IOF

30.07.2014 Organisers for season 2015-2016 ski orienteering events appointed
The IOF Council has appointed Germany as organiser of World Masters Ski Orienteering Championships 2016 and Austria as organiser of Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships in the same year. Ski Orienteering World Cup Rounds 2 and 3 will be held in conjunction with these two events while the season will begin with Round 1 in Lapland, Finland.

28.07.2014 Hanny Allston back at JWOC
Hanny Allston ran at WOC in Italy, and has been coaching at JWOC. The Australian World Champion from 2006 will continue with both. She has big ambitions. “How is it to be a coach? I love it”, Hanny smiles. The Australian has been head coach for the JWOC team, and especially the Aussie boys have […]

28.07.2014 Getting to know what to do
For the Swedish juniors there is a very important camp in Norway in two weeks’ time. The promising runners will get to know what they need to do to get success at JWOC in the coming year. A lot of Swedish juniors – also some who are outside the national team for juniors – are […]

28.07.2014 Three seconds from a full haul of golds!
When Sara Hagström, Sweden also had the strongest legs at the end of the Relay, she could be crowned without any doubt the ‘queen of Borovets’. Sara and Mathilde Rundhaug, Norway were close together with about one km of the four km last leg remaining. The Norwegian and the Swede had seen each other quite […]

27.07.2014 JWOC Relay: Sweden supreme!
Sweden, already the most successful nation at the Junior World Championships, had a dream day in the Relay with both women’s and men’s teams taking the gold medals. Both races ended with exciting sprint finishes.

27.07.2014 Split feelings for the first ever Italian medal
Italy has won a medal at JWOC for the first time ever. But Riccardo Scalet has split feelings after the historic race in Bulgaria. The 18-year-old Italian ran quite slowly to the first control to get good contact with the map in this difficult terrain with so many details. It was a good tactic, and […]

26.07.2014 Kirmula: not exactly sixth the third time!
Photo: Erik Borg Miika Kirmula finished sixth in both Sprint and Long, and he expected the same on Middle Distance when he was finishing. The Finn lost half a minute on one control, and about 10–15 seconds on three others. “I didn’t think about winning since I had made the mistakes, but the three smallest […]

26.07.2014 Tommer: careful navigation the key to success
Photo: Erik Borg Sina Tommer was thinking that a place among the fifteen best would be possible. After the last individual race at JWOC she is a world champion. “Mistakes? I wouldn’t say so”. – Not a second? “Well a second here and there, maybe”, smiles the Swiss. She started as number six of the […]

26.07.2014 Hagström: happy to share gold with hotel friend
Photo: Erik Borg How do you think Sara Hagström thinks about her second and shared gold at JWOC Italy? Does the Swede wish she had been faster in the last metres? First Hägström won the Sprint. Then she was just three seconds from gold on the Long Distance. The last individual distance ended with gold […]

26.07.2014 JWOC Middle Distance Final: three gold medal winners!
A technically challenging Middle Distance Final in the Junior World Championships in Bulgaria ended today with two women gold medallists: Sina Tommer, Switzerland and Sara Hagström, Sweden recorded exactly the same time for the 3.1 km course. The men’s title went to Miika Kirmula, Finland.