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06.08.2024 North America crowns its champions this week in Ontario
The biennial North American Orienteering Championships start this Tuesday in Canada’s Ontario region and feature five championship races over the coming days. The first race is the individual sprint, then there’s a Sprint Relay on Wednesday before Thursday’s Knock-Out Sprint concludes the sprint races, all taking place in the city of Kingston, Ontario. Here the […]

04.08.2024 WMOC: Challenging sprint final in Turku
More than 3,200 masters athletes took part when the first final at the World Masters Orienteering Championships in Finland was run on Sunday. The sprint final took place in central Turku, the host of city the championships, which featured challenging courses with plenty of demanding short leg in a mix of parkland and hard surfaces […]

02.08.2024 WMOC to start in Finland with 4000+ participants
The 2024 World Masters Orienteering Championships have attracted more than 4,200 competitors to the south-west corner of Finland, where the competitions begin on Saturday with the sprint qualification race. 42 nations are represented at the championships, where world masters champions will be crowned in 25 classes from W/M 35 up to W95 and M90. The […]

29.07.2024 WUOC begins in Bulgaria on Thursday
249 athletes from 30 different nations have set the course for the southwestern corner of Bulgaria, where the 2024 FISU World University Orienteering Championships take place in and around the city of Bansko. The first championship race is the Individual Sprint on Thursday in Bansko, where a flat mix of park and urban terrain awaits […]

17.07.2024 New IOF President, VPs and Council Members elected by General Assembly
IOF XXXII Ordinary General Assembly took place on Monday at the WOC 2024 event centre in Pollock Halls in Edinburgh. Delegations from 39 member federations were present – either on site or through the hybrid meeting solution online. Here all the reports and proposals put foreward in the agenda (find it here) were reviewed and […]

16.07.2024 WOC: Rancan and Alexandersson KO Sprint Champions
Riccardo Rancan (SUI) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) claimed the World Championship titles in Knock-Out Sprint Tuesday afternoon. Central Edinburgh welcomed the 72 athletes back from the qualification in the morning with heavy showers for the quarter finals before it eventually stopped raining for the semi finals later in the afternoon. Once again the centre of […]

16.07.2024 WOC: KO Sprint Qualifiers done – time for the finals!
The last day of World Orienteering Championships 2024 started Tuesday morning in western Edinburgh, where the Knock-Out Sprint Qualification took place. Located in a relatively flat residential area, qualification courses between 2,4 – 2,8 kilometers containing many short legs with constant route choice challenges awaited the athletes. All of them trying to make in into […]

15.07.2024 Re-watch IOF’s XXXII Ordinary General Assembly here
The XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly was held in a hybrid format on 15 July 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 11:00 to 15:00 local time (BST). You can re-watch the stream from the GA in IOF LIVE. Find the agenda and more information about the XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly here.  

15.07.2024 Follow IOF’s XXXII Ordinary General Assembly here
The XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly is held in a hybrid format on 15 July 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 11:00 to 15:00 local time (BST). You will be able to follow the stream from the GA in IOF LIVE. Find the agenda and more information about the XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly here.  

14.07.2024 WOC: Switzerland back on the Sprint Relay throne after 10 years
Switzerland won an exciting sprint relay at World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon after a close battle with Sweden, who ended up disqualified. Instead, it was Finland who got the silver medals with Norway taking the bronze. Today’s sprint relay was run on the campus of Heriot-Watt University in the western part of […]