Welcome!
Orienteering is a sport for everybody by its character and extent. The sport is modern, dynamic, easy with high effect on physical condition and relaxation, moreover completely connected with nature. The age does not affect, flexibility for every age according to category, gender, distance and level of orientation. The age categories are divided from age of 10 to category – over 65 years old – the early born.
The task for every participant after getting a detailed map by the start is to absolve a course drawn on the map in the shortest time. The course is built on control points, which participant has to find in the forest while she/he is choosing the best route in terrain. The winner is a runner with the best time.
In Slovakia, there are registered 35 clubs and teams in foot-orienteering that are federated in SLOVENSKY ZVAZ ORIENTACNYCH SPORTOV (SZOS) with 650 members. SZOS organize the competitions in all kind of orienteering – day/night foot-orienteering, ski-orienteering and mountain-bike-orienteering.
I hope this information interested you and you will not let it be without feedback. I’m looking forward to meet you personally neither among the by-standing people or in competing field. With salutation: ‘Right direction’
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Dušan Formanko
Head of Foot-orienteering Club
TJ Rapid Bratislava