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12.07.2025 WOC: Sweden and Norway took relay golds in Kuopio
Sweden’s women and Norway’s men became world champions when the relays concluded the World Orienteering Championships in Finland on Saturday afternoon. Under a blazing sun, the women set off first below the ski jump hills and the iconic Puijo Tower and began a physically demanding relay. Sweden was the pre-favourite and first-leg runner Hanna Lundberg […]

10.07.2025 WOC: Aebersold takes super narrow win, third long distance gold for Fosser
Both Simona Aebersold (SUI) and Kasper Fosser (NOR) defended their long distance world championship titles on Thursday afternoon in Kuopio, but it happened in very different ways. In the women’s event, it was a razor-sharp decision between the favorites Aebersold and Tove Alexandersson (SWE), which made all the spectators in the well-attended arena in Neulamäki […]

09.07.2025 WOC Middle: First gold for Langedal Breivik, 22nd for Alexandersson
Norway’s Eirik Langedal Breivik and Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson won the first gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships in Finland, when the middle distance was run on Wednesday afternoon. It took place in the forest terrain of Neulamäki close to the host city of Kuopio in a technically demanding terrain with many details to keep […]

08.07.2025 WOC 2025: Qualification kicked off the championships in Finland
The World Orienteering Championships in Finland kicked off on Tuesday morning with the qualification for Wednesday’s middle distance. Here, the athletes were divided into three heats per gender with the goal of finishing in the top 15 to qualify for the final. And from the start, they were thrown into demanding Finnish terrain in the […]

06.07.2025 Podcast: Ida Haapala on running home WOC and having Thierry Gueorgiou as a coach
The 2025 World Orienteering Championships in Finland are just around the corner and can be followed through IOF LIVE and IOF TV. In the IOF Podcast, we had a chance to talk to home nation’s Ida Haapala about qualifying for the championships on home soil, having Thierry Gueorgiou as coach and her expectations for the […]

03.07.2025 World Orienteering Championships kick off in Finland on Tuesday
Finally, it’s time for the highlight of the 2025 international orienteering season, when the World Orienteering Championships begin in Kuopio, Finland on Tuesday. 274 athletes from 45 nations are ready to compete for the most prestigious titles in the world of orienteering over three forest distances during the week. In the technically and physically demanding […]

03.07.2025 JWOC Relay: Sweden and Switzerland take final golds in Trentino
The 2025 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) concluded on a high note in Baselga di Piné, Italy, with Sweden and Switzerland claiming the final relay titles in the men’s and women’s events after a week-long festival of youth sport with 350 athletes from 41 nations. In the men’s Forest Relay, Sweden’s Hannes Mogensen delivered a […]

02.07.2025 JWOC Middle: Csoboth (HUN) and Skachova (CZE) won exciting races
On the last individual race day at the 2025 Junior World Orienteering Championships, Hungary’s Marton Csoboth and the Czechia’s Viktorie Skachova emerged as the strongest competitors in the demanding middle distance race. The area around the Laghestel Biotope near Baselga di Piné set the stage for a dramatic contest in the somewhat dense and technical […]

30.06.2025 JWOC Long: Golds for Hjerne (SWE) and Bolehovsky (CZE)
The athletes at the Junior World Orienteering Championships said goodbye to the sprint disciplines and started the forest distances on Monday morning. Here the tough long distance awaited – 8.0 kilometers with 410 meters of climb and 10.0 kilometers (500 meters climb) for the women and men respectively. It was perhaps a few degrees colder […]

29.06.2025 JWOC Sprint: Golds for Sannwald (SUI) and Ingierd (NOR)
The athletes competing at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Northern Italy had another warm race day on Sunday morning’s individual Sprint. Today’s race took place in the small picturesque Dolomite town of Cembra and featured a course that constantly offered route choice-challenges in the asymmetrical streets between the stone houses. Jonas Fenne Ingierd (NOR) […]