World of O News

Swedish Double: Tove Alexandersson and Gustav Bergman won both Saturday’s Middle distance and Sunday’s Long distance in the first round of the 2019 Orienteering World Cup in Finland this weekend. with clear victories in Saturday’s Middle distance, they both managed to keep the chasing runners on In Saturday’s Middle distance, ...

The 2019 Orienteering World Cup starts off with three races in Finland just one week before the Jukola/Venla relay: A Middle distance race on Saturday June 8th, a Long distance pursuit race on Sunday June 9th and a Sprint Relay on Tuesday June 11th. All 3 competitions will be covered ...

Ready for 10Mila again – the real start of the 2019-season for many! Spectators both at home and on the arena in Sweden can expect highly entertaining competitions – read on for all you need to know about the 2019-edition of 10Mila. This year 10Mila is organized in the southern part ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg in Swiss alpine terrain – leg 5 in the M21 course from Swiss Champs Long distance. Thanks to Julian Bleiker and Peter Clerici for the tip. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting sprint leg from Euromeeting in Denmark in September. With the first ever Sprint WOC coming up in Denmark in 2020, there was big interest for the sprint-focused Euromeeting this year, with many top runners on the start. Thanks to Johan Aagaard for the ...

Lots of sponsor prizes to be given away! A big thank you all for voting and nominating courses for “Course of the Year 2018″  – in the end the World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won the “Course of the Year 2018″ overall. Read on to see if YOU won a prize ...

Early Christmas present: Check here if you won any of the prizes worth more than 5500 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2018″!  For each sponsor, the winner of event prizes are written in red below. All winners will receive an e-mail with information about ...

There are some legs where it seems impossible to find any really good solution, where you have to choose between several tricky and tough options. Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is one of those – a long leg from the District Champs Long for the Stockholm area in Sweden. ...

Ahmet Kacmaz (Turkey) and Csilla Gardonyi (Hungary) have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2018″ titles in the men’s and women’s class, respectively! The vote has been decided by the big international readership of WorldofO.com – more than 5500 unique votes from around 60 different countries have been delivered. Read interviews with the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the recent Guangdong Historical Road Orienteering Championships where some of the World’s best sprint orienteers have been gathered for a test ahead of next years’ World Cup races in China. The chosen leg is the 3rd leg from the WRE race in Sanjiang. Sanjiang ...