World of O News

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is the first sprint leg in this series, the first leg from a women course, and the first leg from Hungary. The chosen leg is the 8th leg in the W21E course from Mecsek Open 2019. Thanks a lot to János Kelemen for the tip and ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is another one from Sweden: Leg 6 in the M21E course from the second stage in the “MILA Stockholm by Night” series. Thanks a lot for the tip to Simon Hector, course setter. We will let Hector make the introduction to the leg: ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 20202 is from a long distance competition in Sweden in April 2019 – Örjetrampen. The chosen leg is the 7th leg in the M21E course. Thanks a lot to the course setter, Andreas Johansson, for the tip! The leg is as usually first provided without ...

Today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 is from one of the last large competitions in Europe before much of orienteering was shut down due to Covid-19: Lipica Open 2020. The chosen leg is a long routechoice leg from the first stage – leg 5 in the M21E course. Many ...

In today’s leg in Route to O-Season 2020 we take a look at one of the many routechoice legs used in the run-up to the World Orienteering Championships in Norway last summer. The chosen leg is leg 16 in the M21E course from Smaalenelopet 2019. PS! Please send some tips ...

Route Choice Challenges while waiting for the real action: With the upcoming orienteering season indefinitely on hold in large parts of the the world due to COVID-19, regular orienteering route choice challenges may be one way to make sure those orienteering skills don’t get completely rusty. I’ll try to keep these ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) had a fantastic weekend and won all three World Ranking Events in the men’s superelite at the Maximus O-Meeting this weekend. In the women’s class Sanna Fast (Sweden), Anastasia Rudnaya (Russia), Svetlana Mironova (Russia) and won the Middle, Sprint and Long distances races, respectively. Maximus O-Meeting organized in the ...

Late Christmas present: Check here if you won any of the prizes worth more than 6000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2019″!  For each sponsor, the winner of event prizes are written in red below. All winners will receive an e-mail with information about how ...

At the final day of Route to Christmas 2019 we travel to Norway and take a look at two legs from the Norwegian Championships Long distance. Both legs are from the M21E course, and both are long legs in hilly, marshy terrain with some road/path options.  With this I also ...

For the second last day in Route to Christmas 2019 we are back to Finland. When you look at this leg you just keep searching for the easy way to solve the leg, but where is it? Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 8 in the M21E course ...