World of O News

Today Route to Christmas travels to Tasmania for the 2015 World Cup terrain. We do however do something out of the ordinary in Route to Christmas today: Instead of using an actual course from 2014 as is the usual requirement, we have made a fictitious leg in the terrain where ...

Check here if you won any of the prizes worth nearly 4000 Euros in total in your voting for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2014″! 8 great sponsors – nearly 4000 votes! Even if you did not win – please support the sponsors and see if the races and services they ...

Today we offer a 23 year old “classic” leg – which has been used as an example in the Norwegian course setting book (“Løypeleggerboka”) as an example of a good leg according to my source. The special thing about this leg – and the reason for it appearing in Route ...

Judith Wyder and Rune Haraldsson have been awarded with “The Orienteering Achievement of 2014″ titles in the men’s and women’s class, respectively! Wyder  – the new Queen of orienteering  – won the award with more than one third of the votes. Among the men, 96 year old Rune Haraldsson has ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is one of those legs where it feels like there is no route which is really good. A long leg in very stony terrain. The paths looks like they are too far away from the line – but on the other hand the more ...

The most tricky sprint leg of the year? This leg has been requested by several both on Twitter and in the comments, and thus today is the day for you all. Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg 8 in the M21E course from Imatra Sprint at June 11th ...

Today we have got some really exotic terrain in Route to Christmas. This Croatian terrain on the island of Krk looks very special because of all the stone walls. The varying runnability in addition to all these stone walls also makes the route choice challenges quite interesting. Should you go ...

In today’s Route to Christmas we travel to the other side of the world: Australia! The chosen leg is leg number 47(!) in the M21 course from the Wildfire Sports Australian Ultra Long Championships at Kooyoora organized at August 31st 2014. I asked for legs for more exotic places – ...

One day to go – here is Top 3: Søren Bobach, Daniel Hubmann, Rune Haraldsson, Svetlana Mironova, OK Pan Århus and Judith Wyder are the ones fighting for the top positions in Achievement of the Year 2014 with one day to go. Voting closes at Monday December 15th at 23:59 ...

We have visited WOC 2014 and WOC 2016 terrain in this Route to Christmas – now we travel to some WOC 2015 relevant terrain, “Balmoral – Race the Castles”.  The chosen leg is the first leg in the M21E course – and the race was organized October 18th 2014. This ...