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18.05.2024 Intense sprints will kick off the new World Cup season
Exactly 230 days after Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Matthias Kyburz (SUI) crossed the finish line under Vicenza’s October sun to win both the KO Sprint titles at EOC and secure the overall 2023 Orienteering World Cup victories, it’s time to kick off the World Cup again. The 2024 season begins with the youngest discipline, a […]

16.05.2024 JWOC 2027 appointed to Poland – Japan will host WMOC 2027
Young orienteers will travel to Poland in three years to race for JWOC-medals, while the slightly older ones set course for Japan and the WMOC races the same year. It is clear after IOF Council’s meeting on May 3rd, 2024, where several organisers of future international championships were appointed. It is the fourth time that […]

14.05.2024 Orienteering events in India attract more than 1000 participants
A number of orienteering events in India over the past nine months have had around 1750 people try their hand at the sport. To date India has had 4 clubs, but four more are on the way, meaning six of the country’s states are on their way to be represented by a club. Several clubs […]

12.05.2024 European TrailO Championships: double TempO medal haul for home nation
The Finnish athlete Lauri Mäkinen won the Final of the TempO competition in a very tight finish where the silver medal was shared and the fourth-placed athlete missed a medal by just 1 second! All that at the end of 9 stations with 5 tasks at each – 45 decision tasks under extreme time pressure […]

11.05.2024 European TrailO Championships: success for Norway and Czechia in Relay
Norway and Czechia emerged as winners of the two relay classes, O and P; the six sets of medals awarded today go to teams from six different nations. All competitors completed a PreO course of 16 controls followed by two TempO stations, and the third-leg athlete had an additional TempO control at the end, in […]

10.05.2024 European TrailO Championships: PreO gold medals to Italy and Norway
Aaron Gaio, Italy and Svein Jakobsen, Norway were the overall winners of the O and P classes respectively after the second day of competition on a cold, sunny and windy day in Turku, Finland. Open class medal winners   Photos: Jari Grönroos Gaio along with Geir Myhr Øien, Norway were the only two competitors to achieve […]

09.05.2024 European TrailO Championships: young Slovakian leads in PreO
16-year-old Jonatán Furucz, Slovakia leads the O (Open) class field after the first day of the PreO competition, held in cold conditions in Turku, Finland. Svein Jacobsen, Norway heads the P (Physically Challenged) Class. Competitors had a 32-control course in forest rich in contour and rock detail, and many were hard-pressed to complete the course […]

07.05.2024 A first! Live TV from Trail Orienteering
The TempO Final at the European TrailO Championships (ETOC) will be televised on Finnish TV and IOF TV as it takes place around the Paavo Nurmi stadium in Turku, Finland on Sunday afternoon, 12th May. This is a first for TrailO, with the whole orienteering world now able to experience the tension and excitement as […]

03.05.2024 WOC 2029 awarded to Sweden
The forest World Orienteering Championships in 2029 will take place in Örnskjoldsvik, Sweden. That was decided by IOF Council during a meeting on Friday. WOC 2029 will be the fifth World Championships taking place in Sweden – the most recent being WOC 2016 in Strömstad. Sweden also made a bid for the World Orienteering Championships […]

02.05.2024 Podcast: 10Mila preview with IOF TV expert commentator Jonas Merz
This weekend, the prestigious 10Mila relays take place in Nynäshamn in eastern Sweden with more than 6000 athletes. IOF TV airs all three relays – Youth, Women’s and 10Mila – from Saturday afternoon and until Sunday before noon, when the Women’s relay is decided. Go to IOF TV In this episode of the IOF Podcast, […]