World Orienteering Week – A great way of promoting our sport!

Imagine the world’s largest orienteering event. One where thousands of experienced orienteers, recreational participants and newcomers come together and participate in orienteering activities close to where they live, but at the same time as similar activities all across the globe. That is the idea of World Orienteering Week! Using the motivational and marketing power of … Continued

End – Of – Year offer from SPORTident 

Start the next year with a new SPORTident School and Training Set! Whether in the forest, in the city, or in the gym, the set contains all equipment to get started: Organise a fun-packed indoor training or go for the full orienteering outdoors adventure. In addition to 30 control cards and 14 stations the set … Continued

WOW Webinar

The first WOW Webinar for the autumn has been carried out. The topic of the webinar was How to make a successful and yet manageable WOW event in schools. During the webinar Henning Bratland Carlsen from the Norwegian Orienteering Federation and Vilius Aleliunas from the Lithuanian Orienteering Federation gave their experience on School events. Henning … Continued

WOW – a chance to entice newcomers to orienteering

The club Southern Highlands Orienteering or SHOO as it is affectionately known was formed in 1986. Southern Highlands Orienteering promotes Orienteering in the Macarthur and Liverpool area of Sydney as well as the Southern Highlands. The club hosts both urban and bush events. One series that is held is the Highland Forest Series (HFS). This series … Continued

Progress of orienteering in India

I would love to give you more information regarding our work to spread the game of Orienteering in India.  Gaurav Singh, the President of Dhyan Chand Foundation, a non-profit Foundation, works for children and sports and to devise ways and means to integrate the development of a child through sports. Mr Singh came across Orienteering whilst … Continued

Aims for most nationalities at a single WOW event

Luxembourg Orienteering Club will be part of the World Orienteering Week 2024, but it will be very low key – a small event with two or three courses, with a focus on what we call “Family and Friends”, where people can walk round a simple course. Our target audience is club members with young families, … Continued

TRAINING-FLAGS – PERFECT FOR THE WORLD ORIENTEERING WEEK

Buy 10, pay 8 and get our additional WOW gifts Just like you, we are looking forward to this year’s World Orienteering Week. In anticipation of the WOW and as an official “Event Sponsor – World Orienteering Week 2024”, we have a great offer for you. If you buy 10 training flags (size 15x15cm) you … Continued

Argentina have a 10-year plan

Gisela Reynoso, director or Orienteering Argentina, have a plan for devlopment of orienteering in Argentina. Gisela started to work togheter with I’m working ince 2006 with Lorena Kleinnman in 2006 and when she moved to USA, Gisela continue working but not so successfully. They were making races, people go to run, but every year they could … Continued

WOW – a good way to promote our sport

In Čazma, a small town between Zagreb and Bjelovar, lives Bojana Nikolić, a doctor- family medicine practitioner. She is am a member of the orienteering club Vihor for almost 30 years. Read more about the club here:(https://vihor.hr/). Last year, Bojana organized a World Orienteering Day event together with gym teachers from primary school. Bojana held … Continued

WOW offers joy and adventure in Greece

Back in 2016 Vasilis Hortomaris organized a seminar for teachers named “How to implement orienteering in a school yard”. After that orienteering activities in Lake Kerkini, in Serres, Greece started. Hence, Vasilis draw a map of the village Kato Poroia, he gave the lecture and he implemented an orienteering activity outdoors for the teachers. The … Continued