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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the 7th leg in the Men’s class in the Swedish Championships Long distance. Thanks a lot to Björn Johansson for the tip! And as a reminder – I still need tips for interesting legs for Route to Christmas. You are especially encouraged to suggest ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg from the Swiss selection race for the World Cup in Norway, the 4th National orienteering race of the year in Switzerland.  This course was suggested (as an honorable mention) from Ivar Lundanes for “Course of the Year 2023” – ...

What was the best orienteering course of 2023? Pomeranian Sprint Cup won in 2022, WOC Long distance won in 2021, the Norwegian World Champs selection race long distance won in 2019, the World Cup Final Middle in Czech Republic won in 2018 and the World Champs middle distance in Estonia won in 2017. Other winners are a spectacular ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is a long leg from the men’s class in the Danish Championships Long distance 2023. Thanks for the tip to Johan Aagaard for his annual contribution to Route to Christmas! Some race information  from Johan: In my opinion there are especially the long leg ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from another big highlight of the 2023 international orienteering season – the World Orienteering Championships Middle distance.  The WOC 2023 Middle courses challenged the runners in many different ways, like a good Middle distance course should do. The courses started with extremely technical terrain with very ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from a quite recent night orienteering race – the final of the Harry Lagerts Night Cup in the Oslo-area, Norway. This was the 24th edition of Harry Lagerts – and the race series have been featured in Route to Christmas several times already. ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is leg 7 in the women’s class of the MOC Championships Long distance 2023. Thanks a lot to Riccardo Scalet for the tip! This is tricky Karst-type terrain – which may feel a lot more challenging in the terrain than what you see on ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from one of the hightlights on the international orienteering scene in 2023 – the long distance World Cup race in sandstone terrain in Czech Republic. Here we take a look at the 4th leg in the women’s course – the first real challenge on the ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is the longest leg in the Swiss Championships long distance in challenging Jura terrain. Thanks a lot to Christoph Salzmann for the tip! This is typical Jura terrain where the runnability may be variable, and especially where the ground is stony running may be slowed ...

Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2023 is from one of the largest competitions of the year – Jukola! The chosen leg is a common leg towards the end of the long night leg, the 3rd leg. At this time in the course, you are tired, and you probably want to ...