24/4/2026 – WOC Team is completely finalised with the inclusion of Jakob Knoef. 15/4/2026 – The Orienteering New Zealand Senior Selection Panel has named Jakob Knoef for the remaining men’s WOC sprint position, in both the Individual Sprint and Knock-Out Sprint. Nathan Borton has been named as reserve for both events. Both these new additions […]

The following athletes have expressed interest in selection for the 2026 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) team:. Women Renee Beveridge Kaia Jorgensen Georgia Lindroos Amber Riddle Laura Robertson Penelope Salmon Briana Steven Zara Stewart Zara Toes Men Nathan Borton Tommy Hayes Felix Hunt Jakob Knoef Joseph Lynch Tim Robertson Kieran Woods Athletes are reminded that any […]

The World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2026 will be held in Genova, Italy from 6-11 July 2026. WOC will consist of a sprint, a knock-out sprint, and a sprint relay. Position Descriptions2026 WOC Manager Position Description ONZ Invites applications for both positions by Friday 20 February 2026. Please send expressions of interest to gm@orienteering.org.nz

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) 2026 are scheduled to be held in Genova, Italy from 6-11 July 2026. WOC will consist of a sprint, a knock-out sprint, and a sprint relay. New Zealand is entitled to enter: Additionally, the current Regional (Oceania) Champions in each format, sprint and knock-out sprint, may be entered into the […]

2026 WOC, JWOC, WUOC and EYOC Team Trial Dates Details of the 2026 team selection trials for the World Orienteering Championships (WOC), Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC), World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) and European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) are as follows: WOC Trials For New Zealand-based athletes: For overseas-based athletes: EYOC / JWOC / WUOC Trials First […]

World Orienteering Champs 2025 |  Kuopio, FinlandA very successful WOC from the NZ team with a few NZ records in the history book from the men’s team. It was also exciting to see our junior step up into competing on the world stage.  WOC Qualification rounds: Zefa the boss, Tim seals it, Rachel is smooth & […]

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC2025) are from July 8–12, 2025 with the main event hub in Tahko, with competition arenas also in Neulaniemi (Kuopio) and the Puijo Stadium area (Kuopio).  The region is Suvo, and Kuopio, the capital of this Finnish lakeland area with wilderness that has ‘thousands of lakes’. The World Championships draws orienteers from around 50 different countries, […]

The Orienteering New Zealand Senior Selection Panel has named the following team to attend the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Kuopio, Finland – 7th-12th July 2005. Information on when these teams will be finalised can be found at the bottom of this post. (races shown in brackets) Women Katherine Babington (Middle)   Rachel Baker (Middle)  Lizzie Ingham […]

The World Orienteering Championships 2025 are scheduled to be held in Kuopio, Finland from 7-12 July 2025. WOC will consist of a Long race, a Middle race,  and a Forest Relay Selection CriteriaAs per the Orienteering NZ G1 Selection Policy the 2025 WOC team will be selected on the basis of For New Zealand based […]

In late 2021 / early 2022 sprint WOC, specifically WOC2024, was named as an event that ONZ could target to really make a mark on the world stage. WOC2022 was thought of as a stage on the way to that goal, although visa and covid problems rather upset the apple cart for that one. Even in […]

The following athletes have been selected to represent New Zealand at the World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland 12th – 16th July: Men Nathan Borton – Auckland Ronan Lee – Hawkes Bay Joseph Lynch – Canterbury Tim Robertson – Wellington Women Lizzie Ingham – Wellington Laura Robertson – Wellington Briana Steven – Canterbury Zara Stewart […]

M e m b e r n e w s & v i e w s | F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 4 Read this content at http://eepurl.com/iLakdQ U p d a t eNotes from the GMView from the ChairE v e n t s2024 NZ O Champs – […]

Read more at: https://mailchi.mp/orienteering.org.nz/compass-point-july-2023 M e m b e r n e w s & v i e w s | J U L Y 2 0 2 3 U p d a t eNotes from the GMView from the Chair E v e n t R e vi e wJWOC achieves NZ record-breaking results […]

In general, June heralds the start of the major European events that New Zealand sends full representative teams to. The first of these, as a precursor to JWOC, was the European Youth Champs, an event which is increasingly being used to build-up to the subsequent M/W20 World Championships. Just over the horizon is also WOC […]

Orienteering New Zealand wishes to announce the team to represent New Zealand at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships (Sprint) in Denmark. The team will be managed by Malcolm Ingham and Anna Robertson (assistant). Congratulations to the following athletes: WOMEN Lizzie Ingham – Taranaki Laura Robertson – Wellington Penelope Salmon – Auckland Imogen Scott – Auckland […]

Orienteering New Zealand is intending to send NZ-based teams to the Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) held in Portugal in July and the World Orienteering Championships (WOC) held in Denmark in June.   ONZ’s National Council has appointed Jenni Adams (PAPO) as manager for JWOC and Malcolm Ingham (ONZ Performance Leader) to lead the WOC Team.  To complete […]

Quite apart from the fact that no New Zealand based orienteers have had the chance for any international representation for the last 2 years, the Covid-induced pause has also brought more starkly into focus the split of the World Championships (WOC) into separate sprint and forest events in alternate years. As a result, ONZ has been […]

In June ONZ announced the Southern Cross team and staff which we had hoped would be travelling to Australia to compete in the Australian Schools Competition.  For the third year in a row, the team included members of the Baker family.  This year the coaching staff also included one of the Baker family.  For those […]

Orienteering Australia hosted a call with New Zealand’s Tim Robertson and Great Brittan’s Ralph Street to discuss their experience of the recent World Orienteering Championships in the Czech Republic. Tim goes into depth about the fortress maze that made up much of the sprint race and Ralph shares his insights on the extremely demanding middle […]

WOC2021 proved both exhilarating and frustrating for many in New Zealand. The latter through the inability to send athletes from home shores, the former because of Tim Robertson’s astounding success in winning a bronze in the sprint. Although mentioned below, I’d like to re-iterate here that, having seen the masses of documentation and regulations that […]

After the loss of Queen’s Birthday 2020 to Covid-19 it was a near-run thing that the 2021 version did not get disrupted by the Canterbury flooding in the week leading up. However, we escaped and a report follows below. WOC2021 is also on the immediate horizon, with Toby Scott and Tim Robertson the only NZL […]

With the loss of Riverhead Weekend to an Auckland lockdown, like January and February, March has come and gone without a real start to the national orienteering scene and we are left looking towards the ONZ Champs at Easter. Fortunately, activity did not grind to a halt everywhere, with a well-attended training camp run by […]

At the ONZ Council Meeting on Thursday 18th March, a decision was made that New Zealand would not be sending New Zealand-based athletes to either JWOC or WOC in 2021. Whilst unfortunate, the likelihood of this decision and the reasons behind it were signaled at the end of last month in both Compass Point and […]

The World Orienteering Championships 2021 is scheduled o be held in Doksky, Czech Republic from 6-9 July 2021, and will consist of an individual sprint, middle and long races, a forest relay and a sprint relay. In the present environment of the Covid-19 pandemic, although New Zealand intends to compete in this event, at this […]

Alistair Cory-Wright has been a national selector for about 9 years, taking on the role after the long time Convenor of Selectors Marquita Gelderman stepped down in 2011 from the 3 person panel. Geoff Greenwood became the Convenor of Selectors, and Bill Edwards filled the other position. Al distinctly remembers when he was on the […]

Well, if I thought April was difficult to find anything to write about, it was nothing on May! However, as (touch wood) the drop to Level 1 appears just over the horizon there is now at least the opportunity for some forward planning for what remains of the 2020 orienteering season. Read on. Malcolm Ingham […]

The IOF has announced that WOC2020 rescheduled for October in Denmark has now been cancelled. The full IOF announcement is here: https://orienteering.sport/nokian-tyres-world-orienteering-championships-2020-and-european-orienteering-championships-2021-cancelled/ . IOF has attempted to reschedule what would have been the first sprint only WOC, including apparently trying to incorporate a sprint into WOC2021 in Czech Republic, but have been unable to find […]

At present it is still the intention of IOF that WOC2020 and JWOC2020 will be held in October. A final decision on this will be made by IOF by 1 July. Given the continuing situation with COVID-19, both domestically and internationally, ONZ will not make any final decisions about participation or team selections for these […]

Season 2020 is underway! A highly successful Lonely Mountain Sprint series saw a strong international field and gave a great demonstration of the new IOF knock-out sprint format. A full report follows, including an analysis of the map choice option of splitting that was used in the semi-finals. Also, as we move into 2020 a […]

The elite knock-out sprint, a WOC 2020 trial, takes place on Saturday at the Lonely Mountain Sprints in New Plymouth. There will be live tracking of both the women’s and men’s finals. Women’s final: start 1800, tracking goes live at 1758 at events.loggator.com/7wiV4g Men’s final start 1830, tracking goes live at 1828 at events.loggator.com/fO1XwA