Heikkilä and Swiss duo lead World Cup standings before Genoa
Finland’s Tuomas Heikkilä leads the men’s World Cup, while Switzerland’s Natalia Gemperle and Simona Aebersold share first place in the women’s after this weekend’s Round 1 in Olten, Switzer...
CX80 EMTBOC: Europe’s MTBO stars gather in Poland
Poland is the host for this year’s CX80 World Cup first round, the European MTBO Championships, with four days of intense racing scheduled from Thursday to Sunday. 109 athletes from 20 nations will be striving for the me...
World Cup: Knock-Out wins for Hadorn and Alexandersson
Joey Hadorn (SUI) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) took the first Orienteering World Cup wins of 2024 with their victories in Saturday’s Knock-Out Sprint in Switzerland. Yesterday’s heavy rain was nowhere to be seen in sunny...
World Cup: Athletes from 17 nations make it through Knock-Out Sprint qualifiers
The 2024 Orienteering World Cup got underway under very variable weather conditions Friday afternoon in Zofingen, Switzerland, where athletes from 17 out of the competing 32 nations managed to qualify for Saturday’s quar...
Podcast: Simona Aebersold on the World Cup in Olten and the 2024 international season
This year’s Orienteering World Cup begins in Switzerland this weekend with two sprint races. Simona Aebersold (SUI) claimed her first individual World Champs title on the long distance last year, where she was third in t...
Intense sprints will kick off the new World Cup season
Exactly 230 days after Tove Alexandersson (SWE) and Matthias Kyburz (SUI) crossed the finish line under Vicenza’s October sun to win both the KO Sprint titles at EOC and secure the overall 2023 Orienteering World Cup vic...
European TrailO Championships: success for Norway and Czechia in Relay
Norway and Czechia emerged as winners of the two relay classes, O and P; the six sets of medals awarded today go to teams from six different nations. All competitors completed a PreO course of 16 controls followed by two...
European TrailO Championships: PreO gold medals to Italy and Norway
Aaron Gaio, Italy and Svein Jakobsen, Norway were the overall winners of the O and P classes respectively after the second day of competition on a cold, sunny and windy day in Turku, Finland. Open class medal winners P...
European TrailO Championships: young Slovakian leads in PreO
16-year-old Jonatán Furucz, Slovakia leads the O (Open) class field after the first day of the PreO competition, held in cold conditions in Turku, Finland. Svein Jacobsen, Norway heads the P (Physically Challenged) Class...
2024 Finnish Relay League premieres in IOF TV on Friday
The spring really comes to Finland on Friday evening when the 2024 Finnish Relay League kicks off in the southwestern corner of the country. Kevätyönviesti is the first of seven rounds of the league in 2024, where Tamper...
Orienteering season kicks off in Sweden and France on IOF TV this weekend
This weekend, IOF TV invites you to come along to some of the first European FootO-races of 2024, with broadcasts from Swedish League, Swedish Relay League and the French Championships in Sprint Relay. Thousands of orien...
SkiO World Cup: Baklid takes the crown again, Olsson claims first overall women’s title
Another fantastic SkiO season for the Norwegian Jørgen Baklid! He finishes at the top again, retaining the men’s World Cup title for the second year in succession. Magdalena Olsson, Sweden came back to take the women’s t...