On Wednesday May 24th 2017, the second World Orienteering Day took place all over the world. It has proved an even greater success than last year, with 288 000 participants all around the world taking part in an orienteering event. This is new record, with 35 000 more participants than last year. In the end, 288 007 … Continued
On Wednesday May 24th 2017, the second World Orienteering Day took place all over the world. Already it proved to be a greater success than last year, with more than 256 000 participants all around the world taking part in an orienteering event. The counting is still going on until Thursday 8th and the final … Continued
So far 215 000 participants in 69 countries have been part of something bigger, World Orienteering Day. Turkey is showing a fantastic result and has increased the number of participants with more than 45% compared to last year. As of today, Turkey has registered 73 000 WOD participants. Amazing! Please see attached photos and maps from … Continued
During WOD 2017, all students at Enbacka School, located in the small village of Gustafs in the lovely county Dalicarlia of Sweden, will participate in a “Star-O”. The students have the possibility to choose different distances and difficulties. They can run or walk only one course but they can be running more or less the … Continued
One of WOD’s partners, Silva Sweden AB, will take part in WOD during May 24th. All available staff at the office in Sweden will during lunchtime carry out a “trail walk” in the neighbourhood. -Of course we shall be part of World Orienteering Day in an active way. Orienteering is a great part of our … Continued
Linköping University, one of many Universities in Sweden, provides the profile “dual career” for the Swedish elite orienteers. The studies are more or less customised so that students can combine elite orienteering and studies in an optimal way. Among other things, WOD Ambassador and the reigning World Champion in Sprint, Jerker Lysell, is one of … Continued
We have got a lot of great names from all over the world and the winning proposal of the Rabbit’s name is “WODY”. The name is created by Muh Aswar from Indonesia Hi Muh Aswar, you are the winner of the name competition! -Really? he says. I can’t believe that the name WODY would be … Continued
Australia is a large country, and World Orienteering Day events will be taking place in many parts of it. Blair Trewin, the President of Orienteering Australia (and member of the IOF Foot Orienteering Commission) will be taking on a special challenge on World Orienteering Day – competing in orienteering events in four different states and … Continued
With just five days to go, we are on track to achieve a new higher level than 2016. So far, 78 countries and almost 1600 WOD events have registered for this year’s WOD on Wednesday, May 24th. The trend shows that there looks to be more than 80 countries and over 2000 events during the … Continued
On the website of worldorienteeringday.com you have the possibility to promote your WOD event. You can upload pdf- or jpg files, you can upload word document and photos. You can upload the map of your WOD event. This information is great for everybody. There are so many nice different kinds of navigation activities innovated by … Continued