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03.07.2025 World Orienteering Championships kick off in Finland on Tuesday
Finally, it’s time for the highlight of the 2025 international orienteering season, when the World Orienteering Championships begin in Kuopio, Finland on Tuesday. 274 athletes from 45 nations are ready to compete for the most prestigious titles in the world of orienteering over three forest distances during the week. In the technically and physically demanding […]

03.07.2025 JWOC Relay: Sweden and Switzerland take final golds in Trentino
The 2025 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) concluded on a high note in Baselga di Piné, Italy, with Sweden and Switzerland claiming the final relay titles in the men’s and women’s events after a week-long festival of youth sport with 350 athletes from 41 nations. In the men’s Forest Relay, Sweden’s Hannes Mogensen delivered a […]

02.07.2025 JWOC Middle: Csoboth (HUN) and Skachova (CZE) won exciting races
On the last individual race day at the 2025 Junior World Orienteering Championships, Hungary’s Marton Csoboth and the Czechia’s Viktorie Skachova emerged as the strongest competitors in the demanding middle distance race. The area around the Laghestel Biotope near Baselga di Piné set the stage for a dramatic contest in the somewhat dense and technical […]

30.06.2025 JWOC Long: Golds for Hjerne (SWE) and Bolehovsky (CZE)
The athletes at the Junior World Orienteering Championships said goodbye to the sprint disciplines and started the forest distances on Monday morning. Here the tough long distance awaited – 8.0 kilometers with 410 meters of climb and 10.0 kilometers (500 meters climb) for the women and men respectively. It was perhaps a few degrees colder […]

29.06.2025 JWOC Sprint: Golds for Sannwald (SUI) and Ingierd (NOR)
The athletes competing at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Northern Italy had another warm race day on Sunday morning’s individual Sprint. Today’s race took place in the small picturesque Dolomite town of Cembra and featured a course that constantly offered route choice-challenges in the asymmetrical streets between the stone houses. Jonas Fenne Ingierd (NOR) […]

28.06.2025 Czechia won JWOC Sprint Relay
Czechia took the first set of gold medals at the Junior World Orienteering Championships Saturday afternoon in Trentino, Italy. The team, consisting of Hana Vitkova, Daniel Bolehovsky, Tomas Urbanek and Lucie Dittrichova was among the leading teams all through the relay and on the final leg, Dittrichova was sent out with a small lead. After […]

26.06.2025 Follow the JWOC 2025 on IOF TV from Saturday
More than 350 of the world’s best junior orienteers are gathered in Trentino in northern Italy for this year’s Junior World Orienteering Championships next week. Five distances await here – first the fast disciplines Sprint Relay and Sprint on Saturday and Sunday before the competitions move into the forest from Monday, where the hilly long […]

24.06.2025 Bejmer and Alexandersson lead World Cup after Idre Fjäll
Swedish dominance at the top of the 2025 Orienteering World Cup after the first round, which was held in Idre Fjäll, Sweden last week. In the men’s category, it is Saturday’s winner of the middle distance, Max Peter Bejmer, who has taken the lead at the top of the standings, which are dominated by Swedish […]

22.06.2025 World Cup: Swiss women and Swedish men claimed the relay wins on Sunday
Switzerland’s women and Sweden’s men took the relay victories as the first World Cup Round of 2025 concluded on Sunday afternoon in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Sunday was the warmest day of the week and the 40 teams in the women’s relay started out in sunshine in what was to prove to be an intense relay. […]

21.06.2025 World Cup: First victory for Bejmer, Alexandersson takes another win
People will be talking about control 8 for a long time. On both the men’s and women’s courses at Saturday’s Orienteering World Cup Middle distance race in Idre Fjäll, Sweden, that control point proved very decisive. Placed on a slope after a relatively long leg, the control cost so much time that many positions were […]