World Orienteering Day partner SIGN-SPORT has extended their WOD clothes collection for 2023 with a white edition. Take a look in the new catalogue here. You can order your new WOD clothes form the SIGN-SPORT’s webpage. Read more about the offer from SIGN-SPORT on the World Orienteering Day page for offers from WOD event partners. … Continued
With the new partnership, Enrich Education and IOF will work closely together to develop and enhance opportunities for schools and young people across the world to access orienteering and cross-curricular outdoor learning on their school sites. Enrich and IOF will work together to develop new orienteering products for schools, new event days to introduce and … Continued
The Norweigan Orienteering Federation has since 2020 been working with a project called “school- and recruitment” with the purpose that children and young people across the country are physically active in their local area and learn how to use maps through play-based activities in school and free time. In this they have activiely promoted the … Continued
World Orienteering Day have for 2023 a cooperation with World MAZE Race. This means that you will be able to register your maze orienteering event as a World Orienteering Day event. World MAZE Race is both an easy way for organiser to arrange and easy for participants to understand. On the 14th of February Göran … Continued
The first inspiration for WOD event is from a small town orienteering team in Portugal that has prereigstered two World Orienteering Day events already for 2023 for development and visibilty of orienteering in the area. There will be events togheter with schools and also an open day training during the weekend with exercise on a … Continued
Tomorrow, on the 14th of February Göran Andersson will tell us all more about the many ways to utilize maze orienteering. Read more and register on the page for webinars organised by IOF’s Global Development Commission here: https://orienteering.sport/…/global-development-webinars/ You can read more about maze orienteering here: https://orienteering.sport/iof/global-development/maze-o/
From November 8 and once every month until February, you will have a unique opportunity to get insights on orienteering development all over the world. IOF’s Global Development Commission hosts webinars every first Tuesday of the month with interesting presenters and input from federations and orienteering initiatives. The first webinar has the title “Recreational orienteering … Continued
Why did you start practicing orienteering? Why? Because I simply fell in love with this sport while running my first race. I had tried to do a lot of sports during my early childhood. It all started with swimming, playing floorball and mainly golf had been my occupation for a long time while I was … Continued
Why did you start practicing orienteering? I began orienteering when my older sister (Laura Robertson) started during highschool. My family were all into athletics and cross country so it didn’t take long before my father got bored waiting in the car for Laura to finish her course and decided to try a course for himself. … Continued
Why did you start practicing orienteering? As my parents already took me to competitions when I was still a baby, I got to enjoy the sport from quite early on. I started practicing because it was a nice family activity on holidays or at the weekend for us. So I kind of slipped into the … Continued