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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


Preparing for the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Karlskrona? In this webinar, Swedish elite orienteer Simon Hector will share his first-hand experience and winning tactics from the recent JWOC test race held on May 14th. He will dive into the specific characteristics of the Karlskrona forest terrain and discuss how to approach its unique technical and navigational challenges. Join us to learn what it takes to master the terrain ahead of JWOC 2026. 🗓 Tuesday, 9 June from 15:00 - 16:30 CEST (UTC+2) 👨‍🏫 Simon Hector ✍ Register: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/1862e532-1b26-4723-acdf-275c9e1df31f@a9dcd984-57e3-45e0-aca0-9bbe4d0a2c8b

Team Norway 🇳🇴 took yet another Sprint Relay win in Skara in the final race of @owcskaralidkoping2026 ahead of Czechia 🇨🇿 and Finland 🇫🇮 Sunday afternoon. Thank you for hosting us, Skara and Lidköping🙏 Photo: @kl_grafi

A thrilling Sprint World Cup race in Skara, Sweden, saw the favourites deliver outstanding performances. Simona Aebersold 🇨🇭 dominated the women’s race with a flawless run and a convincing 22-second victory, while 🇳🇴 Kasper Fosser controlled the men’s race and went on to win by 12 seconds. See you for the Sprint Relay Sunday afternoon👋