Swedish Orienteering Federation

Orienteering

Sveaskog has been the official main sponsor since 2003

Sveaskog - the official main sponsor of the Swedish Orienteering Federation since 2003. We have many areas of common interest. Sveaskog supports orienteering at both the elite level and through instructive nature experiences for children and youngsters. Our purpose is to increase interest in Swedish forests.

Read more about the subprojects in the sponsorship work with the Swedish Orienteering Federation:

The National Team

Sveaskog sponsors the national orienteering team. Both the Swedish men's and women's teams are among the most successful in the world. 

O-ring

Sveaskog is the competition sponsor for O-ring, Sweden's largest sporting event. Among the competitors, there are some 20,000 runners representing more than 40 countries. There are classes for everybody - young and old, beginner and elite.

Skogsäventyret

Skogsäventyret (Forest adventure) is a Sveaskog and the Swedish Orienteering Federation joint schools venture for eleven-year-olds, to the purpose of giving the children a positive impression of orienteering and forming an interest in the forest environment.

Today there is popular course material available for teachers to simply and effectively integrate nature study with sports & health. Up to the present more than 70,000 children have partaken in Skogsäventyret.

Naturpasset

Naturpasset (Nature pass) provides a wonderful, map guided tour of the forest. The map is the "pass" out into the forest and the check points. Naturpasset is available in more than 400 areas around and about in Sweden from May to October. You can partake as a family, with friends or alone and no previous knowledge or equipment is required. There is no time press either. Some 40,000 passes are sold every year.

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Facts

  • The Swedish Orienteering Federation is a special sports association administered through the Swedish Sports Confederation. Its main purpose is to coordinate and organise the sport of orienteering in Sweden and represent Sweden in the International Orienteering Federation.

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