83 school maps in Østfold

Norway with the Orienteering Clubs in Østfold will host the World Orienteering Championships in August 2019. In addition to arrange the best WOC ever, the clubs want to use the opportunity that a World Championships provide, to work with the visibility of the sport and to recruit more youngsters to the sport of orienteering. The … Continued

WOD´s partner OCAD

Read Thomas Gloor, Managing Director at OCAD, thoughts and answers about WOD. What are your main concern for being a partner to World Orienteering Day? “WOD is an important project to promote Orienteering not only in emerging countries, also in traditional orienteering countries. We would like to support these efforts providing our software to produce … Continued

Fantastic start of orienteering in Egypt

The Egypt Orienteering Federation became members in the International Orienteering Federation 2015 and already, after only three years of activities they had a lot of participants at World Orienteering Day 2018. 9200 participants at 12 locations took part during WOD last year. A fantastic result! And one of the most important persons behind the success … Continued

Kiribata – a new WOD country

Ben Schultz started some orienteering in Kiribati last year and it proved popular. Ben has contract work in the country and with a lot of quiet weekends on his hands he spent time mapping some areas that were suitable for orienteering. It is a challenge as they have no contours (the highest point being 3m) … Continued

One club – one school! Or why not 13 schools!

One club and one school! Or why not 13 schools! Eva Bäcklund from Sweden is running a mapping project with 13 schools in her hometown Trollhättan. The youngsters in the club are the mapper and the first part of the project is now finalized, 13 school maps. Second step will be to cover the areas … Continued