MAY 11TH 2016 WOD 5/16

252 927people performed an orienteering course

during the same day at 2013 locations world wide

WORLD RECORD

World Orienteering Day – A record breaking eventOn Wednesday May 11th 2016, the first ever World Orien-teering Day took place all over the world. It proved to be a great success, with more than 250 000 participants all around the world taking part in an orienteering event.

After having finalised the results, the total of participation in the first ever World Orienteering Day stands at 252 927 participants at 2013 locations in 81 countries and territo-ries.

What was once only an idea, has come to be a reality bey-ond what anyone could have hoped. Schools, clubs and enthusiast all over the world made a fantastic contribution, and together managed to beat the world record.

From South Africa to Hong Kong, from Greenland to New Caledonia, from Ecuador to Ukraine, hundreds of thou-sands of youngsters participated in World Orienteering Day. Following the idea “Think globally, act locally”, people all over the world took part in locally organised orienteering events, and celebrated the biggest world-wide orienteering event ever.

- World Orienteering Day has demonstrated that we are truly a global sport and I just want to thank the thousands of people on all continents except Antarctica who organi-sed over 2000 competitions for 250,000 people – well done the world orienteering family, says Brian Porteous, presi-dent of the International Orienteering Federation.

Some figures from world wideOn the next page you will find figures from all countries and territories. Turkey did an outstanding performance with 49408 participants, just ahead of Sweden (35754) and Norway (20368). Almost 60% of all participants come from Turkey, Sweden, Norway, China, Russia and Hungary.

The 5 biggest WOD-events were organised in Hunan (China) with 2462 participants, in Kocaeli (Turkey) with 2176 parti-cipants, in Göksu (Turkey) with 2071 participants, in Tainan City (Chinese Taipei) with 1500 participants and in Mysen (Norway) with 1400 participants.

WOD 2017 and 2018WOD will change to the fourth Wednesday in May next two years. Please book your day for next WOD event!• May 24th 2017• May 23rd 2018

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WOD 2016 - A GLOBAL SUCCESS

OvERviEW Of THE STATiSTiCS WOD 2016

Statistic from WOD 2016During the first World Orienteering Day 252 927 participants took the opportunity to carry out some kind of activity involving orienteering. This page shows the global outcome:

AFGHANISTANALBANIAARGENTINAAUSTRALIAAUSTRIAAZERBAIJANBELARUSBELGIUMBOSNIA HERZEGOvINABRAZILBULGARIA CAMEROONCANADACHILECHINACHINESE TAIPEICOLOMBIACROATIACUBACYPRUS

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2616

2871796235722564444887

435785259

1115334

165046649

416519125

CZECH REPUBLICDENMARKDOM REPUBLICECUADOREGYPTESTONIAFINLANDFRANCEGERMANYGREECEGREENLANDGUATEMALAHAITIHONG KONGHUNGARYICELANDINDONESIAIRELANDISRAELITALY

6832152215353

28864354284317651424220

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4571486

11122717766

128652

7813

JAPANKAZAKHSTANKOREALATvIALITHUANIAMACAUMOLDOvAMONTENEGROMOZAMBIQUENEPALNETHERLANDSNEW CALEDONIANEW ZEALANDNORWAYOMANPOLANDPORTUGAL ROMANIARUSSIASERBIA

620486356

12942164109158558214

10210293

2036891

292514675374

164354493

SINGAPORESLOvAKIASLOvENIASOUTH AFRICASPAINSWEDENSWITZERLANDTURKEYUGANDAUKRAINEUNITED KINGDOMURUGUAYUSAvENEZUELA

611328686

11248736

357541384

49408120

40018343501842179

TURKEYSWEDENNORWAYCHINARUSSIAHUNGARYSPAINUNITED KINGDOMITALYCZECH REPUBLICTAIWAN, R O CROMANIASERBIABRAZILESTONIAUKRAINEPOLANDEGYPTFINLANDAUSTRIALITHUANIAAUSTRALIAFRANCEDENMARKHONG KONGPORTUGALGERMANYSWITZERLANDSLOvAKIALATvIAIRELAND

Participants in % of the total numbers of 252 927Countries & territories: 81 registered

WOD 2016

CHINESE TAIPEI

AN OPEN LiBRARY

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find new ideas from all over the worldAt the website www.worldorienteeringday.com you can find lots of ideas, from 81 countries and territories. There are so many great activities and experiences to pick up on. In the following pages, we have presented photos, maps and how people have used the promotion kit. We would like WOD-or-ganisers to send us short stories about your event, and please attach some photos and maps. We can also download them from ”your page”. We want to include lots of great experienc-es in the next ”WOD info 6/16”.

Evaluation of WOD 2016Next week, all organisers of WOD 2016 will receive an evalua-tion form from the IOF via email. The evaluation is web based and uses the software ”QuestBack”. Please reply as soon as possible and we can involve the results in ”WOD info 7/2016”.

Promotion movieIn few weeks’ time, a promotion movie will be finalised, featur-ing one of the ambassadors of WOD, Ida Bobach from Denmark (Gold-medallist in long distance WOC 2015), when she participa-ted in one of the WOD event in Karlstad, Sweden (photo right).

Contact WOD 2016-2018To get more information regarding World Orienteering Day, please contact:

Göran Andersson; goran.andersson.rf@gmail.comMalin Björkqvist; malin.bjorkqvist@orienteering.org

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GLiMPSES fROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD

A very successful event at Hunan University in ChinaThe Hunan Orienteering Challenge for World Orienteering Day and Orienteering Week of China was successfully held in the “thousand-year-old academy”, Hunan University. This race was entered by 2462 participants with an age span of 4 to 60 years. Among all the groups of participants (individual, team, parent-kid), the 400 parent-kid groups were the most active, attracting a lot of attention. What’s more, over 30 lo-cal and national media from newspapers, Tv, radios to online media have made reports on this event especially with two websites making full live coverage of it and the total audienc-es have reached over 1.2 million.

This event has created several “the first” in China. It is the first orienteering enjoyed by over 2000 runners in the 30-year history of Chinese orienteering, the first orienteering reported by over 30 media and the first full live coverage of orienteering in China.

After the race, most participants said they really had enjoy-ed the game full of fun and challenge and would try similar event in the future. This event will make a great contribution to the promotion of orienteering in China and we will keep endeavouring for the popularization and development of it.

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GLiMPSES fROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD

GLiMPSES fROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD

1ère journée mondiale de l’orientation

Divers ateliers seront proposés aux enfants :présentation de la course d’orientationespace tactique (exercices sur terrain de sport)course nature sur une carte de course d’orienta-tion à l’échelle 1/3500°

Le club de course d’orientation AS. ATLAS vous attend le 11 mai 2016 à l’occasion de la première journée mondiale de L’orienTATion.

Pour participer, rendez-vousà la Base marine nationale de Chaleix (nouméa)le merCredi 11 mai 2016.

Contact ATLASAdresse : 55 rue des Aréquiers - 98809 MONT-DORETéléphone : 752 888 E-mail : ascoatlas@yahoo.frSite web : www.club.quomodo.com/asatlas

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iOf thanks Silva Sweden AB and Emit AS for their valuable support during the WOD 2016.

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