Gisela Reynoso, director or Orienteering Argentina, have a plan for devlopment of orienteering in Argentina. Gisela started to work togheter with I’m working ince 2006 with Lorena Kleinnman in 2006 and when she moved to USA, Gisela continue working but not so successfully. They were making races, people go to run, but every year they could … Continued
In Čazma, a small town between Zagreb and Bjelovar, lives Bojana Nikolić, a doctor- family medicine practitioner. She is am a member of the orienteering club Vihor for almost 30 years. Read more about the club here:(https://vihor.hr/). Last year, Bojana organized a World Orienteering Day event together with gym teachers from primary school. Bojana held … Continued
Back in 2016 Vasilis Hortomaris organized a seminar for teachers named “How to implement orienteering in a school yard”. After that orienteering activities in Lake Kerkini, in Serres, Greece started. Hence, Vasilis draw a map of the village Kato Poroia, he gave the lecture and he implemented an orienteering activity outdoors for the teachers. The … Continued
On the 22th of May, the orienteering club, Arctic Orienteering, will host a orienteering event. The event is a middle distance orienteering event on a 1:4000 scale map. It is one of our weekly orienteering offerings during the summer. It will be traditional orienteering courses from White (beginner) to Red (advanced). One of the organisers, … Continued
“A great year of working together lies behind us and we are already looking forward to an exciting new year 2024 in which we continue our long-standing collaboration,” said Burkhard Ritter the CEO of SPORTident GmbH. The cooperation with the International Orienteering Federation means a lot to us. As the umbrella organisation for all orienteering … Continued
South Ribble Orienteering Club, situated in the North West of England, are putting on a 2 part Sprint event in Happy Mount Park, Morecambe on Tuesday 21st May. Its particularly useful to encourage activity in schools and there are many in the area that have maps of their grounds and teach orienteering as part of … Continued
A rather young orienteering club, Sakartvelo Orienteering Club, which was created in the beginning of May last year, 2023, located in Tbilisi, have preregistered a World Orienteering Week event. They was part of the last World Orienteering Day in 2023 and are now following up this year as well. The main organiser Ian Sundkvist, also … Continued
The invite a friend to recreational orienteering -campaign is coming again. The Finnish Orienteering Federation invites the clubs to join the “Kutsu kaveri kuntorasteille” campaign between May 18 and 26, 2024. The purpose of the campaign is to increase the interest of recreational orienteering events and to increase the number of participants. The purpose of … Continued
Saturday May 25th, Trol Orienteering Club will organise the monthly Gent Orienteering Series. The secretary of the club, Mark Van Bruggen, says; – “We think WOW (formerly known as WOD) is great promotion for our sport. This is our 4th entry, after 2021, 2022 and 2023.” This year, their event is part of their monthly … Continued
Why did we register this event? North West Orienteering Club in New Zealand noticed that the date of the event falls within WOW and we thought it would be good to have an event from New Zealand and it will also provide a different angle for them to use when marketing the event. And they thought that the … Continued