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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Aims for most nationalities at a single WOW event

2024-05-07

Luxembourg Orienteering Club will be part of the World Orienteering Week 2024, but it will be very low key – a small event with two or three courses, with a focus on what we call “Family and Friends”, where people can walk round a simple course. Our target audience is club members with young families, … Continued

TRAINING-FLAGS – PERFECT FOR THE WORLD ORIENTEERING WEEK

2024-04-15

Buy 10, pay 8 and get our additional WOW gifts Just like you, we are looking forward to this year’s World Orienteering Week. In anticipation of the WOW and as an official “Event Sponsor – World Orienteering Week 2024”, we have a great offer for you. If you buy 10 training flags (size 15x15cm) you … Continued

Argentina have a 10-year plan

2024-04-15

Gisela Reynoso, director or Orienteering Argentina, have a plan for devlopment of orienteering in Argentina. Gisela started to work togheter with I’m working ince 2006 with Lorena Kleinnman in 2006 and when she moved to USA, Gisela continue working but not so successfully. They were making races, people go to run, but every year they could … Continued

WOW – a good way to promote our sport

2024-04-15

In Čazma, a small town between Zagreb and Bjelovar, lives Bojana Nikolić, a doctor- family medicine practitioner. She is am a member of the orienteering club Vihor for almost 30 years. Read more about the club here:(https://vihor.hr/). Last year, Bojana organized a World Orienteering Day event together with gym teachers from primary school. Bojana held … Continued

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


The International Orienteering Federation mourns the passing of Per-Olof ”Peo” Bengtsson (1933-2025). Peo Bengtsson’s vision, enthusiasm, and tireless work helped shape orienteering into the truly international sport it is today. His legacy will live on through the countless athletes, organisers, and federations he inspired.

Sport's role in a sustainable world has received a new recognition with the approval of a Resolution by the UN Environment Assembly. Read more about the decision and the IOF's commitments in the article below.

Orienteering was part of the Summer Deaflympics held in Tokyo in November. Dive into results and GPS tracking from the races in Japan, which offered very different challenges, in this article.