Previous news and announcements

Saturday 15th July

Location: Ascot & Interclub relays

The 2017 Interclub Relays will be at Garvey Park Sprint Map. Teams are organised prior to the event via your club, so if you have entered a team make sure to be there by 12.30pm to completed team registration and be at the briefing and mass start.

The relay briefing will be at 12.45pm and  the mass start at 1pm

Up for grabs is the Rutty Rock Club Relay Trophy. Relay Orienteering is fast, furious fun as the runners come through tagging their

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What did you like? What did you enjoy? What made it easier for you to take part?

We tried out several new things at the recent completed 2016 -2017 Metro Series. Different event times and days, different event types and we gave electronic punching a whirl too. Take our quick online survey via survey monkey and let us know.

It’s simple and we’d love to hear what you think.

Foreign Correspondent Report from New Zealand

The World Masters Games are held every 4 years and this edition is in Auckland with some 28,000 athletes from 100 countries makes for a colourful city and buzz around the cafes and bars.  The opening ceremony was held at Eden Park, the home of the All Blacks, with Mauri dancing, lasers and a few speeches. The WMG is an open competition and the athletes range from Ex-Olympians to the typical “man on the street”, the oldest competitor at 101 years. 

Saturday 29th April 2017

NavDash 4 : Murdoch University

NavDash returns on Saturday afternoon, utilising another of our popular and challenging campus maps.

NavDash are short distance (2-3.5kms), line courses where controls must be visited in the numerical order shown for each course, making the most of the complex buildings and passages of a university campus. The hard courses are navigationally challenging while the easy course is more suitable for novices and children.

The course lengths,

Need a print version of the 2017 Program? The Orienteering Event Calendar 2017 is available as  PDF.

Download and print a copy for your fridge or the car and don't miss an event all year.

Saturday 8 April 2017

Location: John Forrest National Park

John Forrest is a long-time favourite for orienteers and the sprint map based around the Wildflower Tavern makes the most use paths, picnic areas and the bush.

Registration: 1-2pm
Starts: from 1.30pm until 3pm
Beginners Briefing: 1.30pm
Courses available: long, short and easy
Pre-entry is not required.
Event Details in Eventor

If you are new to NavDash perhaps you might like some Sprint Orienteering tips or make sure you arrive in time

The Secondary Schools Championship on Wednesday 21 June 2017 and  Primary Schools Championship on Wednesday 30 August 2017 will both be held at Whiteman Park.

For all queries, please contact the organisers via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

2017 Be Active WA Secondary Schools Orienteering Championship

Entries for this event are now closed but the registration information is available below.

Secondary School Champs

Saturday 20th May 2017

Location: Edith Cowan University, Mt Lawley campus

This Campus offers a lot of choices for Sprint Orienteering, with overlays of buildings added over time making subtle route choices, which will reward the quick thinking as well as the fast moving orienteers.

This event is the first State Orienteering League (SOL) event of the year, which means coming along can earn you points in the Orienteer of the Year awards for 2017. Learn what the SOL is all about. Check the

Saturday 27 May 2017

Location: Canning Vale Collge, Canning Vale

This a newly extended map, so a great chance to be one of the first to run on this popular and now larger map. NavDash provides a quick, easy to learn orienteering experience. Compact areas with complex features set NavDash events apart.

Registration: 1-2pm
Starts: from 1.30pm until 3pm
Beginners Briefing: 1.30pm
Courses available: long, short and easy
Pre-entry is not required.
Event Details in Eventor

If you are new to NavDash

Sunday 25th June 2017

Location: Dale Rd, Karragullen

For the next in the series of Mountain Bike Orienteering events we return to the popular Kangaroo Gully Map, with former national MTBO Manager Ian Dalton setting expect some first class courses to test your MTBO skills.

Registration: 9am - 11am
Starts: from 9.30am until 11.30am
Courses Close: 1pm

Courses available: Long - 34km  Medium- 24km and Short - 13km 

Pre-entry is not required.Registration is on the day.

Post event: Free Sausage sizzle and

Sunday 11th June 2017

Location: Goat Farm Mountain Bike Park

Looking for a different Orienteering experience, this event will be a bit different to your nomal bush event and is set Trail Orienteering style. So while cross country routes will still be an option, longer trail routes will be there for those that want to stretch out and run the tracks.

There will be 3 courses that have been designed to use the tracks and avoid the bush. We encourage competitors to do this event without a compass.
The

Entries for the WA Primary Schools Orienteering Championship close on Friday 4 August.  

The event will be held at Whiteman Park on Wednesday 30 August 2017.

Please review all the information below about the day, specific event details and registration forms.

For all queries, please contact the organisers via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

It is not an April Fool joke! The weekend of April 1st & 2nd will see SWOT hosting a double header event in Bunbury.  Come enjoy Autumn Orienteering in Bunbury.

The weekend kicks offs with courses in the Maidens Park and the southern edge of the city. The Maidens is a triangular section of sand dunes and bush to the south of Bunbury.  The area is one of WA’s only sand dune areas and is a long-time favourite for orienteers.  There is a strong trail network through the park as well as some fine

Ricky Thackray has been rewarded for his great results at the Victorian MTBO championships with selection in the Australian MTBO team heading to the world championship events in Lithuania later this year. After placing 2nd in the sprint, 1st in the long distance and 1st in the middle distance at the event, which were also the selection races, Ricky earnt his place on the Australian team.

Congratulations Ricky!

The Australian MTBO WOC team is Ricky Thackray (WA), Angus Robinson (VIC) and Glen

A break from orienteering in Perth for Easter but there will be plenty of action across the Tasman with the Oceania Championships and the World Masters Orienteering Championships

Best of luck to all those Orienteering WA members, young and old, who are taking part. Some will be in Australian team colours and others for the love of the sport.

Oceania Championships

http://oceania2017.nz/

World Masters Orienteering Championships

http://wmoc2017.com/