Over the next week, the world’s most prestigious orienteering competition will take place – the World Orienteering Championships in Kuopio, Finland.
And you have great opportunities to follow it whether you are at the arenas in Kuopio or at home.
At the arenas:
Find the program and tickets for the arenas on the WOC 2025 website
From home:
All three races, Middle, Long and Relay, will be produced in a high-quality TV production that takes you close to the competitions with lots of modern technology: Drones, running cameras and GPS tracking.
Eight TV providers have acquired the rights to show the World Championships. These are:
YLE (Finland), NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden), SRG (Switzerland), ERR (Estonia), ORF (Austria), CzTV (Czechia) and TV8 Mont Blanc (France).
In addition, the races can of course be followed on IOF TV with English commentary by IOF’s experienced commentators Katherine Bett and Jonas Merz.
Tickets cost 9/25 EUR for one/all races and are available on IOF TV.
Photo: Timo Mikkola
Norwegians can watch the competitions on langrenn.com, where Kjell-Erik Kristiansen will be commentating in Norwegian.
Tuesday’s qualification can be followed on IOF LIVE, where you can find a basic livestream, start lists, live results and GPS tracking.
IOF LIVE is your place to go for start lists, results, GPS-tracking and photos for the whole week.
All times in IOF LIVE are local Finnish time: EEST (UTC +3)