First ever World Games medals in orienteering for Canada, Slovakia and Italy
Three “new” nations can boast of having won a World Games medal in orienteering after Friday’s middle distance race kicked off the Games in Chengdu, China. Slovakia, Italy and Canada joined the exclusive club on a day wh...
2025-08-08
Orienteering at the World Games kick off Friday morning
80 athletes from 24 different federations will have a huge experience this week, where orienteering is once again part of the World Games, which this year takes place in Chengdu, China. From August 7th to 17th, around 40...
2025-08-07
Follow EYOC from Friday to Sunday
The international championships are coming like pearls on a string these weeks, and already on Friday the European Youth Orienteering Championships in Brno, Czechia begin. The championships feature a long distance, a spr...
2025-07-16
WOC: Sweden and Norway took relay golds in Kuopio
Sweden’s women and Norway’s men became world champions when the relays concluded the World Orienteering Championships in Finland on Saturday afternoon. Under a blazing sun, the women set off first below the s...
2025-07-12
WOC: Aebersold takes super narrow win, third long distance gold for Fosser
Both Simona Aebersold (SUI) and Kasper Fosser (NOR) defended their long distance world championship titles on Thursday afternoon in Kuopio, but it happened in very different ways. In the women’s event, it was a raz...
2025-07-10
WOC Middle: First gold for Langedal Breivik, 22nd for Alexandersson
Norway’s Eirik Langedal Breivik and Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson won the first gold medals at the World Orienteering Championships in Finland, when the middle distance was run on Wednesday afternoon. It took p...
2025-07-09
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