In the 52-pages of WOD Guidelines you will find ideas of how to carry out a WOD event. There are a lot of examples from all over the world and from different kind of activities. We want you to use the World Orienteering Day as a fun promotional activity for orienteering. We believe that WOD … 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 even in the Nordic countries. As you maybe know, Turkey was outstanding last year with almost 50 000 participants. We are now getting ready for this year’s WOD on May 24th, … Continued
The presence of orienteering in Singapore dates back to 1977, when the Swedish Orienteering Federation was on a promotional tour and made a stop in Singapore. They invited Mr Lam, the founder of the Singapore Orienteering Federation, to run alongside them. That was when the Swedish orienteers encouraged Mr Victor Lam to start orienteering here … Continued
The success of the World Orienteering Day project in 2016 has also been a success for our sponsors. Sponsoring World Orienteering Day is about a mission, to raise the awareness of our wonderful sport globally. We are very happy to announce the involvement of SPORTident as an Event Sponsor for World Orienteering Day both in … Continued
World Orienteering Day 2016 was a great success, achieving and surpassing our goals. However, this could not have happened without a lot of hard work from many people. So, firstly, thank you to each and every one of you who organised and participated in a World Orienteering Day event. The success of this great achievement … Continued
What is the TARGET AUDIENCE? The main goal is to work with schools, but of course you can also conduct trainings for club members or conduct activities with local partners. WOD focuses primarily on young people, although not exclusively! If you are a teacher and you want to take part in WOD with your … Continued
Registration The updated website is now ready for registration. If you will organise an event at the same location as 2016 please use the function “Copy location to a new event in 2017”. That will give you the possibility to compare your events. If you did organise events 2016 but will organise events on other … Continued
With almost 20% of all World Orienteering Day participants, Turkey was outstanding in the participation rate and involvement of schools. When finalizing the official event calendar for the Turkish Orienteering Federation back in August 2015, WOD was put down as one of the officially recognised orienteering activities and the chair of the committee devoted … Continued
500 000 participants – 5000 locations – 100 countries The IOF’s goals regarding the organisation of this annual event are as follows: Increasing the visibility and accessibility of orienteering to young people Increasing the number of participants both in the schools’ activities as well and in the clubs’ activities in all countries of National … Continued
“Think globally – Act locally” On Wednesday May 11th 2016, the first ever World Orienteering Day took place all over the world. It proved to be a great success, with more than 250 000 participants all around the world taking part in an orienteering event. After having finalised the results, the total of participation … Continued