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09/11/2015 || IOF Athletes’ Licence ||News||

IOF Council have decided to implement an Athletes License system starting with the Ski orienteering season 2015-2016. Please follow the link below to read about the system and implementation. Note! Athletes and Member Federations that are active in the Ski Orienteering World Cup 2015-2016 should pay extra attention since the first Competition start in 26th […]

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09/11/2015 || New application period for WOC 2020 ||News||

The World Orienteering Championships (WOC) are organised every year. In accordance with the decision of the Extraordinary General Assembly of the IOF in Inverness, Scotland in August 2015, odd years shall be organised with forest based competitions and even years shall be organised as urban based competitions. In accordance with the above, all IOF member federations are hereby invited […]

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06/11/2015 || A project to revise IOF Control Descriptions ||News||

The IOF Control Descriptions were last revised in 2004. There have been many developments in the sport since then and the IOF is now starting a process to consider revisions for a new version to be valid from September 2017. Over recent years a number of suggestions for changes have been made. We now invite […]

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30/10/2015 || Plans for the 2016 High Level Event Seminar set ||News||

The annual IOF High Level Event Seminar will be held February 6th and 7th in Riga, Latvia. The seminar has become one of the IOFs most important venues for the sharing of experience and ideas related to the organisation of IOFs major events. The seminar should be of high priority for future high level event organizers […]

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26/10/2015 || Updated Ski Orienteering rules published ||News||

An updated version of the Competition Rules for IOF Ski Orienteering Events was approved by the IOF Council at their meeting October 16 and 17. The new version of the rules, which is valid from November 1, 2015, has been published on http://old.orienteering.org/ski-orienteering/rules/ for download. There is also a convenient booklet in A5 format which can be […]

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19/10/2015 || Mapping Seminar in Sofia 15-18th October ||News||

During the weekend, 15-18th October, eight participants from Egypt, Greece, Cyprus and Serbia took part in an IOF-SEEOA mapping seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria. The programme, lasting four days, was led by five experts from the South East European Orienteering Association, and together with the participants they immersed themselves in the subject of mapping and printing urban and […]

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12/10/2015 || Summary of the Season 2015 ||News||

During 31 WOCs the Danes had taken four golds. At the 32nd championship the Nordic country took the same number of golds. A result of luck? Not at all. A surprise? Not at all! During the last year before WOC in Scotland the best Danes spent almost two months in Scotland. Just before the championship […]

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12/10/2015 || World Cup 2015 review – no change at the top ||News||

Tove Alexandersson, Sweden and Daniel Hubmann, Switzerland finished at the head of the 2015 World Cup standings, just as they did in 2014. Hubmann’s victory was outstanding, with four wins from the ten counting races and a points lead of 234. Alexandersson ran in seven of the races and won the first three.

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