Category: Results

2026 Masters Nationals Event Recap

September 25-27, 2026

Host: Northeast Ohio Orienteering Club (NEOOC)

Program:

  • Friday: Corn Maze Challenge at Derthick’s Farm and Corn Maze
  • Saturday: Masters Nationals Day 1 at The West Woods, Geauga County
  • Sunday: Masters Nationals Day 2 at Big Creek Park, Geauga County

This year’s Masters Nationals (what used to be the Classic Champs) took place east of Cleveland, with challenging courses, glorious weather, and a bonus corn maze orienteering race! At this event US Champions are crowned in each age class based on the combined total time for two days of classic racing.

Event website

Winners in F65+, from left to right: Sue Kuestner (bronze), Pavlina Brautigam (gold), and Peggy (silver) Dickison. Photo by Stephanie Ross

Photos by Nadim Ahmed

Results, Maps, and Media

Photo album by Nadim Ahmed

Video from the corn maze

Short interview with event director Jonathan Boyer about corn maze orienteering

All results from host

US Team at the 2026 European TrailO Champs

July 29th – August 3rd

The US was represented by three athletes at the 2026 European Trail Orienteering Championships in Poland. Clare Durand (LAOC) and Russ Myer (CRNA) competed in the Open class and Anne Maker (CRNA) competed in the P class. ETOC is the premiere TrailO event for 2026 as there is no World Championship this year. The program consisted of the individual events of TempO and PreO, plus a Relay competition for the entire team. All the events are designed to test precision map reading skills.

All Results

First four photos by Tomasz Krysiak- Fotografia Sportowa

2026 Deschutes Daze Event Recap

August 6-9, 2026

Host: Columbia River Orienteering Club (CROC)

Four events over four days, with one NRE and the annual Western States Orienteering Championships.

This year’s Deschutes Daze was impacted by wildfires and associated smoke in the area, with several venue changes. The event was able to take place, with four days of orienteering made possible by some last-minute course setting heroism on the part of the organizers!

Event website

Photos by Robert Rodriguez

Results, Maps, and Photos

2026 World Orienteering Championships Recap

July 7-11, 2026

This year’s the World Orienteering Championships took place in Genova, Italy. As a Sprint WOC, the schedule consisted entirely of urban sprint discipline races: Sprint, Knock-out Sprint, and Mixed Sprint Relay.

Top photo by Alexis Leonard. Remaining photos by Evalin Brautigam and Alexis Leonard.

Meet the team on the US Team blog!

Photos from all events from Alexis Leonard

2026 Junior World Orienteering Championships Recap

June 29-July 4, 2026

The US sent a full team of six young men and six young women to this year’s Junior World Orienteering Championships, which took place in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Read all about the event from the athletes’ perspective in the US Orienteering Team’s blog.

Sprint and Sprint Relay

All photos by Evalin Brautigam

The 2026 JWOC competition week kicked off with the Sprint competition in Trossö, the historic centre of Karlskrona. The courses proved challenging, as the organizers used artificial barriers to make selecting a route a little bit tricker.

The Mixed Sprint Relay is a race between teams of four athletes–two women and two men—in a fast, head-to-head competition with a total winning time of under one hour. The top US team was USA 2, with Sophie Howes, Mori Finlayson-Johnecheck, Mikhail Biryukov, and Anna Green, coming in 48th.

Long and Middle

The individual forest races took place in typical western Swedish terrain, which is to say that it was pretty tough! The women faced a 9.9 km course and the men a 12.6 km course, and the transition from sprint the day before to a long day in the forest was a challenging one for many.

Relay

The final race of 2026 JWOC was the forest relay, which consists of teams of three men and three women, racing separately. The best US women’s team finished 24th , while the best US men’s Team finished 21st.

2026 Pacific Northwest Orienteering Festival Event Recap

June 12-21, 2026

Photos by Robert Rodriguez, Amy Winston and John Crowther

Results, Maps, and Photos

46th Annual Billygoat Event Recap

May 10, 2026

Host: Western Connecticut Orienteering Club (WCOC)

Head Goat: William Hawkins

Meet Director: Ellen Morse

Co-Director: Susie DeWitt

The Billygoat is an annual tradition, a long, hilly, mass start race with with one allowed skip and one fork. Those who finish in under 3.5 hours earn a coveted Billygoat T-shirt.

Photos by Trisha Underwood, Susan DeWitt, Chris Parietti, and Will Hawkins.

Results, Maps, and Photos

Photos

MNOC 50th Anniversary Weekend

April 25-26, 2026

Organizer: Minnesota Orienteering Club (MNOC)

Saturday: Recreational courses at Lake Elmo Park Reserve, including a Retro-O course that required copying your course onto a black-and-white map, and results hung on a clothesline!

Sunday: Classic NRE courses at Lake Maria State Park.

The Minnesota Orienteering Club celebrated its 50th anniversary in style, with a retro day, an NRE on a new map, cake, and lots of shared memories.

All photos by Bridget Hall.

Results, Maps, and Photos

Be sure to check out the collection of old photos and videos documenting the club’s history!