New find rewrites Orienteering history: bike orienteering started first!

Some fascinating information about the very start of Orienteering has recently been unearthed in Austria. It has been discovered that two issues of the newspaper Radfahr-sport, published in Vienna, report a public bicycl...

2020-06-11

IOF FootO Commission Meeting Minutes Published

The minutes of the latest IOF FootO Commission meeting have been published. You can find them on the commission’s page, here....

2020-06-08

Cancellation of the World Trail Orienteering Championships 2020

The organiser of the World Trail Orienteering Championships 2020 (WTOC) in Hong Kong has informed the IOF that due to uncertainties surrounding the effects of the Corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic, they are not able to or...

2020-06-05

European Orienteering Championships 2021 will be in Switzerland

The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) together with the  local organising committee of the Orienteering World Cup, Verein Swiss Cup, are pleased to announce that the World Cup round which was scheduled to be he...

IOF General Assembly 2020 – Important information

Planning for the first ever fully online General Assembly of the IOF, to be held on July 10, 2020, is progressing. The IOF is teaming up with LUMI to provide a proven interactive solution for the digital meeting. Althoug...

2020-05-27