{"id":2747,"date":"2018-06-05T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.worldorienteeringweek.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:06:30","slug":"new-record-for-world-orienteering-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/new-record-for-world-orienteering-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"New record for World Orienteering Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.worldorienteeringweek.com\/wod-2018\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-860\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.worldorienteeringweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WOD-2018--300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WOD-2018--300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WOD-2018--768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/WOD-2018-.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>World Orienteering Day (WOD) has already passed the old record from 2017 (288 007 participants).<\/p>\n<p>The number of participants reported until today is 292,801 and it\u2019s expected that there will be more than 300,000 participants in 2018.<br \/>\nThis is the third time that WOD has been organised and within a few years, IOF&#8217;s vision of 500,000 participants, at 5000 locations and in 100 countries will certainly be reached.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment we have 73 countries reported but we are still waiting for the reports from some countries in Africa, Asia and Caribbean and hopefully we will achieve 80 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The International Orienteering Federation\u00b4s goals regarding the organisation of this annual event are as follows:<br \/>\n\u2022 Increasing the visibility and accessibility of orienteering to young people<br \/>\n\u2022 Increasing the number of participants both in the schools\u2019 activities, as well and in the clubs\u2019 activities in all countries of National Federations<br \/>\n\u2022 Helping teachers to implement orienteering in a fun and educational way<br \/>\n\u2022 To get more new countries to take part in orienteering<br \/>\n&#8220;Be part of something Bigger &#8211; Colour the World&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Orienteering Day (WOD) has already passed the old record from 2017 (288 007 participants). The number of participants reported until today is 292,801 and it\u2019s expected that there will be more than 300,000 participants in 2018. This is the third time that WOD has been organised and within a few years, IOF&#8217;s vision of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/new-record-for-world-orienteering-day-2018\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldorienteeringweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}