Norway with the Orienteering Clubs in Østfold will host the World Orienteering Championships in August 2019. In addition to arrang the best WOC ever, the clubs want to use the opportunity that a World Championships provide, to work with the visibility of the sport and to recruit more youngsters to the sport of orienteering. The … Continued
As you could read in the last newsletter, I recently had an examination in a course at the Sport Management Programme at the University of Karlstad, where I gave my fellow students the opportunity to test orienteering on an evacuation plan. They also got the opportunity to test another kind of orienteering, where you need … Continued
The Latvian Orienteering Federation has been seeking ways to attract more people to the sport of orienteering and has found a great solution – indoor orienteering in popular public buildings. It turned out to be a big success. Figures speak for themselves: thanks to active advertising campaign and dedication to improve the quality of competitions, … Continued
World Orienteering Day (WOD) will become an increasingly important activity for the future of orienteering. The interest from many countries is huge and it’s growing everywhere. As you maybe know, Turkey was outstanding last year, with more than 86 000 participants. We are now getting ready for this year’s WOD organised between May 23rd and … Continued
We can gladly present one new partners to the WOD-family for WOD 2018. Nokian Tyres which is also the main sponsor for IOF. The main focus of the new agreement is to provide Nokian Tyres market visibility as the title sponsor of the World Orienteering Championships and an IOF Main Partner. The agreement also expands … Continued
On World Orienteering Day 2017, Australia was pleased that its national capital Canberra managed to reach the top ten world cities, with 16 events. They were beaten only by four Turkish cities and Belgrade (28) and Oslo (19). Canberra also produced one of the “densest” concentration of events anywhere in the world with 15 events … Continued
During an examination in one course in the Sport Management Programme at the University of Karlstad I gave my fellow students the opportunity to test orienteering on an evacuation plan. The evacuation plan was over the sport center and the adjacent areas. I took a picture of the evacuation plan and changed the lighting … Continued
Maze Orienteering is a great opportunity to understand and learn orienteering in a simple and safe way. Suitable to small areas, using a very simple map, easy to build, flexible and accessible to all and, above all, an intensive and fun activity for young people. Only the imagination is the limiting factor. We would like … Continued
Orienteering club OK Hedströmmen’s youth leader, Åke Larsson, rolls his car in the parking lot in front of the club house in the small village Skinnskatteberg (Sweden) four hours before the weekly youth training starts. The maze has to be labelled with plastic bands, the lanes must be shovelled free of snow, the SI units … Continued
This is the third World Orienteering Day and it would be great to see all clubs and local schools in the world supporting and backing World Orienteering Day again this year. World Orienteering Day aims to help provide an opportunity especially for local clubs and schools to raise the profile of orienteering with others who … Continued