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 […]

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 […]

The World Games started in 1981 as multi-sport events for sports and disciplines that are not contested in the Olympic Games. Orienteering first appeared in 2001. In 2025 we have our largest NZ team attending the World Games in Chengdu, China. You can watch the orienteering action from 8–11 August 2025 all free of charge.  […]

Update 5/6/25 – Kaia Joergensen has declined attending due to study commitments meaning Zara Stewart will replace her. The following selections for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China, 8th-11th August have been finalised subject to participants being current members of their respective Orienteering Clubs and therefore affiliated members of ONZ. MenJoseph LynchTim Robertson Reserve: Matt […]

ONZ is proud to announce the following selections for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China, 8th-11th August MenJoseph LynchTim Robertson Reserve: Matt Ogden Women Kaia JoergensenLaura Robertson Reserve: Zara Stewart Manager/CoachMatt Ogden When will the teams be finalised? More information about ONZ’s selection process can be found here. The teams above are provisional. In accordance with ONZs […]

The 2025 World Games will be held in Chengdu, China from 8-11 August 2025, and will consist of a middle distance, individual sprint and sprint relay. New Zealand is entitled to enter up to 2 men and 2 women. Selection will be based on known form. All athletes interested in selection for the 2025 World […]

Following on from the first sprint WOC July has been another month dominated by sprint orienteering at the international level. The devastating forest fires in Portugal reduced JWOC to also being a sprint only event, making it the third JWOC for which NZL athletes have missed out on the full experience. Be that as it […]

Tim Robertson has taken the biggest title yet of his career with a 9 second victory in the World Games sprint, held overnight in Birmingham, Alabama. Following from two JWOC gold medals, a World Universities title, and silver and bronze in the WOC sprint, Tim finally nailed a really big one with a narrow win […]

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 […]

I apologise that with WOC already under way at the end of June, the June issue of HP News somewhat fell by the wayside. So here you have a combined June/July issue which not only summarises WOC with its highs and lows, but also JWOC which followed hard on its heels and saw Tommy Hayes […]

A fantastic second leg by Tim Robertson took NZL briefly into the lead in the Sprint Relay at the World Games in Wroclaw. After Laura Roberston had run great first leg to come in 8th in the 17 strong field only 26s down on leaders Sweden, Tim powered to the front of the field midway […]

Laura Robertson has produced her nest international performance yet in finihsing 11th in the individual sprint at the World Games in Wroclaw, Poland. Although the World Games field is limited to 40, the majority of the top sprinters were present, albeit with only 2 runners per country rather than the 3 at WOC. Run round […]

The World Games will be held in Wroclaw, Poland 25-27 July 2017   Men Ross Morrison (Hawkes Bay) Tim Robertson (Hutt Valley)   Women  Lizzie Ingham (Wellington) Laura Robertson (Hutt Valley)    

Although orienteering activity has been somewhat scarce during November there has been a lot going on behind the scenes. This includes putting together as far as possible details of training camps in the first half of the year, organizing dates for trials for various teams, and an entertaining weekend of having various members of the HP Squads test running courses for WMOC2017 in Woodhill Forest.

New Zealand has been selected as the Oceania representative for the orienteering events at the 2017 World Games to be held in Wroclaw, Poland from 25-27 July 2017.