Show the world that Austria is an active and important part of the orienteering community!

WOW Ambassador Thomas Radon, within the Austria Orienteering Federation, is is the driving force behind the efforts in school sport and mass sport orienteering within Austria. He has been an orienteer since he was a little boy, and it’s a pleasure for him to contribute to our sport! Austria Orienteering Federation started a new school … Continued

Get ready for Moonlight Madness

Garingal Orienteers, founded 51 years ago, is based in Sydney Australia and has conducted the full range of events from local Come-and-Try-It’s to Australian Long Distance Championships. One of its landmark ventures started nearly 35 years ago when Garingal organised a daylight savings Sydney Summer Series after work on Wednesdays. The score series was really … Continued

This year we would like to make our activities bigger and better!

The club POLES, in the south of France was part in World Orienteering Week last year and organised an event, but this year they would like to make their activities bigger and better! Last year they created activities for children from local schools. It was quite simple – they had a 5 x 5 grid … Continued

Changes to the preregistration and promotion of a WOW event

From 2025 the preregistration of events for World Orienteering Week have been updated.The most significant change this year is that all World Orienteering Week organisers need to register forecasted participants already when you preregister your event. After the event the WOW organiser will receive an email which remind them to either approve the forecasted number … Continued

WOW Catalogue

During the summer 2023 federations was interviewed about their challenged and opportunities with World Orienteering Week. Some federations had brilliant ideas and some had trouble to know what to do. It then started with a small catalogue called “Best practise”. Encouraged by the many ideas and not the least Norway – with their fantastic achievements … Continued