On the 22th of May, the orienteering club, Arctic Orienteering, will host a orienteering event. The event is a middle distance orienteering event on a 1:4000 scale map. It is one of our weekly orienteering offerings during the summer. It will be traditional orienteering courses from White (beginner) to Red (advanced). One of the organisers, … Continued
“A great year of working together lies behind us and we are already looking forward to an exciting new year 2024 in which we continue our long-standing collaboration,” said Burkhard Ritter the CEO of SPORTident GmbH. The cooperation with the International Orienteering Federation means a lot to us. As the umbrella organisation for all orienteering … Continued
South Ribble Orienteering Club, situated in the North West of England, are putting on a 2 part Sprint event in Happy Mount Park, Morecambe on Tuesday 21st May. Its particularly useful to encourage activity in schools and there are many in the area that have maps of their grounds and teach orienteering as part of … Continued
A rather young orienteering club, Sakartvelo Orienteering Club, which was created in the beginning of May last year, 2023, located in Tbilisi, have preregistered a World Orienteering Week event. They was part of the last World Orienteering Day in 2023 and are now following up this year as well. The main organiser Ian Sundkvist, also … Continued
The invite a friend to recreational orienteering -campaign is coming again. The Finnish Orienteering Federation invites the clubs to join the “Kutsu kaveri kuntorasteille” campaign between May 18 and 26, 2024. The purpose of the campaign is to increase the interest of recreational orienteering events and to increase the number of participants. The purpose of … Continued
Saturday May 25th, Trol Orienteering Club will organise the monthly Gent Orienteering Series. The secretary of the club, Mark Van Bruggen, says; – “We think WOW (formerly known as WOD) is great promotion for our sport. This is our 4th entry, after 2021, 2022 and 2023.” This year, their event is part of their monthly … Continued
Why did we register this event? North West Orienteering Club in New Zealand noticed that the date of the event falls within WOW and we thought it would be good to have an event from New Zealand and it will also provide a different angle for them to use when marketing the event. And they thought that the … Continued
The association, the Egri Spartacus Orienteering Running Sports Association, is based in the beautiful baroque town of Eger, Hungary. They currently have nearly 100 active members, 70 of whom are under 20 years old. They think it is important to get as many children as possible interested in orienteering, and the previous World Orienteering Day, … Continued
The club, BASOC (Badenoch & Strathspey Orienteering Club) based in the north of Scotland SE of Inverness. It is a very small club (about 30 members) and the population density in the area is low. They however have some terrific areas (e.g. Loch Vaa was used for the WOC Relay in 1999) and many clubs … Continued
David Alcock teach Geography at Bradford Grammar School, in northern England. He have organised a World Orienteering Day event for the school students every year since 2016 (apart from the pandemic-affected year of 2020). The timing fits in nicely with our internal examination week for Year 7 and 8 students (aged 11-13), as running an … Continued