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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is the 14th leg from the European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Czechia. A few days ago we featured a leg from the EYOC Long distance, so at EYOC the route setters really did a good job in great terrains. Thanks a lot ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg from the French Championships Long distance in hilly terrain which gives some nice opportunities for route choices. The tip from Eva Jurenikova from this competition was actually for another leg (leg 11, M21), but after reviewing the course I decided ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is another leg from hilly Czech terrain – this time from the European Youth Orienteering Championships Long distance. This is the type of leg where you HAVE to decide where to run before leaving the control … Thanks a lot to Stanislav for suggesting ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is something very different from what we have seen so far – today we travel to Switzerland for a Sprint leg. Thanks a lot to Silvan Ullmann, course setter at the Knock-Out sprint at the World Cup final, for a very long and detailed analysis ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a course that was described as “the best long distance race that I have run” when the course was nominated for Course of the Year a few days ago. We are now through half of this year’s Route to Christmas legs – ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2025? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes worth more than 7000 Euro from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers including some of the world’s best orienteers. ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is one of the courses that has been among the most popular in the nomination for Course of the Year 2025: The World Orienteering Championships Long distance. Note also that today is your last chance to add nominations for Course of the Year 2025, ...

[See all nominations here] Thursday December 11th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2025″. We already got nearly 50 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 2025″. Based on all ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is from a really cool terrain in southern France. Looking at the map you get the feeling that this is an artifically generated map for theoretical route choice training, but this terrain and leg was actually used for second stage of the Provence Orienteering ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg from the men’s Superelite in the Maximus O Meeting 2025, organized in Spain in the middle of February. Very stony terrain – and also quite hilly! What would you choose here? The leg is as usually first provided without ...