Orienteering sport has been present in Palanka for over 30 years. Our members have always been very successful both in competitions with the 1:50000 and 1:25000 maps and in competitions with International orienteering federation standards (IOF). Our greatest achievements date from the 80s when the members won the medals at the competitions at regional, state and international level. From 1997 there has been a new swing in orienteering and we participate more often and with more members in various orienteering challenges in different age categories.
Also our orienteering club is a well known organiser of biggest international orienteering events in Serbia such as: Vidovdanski Kup, YU Open, Kopaonik Open . As the mather of fact, first ever official IOF World Ranking Event in our country was held in our organisation – Kopaonik Open 2003, which gathered more than 400 competitors from 13 countries.
Because of that, our club will be main organiser of Balkan Orienteering Championships which will be held in the middle of August 2004, and where we expect more than 700 competitors from over 20 countries.
After several years, we again started with “Orienteering school for youngsters”, where we plan to recruit more than 30 new competitors in age 12 to 16 years.

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