New Zealand produced one of its strongest ever sprint campaigns at the 2026 World Orienteering Championships in Italy. Across six days of racing in the streets, stairways and hills of Genoa, the team demonstrated speed and tactical excellence against the world’s best, finishing the championships with growing confidence for future international campaigns. Sprint qualification opening eventThe championships […]

Following an appeal being upheld, an independent selection panel was convened to reselect the Men’s team for World Cup 3. In accordance with the ONZ Appeals Policy, the reselections are a result of an Appeals Panel decision approved by the Board and are therefore final and binding and not subject to appeal by any athlete. […]

2025 ONZ Awards were presented at the 2026 National Championships prize giving evening. During NZ Volunteer Week in June, a number of our volunteers were highlighted in our media. The complete list of awards, including performance awards, is listed below.  Services to ONZ Award   |  Rolf Boswell (WK) When Rolf arrived in the Waikato in 2011, the Waikato Orienteering Club had been in recess […]

Update 29/3/26 – The Senior Selection Panel has approved the addition of Zefa Fa’avae and Felix Hunt to the team. The Orienteering New Zealand Senior Selection Panel has named the following athletes to attend Round 2 of the Orienteering World Cup in Skara-Lidköping, Sweden from 28-31 May 2026. Women Rachel Baker, Wellington Georgia Lindroos, Auckland […]

Oceania Sprint Knockout  | Sat 24 JanuaryIt was a flying start for the kiwis escaping NZ fickle summer weather for some warm sprint urban running in the NSW coastal area. The morning’s knockout qualification and quarter final sprints were based at St Peters College, Tuggerah, and the afternoon venue for the knockout semi-final and the […]

The National Orienteering League is back. Reignited.The stakes have never been higher. For the first time, the top 3 of each series will secure automatic World Cup selection. But first, congratulate the 2025 podium placers. Over a punishing schedule of 8 forest tests and 5 sprint showdowns, New Zealand’s top orienteers will battle for the […]

This is the 7th time that orienteering is represented in the 12th edition of The World Games. In 2025, 80 athletes from 24 Federations participated, assisted by 32 team coaches. The IOF with IWGA and local organisers worked extensively on providing well-organised, exciting competitions. Middle event  |  Friday 8 August – Racing in 35°C heat  After a spectacular opening […]

WUOC was a fun-spirited event designed for university students, but the competition was very fierce, with a large number of WOC-level runners. The team felt it was refreshing to race against athletes who were also students, as opposed to the full-time professionals seen in the World Cup and WOC. Unfortunately, some team members faced illness and […]

Orienteering – find your adventure: and that was just the walk to the arena at the not Oceania middle distance in the limestone rocks and cliffs of Flock Hill station. It was a day of sufficient complexity that he/she who made the least mistakes would come out on top. In the elite classes this proved […]