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Today Route to Christmas travels to Germany to a long, complex leg at the Junior European Cup. The 4th from JEC Long in the H20 course at October 10th 2015 is the chosen one. Up or down? Going straight is not an option! We are ready for day 6 in this year’s ...

Today we visit Italy and the legendary Venice orienteering meeting – MOV – in Route to Christmas. To disturb less tourists (and to scare the few who are roaming the streets at night more?), this year’s edition was held as a night orienteering race. The date: November 14th.  Venice is the same ...

World Cup Long Tasmania, French National race South-East, JWOC Long, WOC Long and the Danish Sprint Championships are among the courses battling for the first place in Course of the Year 2015. Below are the courses that are currently in Top 10 shown. Vote here before Monday December 7th Midnight ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Norwegian Championships Ultralong 2015 – the 5th leg in the H21E course . [Did you vote for Course of the Year 2015 yet? More than 2.500 Euro prizes for voters – vote here!] The Norwegian Championships Ultralong has often been stages in wilderness ...

Helena Jansson offers us a very interesting long leg in tough Swedish terrain for today’s leg in Route to Christmas. The is the 8th leg in the D21E course from the Swedish Championships Long 2015 at September 13th. For me the whole race was a bit special, since it was ...

A long leg in one of the most beautiful races this year: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is presented by Aleksandr Kratov – and is a leg some of you might have taken a look at already. The leg is the long leg (leg 8) in the H21E 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 ...

The first day of Route to Christmas 2015 takes us to Czech Republic – and to guide us towards the challenges to be met at the European Championships in Czech Republic 2015, we have one of the best Czech orienteers Jan Prochazka. This leg is one of the best examples ...

Estonian Lauri Sild picks the most technical and challenging course he ran this year as his candidate for “Course of the Year 2015″ – the World Cup middle distance in Munkedal. – It was tricky orienteering all the way, offering fine orienteering in very detailed terrain, Sild comments. Read on for a ...

Monday November 30th 2015 is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2015″. We already got more than 60 suggestions in the comments to the intro article  – most of these are high quality courses which will be nominated in “Course of the Year 2015″. Based on ...