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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is the second Slovenian leg in this year’s Route to Christmas. The leg was a part of M21E long course at traditional March event Lipica open 2017.  According to Ivan Nagy who suggested this leg, the terrain of Veliki dol is one of the nicest ...

In today’s leg in Route to Christmas we are travelling north in Norway to a long leg in a tricky, stony mountain-type terrain in the Oppdal area, south of Trondheim. Enjoyable leg in enjoyable terrain! The course in question is the Men Elite course from O-Festivalen – the largest orienteering ...

Thierry Gueorgiou (France) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2017″ titles in the men’s and women’s class, respectively! The vote has been decided by the big international readership of WorldofO.com – nearly 4000 unique votes from around 60 different countries have been delivered. Read interviews with the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a sprint leg from the World Cup/Pre-WOC in Lavtvia this summer. The chosen leg is the 20th leg in the men’s course. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how ...

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we travel to Czech Republic – to a long and interesting leg at the Czech Championships Long distance. Here you get the chance to consider both climb, path/roads and vegetation. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take ...

8 fighting for top positions with one day to go: Daniel Hubmann, Yannick Michiels, Thierry Gueorgiou, Leonid Novikov, Simona Aebersold, Elena Roos, Natalia Gemperle, Tove Alexandersson – all with fantastic orienteering achievements in 2017.  Vote here by midnight December 12th: The Orienteering Achievement of 2017 – Men The Orienteering Achievement of 2017 ...

Today we are travelling to the World Championships 2019 area in south-eastern Norway. Today’s leg is a long leg in terrain which according to the WOC 2019 organizers is very relevant for WOC 2019 – and the leg itself has also been suggested by the WOC 2019 organizers to be ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is something quite a bit different from what we usually see. Instead of long leg in untouched nature, we travel indoors to multilevel indoor-orienteering in Stockholm Indoor Championships 2017. The reason for introducing this leg in Route to Christmas is to let people understand ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 14 in the M21E course from the Slovenian Championships Long distance. Thanks a lot to Matjaz Stanfel for the suggestion – and for preparing the material The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the largest orienteering race in the worldo: O-Ringen. The chosen leg is leg number 6 from O-Ringen stage 3 in the Men Elite course. Thanks to Simon Hector for another good suggestion for this year’s Route to Christmas. Hector writes the following ...