1 Register your WOD event The updated website www.worldorienteeringday.com is ready for registration. Please register your event and contact person as soon as possible. When you have finalised your registration, a red flag will appear on the map. If there are many events in a small area, a red circle with … Continued
Go4orienteering supports the project for the World Orienteering Day. Especially for this occasion Go4O offers 1 FREE SERIES of 48 orienteering exercises, it is 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 purchase of the complete set … Continued
Brandy Tang and her team in Hunan, China are preparing for this year’s WOD event, and she hopes they will exceed last years total participation number of 2462, by attracting more than 3000 participants. Since orienteering as a sport is not well known to the Chinese public, she needs to do a great deal … Continued
The WOD event in Turku will be a pre-event to the first World Cup this year. During late afternoon the WC Sprint Relay will take place in Turku (Finland). The organisers expect a lot of young people coming to the city of Turku. There will two different activities, one for kids and one for teenagers. … Continued
WOD event will be held on Mauritius. Wednesday May 24th is coming closer and closer. Of 75 countries or territories registered so far, 17 non-IOF members have already registered a least one WOD event. WOD events will be hosted on all continents. Antarctica, Greenland, Oman, Cambodia, Iceland, Singapore, Kosovo, Lebanon, the Philippines, Macau, Haiti, … Continued
Friday May 5th, 00:30 (GMT) we reached a milestone in this year’s World Orienteering Day. In the city of Pinto in Brazil, it became the venue to register as number 1000. We have more WOD events registered today compared to the same time last year when we beat the world record with over 250,000 participants … Continued
Lebanon is one of 11 non-IOF members organising WOD events this year: Albania, Greece, Iceland, Haiti, Kosovo, Philippines, Lebanon, Macau, Oman, Cambodja and Singapore. Today we have 68 countries and 800 WOD events registered. Last year, Diana Malaeb participated in the O-Ringen Academy and she was dreaming about starting an orienteering federation in Lebanon. She started … 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 almost 50 thousand participants. We are now getting ready for next year’s WOD organised on May 24th. The goal … Continued
After visiting Turkey, Albania and Austria the WOD Rabbit is now heading south! Together with participants from 27 countries, the Rabbit is taking part in the ISF World Schools Championships in Orienteering in Palermo, Italy. During a week (April 22nd -28th ) there will be a long distance, middle distance and a special team friendship … Continued
Noah Poland, a 15-year-old boy from Australia, was really excited when he heard about the first World Orienteering Day in 2016. He went to his club and searched for what events were on his city. As it turned out, the events that were on clashed with other commitments. So, he began thinking, how could he … Continued