IOF

01.10.2014 World Champion that does not count training hours
Svetlana Mironova, our Athlete of October, says she has never counted her training hours or kilometres. Clearly she is training well and enough: this summer she became the long distance World Champion in Lavarone, Italy!

01.10.2014 Word Champion that does not count training hours
Svetlana Mironova, our Athlete of October, says she has never counted her training hours or kilometres. Clearly she is training well and enough: this summer she became the long distance World Champion in Lavarone, Italy!

30.09.2014 2015 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods published
Following approval by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Executive Committee on 20 September, the 2015 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods is now available.

17.09.2014 European Ski Orienteering Championships 2016 awarded to Austria
The European Working Group, mandated by the Orienteering federations in Europe, has appointed Austria as the organiser of European Ski Orienteering Championships and European Youth Ski Orienteering Championships in 2016.

16.09.2014 Unofficial European Cup in Trail Orienteering 2015
The programme and rules for the Unofficial European Cup in Trail Orienteering (ECTO) 2015 have been published.

16.09.2014 Bengt Saltin passed away
It is with great sadness that the IOF has learned of the death of the former IOF President Bengt Saltin (SWE), at the age of 79.

12.09.2014 Minutes from the meeting of the European federations published
The minutes from the annual meeting of the orienteering federations in Europe are now available.

09.09.2014 MTB Orienteering Tour in the USA
The IOF is organising together with Orienteering USA a Mountain Bike Orienteering Tour through the USA.

05.09.2014 New material published on the Youth website
Some new material on how to teach orienteering in schools has been published on the Youth website in the "Materials' overview" section of the website.

04.09.2014 World Ranking Scheme Rules updated with SkiO
A new version of the IOF World Ranking Scheme Rules has been made available on the IOF website. The changes include the addition of ski orienteering rules and clarifications to some of the existing rules points.