You can now download your invoices for Lipica Open 2026. They are available under ‘Club fees’ tab, at the bottom of the page.
So, first you have to log in into OrienteeringOnline, then find Lipica Open in the past events, or click this: Lipica Open 2026
This system is now being used for the first time, so some mistakes are possible in generating the invoices. Hopefully not, but if there is something not as you believe it should be, let us know. Thanks!
Big thanks to all of you who took part in this year’s Lipica open, it really felt good to finally serve you (almost) 5 days of nice weather and hopefully nice terrain, maps and courses… The last day weather? Well let’s be honest, it could’ve been much worse as we all know :).
As always I want to say BIG thanks also to all the organizers! It’s always fun to work with you, almost relaxing :). Even though the team team slightly changes every year, the spirit is always great!
Our next big thing is OOcup, this year taking place in Ireland. We’re really looking forward to that one and already now we have almost 1400 entries.
As for the Lipica open, as always, it will start on the second weekend of March, 13. – 17. March 2027 that is.
So, the first stages are now behind us, we hope you enjoyed the race so far. Thanks to everyone coming for the weekend cup, and thanks also to all of you staying for the next stages.
Two more stages are in front of us. Hilly terrain with mixed runnability is waiting for you—plan for choices where climb and vegetation matter more than distance.
Note that we still have a few Lipica open O-tops, you can buy the at ActiveSport shop!
Just a few hours till the first start and we have discovered a printing error on 1:10000 maps.
Please see the PDF for more information.
See you tomorrow.
We are almost there, one day away from the start of Lipica Open 2026.
Few things during the 5 days:
Registrations: this time at the registration you will not receive the invoice, instead we will make it available for download via OrienteeringOnline after the race. If you want your club’s address to apear on the invoice, please input this data in your club profile on OO.
Two warnings for Stage 1: take care on the unprotected railway crossing on the way to Arena, and watch your step in terrain, there are several dangerous pits in the otherwise pretty fast terrain. We have marked a few on terrain, but they are not marked as dangerous on the map (only black V or black circle).
There will be food available at the race during the weekend. Food truck on Saturday and in Lipica they will open a terrace with the view over horses, with pommes, pasta and hamburgers available from 5€ to 12€. The terrace is not visible right from the Arena, but is just a few steps away behind the corner! This is the location.
Furthermore, on Sunday, if it fits to your race, you are invited to Lipica Stud Farm for a unique performance of the Lipica Riding School, which will be performed exclusively by female riders for the first time in history. More about it here.
Today we have sent our files over to Žaket printshop in Czech Republic and the maps are about to get printed soon!
Here are the course lengths for this year’s edition: Course lengths.
Soon we will publish the Bulletin with all the information you need.
Just realized that we haven’t spoken much on the website, but in the backgrounds preparations for Lipica Open 2026 are going well :)!
Almost every day some new terrain will be added to the existing maps, so there will be something new for everyone. At stage 3 we will have a chance to run through Lipica stud farm pastures… Last time this happened at Lipica open was back in 1990’ies…
Seeing many entries entries have already poured in, we know that you have already checked the Invitation section, but anyway here is a reminder to do so.
So, we did another edition of Lipica open. A lot of tough terrain, some sun and some rain. We hope that you enjoyed the races.
Big thanks to all of you who took part and of course big thanks to every single member of the organizing team, you were amazing and you made it all run smoothly again! Feels great to be part of it, even in today’s muddy parking. Another thing that feels great is that tonight I could not care less about tomorrow’s weather forecast.
We hope that you all arrived home safely and that the injured ones will recover soon.
Our next event is Easter4, which will apparently be rather small (but very nice) and the OOcup which will apparently be rather big (and very nice). Looking forward to seeing you there!
Good night
Ivan
In M60 there is a change in the best 3. After checking the control 44 we could see that the winner Zoltan Fazakas did not actually miss the control even though the punch was not registered on his Si card. So, the correct final order in M60 is:
1. Zoltan Fazakas
2. Peter Bonek
3. Martin Malek
Congratulations to Zoltan!
Btw. had we used SiAir system this could never have been checked and corrected.