World of O News

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another leg from the epic World Orienteering Championship Long distance in France in 2011. This time we look at leg 13 in the men’s class – which was also leg 6 in the women’s class. The leg is as usually first provided ...

[To be updated] Creative orienteers all around the world find alternative orienteering activities in these difficult times when most orienteering races are cancelled due to the COVID-19 crisis. The activities range from different types of online orienteering competitions to mapping your own home. And those who are lucky enough to be able ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another epic leg from a World Orienteering Championships Long distance – this time from WOC 2011 in France. The chosen leg is the very first leg on both the men’s and women’s course – a leg which posed a big problem for many ...

The Route to Christmas archive is now up and running – providing an overview of every single Route to Christmas since the start back in 2007 and up until now. The archive also includes this year’s Route to O-Season. Nearly 400 o-puzzles collected in one page – enjoy! Thanks to ...

The Catching Features World Cup 2020 wants to bring together as many orienteers as possible for an online orienteering competition using the game Catching Features (CF). The first competitions is up on Saturday 11th of April. With the cancelling of orienteering events all over the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, orienteers ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is a hilly leg from the Danish JWOC test race middle last year. Thanks a lot to Eskil Schøning for the tip and for preparing the analysis! It was a leg in the JWOC middle distance test races in Denmark last year. A lot ...

[Updated with further analysis from Milos Nykodym] Today’s leg in Route to O-Season is an interesting leg I found when browsing omaps.worldofo.com from the last week.  The leg is from Czech Republic, and was run by Czech national team runner Vojtech Kral along with some other runners.  The leg is as usually ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another long and interesting route choice leg from Switzerland. The chosen leg is the 15th from the M21 course in the first national Swiss Race in 2019.  Thanks a lot to Pascal Buchs for the tip! The leg is as usually first ...

Today we again travel to the country where next year’s World Orienteering Championships is to be organized: The Czech Republic. The year is 2011, and the race is a long distance chasing start World Cup race in the Liberec area. Thanks a lot to John Chandler for the tip and ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another urban leg – this time a long leg from the Citysprint at Bergen Sprint Camp back in 2017. The chosen leg is leg number 4 which was run in both the men and women’s class. Comment on Route to O-Season: Already ...