World of O News

In the following leg-by-leg analysis of the Men’s World Cup sprint in Tasmania on January 3rd 2015 you can see the route choice alternatives with lengths (in meters) for each leg – along with the split times and accumulated split times of the top athletes. The men’s course was nearly ...

Several women were trapped by the course setters “tricks” in the first World Cup race of the year – the sprint race organized around the buildings of  Launcetown, Tasmania. The first part of the course was the most tricky one seen purely from the map – but most time was ...

Mathias Kyburz (Switzerland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) won the first World Cup race of the 2015 season – a sprint race in Tasmania dominated by Swiss and Swedish runners. In the men’s class Kyburz won ahead of Daniel Hubmann (also Switzerland) with Gustav Bergman (Sweden) in third. Both Kyburz and ...

[Updated with map] Olav Lundanes, Matthias Kyburz, Tove Alexandersson and Judith Wyder were heat winners when the World Cup started with a qualification in Tasmania’s second largest city, Launceston, today. The World Cup continues with the sprint final tomorrow morning 09:46 local time (23:46 CET this evening). The qualification race ...

The Orienteering World Cup starts already January 2nd/3rd with a sprint race in Tasmania. The next week the World Cup continues with two more races – a middle distance race on Thursday (Wednesday evening/night European time) and a long distance race on Saturday (Friday evening/night European time). Program Friday January ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from France – and as this is the last day of this year’s Route to Christmas we let the women take the center of the stage. The chosen leg is leg 4 in the W21E course from a National French/Swiss race in the ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is from the women’s class in the long distance race “Blodslitet” – organized in the Fredrikstad area every autumn. The chosen leg is the second leg on the last loop in the W21 course. Thanks to Terje Mathisen for the tip! The leg is ...

– I have the feeling that this was the leg this year were i spent most time. Today we take a look at a leg from the sprint course of the year – the PWT Stirling Race the Castles in Scotland. The chosen leg is leg number 14 in the ...

Todays leg in Route to Christmas is leg 11 in the M21E course from a race in France – NationalSE. Thanks a lot to Mathieu Kern-Gillard for the tip and for course setter Franck Dechavanne for the analysis. This is how the course setter describes this leg: – Indeed, 10-11 ...

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 ...