The Canadian Championships are coming soon to Halifax, NS.  

With 40 members of Orienteering Ottawa competing, we are looking for some great results.

Ten of our member participants are on the National team or development squads.

Stay tuned.

To everyone out there - enjoy your races, stay focused, have great runs.

Registration is now open for the 2026 Fall Learn-to programs.   

Join in on this new format for the fall programmming.   The sessions will include a 15 minute instruction on the basics of orienteering followed by a 45 minute Score-O  in the nearby park land to practice the skills learned. 

Our 2026 Summer Solstice Series concluded Tuesday night with some 80+ folks joining us for their run on the combined maps of Vincent Massey and Carleton University. 

Following the event and a pizza party the top 10 runners of the series were awarded prizes of amazing cookies from Cookies by Christine picturing a compass, a map snippet of Vincent Massey and an orienteering flag.  Thank you Christine for your remarkable talent.

The winners were:

1. Dylan Revells    
2. Holly Smith
3. James Connell
4. Paul Lefebvre
5. James Purdy
6. Anelin Tikovt
7. Heather Trail
8. Gustavo Bandeira 
9. Andrew Cornett 
10. Jeff Smith

Full results can be found at https://ottawaoc.ca/Results/20260623-Series-Results-to-date.pdf

This year the sprint world championships will be held in Genova, Italy from July 7-11. There will be an individual sprint, a knock-out sprint (qualifier and finals), and a sprint relay.  The Canadian team is :

Robyn Astridge (FWOC/GVOC)
Isak Fransson (DGL)