As a Board we are focused on refreshing our strategy as the current one runs through to the end of the year. We are currently finalising a draft which will be sent to members in the next week or so, with an invitation to join us in about late September to a club forum to get your […]

All AusChamps events are within an easy drive of the capital. In keeping with the Run the River theme. Maps range from the upper Brisbane River at Wivenhoe, to the lazy bends around the UQ campus at St Lucia. Warm-up events: Come via granite rich Stanthorpe for the Queensland Middle Distance Champs and a classic […]

A handful of Kiwis ventured to Spain/Catalunya for the World Masters Orienteering Championships held in Girona and hour North of Barcelona. Girona is also to be the host of the 2028 Sprint WOC. Right on cue Spain dialled up the heat with what is now known to be their “hottest” heatwave since at least 1950. For […]

Orienteering New Zealand would like to acknowledge the untimely passing of Italian orienteer Mattia Debertolis at the World Games in August 2025. It has deeply impacted all orienteers. Born: 4 August 1996, in Feltre, Italy, as a youngster he enjoyed cross-country skiing and playing soccer before dedicating himself to orienteering. In 2017, he won two golds (sprint and […]

Organised in conjunction with the New Zealand Rogaine Association, it followis on from the success of the 15hr National Rogaine Champs at Tekapo 2 years ago. Highland Events are organising the 2025 event with a course area that will loosely cover the high areas of Mt Pisa between Meg hut and Lake McKay. Hash houses will be […]

Plzen MTBO 5 Days, Czech RepublicOur final competition was the biennial Plzen 5 Days mountain bike orienteering event. We did it in 2017 and it was a major reason for our return trip in 2025. We’re delighted to say that the level of technical riding, social aspects and [some] of our results did not disappoint! […]

Lots of NZ athletes feature in the latest Australian Orienteer magazine, but special mention to Rachel Baker not only on the cover of the latest issue, but also the page 7 girl. Some Kiwis are pictured and mentioned in the Trewin report with Zefa Fa’avae on page 6 and Tim Robertson pictured on page 10, and a […]

Orienteering NZ wishes for our sport to continue to be a respectful, safe, and fair sport. To this end, we would like to remind everyone involved in our sport that all club members, coaches, managers, and supporters are bound by our sport’s code of conduct. This document outlines expectations for everyone involved in our sport […]

UPDATE 1 NOV 2025 – Entries are open via EnterO, with standard fees available until midnight on Sunday, 9 November. Entries close at midnight on Sunday16 November, but prices will increase by 50%. Avoid the fee rise by registering early. The refund policy is can be viewed on the Golden Bay Revisited website. Nelson Orienteering Club invites […]

Over the last month there has been a lot of orienteering. We have had national teams competing at WOC, JWOC and EYOC, with a great contingent of people supporting them in person. Zefa, Tim and Joe all had exceptional runs in the WOC relay resulting in 9th – New Zealand’s best ever WOC relay result. […]

Trailblaze is starting a new Ambassador & Sponsorship Programme that will run from now until August 2026. This program is centred around promoting the sport, improving your own performance, and a little bit of product promotion along the way. Whether you are a high performing athlete, an up & coming star or your everyday adventurer […]

Nine people attended the Controller’s Course in Auckland for both days, at least in part. We had 10 on Saturday, but Imogene Scott was in labour on Sunday – she gets full marks for working right up until birth! Callum Wishart was also there adding to his technical knowledge, just before his new role at ONZ […]

50 years is a long time to survive and thrive these days so to celebrate this momentous occasion Taupō Orienteering (Incorporating Pinelands Orienteering Club) have an open invitation to invite you to their 50th Anniversary Celebration dinner.  When: From 4.30 -6.30pm, 13 September 2025. St Andrews Church Lounge, 91 Titiraupenga Street  Cost: $45 (pay on the night ) but RSVP before […]

This year’s event will again be a big one, on an updated map at the ever challenging Cable Bay Adventure Park, which means you get the best courses and will be testing your limits! This is our big yearly event for the club and helps us pay for new maps and equipment. If you like what […]

Around 450 Primary and Intermediate school students from ten schools in the Taupo and surrounding districts took part in an Orienteering Big Day Out with rogaining events at Owen Delany Park on 25th June. This was a suitable finishing finale to the series of in-school orienteering training sessions held by the Taupo Orienteering Club in […]

Orienteering NZ have a guide that outlines various methods for setting up permanent orienteering courses for schools and clubs, ranging from low-tech to high-tech solutions. Options include using permanent checkpoint plates without codes, or with simple written codes to help verify location and support learning—often without the need for checking. For more formal or fair […]

The IOF’s IT Commission is planning an open meeting on the use of technology in orienteering. The meeting is scheduled to be held in October 2025 as an on-line meeting, so you can participate from anywhere in the world. The agenda is planned to have 5-10 topics and last a couple of hours. Topics can have […]

With a growing interest in orienteering analysis, we have reproduced this article from the SA orienteering magazine with a few NZ references… many thanks to Frank Burden for this discussion. About 10 years ago, after resuming running and orienteering after a 25-year injury-enforced break, I wanted to find out how fast I should expect to run. […]

Dick and his wife Trish were very involved in orienteering in New Zealand in the 1970s and were key members of the what is now Orienteering Bay of Plenty. Dick made many of the early maps for the area including a map for the New Zealand Championship and the Australian v’s New Zealand Challenge. He won […]

It seems crazy that we are halfway through the year already. The international competition season is underway with our representative athletes competing in the first World Cup races and JWOC races are imminent. Joolz is doing a great job of showcasing on social media our athletes who are over there. I wasn’t able to get up […]

North West Orienteering Club runs an annual rogaine series in May and/or June, typically featuring three events on different maps around the North West Auckland region. This year saw record participation, with the final event bringing over 800 competitors. In the past, attendances were usually around 300, with some pre-COVID events reaching 500. We are […]

Hear what Jesse Mulligan thought of our events – as he speaks to Llew McGivern on RNZ earlier this month on the 4 June. Listen to Llew McGivern, an experienced orienteering coach with eight years of school-level coaching. He answers questions about orienteering on the Jesse Mulligan RNZ Afternoons programme. It was a great chat! […]

Around the same time O-Zone was in development, Nathan was working independently on a similar challenge to improve the analysis of orienteering results. That’s when Onalyst was born. As a data science student, Nathan saw huge potential in orienteering result data. He started experimenting with ways to predict team eligibility for events like the 2025 World Games. […]

We caught up with a third orienteer who has also been selected to represent Aotearoa at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Spain.  Bronwen Rees-Jones is a passionate orienteer and runner from Waikato who recently embraced a new challenge – competing in the New Zealand Mountain Running Championships that were held in April. Despite being […]

Fraser Mills a NZ orienteering member and a former JWOC competitor, now lives in Peru, he had a write-up for an event he organised for World Orienteering Week recently. He organised a 3 km orienteering event with stunning views in the scenic village of Arin, in Peru’s Sacred Valley of Cusco at 3,000 m altitude. Fraser has lived in […]

Issued by: Orienteering WellingtonDate Issued: July 2025Deadline for Submissions: 1st August 2025Contact Person: Paul Teesdale-Spittle, t-s@xtra.co.nz 1. Introduction Orienteering Wellington is seeking experienced orienteering mappers to produce one or both of two new orienteering maps for the Nationals 2026. We invite mappers to submit detailed quotes or estimates for the specified mapping work, adhering strictly […]

A small group of about 8 NZ MTBO riders are headed to Perth for the Western Australian MTBO & the 2025 AUS MTBO Championships in WA, Collie, 5-7 September 2025. If you are wanting to join-in do get in touch with Rob Garden – rgmg@xtra.co.nz

The 2025 ACT Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships will be held over 2 days in the beautiful surroundings of Canberra! Events will provide competitors with a great network of beautiful tracks and fire road riding in fantastic locations of Jerrabomberra (Sprint Champs), and with the excitement of a newly updated map of flowing single tracks and fire […]

It was great to have two new members of the Board at our last meeting, Dave Stewart and Sara Prince. Their orienteering and professional experiences will complement the Board well. For a number of years clubs and orienteering members have mentioned ideas about how ONZ could support clubs to develop more orienteering in schools and with school […]

Matt Ogden’s feedback:Looking back on the many nationals I’ve taken part in, I’m always impressed by the variety of terrain and the quality of the events — a testament to the beautiful country we call home and the passionate, highly capable orienteering community we’re part of. Sprint: NZOC2025 Christchurch was awesome. An iconic sprint in […]