Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is something very different from what we have seen so far – today we travel to Switzerland for a Sprint leg. Thanks a lot to Silvan Ullmann, course setter at the Knock-Out sprint at the World Cup final, for a very long and detailed analysis ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 12 2024
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from a course that was described as “the best long distance race that I have run” when the course was nominated for Course of the Year a few days ago. We are now through half of this year’s Route to Christmas legs – ...
Read More »Vote for Course of the Year 2025!
What was the best orienteering course of 2025? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes worth more than 7000 Euro from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers including some of the world’s best orienteers. ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 11 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is one of the courses that has been among the most popular in the nomination for Course of the Year 2025: The World Orienteering Championships Long distance. Note also that today is your last chance to add nominations for Course of the Year 2025, ...
Read More »Course of the Year 2025: Last chance to add suggestions!
[See all nominations here] Thursday December 11th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2025″. We already got nearly 50 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 2025″. Based on all ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 10 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is from a really cool terrain in southern France. Looking at the map you get the feeling that this is an artifically generated map for theoretical route choice training, but this terrain and leg was actually used for second stage of the Provence Orienteering ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 9 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is an interesting long leg from the men’s Superelite in the Maximus O Meeting 2025, organized in Spain in the middle of February. Very stony terrain – and also quite hilly! What would you choose here? The leg is as usually first provided without ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 8 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Italy – a country we visit every pre-Christmas! This time we have chosen a long leg in very hilly terrain that challenged the world’s best junior orienteers at the Junior Orienteering World Championships this July. Thank you very much to Terje Mathisen ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 7 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is from the 7th race of the Swedish League in June – and this time we take a look at a tricky leg in the women’s class. This is actually the first tip we received in Route to Christmas 2025 – back in the ...
Read More »Route to Christmas: Day 6 2025
Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2025 is a leg from a night orienteering competition in pretty tricky terrain – here you really have to focus. The leg is from the Norwegian Championships Night Orienteering. Thanks a lot to Halvor for suggestion this course as a candidate for Course of the ...
Read More »
World of O News