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

WOW in a geological and historical area

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

SPORTident continues to support the International Orienteering Federation in 2024

“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

Celebration all year long

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