Orienteering New Zealand (ONZ) has been awarded the hosting rights to the Junior World Orienteering Championships in November 2029. ONZ has put together a list of areas that have the potential to be used. Once a formal organising group has been formed, along with an IOF SEA assigned to the event, final decisions will be […]

Counties Manukau Orienteering Club and Orienteering Waikato are thrilled to be hosting the NZOrienteering Championships 2027 in and around the Waikato and Counties Manukau regions, fromFriday 26 March 2027 to Monday 29 March 2027. The following embargoes will apply to competitionareas. An embargo is a restriction, which prevents athletes accessing a competition area prior to […]

This embargo notice is the Pokapū Central champs from 21-22 November hosted by Wellington and Orienteering Hutt Valley. Anyone found breaking this embargo or intentionally trying to gain an unfair advantage will be disqualified from competing or coaching at the relevant event and referred to Orienteering New Zealand under the Fair Play rules. MIDDLE DISTANCE […]

Nelson Orienteering Club is hosting King’s Birthday Weekend from 5 to 7 June 2027. The competition includes three World Ranking Events, including the trials for the NZSS team to compete at the Southern Cross Junior Challenge in Australia. Once more we travel to Golden Bay / Mohua to experience a new navigational challenge, this time […]

Nelson and Marlborough Orienteering Clubs are hosting the Taitonga – Southern Regional Orienteering Championships at Labour Weekend from the 24 to 26 October 2026. The following embargoes come into effect as of 1 March 2026. At this stage, we are still confirming access and personnel so please do not book any accommodation in case of a […]

The area of Woodhill Forest depicted in the image on the right is strictly embargoed. It is also private property, and unauthorized access will potentially result in orienteering losing its access to the entire Woodhill Forest.

PAPO are thrilled to be hosting the 2026 New Zealand Secondary School Orienteering and Rogaine Championships in and around Ōtautahi Christchurch, from Thursday 16th July to Sunday 19th July 2026. The following embargoes will apply to competition areas. An embargo is an out of bounds restriction over specific dates, which prevents athletes accessing  competition area prior […]

This embargo applies to all North Island Secondary School Orienteering Champs events. Anyone found breaking this embargo or intentionally trying to gain an unfair advantage will be disqualified from competing or coaching at the relevant event. Friday 17th April SPRINT Spotswood (Spotswood Primary, Rangiatea, Spotswood College)Saturday 18th April LONG DISTANCE  Barrett Domain Sunday 19th April RELAY […]

(1) ONZ Sprint Distance – Friday 3 April 2026 – Rathkeale College, Willow Park Drive, Masterton All building and grounds at Rathkeale College are embargoed to all orienteers until the day of the event. Exception is for genuine educational purposes. (2) ONZ Middle Distance – Saturday 4 April 2026 – Rewanui Forest Park, Blairlogie The […]

On behalf of Orienteering Bay of Plenty and Taupo Orienteering and, hosts of the Tūāraki NorthRegional Orienteering Championships 2025, we advise the following embargoes applying tocompetition areas. An embargo restricts athletes access to competition areas prior to the competition taking place, toensure unfair advantage is not gained by people visiting the area prior to competition. […]

M A Y 2 0 2 5M e m b e r n e w s & v i e w s | M A Y 2 0 2 5Banner image 📷 Mia Abernathy captured fence-jumping action at the Red Kiwi School Individual ChampsAll submissions welcome for Jan to Nov news by the 20th of […]

UPDATED – 22 September 2025 Updated schedule and embargoed areas for the 2026 Kings Birthday Championships (incorporating the Auckland Triple Crown Championships) Due to overlapping events, the schedule has been revised as follows: 30 May – Saturday – Day 1 Event: Sprint Start: 2:00pm Location: Avondale College or Rangitoto College – “Bree” 31 May – […]

Four days of Oceania racing, a warm-up weekend and two training days are being prepared by orienteering clubs of the lower North Island. The  warm-up events are on 18-19 January in Taranaki, followed by training maps in the lead-up to the four official Oceania 2025 races from 24-27 January. Oceania 2025 is supported and sanctioned by both Orienteering […]

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Auckland Orienteering Club (AOC) is hosting the trial middle race (Riverhead) on Saturday 16 March and North West Orienteering Club (NWOC) is hosting the trial long race (South Head/Woodhill) on Sunday 17 March. Public races will be held on both days following the JWOC race starts.Read JWOC2024 selection noticeEmbargoes:The following embargoes apply to competition areas. […]

Orienteering Bay of Plenty and Taupo Orienteering are delighted to host the NZ Foot Orienteering Champs in easter 2024. Planning is well underway, and we will be publishing the first bulletin in the near future. In the meantime, orienteers are advised that embargoes are now in place for the competition areas with immediate effect. Embargo […]

The New Zealand Orienteering Championships 2023 will be held Friday 7th April 2023 to Monday 10th April 2023 in Hastings and Elsthorpe, hosted by Hawkes Bay Orienteering Club. (Plus a knock out Sprint Tuesday 11th April 2023). Bulletin One will be published as soon as possible. This embargo applies to all New Zealand Orienteering Championship […]

Counties Manukau Orienteering Club and Orienteering Waikato formally invite you to attend an exciting weekend of orienteering at King’s Birthday in June 2023. The events also incorporate the Tūāraki-Northern Regional Championships for 2023. Saturday 3 June – Sprint Distance – Waikato University, Hamilton Sunday 4 June – Long Distance – Waiuku Forest South Monday 5 […]

The 2023 Taitonga South Island Orienteering Champs (SIOC) will be held in the Nelson / Tasman area during the last weekend of January 2023 on Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 January, hosted by Nelson Orienteering Club. The Embargo Notice, accessible via the link, applies to all SIOC 2023 events. Anyone found breaking this embargo or […]

Te Tau Ihu NavSport Festival 2023 – Nelson / Marlborough 8-15 July 2023

Nelson OC, Marlborough OC and the NZ Rogaining Association are hosting three navigation based events for School A

The area of Woodhill Forest outlined on the map below is embargoed for all participants in the 2022 Tūāraki North Regional Orienteering Championships. Moreover, the area is all private land and there is no access without the specific written permission of the landowners. The area covers The Hedley Dunes and Karaka Swamp maps (a) north of Hedley […]

Orienteering Bay of Plenty are hosting the NZ MTBO Champs in and around Rotorua on the 19th and 20th November 2022. The following embargo notices apply for the Middle and Long Distance events: Cougar Park, Tokoroa (Long Distance Champs) – the main riding area at Cougar Park is embargoed from 14/07/2022 until 21/11/2022 and may not be visited […]

The 2022 New Zealand Orienteering Championships will be held in the Nelson / Tasman over Easter weekend 15th – 18th April 2022 hosted by Nelson Orienteering Club The Embargo notice has been updated to version 3 (02/03/2022) with updated areas – Relay location moved from Rabbit Island East to West. The Embargo notice was previously […]

Nelson Orienteering Club are excited to announce the initial embargo notice for the New Zealand Orienteering Champs 2022. The Sprint Distance embargo covers the campuses of Hampden Street School, Nelson College and the Braemar Campus of Nelson Hospital. The Long Distance embargo covers the whole of Canaan Downs but still allows access from the Harwood […]

Two weeks to enter the Nationals! A week ago, we at Orienteering Wellington outlined our plans to proceed with the NZ National Orienteering Championships (‘Nationals’) and the criteria for making a decision. The Government has this week given clear direction that Auckland will still be in COVID-19 Alert Level 2 as of 30 September, with […]

Ngā mihi nui! We’re delighted to let you know where we’re at with planning for the 2020 ONZ National Foot-O Championships. Further to Orienteering NZ’s recent major events update, Orienteering Wellington would like to present our plan for the 2020 Nationals. Our key considerations in developing this plan have been to ensure the safety of competitors and […]

The two areas of Woodhill Forest and adjacent land are embargoed to any participants in the JWOC/WUOC trial and public races being held in Auckland on Saturday 21 March (middle) and Sunday 22 March (long) 2020.

Latest Embargo notice for Oceania Orienteering NZ champs 2021  Read the full document and fire us some of those great questions that always follow an embargo map post. We have been following the IOF recommendations as closely as possible and some good technical discussions have been floating around. Many thanks to all the NZ technical […]

The area covered by red shading on the map below is henceforth embargoed until the end of the Oceania Orienteering Championships, January 2021.

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