The plans for the TV coverage for the World Cup race in Hovden during O-festivalen 2007 were gigantic, when considering that this is an orienteering event. Norway’s largest commercial TV channel, TV2, had really ambitious plans for the race at Hovden. The plan was to spend 200.000 euros – three ...

Check here if you are one of winners of the prizes worth more than 5500 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2023″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won a prize for – that will make ...

A very varied middle distance course in Switzerland is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2023″ – the women’s course in the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance Final! The course really challenged the competitors – with some very tricky orienteering in the start,  a challenging routechoice leg, and some faster but still challenging ...

Monday December 25th is the last chance to vote in Course of the Year 2023 – and win prizes worth more than 5500 Euro! Did you already deliver your vote?  See Top 8 for now above – and deliver your vote here: Vote for Course of the Year 2023 here! ...

Did you check out all the great courses nominated for “Course of the Year 2023″? Monday is the last chance to vote – here you can check out which courses are in the Top 12 so far.  Still not delivered your vote? Do so here: Vote for Course of the Year 2023 ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2023? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the world’s top orienteers. Now YOU can choose “The Course ...

[See all nominations here] Monday December 18th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2023″. We already got 47 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 2023″. Based on ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2023? Pomeranian Sprint Cup won in 2022, WOC Long distance won in 2021, the Norwegian World Champs selection race long distance won in 2019, the World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won in 2018 and the World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in 2017. Other winners are a spectacular ...

Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the the European Championships (EOC) KO-Sprint in Vicenza, Italy – the last race in this year’s EOC and also in the 2023 World Cup . Both Kyburz and Alexandersson also won the overall World Cup with their good races this last World Cup ...

Sweden won a clear victory in the European Championships (EOC) Sprint Relay ahead of Switzerland and Finland. In the Swedish team, Tove Alexandersson led the field after the first leg – giving  Jonatan Gustafsson a gap out on the second leg which Martin Regborn and Sara Hagstrom managed to increase ...