Asker Skiclub in Oslo has sent out a simple flyer to inform the students about WOD. The translation from the flyer is as follow: “Wednesday, May 23, is the World Orienteering Day. This day children, youth and adults in over 100 countries will run orienteering! The target is 500,000 participants, and in Norway we shall … Continued
If you intend to go on holiday to the Seychelles in the near future and you wish with the help of the map to discover the island of La Digue, I can heartily recommend that you download the map from WOD’s website. Right now we have no organizer of a WOD event at this fantastic … Continued
After a successful “Harpagan” in the area outside Gdansk, the club “Pomorski” with one of the WOD Ambassador Dominika Bąkowska is ready for WOD. This year and last year they will organise a WOD event in the “Ronald Reagan Park” in Gdansk. Sprint-O, Park-O, Forest-O and maybe some Maze-O as well will be the offer … Continued
Maze-O is growing worldwide and during the weekend 17th -18th of March at the General Assembly of the Swedish Orienteering Federation (SOFT) the delegates had the opportunity to try Maze-O. They were “running” four courses with different difficulties (green, blue, red and black) and using EMIT touch free punching system. The maps on the … Continued
Norway with the Orienteering Clubs in Østfold will host the World Orienteering Championships in August 2019. In addition to arrang the best WOC ever, the clubs want to use the opportunity that a World Championships provide, to work with the visibility of the sport and to recruit more youngsters to the sport of orienteering. The … Continued
As you could read in the last newsletter, I recently had an examination in a course at the Sport Management Programme at the University of Karlstad, where I gave my fellow students the opportunity to test orienteering on an evacuation plan. They also got the opportunity to test another kind of orienteering, where you need … Continued
The Latvian Orienteering Federation has been seeking ways to attract more people to the sport of orienteering and has found a great solution – indoor orienteering in popular public buildings. It turned out to be a big success. Figures speak for themselves: thanks to active advertising campaign and dedication to improve the quality of competitions, … Continued
World Orienteering Day (WOD) will become an increasingly important activity for the future of orienteering. The interest from many countries is huge and it’s growing everywhere. As you maybe know, Turkey was outstanding last year, with more than 86 000 participants. We are now getting ready for this year’s WOD organised between May 23rd and … Continued
We can gladly present one new partners to the WOD-family for WOD 2018. Nokian Tyres which is also the main sponsor for IOF. The main focus of the new agreement is to provide Nokian Tyres market visibility as the title sponsor of the World Orienteering Championships and an IOF Main Partner. The agreement also expands … Continued
On World Orienteering Day 2017, Australia was pleased that its national capital Canberra managed to reach the top ten world cities, with 16 events. They were beaten only by four Turkish cities and Belgrade (28) and Oslo (19). Canberra also produced one of the “densest” concentration of events anywhere in the world with 15 events … Continued