World TrailO Championships: close results after PreO Day 1
Jonatan Furucz, Slovakia (still a junior) and Michael Johansson, Sweden lead the Open and Physically Challenged classes respectively at the end of Day 1 in the PreO competition, held on a hot and sunny day in the area of...
2025-08-27
How to follow the 2025 European Orienteering Championships
Spectacular and audience-friendly orienteering experiences await when the 2025 European Orienteering Championships take place in Belgium from Wednesday to Sunday this week. Whether you follow the competitions, which also...
2025-08-25
Podcast: Yannick Michiels and Tille de Smul – EOC 2025 preview
Belgium is hosting its first major IOF championship, as the 2025 European Orienteering Championships and World Cup Round 2 takes place this week. Newly crowned World Games sprint champion Yannick Michiels and 21-year-old...
2025-08-24
Back in the fast shoes: European Championships kick off in Belgium Wednesday
Next week, the world’s best orienteers will compete for medals and World Cup points on Belgian soil for the first time when the European Orienteering Championships take place in the towns around Hasselt in the northeaste...
2025-08-23
Splittorff and Ludvik lead CX80 MTBO World Cup after WMTBOC
Everything is in place for an exciting end to this year’s CX80 MTBO World Cup in Bulgaria in September after last week’s World Championships in Poland. The four races of the championships also counted towards...
2025-08-19
CX80 WMTBOC: Czechia wins both relays after thrilling action
Czechia delivered a strong finish to an already great series of Czech achievements at CX80 MTBO World Championship by winning both the women’s and men’s relays on Sunday morning. The MTBO athletes’ fina...
2025-08-17
MTBO Long Distance: second golds for Saarela and Ludvik
Ruska Saarela, Finland and Vojtech Ludvik, Czechia both recorded their second victory in the CX80 WMTBOC today, Saarela by 18 seconds and Ludvik by just over 3 minutes. Czechia’s men were wholly dominant, packing four ri...
2025-08-16
MTBO Mass Start: Splittorff back to winning ways, sprint finish for men’s medals
Nikoline Splittorff, Denmark was back at her best today, winning the Mass Start by 3.21, whilst Czech rider Vojtech Ludvik won by 2 seconds in a thrilling men’s finish where second place was decided by a split second. Th...
2025-08-14
CX80 WMTBOC: first gold medals to Finland and Czechia
Ruska Saarela, Finland and Krystof Bogar, Czechia won the Sprints on challenging courses in Poland today; the lead changed several times in both races. Saarela finished fastest by 0.25, whilst Bogar’s win was by an impre...
2025-08-12
World Games: Narrow Swiss win in Sprint Relay
Switzerland defended its World Games title in the Sprint Relay ahead of Sweden and the Czechia as the athletes in Chengdu, China ran the final orienteering competition on Monday morning. And the competition, which, like ...
2025-08-11
MTBO stars head for CX80 World Championships in Warsaw
Danish rider Nikoline Splittorff will be going all out to repeat her set of three individual European Championship wins this year when the international MTBO stars meet up for the CX80 World MTBO Championships, being hel...
2025-08-10
World Games: Sprint medals for Hungary and Spain, while Aebersold and Michiels claimed golds
Sunday’s sprint at the World Games in Chengdu, China, featured several surprises. Both Hungary and Spain won orienteering medals for the first time in World Games history, while gold medals went to Simona Aebersold...
2025-08-10