What is Orienteering?

Orienteering is a competitive international sport that combines racing with navigation. It is a timed race in which individual participants use a specially created, highly detailed map to select routes and navigate through diverse and often unfamiliar terrain and visit control points in sequence. 

In our sprint series, individual runners race with a map, and an electronic key (ECARD or “dibber”) to record when they visited the controls (checkpoints).  At an event, competitors are provided with a map, which they can only look at once their race begins.  The map is marked with the “course” the orienteer is to follow for that race, but not the route they must take – that is up to the orienteer and that is where the skill and strategy comes in.  The course marked on the map for an event will be particular to that event, even if the map of the area has been used before, so every competition is unique and provides new challenges. 

Sprint orienteering series program 2024

Monday 19 February - Pukekohe High School 

Monday 26 February – Wesley College 

Wednesday 28 February – Waiuku College 

Monday 4 March – Rosehill College 

Monday 11 March – Papatoetoe High School 

Monday 18 March – ACG Strathallan College 

Monday 25 March – Manurewa High School

Other Dates Auckland Sprint Champs – 

26 March 

Auckland Rogaine Champs 17 May 

Auckland Individual Orienteering Champs – 31 May 

Auckland Relay Orienteering Champs – 14 June 

Sprint Champs Sunday 26 March invited entries only. Time TBC 

Morning and Afternoon event Placing from morning event determines starting place for afternoon event

The school does not provide transport or supervision at the Orienteering series, but instead, parents need to take their own children.

If you would like your son/daughter entered, please fill out the registration form.