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 ...

A very technical middle distance course in Czech Republic is the “Orienteering Course of the Year 2018″! The course really challenged the competitors – both with tricky orienteering, challenging routechoices and tough climbs and downhills. To top it off, the area is truly spectacular, with big sandstone “rock citys” setting the ...

[See all nominations here] Monday November 26th 2018 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2018″. We already got nearly 70 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 2018″. ...

Durmitor Orienteering Challenge,  5th Antalya Orienteering Festival, Sprint Scotland and OCAD 2018: Four great sponsors of “Course of the Year 2018″, giving YOU fantastic prizes – and making this poll possible. See below for a full presentation of each sponsor. Here some of the highlights are repeated: At the end of summer 2019 you can visit the exceptionally ...

– This sprint  was really interesting because the terrain is a residential area with many towers where a lot of pedestrian streets in-between the buildings are on several levels, Isia Basset says about her favourite Sprint course of 2018. – You had to think twice before taking a route choice that sometimes could ...

Three long distance courses in Sweden with many interesting routechoice legs in technical terrain are among Ruslan Glebov’s favourite courses of 2018. Glebov is clearly a man who loves tough challenges – read on to look back at some of the real highlights from 2018!  The Ukrainian had his big breakthrough ...

–  Marika Teini’s favourite course of 2018 is a lot about smooth and offensive execution – in highly technical terrain in Portugal.  Read on for an interview with Teini who got her first international championships gold medal this year with her European Championships Gold medal at the middle distance in Switzerland ...

–  The course setter managed to build up the whole course based on five distinct legs which had many possible routes to choose from, Czech Republic’s latest World Cup winner Milos Nykodym explains about his favourite orienteering course this year.  Read on for an interview with Nykodym where he tells us about his favourite ...

–  This was a clear winner for me – I believe the terrain and the courses allowed for the full enjoyment of not just the spectators but also the runners, sprint specialist Tim Robertson explains about his favourite orienteering course this year. And it is not a sprint course.  Read on for ...

–  Even though it can look a little unreadable on the map  beforehand, I found it even cooler to run in it when you actually were able to spot the right passages between the cliffs, Kamilla Olaussen explains about her favourite orienteering terrain this year.  Read on for an interview with ...