{"id":2389,"date":"2026-02-18T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:59:26","slug":"what-makes-a-good-sprint-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/what-makes-a-good-sprint-course\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Sprint Course?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was the question that participants in the Swiss Orienteering course setting competition had to answer when they set an M10 and a WE course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SwissOrienteeringCourseSettingContest2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SwissOrienteeringCourseSettingContest2025.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2390\" style=\"width:655px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SwissOrienteeringCourseSettingContest2025.png 580w, https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SwissOrienteeringCourseSettingContest2025-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Start of the winning WE course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Report_SwissOrienteeringCourseSettingCompetiteion2026.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>, the jury summarized the most important points of a good sprint course and explained its decisions. Definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner, Silvan Ulmann, is a familiar face: he was the course setter for the Knock-Out Sprint at the World Cup Final in Uster, which was voted <a href=\"https:\/\/news.worldofo.com\/2026\/01\/09\/course-of-the-year-2025-knock-out-sprint-world-cup-final-uster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Course of the Year 2025<\/a> in a WorldofO poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winning courses of Silvan Ulmann: <a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Siegerbahn-Bahnkonzept-bearbeitet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Concept<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Siegerbahn-H10.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">M10<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Siegerbahn-DE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OCAD AG provided each of the top three finishers in the course setting competition with a free annual license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the question that participants in the Swiss Orienteering course setting competition had to answer when they set an M10 and a WE course. In its report, the jury summarized the most important points of a good sprint course and explained its decisions. Definitely worth reading. The winner, Silvan Ulmann, is a familiar face: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,46,1],"tags":[8,59],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocad-11","category-ocad-12","category-ocad-2018","category-uncategorized","tag-course-setting","tag-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}