Coping with Covid-19 – a varied picture around the world
New initiatives and changed venues, alongside tight event guidelines and some postponements and cancellations; the world’s Orienteering federations are working hard to enable our sport to continue, despite some setbacks....
Clarification regarding organising of World Ranking Events for the season 2021
IOF Office has received questions from several federations and organisers regarding the WRE application process for 2021 due to COVID-19 and the impact on organising events. Therefore the IOF have made below clarificatio...
European Cup in TrailO 2020 cancelled
Due to the continued uncertainty concerning the COVID-19 situation, and cancellation of 4 (out of 10) planned events, the IOF Trail Orienteering Commission has decided to cancel the European Cup in TrailO (ECTO) 2020....
A Glance Back to January 2020 Youth Training Academy in Algeria
The Confederation of Mediterranean Orienteering Federations (COMOF) organized its first Youth Training Academy (YTA) in Algeria in January 2020. “We chose Algeria for this event, to bring orienteering to a new country, w...
Orienteers are adapting to COVID restrictions
In countries around the world, competitive orienteering has been heavily restricted or stopped altogether by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it has become possible more recently for many nations to hold their national ch...