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23.12.2024 Asian Orienteering Championships off to a great start in Thailand
The 2024 Asian Orienteering Championships and Asian Youth and Junior Championships got off to a flying start on Sunday morning in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Almost 250 athletes from 10 different nations are competing in the championships, which are being held for the seventh time. The first distance of the championships was a sprint […]

21.12.2024 IOF WOC Clinic 2025 is open for applications
It’s time to apply if you want to be a part of this year’s IOF WOC Clinic, that takes place before and during World Orienteering Championships in Kuopio, Finland in July 2025. The clinic is a 10-day camp arranged for young and promising athletes from less economically strong orienteering federations to develop as orienteers and […]

06.12.2024 Dates are set for World Orienteering Week 2025
It’s time to mark the calendar. The world’s largest orienteering event, World Orienteering Week takes place from May 17th to 25th in 2025. Here orienteering clubs, schools and organisations have a chance to set up an orienteering event with tools and materials from the International Orienteering Federation and join the worldwide orienteering festivities. The event was […]

02.12.2024 Be a part of shaping a new communication strategy for International Orienteering
IOF has started working on updating its communications strategy and is now searching for a professional resource to lead a working group under the IOF Council. The aim of the strategy work is, through the first quarter of 2025, to come up with an easily decipherable and action-oriented communication strategy for the coming years that […]

30.11.2024 Podcast: Eirik Langedal Breivik on his golden middle distance race at EOC
Eirik Langedal Breivik (NOR) took the orienteering world by surprise, when he won the middle distance at the European Orienteering Championships in Hungary in August. It was warm and tough, and the Norwegian steered clear of any mistake in his breakthrough performance, where all the opponents lost time on the technically demanding slopes. In this […]

26.11.2024 Amended regulations for IOF Independent Athlete Status
IOF Council has amended the regulations for IOF Independent Athlete Status which opens up for independent athlete participation in World Ranking Events, and extended the current application deadline to November 30th. The independent athlete system provide san opening for participation by individual athletes from countries where there is currently no IOF member federation. The approved […]

26.11.2024 IOF YLA 2025 is open for applications
IOF Young Leaders Academy 2025 takes place in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy from July 5-13 during the “5 days Italy” race. The academy enables young orienteers aged 16-25 to develop their talent and competencies in developing orienteering – and at the same time network and make friends in the global orienteering community. During the day, […]

26.11.2024 70 event advisers shared experiences
The event advisers are the backbone of IOFs foot orienteering events. Regardless if they are advising organisers of World Ranking Events or High Level Events such as World Cups or World Championships, they provide an important contribution in supporting organisers to deliver events with high quality and optimal fairness. In the weekend of 23rd and […]

19.11.2024 New Map Symbols introduced for 2024/25 Ski O Season
The Ski Orienteering Commission in Cooperation with the Map Commission was working hard over the summer to update the ISSkiOM. The main goal was to create the possibility to organise ski orienteering events on areas and venues that have so far been unattainable for ski orienteering for environmental and landowner reasons. The new symbols also […]

19.11.2024 Open meeting on SkiO Rules and Map symbols on Sunday
IOF’s Ski Orienteering Commission is organising an open meeting regarding the changes to Rules and Map Symbols before the start of the new season. The meeting takes place on Sunday, November 24th at 18:30 CET (UTC+1) and everyone is invited to join. Please follow this link to attend the meeting in MS Teams. The updated […]