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23/07/2015 || What a month – a finnish future ||News||
Our Athlete of the Month for July is junior Olli Ojanaho of Finland. 18 year old Olli earned 6 Gold medals in a 15 day time period at the European Youth Orienteering Championships and Junior World Orienteering Championships in July. Read more about Olli Ojanaho in Athlete of the month
21/07/2015 || Invitation to Development seminar for mapping ||News||
The IOF and the South East European Orienteering Association (SEEOA) invites you to a Development seminar for mapping and printing sprint and urban orienteering maps. The seminar takes place on 15-18th October 2015 Sofia, Bulgaria. For more information about the seminar, please download the Invitation and don’t forget to download and fill in the entry form.
20/07/2015 || Invitation to FootO Commission seminars at WOC 2015 ||News||
The IOF Foot Orienteering Commission welcomes you to attend two exciting seminars to be organised during the World Championships 2015 week in Inverness, Scotland: Open Forum and Course Setting Seminar for Long and Middle distance.
20/07/2015 || Open “Technology Coffee” to be held in Inverness ||News||
The IOF IT Commission invites everyone to an open, relaxed get-together “Technology Coffee” in conjunction with the World Orienteering Championships in Inverness, Scotland, on 5 August 2015.
20/07/2015 || Update to IOF Protocol Guideline published ||News||
An update to the IOF Protocol Guide has been published. The main changes are related to the clarification of flowers and awards ceremonies protocol for IOF events. Link to the updated guide IOF Protocol Guide 30 June 2015
20/07/2015 || Orienteering World Cup 2015 rules update ||News||
With the cancellation of the World Cup sprint competition held in Lysekil, Sweden June 6th, there is a need to clarify the rules related to the number of competitions to be counted in the overall World Cup score. The overall World Cup will be based upon the best 9 of 10 competition results, instead of […]
15/07/2015 || O-Ringen Academy 2015 kicks off ||News||
The O-Ringen Academy for international development starts July 15th in connection with the 51st O-Ringen week which is being held in Borås, Sweden from July 15-24. O-Ringen Academy is an important part of the IOFs strategic plan for the international development of orienteering and is organized by the O-Ringen organization with the support of the IOF. […]
14/07/2015 || Updated advice for Emit and SportIdent (for Event Advisers) ||News||
Event Advisers can now find updated versions of the two documents. The SPORTident one contains a bit more information about Air+ and the Emit one has new advice about minimum control separation. You can find the documents here: Documents for Event Advisers


















