In May 2025, between the dates May 17th and May 25th, any activity held can be registered as a World Orienteering Week event.

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EMIT and WOD

2019-05-09

What are your main concern for being a partner to World Orienteering Day? Emit wants to be a partner who is involved in developing the orienteering sport for future generations. Why did you want to be a partner to World Orienteering Day? When Göran Andersson came with this idea some years ago I immediately said … Continued

30 days to GO!

2019-04-14

Maze is amazing!

2019-04-14

Maze-O is a really great tool to use when you want to introduce orienteering or to promote the sport. Together with a normal O-event, outside the club hut, close to the gymnasium at school or at shopping centre you have a lot of opportunities to get people running in a maze. All of them, young … Continued

WODY-tour

2019-03-29

Only 49 days to GO, World Orienteering Day, May 15th, 2019, and the start of the WODY-tour has started. During the annually meeting at Västergötlands Orienteering Federation, Eva Bäcklund got WODY from Göran Andersson to start the journey in Sweden. Please follow WODY’s travel on social media from now and to May 15th. Facebook: www.facebook.com/Worldorienteeringday … Continued

WOD in Norway

2019-03-29

  Strategy, promotion, partners to carry out WOD, financial support, tool to develop orienteering in Norway The national Federation has decided that WOD should be a measure that the entire organization takes part in. To be a part of our strategy to spread the orientation to new people. An event to promote education and interest in school orienteering. … Continued


The final invitation for the open meeting "Technology in Orienteering" on November 9 is now available. Find it here and register in advance: https://orienteering.sport/open-meeting-technology-in-orienteering-on-9-november-2025/

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Post season blues? Here's chance to relive the 2025 international orienteering season with overall World Cup Winner Max Peter Bejmer, European KO Sprint Champion Cécile Calandry and IOF TV Expert Commentator Jonas Merz.