Re-watch IOF’s XXXII Ordinary General Assembly here
The XXXII IOF Ordinary General Assembly was held in a hybrid format on 15 July 2024 in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 11:00 to 15:00 local time (BST). You can re-watch the stream from the GA in IOF LIVE. Find the agenda and m...
2024-07-15
WOC: Switzerland back on the Sprint Relay throne after 10 years
Switzerland won an exciting sprint relay at World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon after a close battle with Sweden, who ended up disqualified. Instead, it was Finland who got the silver medals...
2024-07-14
WOC 2024 kicked off with sprint qualification
The World Orienteering Championships 2024 were off to a great start Friday morning, where the Sprint Qualification was held in the Leith district in northern Edinburgh. An assymetric street plan and artificial barriers c...
2024-07-12
How to follow WOC in Edinburgh
The most prestigious international competition within orienteering kicks off Friday morning in Edinburgh, when the World Orienteering Championships 2024 begin. And there are excellent opportunities to follow the three sp...
2024-07-10
World Orienteering Championships kick off in Scotland on Friday
The highlight of the year in the international orienteering calendar begins on Friday morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, when the 40th World Orienteering Championships get underway. It is a sprint-only World Championships w...
2024-07-08
JWOC: Switzerland and Finland claim relay golds
The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2024 ended with two exciting relays on Saturday morning in Czechia, where Switzerland and Finland claimed the gold medals. The terrain was similar to yesterday’s middle d...
2024-07-06
JWOC Middle: Two golds for home nation Czechia
Home nation Czechia continued to impress, winning both gold medals as the more than 330 athletes ran the middle distance at the Junior World Orienteering Championships on Friday. Compared to Wednesday’s long distan...
2024-07-05
CX80 World Cup in MTBO: leaders geared up for second round
Nikoline Splittorff, Denmark and André Haga, Finland ride over Sprint and Long Distance in the coming days in Latvia to defend their respective leads in the CX80 MTBO World Cup standings. Almost all the top six in the me...
2024-07-04
JWOC Long distance: Bührer wins second gold, Czech reign in W20
There was total Czech dominance in the women’s class as the Junior World Orienteering Championships field went into the forest today for the long distance, where Switzerland’s Matthieu Bührer took the title f...
2024-07-03
JWOC: Shared sprint gold in W20, narrow Swiss win in M20
The teams and spectators at the Junior World Orienteering Championship in Czechia saw a thrilling sprint race on Tuesday, where Elli Punto (FIN) and Michaela Novotna (CZE) tied for the gold in the women’s class, and Swit...
2024-07-02
Podcast: Eef van Dongen on WOC in Scotland and her Knock-Out Sprint bronze from Denmark in 2022
With only four years of orienteering experience, Eef van Dongen (NED) took the orienteering world by surprise, when she won the bronze medal as Knock-Out Sprint made its debut on the WOC-program in Denmark in 2022. In th...
2024-07-02
JWOC: Norway took clear Sprint Relay win
Norway took the first gold medal at the Junior World Orienteering Championships, which began on Monday afternoon with a sprint relay in the western part of Pilsen city, Czechia. An impressive 77 teams were ready at the s...
2024-07-01