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Enrich Education and WOW
2023-12-27One of the most exciting elements of the Enrich/IOF partnership was the potential to work together to explore how Maze Orienteering could be incorporated within an ‘Orienteering Event Day’ package, so that schools which do not have a conventional orienteering course could be offered the opportunity to provide a rewarding orienteering experience to children.The intention … Continued
WOW is a great concept
2023-12-27In Denmark, Torben , has preregistered a WOW event for 2024. He is a captain in the Danish defence and a volunteer in the Danish Home Guard, North Jutland district. He has an education as an orienteering coach and course setter and he runs orienteering races himself when the time is right. But mostly he … Continued
Training with SportIdent
2023-12-27World Orienteering Week partner SportIdent has an Orienteering-App that makes your training easy. Create a new training session in the O-App installed on your smartphone, select the training mode (Standard, Score-OL or Rogai-ning) and record the participants.After crossing the finish line, connect the mini Reader to your smartphone, read the SI-Card and automatically print out … Continued
Glad WOD is now WOW
2023-12-27Don Winslow is a teacher who works with special education students and have been teaching for 32 years. He is also a member of the Rochester Orienteering Club and OUSA. He started orienteering in 2006 using the permanent orienteering courses that his club, Rochester Orienteering Club has made. He is the caretaker for one of those courses at Webster Park … Continued
World Orienteering Week partner OCAD improves Route Analyzer
2023-12-27WOW-partner OCAD, that specializes in software development for the production of maps, has extended its Route Analyzer and made it accessible for forest orienteering. Thanks to the consideration of runnability and relief, the Route Analyzer 2.0 can find the fastest routes between two controls in urban as well as in classic forest terrain. The first … 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.