News from British Orienteering

Countdown to JK 2024: Final Details

The final preparations are well under way ahead of this year's Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering 2024!

Online presentation: how the process to select GBR teams works

To help all aspiring athletes, parents and coaches understand how the GBR teams are selected for Foot O international competitions, Bob Dredge, the chair of both the senior and junior selection panels, is giving an online presentation.

Celebrating our female orienteers this International Women's Day

Today, Friday 8 March marks International Women's Day 2024! This year's theme invites us to celebrate and #InspireInclusion. In honour of the Day, we reached out to some of our female orienteers to find out more about what inspired them to start orienteering, what advice they would give to g...

IOF revision to the sprint mapping standards

The IOF have recently updated the mapping standards there is one major change in specification 105.2 - Retaining earth wall seen only from one side and a number of other small changes.

GB Talent Squad athletes attend training camp in Gower

This Talent camp brought together all three squads (North, South & Scotland) – some 60 juniors – for race simulation training and took place from the 14–18 February. In this blog, Richard Tiley gives an overview of what the camp entailed. 

JK 2024 promo video now live!

Ahead of this year's JK 2024, British Orienteering have released a promotional video to gear up anticipation ahead of the UK's biggest Orienteering Festival!

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