World of O News

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the Baltic Championships Long in Latvia near the city of Rēzekne on the Tartaks lake map. This is fascinating terrain, and a great course with many nice and long route choices made this a day to remember. The chosen leg is the 19th leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really intricate sprint leg from Czech Republic – which includes some interesting bridge crossings. The chosen leg is leg 5 in the M21 course from a World Ranking race in Plzen in May 2018. Thanks a lot to Ales Henja for the tip, ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a sprint leg – this time from one of the most important sprint races of the year, the European Championships Sprint in Switzerland. The chosen leg is used both in the men’s and the women’s class – for the men it is the ...

8 fighting for top positions with less than two days to go:  Judith Wyder, Tove Alexandersson, Isia Basset, Csilla Gardonyi among the women and Colin Kolbe, Ahmet Kacmaz, Eskil Kinneberg and Tim Robertson among the men– all with fantastic orienteering achievements in 2018.  Vote here by midnight CET December 18th – ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a long leg from one of this year’s best long distance courses: The Swedish Championships long distance. The chosen leg is the 7th leg which was suggested by Ruslan Glebov in the interview made with Glebov in relation to Course of the Year ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 9 in from the Men 21 course from Beograd Open 2018. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this leg (if the image is too small, ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a course from the women elite class of the Czech Champs Long distance. This is a leg in a typical continental terrain (we already had a leg from the men’s class here earlier). The question is the same as often in this type ...

Today we have a very special leg from the Norwegian Youth championships for 14 year old in Route to Christmas. A very tricky leg for the young runners – really something to grow on! What would you do with this kind of challenge in unknown terrain? Thanks to Arild Andersen ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is another one from Italy- this time from the Coppa Italia Long distance race in Trentino in October. The chosen leg is the 11th in the Men Elite course. This is based on a tip from Mikkel Lyskjær – thanks a lot for the ...

Read about the fantastic achievements of 16 athletes  from 14 nations which are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2018. Then post your votes for your favourites – and be part of the drawing for prizes worth  5500 Euros! Vote here by December 18th: The Orienteering Achievement of 2018 – ...