Orienteering Canada

Responses to the post-NAOC2024 Technical Workshop are being accepted until Feb 20, 2024. We are particularly interested in responses from US and overseas participants. The short questionnaire is here: forms.gle/5ekjrhER4BsCBj…

Planning to attend the 2024 Canadian Orienteering Festival? We are planning a technical workshop on August 12-13, with workshops geared to: >Officials >Coaching >Mapping Interested in attending? Please fill out this survey by Feb 7. forms.gle/5ekjrhER4BsCBj…

New Article: JWOC 2023: All You Need To Know: [LIVE from Monday July 3rd 15:30 CET] The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2023 in Romania starts with Sprint on Monday July 3rd, continues with Sprint Relay on Tuesday, Middle on Wednesday, Long on… news.worldofo.com/2023/07/01/jwo…

Orienteering combines exercise with navigating through unfamiliar terrain, which benefits brain health. Here's what to know about the "thinking sport" ti.me/3VRjXul

New Article: World Cup Opener 2023 Long: Maps, Results and Analysis: After nearly 90 minutes of orienteering in tough terrain only seconds separated the top runners in both the men’s and women’s class in the long distance opening this year’s World Cup.… news.worldofo.com/2023/04/28/wor…

Let Talk Orienteering Webinar: Orienteering for the Brain: An Activity to Help Improve Cognitive Functioning. Presented by @_emmawaddington orienteering.ca/posts/letstalk…

Here's the latest Orienteering Canada Newsletter - Check it out at: mailchi.mp/acdec62efa3a/a…

Orienteering Canada's Team Canada Program is recruiting coaches & team managers for their 2023 WOC & JWOC teams. Apply by April 10th. More details at: orienteering.ca/jobs #orienteering #orienteeringcanada #woc2023 #jwoc2023

Let's Talk Orienteering Webinar April 20th at 8pm ET. Constructing and Deconstructing Orienteering Courses with Mike Waddington (@peatofmind). Presented by Orienteering Canada and @ONTorienteering. orienteering.ca/posts/letstalk… #orienteering #orienteeringcanada #letstalkorienteering

To all the amazing girls & women in Canadian orienteering! As a "sport for life", we have the honour of having toddlers to 90+ year olds in this awesome sport. Thanks female athletes, officials, coaches. volunteer, board members, mappers & staff who contribute so much. #iwd2023

The sport of orienteering could be useful as an intervention or preventive measure to fight cognitive decline related to dementia, according to new research from McMaster University. @_emmawaddington @jenniferheisz brighterworld.mcmaster.ca/articles/findi… #TryOrienteering

Race 3 of 3 Long Course complete @ Eastern Canadian Orienteering Champs. Few usable trails & the “runnable” forest (white on the map) was treacherous in many parts with deadfall & rocks. Made one bigger stupid mistake (& normal bunch of small ones) but did get a silver in M65.

New Article: World Games Orienteering 2022: All You Need To Know: The World Games Orienteering (TWG) 2022 consists of three races – Sprint, Middle distance and Sprint Relay – organized on July 15th – July 17th 2022 in Birmingham, USA. All races will be… news.worldofo.com/2022/07/14/wor…

New Article: JWOC 2022: Maps and Results Sprint Relay and Sprint: Norway won the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) Sprint Relay ahead of Hungary and Czech Republic. The Individual Sprint was won by Elisa Mattila (Finland) and Axel Elmblad… news.worldofo.com/2022/07/14/jwo…

New Article: WOC 2022: All You Need To Know: The first ever Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Denmark on Sunday June 26th with the Sprint Relay. The championship continues with the first ever WOC Knock-Out Sprint on Tuesday June… news.worldofo.com/2022/06/24/woc…

New Article: WOC 2022 Sprint Relay: Maps, Results and Analysis: Sweden took the gold medal in the Sprint Relay in the 2022 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) ahead of Great Britain and Norway. The world’s best female orienteer the last years, Tove… news.worldofo.com/2022/06/27/woc…

Global News Weekend came out to do some orienteering with the Toronto Orienteering Club. Thanks for giving orienteering a try @MikeGArsenault. You did great! globalnews.ca/video/8947245/…

@AverageRunnerK Oh no!! So sorry to hear this Kristi and Luke!!

Awesome to see @SOGOAdvRunning on this list of great programs for adventurous Canadians kids!

New Article: Course of the Year 2021: WOC Long: For the second time in the history of the “Orienteering Course of the Year”, the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) long distance takes the honors! Just as back in Scotland in 2015, this years’ WOC… news.worldofo.com/2021/12/31/cou…