WOC 2025: Qualification kicked off the championships in Finland
The World Orienteering Championships in Finland kicked off on Tuesday morning with the qualification for Wednesday’s middle distance. Here, the athletes were divided into three heats per gender with the goal of fin...
2025-07-08
How to follow the World Orienteering Championships
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 ...
2025-07-07
Podcast: Ida Haapala on running home WOC and having Thierry Gueorgiou as a coach
The 2025 World Orienteering Championships in Finland are just around the corner and can be followed through IOF LIVE and IOF TV. In the IOF Podcast, we had a chance to talk to home nation’s Ida Haapala about qualif...
2025-07-06
World Orienteering Championships kick off in Finland on Tuesday
Finally, it’s time for the highlight of the 2025 international orienteering season, when the World Orienteering Championships begin in Kuopio, Finland on Tuesday. 274 athletes from 45 nations are ready to compete f...
2025-07-03
JWOC Middle: Csoboth (HUN) and Skachova (CZE) won exciting races
On the last individual race day at the 2025 Junior World Orienteering Championships, Hungary’s Marton Csoboth and the Czechia’s Viktorie Skachova emerged as the strongest competitors in the demanding middle distanc...
2025-07-02
JWOC Long: Golds for Hjerne (SWE) and Bolehovsky (CZE)
The athletes at the Junior World Orienteering Championships said goodbye to the sprint disciplines and started the forest distances on Monday morning. Here the tough long distance awaited – 8.0 kilometers with 410 meters...
2025-06-30
JWOC Sprint: Golds for Sannwald (SUI) and Ingierd (NOR)
The athletes competing at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Northern Italy had another warm race day on Sunday morning’s individual Sprint. Today’s race took place in the small picturesque Dolomite town of C...
2025-06-29
Czechia won JWOC Sprint Relay
Czechia took the first set of gold medals at the Junior World Orienteering Championships Saturday afternoon in Trentino, Italy. The team, consisting of Hana Vitkova, Daniel Bolehovsky, Tomas Urbanek and Lucie Dittrichova...
2025-06-28
Follow the JWOC 2025 on IOF TV from Saturday
More than 350 of the world’s best junior orienteers are gathered in Trentino in northern Italy for this year’s Junior World Orienteering Championships next week. Five distances await here – first the fa...
2025-06-25
Bejmer and Alexandersson lead World Cup after Idre Fjäll
Swedish dominance at the top of the 2025 Orienteering World Cup after the first round, which was held in Idre Fjäll, Sweden last week. In the men’s category, it is Saturday’s winner of the middle distance, Ma...
2025-06-24
World Cup: Swiss women and Swedish men claimed the relay wins on Sunday
Switzerland’s women and Sweden’s men took the relay victories as the first World Cup Round of 2025 concluded on Sunday afternoon in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Sunday was the warmest day of the week and the 40 teams in the women...
2025-06-22
World Cup: First victory for Bejmer, Alexandersson takes another win
People will be talking about control 8 for a long time. On both the men’s and women’s courses at Saturday’s Orienteering World Cup Middle distance race in Idre Fjäll, Sweden, that control point proved v...
2025-06-21