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05.07.2016 General Assembly Focus: Evaluation of Provisional Memberships
One of the major items on the 2016 General Assembly agenda is the evaluation of Provisional Members. At the 2010 IOF General Assembly, the Statutes were changed limiting the length of time that a member could remain as a Provisional Member to 6 years. The reason for this change was that several provisional members were […]

04.07.2016 European Youth Orienteering Championships 2016
This weekend, young orienteers from all around Europe gathered in Poland to meet up, have fun and to compete for medals at the European Youth Orienteering Championships.

01.07.2016 IOF Newsletter – June
The latest IOF Newsletter arrived in email inboxes all over the world this morning, packed with lots of interesting and important reading.

30.06.2016 Cameroon on the map
“All is worthwhile if the soul is not small”. Mouna Nouma should be thinking about these words of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa when he decided to put his small country, Cameroon, on the Orienteering map. On 11th May he joined the World Orienteering Day celebrations, and he tells us now how it went.

30.06.2016 ETOC: Two gold medals for Ola Jansson
The athlete with more medals than anyone else in the challenging discipline of Trail Orienteering once again didn't fail at the decisive moments, winning his third individual gold in the last four editions of the European Trail Orienteering Championships and the first gold ever in the TrailO Relay.

30.06.2016 Strong Swiss team at the middle
The Swiss team always has potential medallists starting in the championships. In this year’s middle distance at WOC they have five(!) men starting. With Fabian Hertner, Florian Howald, Daniel Hubmann, Andreas Kyburz and Matthias Kuburz, the Swiss team has unusually many potential medallists starting. Both Matthias Kyburz and Daniel Hubmann have their own personal starts in […]

30.06.2016 Cæcilie is ready for WMTBOC
After a good number of promising results in the younger classes, Cæcilie Christoffersen moved up to the senior Elite group in 2012. Since then she has become one of the strongest prospects in the MTB orienteering world.

30.06.2016 WOC 2016 environmentally certified
WOC 2016 has been declared an environmentally certified event according to Svensk Miljöbas.

30.06.2016 National Quotas for World Orienteering Championships 2016
The National Quotas for WOC 2016 in Strömstad – Tanum, Sweden, are now published. The quotas for the Long and Middle competitions are based on how the Federations have scored in the last two World Championships. Current World Champions (Sprint, Middle and Long) and Regional Champions (Middle and Long) also have an extra slot, if they are allocated […]

30.06.2016 IOF Athlete of the Month: Maja Rothweiler
The IOF Athlete of the Month for June is Maja Rothweiler!