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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WOW offers joy and adventure in Greece

2024-04-15

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

WOW in a geological and historical area

2024-04-15

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

SPORTident continues to support the International Orienteering Federation in 2024

2024-03-25

“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

Celebration all year long

2024-03-25

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

Show how interesting and exciting orienteering is

2024-03-25

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 10MILA weekend is approaching and this year we are bringing together all the commentator languages 🇬🇧 + 🇸🇪 + 🇫🇮​ ​on IOF TV. Look forward to around 24 hours of broadcast from the Swedish forests around Finspång, where our cameras in the terrain will take you right out to the crucial moments of this year's 10Mila-relays. See you on IOF TV - tv.orienteering.sport

Here's an overview of the anti-doping activities carried out by the International Testing Agency in 2024. Much more info on IOF's anti-doping work can be found in the anti-doping section on the IOF homepage: https://orienteering.sport/iof/anti-doping/

We can’t wait for the CX80 World MTBO Championships to kick off in Poland in August.