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02.03.2015 Best in summer, best in winter – IOF Athlete of March 2015
When the normal space in the Athlete of the Month table is not enough for the career highlights of a 22-year-old athlete, then it is clear that we are talking about someone extraordinary.

25.02.2015 Senior Event Adviser Guidelines published
Guidelines for the work of IOF Foot Orienteering Senior Event Advisers (SEAs) are now available on the IOF website.

24.02.2015 Seminar for future European Youth Championships organisers
The European Working Group is organising a seminar for future organisers and potential future organisers of European Youth Orienteering Championships.

24.02.2015 Dates for 2016 Orienteering World Cup Round 1 changed
The opening round of the Orienteering World Cup 2016 will be held in Wroclaw, Poland. The dates have now been changed to 30 April – 2 May 2016. The events are held as Pre-World Games events. The World Games 2017 will be held in Wroclaw in August 2017.

20.02.2015 All current and future event information only in IOF Eventor
As the IOF now has started to use the new IOF Event Management Service IOF Eventor, all information about current and future events will be found there in the future.

19.02.2015 High Level Event Seminar presentations available
The presentations from the High Level Event Seminar held in Tallinn are now available on the IOF website.

19.02.2015 Czech Republic’s first skiO relay medal
The Czech Republic was the fifth team to finish on the last leg, but a lot happened and they climbed up to the third position. The anchors of both Finland and Norway were taken out of the relay on the last leg before finishing. On the second leg the Norwegian had jumped over a control, […]

19.02.2015 Finally the very best
Sergey Gorlanov has been picking a lot of medals at international level, but one thing was missing ahead of the relay that ended the Junior World Championships in Norway. Russia had an incredible team with Sergey Gorlanov and two of the JWSOC winners earlier in the week. Sergey started as number two on the second […]

19.02.2015 “We have so much fun”
The Swedish junior girls impressed a lot during JWSOC in Norway, and also after the relay their faces were like they almost always were. On the Middle Distance it was a triple for Sweden in the junior women’s class. There was no doubt about who were the favourites for the relay, but Sweden ended as […]

19.02.2015 “I can’t believe it!”
Liubov Balandia of Russia skied an incredible last leg in the women’s juior relay and finished a long time before the second best team. “It was very hard, but I tried to be the very best”, smiles Liubov. “I can’t believe we’ve got gold”. She started first and finished 2.40 before Finland. Liubov is from […]