Oleksandr Kratov (Ukraine) and Lena Eliasson (Sweden) both won their first World Cup victories in the World Cup middle distance in Spain today. Again the Spanish organizers offered technical and challenging courses. In the women’s class it was again a Swedish day – 4 Swedes among the top 5:  Helena ...

A real long distance with 3 minutes start interval on Saturday and a technical middle distance on Sunday – that is what awaits the athletes at the second World Cup round of the season in southern Spain. Both races can be followed via GPS-tracking and live internet TV. The other ...

[Updated with map] Lena Eliasson (Sweden) and Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) won the Qualification in the first World Cup race in Turkey today. A fast middle distance with less than 25 minutes winning time was on the program. With only 30 runners qualifying for the A-final, some top runners missed the ...

The World Cup in Tasmania in 1998 is a real classic! Note that the courses are not shown on the original map – but overlaid on a new map of the area. Thanks a lot to Timo Sild for the tip! Tasmania is coming into the attention of the orienteering ...

The World Championships in Kongsberg in 1978 featured a tough long distance course. The route choices were not the most tricky ones though – is was a lot about running direct here. Note also how “modern” the map looks – this doesn’t really look like a map from 1978? The ...

– One of the best and most varied Long distance courses I have run. Nice terrain and interesting orienteering all the way, is Mats Troeng’s comment about the EOC Long Distance Final in 2008. Today’s edition of January Classics takes us to Latvia! From the official EOC 2008 webpage: The ...

This leg in Route to Christmas is the first leg in the M21E course from the Baltic Championships at May 18th 2013. Thanks a lot to Lauri Sild for the suggestion! Today we return to Latvia – we got many good suggestions from Latvia this year! The race was organized ...

Todays we have got a monster-leg in Route to Christmas! We return to Latvia – this one is leg 16 in the M21E course from Kurzemes Pavasaris which was organized at April 7th 2013. Thanks a lot to Janis Tamuzs for the tip! Here is what Janis writes about the ...

Leonid Novikov and Simone Niggli have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2013″ titles in the mens and womens class, respectively! Niggli – who finished her international career after this season – won the award for the 5th time with nearly 50% of the votes. Among the men, Leonid ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from Latvia – the Latvian Championships middle distance at September 7th 2013. The chosen leg is leg number 10 in the men elite course. To get an indication of the terrain – the winner Lauri Sild said the following about the terrain: “The ...