World of O News

Ready for a winter training camp in Portugal, Spain, France or Italy? Or a WOC training camp in Czech Republic? EuOC-training camp in Latvia? In the Training camps/Orienteering Travel section of WoO Calendar there are now quite a few offers available – the first starting already from January 1st. The ...

Todays leg is from a national Finnish event close to Helsinki at May 25th 2005. The chosen leg is leg number 16 in H21A (Thanks again to Jarkko Ryyppö for the tip). It is a rather long leg, with several different options. First take a look at the map without ...

Todays leg is from the “Championnat de France classique” at August 20th 2005 in the category HSeE. A relatively short leg, but with several distinct route choice alternatives. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack this leg (if the map ...

Todays leg is from the first leg in M18 at this years Junior European Cup Classic distance at October 13th in Aveyron, France. The terrain is very special – open, stony and technical. First take a look at the map without routes – and think about how you would attack ...

The monsterleg to the second control in this years Finnish night champs (Karkkila) is already famous as it marked the start of one of the many interesting fights between the two best male orienteers in 2008 – Thierry Gueorgiou and Matthias Merz (thanks to “Mr. Routegadget”, Jarkko Ryyppö, for the ...

Did you find the article on Thierry Gueorgiou’s “Full speed – no mistake” technique (Gueorgiou’s story part II) interesting? In that case, this follow-up article about “Analyzing your map reading in orienteering” by Martin Lerjen should interest you a lot. This article compares different map reading technique – one of ...

Todays leg is an interesting leg from the WCOC long distance event in Canada at 8th of October 2007 (Thanks to Louise Osram for the tip!). Courses 10 (elite male) and 9 (elite women/35+ men/19- men) had the same leg. First take a look at the map without routes – ...

Todays leg is from the unofficial Norwegian Youth Champs 2006 (Hovedløpet) in Norway – north of Trondheim. Leg 14 in the oldest category – H16 – is chosen. This leg is not exceptionally difficult nor long – but it is interesting to note how it is attacked by the coming ...

Todays leg is leg 8 from the long distance at the Junior World Orienteering Champs in Australia this year. The route choice drawing + splits is prepared by Christian Bobach – thanks a lot to Christian! – Australian granit terrains kan make som realy good route choice legs – like ...

Todays leg is leg 11 in category H21E from the Latvian race “Kurzemes Pavasaris” in Garâ at April 7th 2007. Note that not all the best runners have drawn their route choice – route choices and times given here are relative to the ones who have drawn their route. Thank ...