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25.01.2014 Ski Orienteering World Cup: Relay wins for Russia and Sweden
In two well-fought relay races at Orsa Grönklitt in Sweden, Russia won the women’s race, 38 seconds ahead of Sweden at the finish. The order was reversed in the men’s relay with Russia behind Sweden by 56 seconds.

23.01.2014 Ski Orienteering World Cup: Bulgarian victory after chasing start
Today’s race was in two parts: a Sprint prologue in the morning followed by a chasing start shortened Middle distance in the afternoon. In the men’s race this afternoon Stanimir Belomazhev, Bulgaria came through from eighth position and 25 seconds down to take the win in a thrilling sprint finish. Tove Alexandersson was able to hang on to her lead to win the women’s race.

23.01.2014 Alexandersson and Lamov lead after Sprint prologue
Fastest in the Sprint prologue this morning were Tove Alexandersson SWE, with an impressive 35-second lead over Sonja Mörsky FIN, and Andrey Lamov RUS, who was 9 seconds faster than his compatriot Kirill Veselov.

22.01.2014 IOF FootO Event Advisers’ Clinic in Tallinn, Estonia
The IOF Rules Commission will be organise an IOF Event Advisers’ Clinic in Tallinn, Estonia during 22-23 March 2014. The clinic is organised for the education and recruitment of new IOF licensed Foot Orienteering Event Advisers.

22.01.2014 Ski Orienteering World Cup: Lamov continues in winning form
It was a Russian double in the first World Cup race over Middle distance at Orsa Grönklitt, Sweden today. Tatyana Rvacheva got the better of home athlete Tove Alexandersson with a 56-second victory in the women’s race, whilst in the men’s it was another win for Andrey Lamov, this time by 30 seconds over Hans Jørgen Kvåle, Norway.

21.01.2014 IOF MTBO Event Advisers clinic in Bornholm, Denmark
The IOF MTB Orienteering Commission will be organising an IOF Event Advisers' and Organisers' Clinic in Bornholm, Denmark during 13-14 April 2014, in conjunction with the Danish MTBO Camp. The clinic is organised for the education and recruitment of new IOF licensed MTB Orienteering Event Advisers and the education of MTBO organisers.

21.01.2014 Buy live TV broadcast from European Ski Orienteering Championships
There will be live TV broadcasting from the  European Ski Orienteering Championships in Tyumen, Russia. The races to be broadcast are: Mixed Relay on March 7, Sprint on March 8, Long Distance on March 9 and Relay on March 12.

19.01.2014 Rvacheva and Lamov head World Cup standings
After 5 of the 12 individual races in this season’s Ski Orienteering World Cup, Tatyana Rvacheva, Russia continues to lead the standings despite being beaten in both of the races in Norway this weekend. She is ahead of Tove Alexandersson by 20 points. There is then a big gap of 70 points down to third-placed […]

19.01.2014 Tove – “One more winter of SkiO”
Tove Alexandersson has now found her flow with map and skis, and won both World Cup races in Norway. The remarkable Swede, who tops the ranking lists in both winter and summer, has foot orienteering as her main sport, but she wants to continue competing the whole year. “At least I want to go for […]

19.01.2014 “At ESOC I hope to be in better shape”
Andrey Lamov won both races in Norway, and showed impressive speed in the forests close to where WSOC will be next winter. – Can you do better than this at ESOC later in the winter – at home in Russia? “Yes, I hope so”, Lamov smiles. Now he has four more important races this week. […]