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20.05.2025 WOC reaches large TV audience this year
When the world’s best orienteers meet in Kuopio, Finland to compete at this year’s World Orienteering Championships, the three medal races will receive great attention. Seven national broadcasters have acquired the rights to show the prestigious races live when they take place from July 9-12, 2025. These are YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden), SRG […]

19.05.2025 Changes to World Ranking in TrailO with new PreO Sprint format
The new PreO Sprint format is the equivalent of a “middle distance” orienteering event. PreO Sprint is a fast format with a focus on accurate decisions. Course length and decision times are much shorter than a classic PreO, but the number of correct decisions is still the primary classifier. Making fast decisions on whether a […]

19.05.2025 Splittorff and Maišelis lead in CX80 MTBO World Cup
Nikoline Splittorff, Denmark has maximum points and Lithuanian Jonas Maišelis is ahead of last year’s runner-up, the Czech rider Vojtech Ludvik, by 31 points after Round 1 of the CX80 World Cup just completed in Lithuania. Nikoline Splittorff on her way to the middle distance gold on Friday. Photo: Donatas Lazauskas Splittorff was the queen […]

18.05.2025 Aprèsport European MTBO Championships: Mixed Relay won by Czechia
After a neck-and-neck race for much of the last leg, Czechia took gold ahead of home nation Lithuania, with Sweden overcoming an early mistake to take bronze. Krystof Bogar for Czechia and home rider Ignas Ambrazas were together for a large part of the final leg, and at the spectator passage there was no telling […]

17.05.2025 Aprèsport European MTBO Championships: Third gold for Splittorff, Bettega takes men’s title
Nikoline Splittorff (DEN) took a crushing victory in today’s sprint, winning her third gold medal in three days at the European MTBO Championships and CX80 MTBO World Cup in Lithuania. In the men’s event, Italian Fabiano Bettega won his first gold medal at an international championship by a large margin. Splittorff was not the fastest […]

16.05.2025 Aprèsport European MTBO Championships: second gold for Splittorff
IOF World Rankings leader Nikoline Splittorff, Denmark took her second gold in the Middle Distance race today; it was a home win for Jonas Maišelis in the men’s race. The winning margins were 0.24 and 0.10. Splittorff has started the new season in scintillating form, but it was only in the later stages of the […]

15.05.2025 Aprèsport European MTBO Championships: first golds to Denmark and Finland
Danish rider Nikoline Splittorff and Samuel Pokala, Finland are the two gold medalists in today’s Mass Start event, Pokala winning by just 8 seconds and Splittorff by an impressive 4.16. Splittorff, world champion in Mass start and clear winner in the CX80 MTBO World Cup last year, made a strong start to the new season, […]

13.05.2025 New procedure for P class eligibility in TrailO
Competitors who have a permanent disability that significantly reduces their ability to participate in orienteering events are eligible to be entered for the P class in Trail orienteering. Three impairment types will be considered: mobility (MI), cardiac/cardiopulmonary (CP), and neurological (NI). Starting in 2025, athletes who wish to gain or renew their classification status, should […]

13.05.2025 European MTBO titles on the line in Lithuania this week
The international MTBO season gets underway this week when the Apresport European MTBO Championships begin on Thursday in Lithuania. It also marks the start of the 2025 CX80 MTBO World Cup and includes the European Junior and Youth MTBO Championships. The first competition at the championships is a mass start, followed by middle, sprint and […]

30.04.2025 Podcast: 10Mila 2025 preview with expert commentator Jonas Merz
It’s 10Mila time and you can follow all the action from Finspång, Sweden in the weekend 3-4 May, 2025 on IOF TV. Together with expert commentator Jonas Merz, we look into the terrain, the format and who are the favorites for this year’s relays. Go to IOF TV – tv.orienteering.sport – to get your ticket […]