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09.10.2013 Draft rules and instructions for PreO Relay published
The IOF Trail Orienteering Commission has published a document that cointains instructions on how to organise a PreO relay, and draft rules for a PreO relay.

09.10.2013 An interview with Morihiro Horie
Morihiro Horie has been the leading ski orienteer in Japan for 11 consecutive years, but he is also concurrently working full-time for Arc Communications. This interview has been first published on Arc Communications’ homepage. Arc Communications president and CEO Mariko Ohsato is also a ski orienteer –with an even longer experience than Mr. Horie– and […]

09.10.2013 Council meeting coming up
The IOF Council will meet in Prague, Czech Republic, next week.

09.10.2013 Lars Jakob Waaler winner of the unofficial European Cup in TrailO 2013
The last two events of the unofficial European Cup in Trail Orienteering (ECTO) took place in a rainy Plitvička Jezera, Croatia. Lars Jakob Waaler from Norway was in a clear lead before these two competitions. The only one who could threaten him was his compatriot Martin Jullum. To win the overall Cup Jullum would have to win both competitions in Croatia, and Lars Jakob would have to finish 7th or worse.

08.10.2013 Minnas’ decision about the future
For Minna Kauppi the World Orienteering Championships on homeground were the main goal for the season. In the last World Cup races she didn’t perform as well as earlier. What will happen now? Will she have the motivation to continue another year? The nine-fold World Champion had planned to get to celebrate gold at the […]

06.10.2013 Kyburz: “Great to win again”
Matthias Kyburz won the World Cup overall for the second year in a row. He has stayed in top shape for the whole year, but maybe not at his best in some important weeks. “I felt hard competition from Daniel Hubmann and it is great to achieve it again”, he says. Last year he got […]

06.10.2013 Simone honoured by Swiss President
The three best in the Women’s Overall World Cup: 2. Tove Alexandersson, 1. Simone Niggli, and 3. Annika Billstam. Photo: Erik Borg Simone Niggli is one of the biggest sports names in Switzerland. The country’s President came to her last competition on the international scene. In the centre of Baden, 30 kilometres north-west of Zurich, […]

06.10.2013 Simone honoured by the President
Simone Niggli is one of the biggest sports names in Switzerland. The country’s President came to her last competition on the international scene. In the centre of Baden, 30 kilometres north-west of Zurich, it ended as it very often has ended since 2001 in international orienteering. Simone won, and smiled. With this victory in the […]

06.10.2013 World Cup: Niggli and Kyburz take final honours
Simone Niggli achieved her season’s final goal today – winning the Sprint in Baden and also the World Cup overall. Tove Alexandersson, who needed to finish second to remain ahead if Simone won, could only manage fourth place. Matthias Kyburz, leader in the men’s standings before today, rounded off a superb season in style with a resounding victory.

05.10.2013 Daniel Hubmann – “I have no plans for stopping”
Three of Switzerland’s stars with map and compass are stopping their orienteering careers this autumn, but there is one who has no plans for quitting. Daniel Hubmann is simply looking ahead. On the Middle distance he showed great strength and won a fresh World Cup victory. After a couple of years with injuries he is now […]