Although orienteering has been going on in China for more than 40 years, not many people knowing so much about the sport. It really requires people who love this sport to go on for a long time to promote and organize various activities for everyone to experience and participate in. Orienteering is a charming sport, … Continued
World Orienteering Day 2018 – 358 735 participants 252 000 at 2016, 288 000 at 2017 and now 2018, 358 735 participants at 2213 locations in 81 countries! The number of participants has increased with 42% since 2016. It proved to be a great success all over the world. Schools, clubs and enthusiast all over … Continued
World Orienteering Day (WOD) has already passed the old record from 2017 (288 007 participants). The number of participants reported until today is 292,801 and it’s expected that there will be more than 300,000 participants in 2018. This is the third time that WOD has been organised and within a few years, IOF’s vision of … Continued
World Orienteering Day 2018 is now over, and we hope to establish a new record for the new WOD format, with events from a full week counting towards the total. But we need your help to report your WOD event on worldorienteeringday.com! So far, there are more than 237 000 participants registered at 1463 locations … Continued
The aim of the leaflet is to guide you through the basic knowledge of orienteering in a simple manner and to make orienteering understandable and fun to carry out. The leaflet can be used both by teachers and individuals that want to improve their personal orienteering skills.
Peo Bengtsson- the most important ambassador of the orienteering! An “old” man (85 in August) but still very young in his mind, he is still always thinking how we can develop orienteering world-wide and make orienteering more global. Through his travel company, WWOP (World Wide Orienteering Promotion), he tries to use all his effort to … Continued
One of many dedicated orienteers, Ms Wanhui Tang from Hunan in China, is now planning for a WOD event with the target of 3500 participants. After her returned from Sweden, she devoted all of her energy to the promotion of directional sports. More and more young people participate in orienteering with the family and they … Continued
Just as last year, Go4orienteering supports the project World Orienteering Day. This year Go4Orienteering also offers a FREE SERIES of 48 orienteering exercises, available on request. All the information about the exercises is available on the website. Especially useful is the text about in- and outdoor exercises, the concept and the advantages. As for the … Continued
O-Track is now also ready for WOD. After a lot of work from both Trac-Trac and OCAD and great support from the Danish Orienteering Federation we have now released the “O-Track”. O-Track is a new app and service that make enjoying orienteering easy and fun for both beginners and experienced orienteers. You can use your … Continued
Maze Orienteering is COOL and AWESOME! To make orienteering more global and more available I can warmly recommend MAZE-O. It’s a fantastic tool to make orienteering fun and to get a great experience. During last weekend our club, Dalaporten OL (in Avesta Sweden), organised a successful Maze-O in connection with the ordinary O-event. Hundreds of … Continued