver your vote here: Vote for Course of the Year 2023 here! ...

The final leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a leg from the World Masters Championships in exciting karst-terrain in Slovakia. The chosen leg is the 6th leg from the M40 Long Final.  This is what the bulletin said about the terrain:  The Silická plateau is located between 500 and 630 ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 19 from the French Championships long distance. I got some help with the analysis from one of the runners – Matthieu Puech. He had the following tip about the terrain when considering where to run on this leg: Light green was ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is another leg from the Junior World Championships 2023 – a course which is also in the Top 12 in the Course of the Year 2023 after a few days of voting. Thanks a lot to Iounut Zinca  for the tip! Take a look at the ...