This example is an ambitious way to implement indoor orienteering. If you have the opportunity to use a larger venue or building in many levels, you can have a lot of fun. It doesn’t need to be a sports facility like this one, it could very well be a school with several floors. The … Continued
Your home is a sport arena! Evelyn, a 3 year-old girl, is checking the map of the kitchen and has five checkpoints to find. In the city of Lidingö in Sweden, one a the smallest WOD events will be organised. Even young children at the age of 3 understand map reading and, whilst playing a … Continued
Hosted by Guangdong Sport Bureau, the 2017 South China Historical Trail Orienteering Championships will be held from May to December this year in some of the beautiful old villages in Guangdong. The villages to be chosen as the venues vary in different architecture styles, including Cantonese, Hakka, Chaoshan and the North part of Guangdong Province, … Continued
Nothing is impossible! The sixth continent, Antarctica, has now got its first WOD event registered. It is very special that we now officially have an orienteering event on the ice and snow-covered continent. On May 24th, there will be a WOD event organised at Casey Station belonging to the Australian Antarctic Territory. Mark Grainger, who … Continued
In 2016, the Hunan Orienteering Challenge for World Orienteering Day and Orienteering Week of China was successfully held in the “thousand-year-old academy”, Hunan University. This race was entered by 2462 participants with an age span of 4 to 60 years. Among all the groups of participants (individual, team, parent-kid), the 400 parent-kid groups were the … Continued
Chris Cassone, the heart of Treasure Hunt Adventures, has brought orienteering-based programs to the NY metro area since 1982. He developed the Treasure Hunt for Scouts who were having problems learning map skills. Soon, schools were asking for his multi-day sessions on interdisciplinary orienteering. In 1990 he produced his first corporate event for Pepsico and … Continued
In our cooperation with World Orienteering Day EMIT has an especially offer schools and clubs. The new school-kit for orienteering consists of 25 emiTags with elastic Velcro, 15 Touch-Free Trainer (TFT) controls (incl start and finish), the new eScan reader and a thermal, Bluetooth printer with rechargeable batteries. 15 control flags are also included. … Continued
The year was 1933, just 14 years after orienteering had become a competitive sport, when a trio of Swedish Champions in orienteering put their heads together to improve their equipment to achieve better results. The first real competition compass was created. Since then, Silva has taken the lead of developing compasses in many different areas … Continued
Especially for the World Orienteering Day 2017 orienteering equipment for the young generation of orienteers has been developed. This also affects the support of the work of the organisers and the teachers in orienteering activities. Create an exciting course, turn on our timing equipment, start with the competition and get an instant printout of the … Continued
More than 330 events are registered for the upcoming World Orienteering Day on May 24th 2017. With events registered in 45 countries across 6 continents, this year’s WOD has got off to an excellent start. We hope you are all considering how to implement a fun activity in your school, in your club, in your … Continued