World of O News

See the 12 courses leading the vote for “Course of the Year 2016″ here! There is now only one day left to vote! Prizes with a total value of more than 5.500 Euro to be won! Monday November 28th at midnight CET is the last chance to vote for Course ...

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 worlds top orienteers through the last weeks. Now YOU can choose “The Course of the ...

[See all nominations here] Monday November 21st 2016 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2016″. We already got more than 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 big surprise on international orienteering scene in 2016, Anastasia Denisova, shares her favourite orienteering courses of 2016 with the readers in this interview. Her best race of the season was the medal giving World Championships Sprint – but it was another race in the World Championships which impressed the Belarus ...

[Updated with M21E course and higher quality map] – The terrain was amazing and the course challenging as there were many different terrain types in the same race, Swiss national team runner Baptiste Rollier says about his favourite orienteering course in 2016 – the 4th day of Swiss O-Week.  Rollier ...

– I am always amazed about this terrain, it is truly incredible what nature can produce for orienteers, Thierry Gueorgiou says about the best course he saw in his home country France this year, at the 5 days at Larzac. The best overall course the French star ran was however ...

– I really liked that the course had so many different parts and that it demanded you as an orienteer to be alert all the time, Swedish national team runner Johan Runesson says when describing his favourite orienteering course of 2016. – One second you were running full speed thinking ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2016? The World Champs long distance in Scotland won in 2015 and the World Champs middle distance in Italy won in 2014. Before that we had two years with Portuguese winners: a spectacular sprint between boulders and old buildings in 2013 and some great technical orienteering at Portugal O-Meeting in ...

  The Swiss runners dominated on home ground in the World Cup final this year again – with 4 victories of 5 possible. Switzerland started the weekend with Sprint Relay victory Friday. Saturday brought a double for Switzerland with Matthias Kyburz and Judith Wyder winning the Long distance. In Sunday’s ...

[LIVE webTV with Per Forsberg/Thomas Bührer commentating + GPS-tracking. Sprint Relay Friday 16:00 CET, Long Saturday 13:00 CET, Sprint Sunday 14:15 CET] The overall World Cup will decided this weekend when Aarau in Switzerland welcomes the world orienteering elite to the World Cup Final the coming weekend from Friday October 14th until Sunday ...