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05.07.2024 JWOC Middle: Two golds for home nation Czechia
Home nation Czechia continued to impress, winning both gold medals as the more than 330 athletes ran the middle distance at the Junior World Orienteering Championships on Friday. Compared to Wednesday’s long distance, the middle distance terrain was more moderately hilly and with several short, technical legs and many contour details to keep track of. […]

04.07.2024 CX80 World Cup in MTBO: leaders geared up for second round
Nikoline Splittorff, Denmark and André Haga, Finland ride over Sprint and Long Distance in the coming days in Latvia to defend their respective leads in the CX80 MTBO World Cup standings. Almost all the top six in the men’s and women’s lists will be among the 114 riders from 15 nations taking part. A Mixed […]

03.07.2024 JWOC Long distance: Bührer wins second gold, Czech reign in W20
There was total Czech dominance in the women’s class as the Junior World Orienteering Championships field went into the forest today for the long distance, where Switzerland’s Matthieu Bührer took the title for the second consecutive day in the men’s class. After two days of sprint races, Wednesday offered a completely different challenge for the […]

02.07.2024 JWOC: Shared sprint gold in W20, narrow Swiss win in M20
The teams and spectators at the Junior World Orienteering Championship in Czechia saw a thrilling sprint race on Tuesday, where Elli Punto (FIN) and Michaela Novotna (CZE) tied for the gold in the women’s class, and Switzerland’s Matthieu Bührer won by two seconds in the men’s. Today’s sprint took place in the historic city centre […]

02.07.2024 Podcast: Eef van Dongen on WOC in Scotland and her Knock-Out Sprint bronze from Denmark in 2022
With only four years of orienteering experience, Eef van Dongen (NED) took the orienteering world by surprise, when she won the bronze medal as Knock-Out Sprint made its debut on the WOC-program in Denmark in 2022. In this podcast episode, she shares her memories from the day and look ahead to the upcoming World Orienteering […]

02.07.2024 JWOC: Norway took clear Sprint Relay win
Norway took the first gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, which began on Monday afternoon with a sprint relay in the western part of Pilsen city, Czechia. An impressive 77 teams were ready at the starting line at 16.15, when the championships were kicked off in front of an enthusiastic audience. Today’s arena […]

28.06.2024 Follow JWOC in Czechia from Monday
The international highlight of the year for junior orienteers begins on Monday when the Junior World Orienteering Championships kick off in Pilsen, Czechia. More than 330 athletes from 38 nations have registered for the championships, which count five races during JWOC week. The youngest discipline on the programme, Sprint Relay gets the party started before […]

24.06.2024 EYOC: Relay wins for Finland, Hungary, Czechia and Sweden
Monday’s relays were the last race at the 2024 European Youth Orienteering Championships in Szczechin, Poland. The more than 400 athletes were back in the forest after yesterday’s sprint and were met by a varied terrain with quite a number of hills and richly-forked courses. Here, Finland’s W16 team with Lotta Laakso, Anni Jantunen and […]

24.06.2024 IOF continues the course towards less climate emissions
The International Orienteering Federation is still well on its way to achieving its goals for lowering climate emissions. This appears from IOF’s Carbon Budget Report for 2023, which estimates the CO2 emissions of the federation in the past year and has just been released. The report has been created by IOF’s Environment and Sustainability Commission […]

23.06.2024 EYOC: Fast sprint in central Szczecin saw new nations rise to the top
The more than 400 athletes at European Youth Orienteering Championships found the fast shoes from the bag on Sunday afternoon, when the EYOC Sprint race took place in central Szczecin. And compared to yesterday’s long distance forest race, there were three new faces on top of the four EYOC podiums after today’s race, which took […]