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03.07.2014 Buy your LiveCenter pass to follow GPS tracking from World Championships
To guarantee that you can see the GPS tracking from the beginning of the World Orienteering Championships, please buy your week pass in advance.

02.07.2014 Test IOF LiveCenter – and use it during the World Championships
The IOF is at the moment developing a LiveCenter service, which will be the entry point for people wanting to follow IOF Events live or re-live. In the first instance, the service will provide and guarantee high quality GPS tracking from IOF events.

01.07.2014 Drawing route choices the key to success?
Our Athlete of July is aiming to get a medal in Italy, in Sprint relay. Because of previous years’ injuries, Søren Bobach has decided to focus mainly on Sprint this year, to slowly make his way back.

30.06.2014 Spotlight on Italy: count down to World Championships
The count-down to this year’s World Orienteering Championships (WOC) and World Trail Orienteering Championships in Italy is now well under way, with the first WOC races, the Sprint Qualification and Final, on this coming Saturday and the final race, the Relay, a week later.

17.06.2014 A special mapping issue of Scientific Journal of Orienteering published
A new new issue of Scientific Journal of Orienteering, focusing on mapping, has been published by the visiting editor Laszlo Zentai.

13.06.2014 Poland and Switzerland appointed World Cup 2016 organisers
The IOF Council has appointed Poland and Switzerland as organizers of Orienteering World Cup 2016 rounds 2 and 4. The overall program for World Cup 2016 was also confirmed.

12.06.2014 Denmark wins exciting mixed sprint relay
This new race format, being introduced for the first time at the World Championships next month, was trialled in Imatra, Finland today, the second occasion of its kind this year, by many of the world’s best teams. The outcome didn’t come clear until well into the final leg, but Denmark finished clear winners ahead of two Swedish teams and then Switzerland.

11.06.2014 World Cup wins for Wyder and Leandersson
Judith Wyder, Switzerland and Jonas Leandersson, Sweden were the winners of the final in the World Cup Sprint in Imatra, Finland today, in a race with very tight margins – 2 seconds in the women’s race and 4 seconds in the men’s. Both are current European Champions and both won their qualification races this morning.

10.06.2014 Orienteering in Cuba – new issue of Inside Orienteering is available
Inside Orienteering 3/2014 tells about the development of orienteering in Cuba, and about the man behind many development projects in South America, José Angel Nieto Poblete. In addition, we report from the European Trail Orienteering Championships and interview the first-ever European Champion in TempO, Antti Rusanen, Finland.

08.06.2014 Kratov – “I’m not experienced in this kind of terrain”
Oleksandr Kratov didn’t feel very comfortable with the terrain in the Long distance World Cup race in Norway, but on the podium he stepped to the top. The Ukrainian had a very good race, but he didn’t take the smartest route choices all the way. On one of the long legs he lost about two […]