All news
18/07/2012 || JWOC and WMOC in 2015: organisers announced ||News||
The IOF Council has decided that the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2015 will be held in Norway, and the World Masters Orienteering Championships in the same year will be in Sweden.
18/07/2012 || Organisers for JWOC 2015 and WMOC 2015 to be announced today ||News||
The IOF Council will announce today who will organise the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2015 and the World Masters Orienteering Championships 2015.
17/07/2012 || World Orienteering Championships, men’s Middle final: first-ever gold for Latvia ||News||
Edgars Bertuks made history in Latvian orienteering with a first-ever World Championship gold medal today.
17/07/2012 || World Orienteering Championships, women’s Middle final: victory for Minna Kauppi ||News||
A dramatic women’s Middle distance final ended with victory for Minna Kauppi, Finland by 32 seconds over the new young star from Sweden, Tove Alexandersson. Tatiana Riabkina, Russia took the bronze medal, 54 seconds slower than Alexandersson.
16/07/2012 || World Orienteering Championships, Middle qualification: Gueorgiou clearly back in form! ||News||
Thierry Gueorgiou lost no time in demonstrating his ability to defend the Middle distance crown yet again, winning his heat by a whole 53 seconds over no less than yesterday’s heat winner and European Champion at Middle and Long distance, Olav Lundanes, Norway.
16/07/2012 || World Orienteering Championships, Middle qualification: Alexandersson wins heat ||News||
The Middle distance qualification races were held today on a warm and sunny day on typical Jura terrain – quite stony and steep, with some thick vegetation too to slow the competitors. In all, a quite different technical and physical challenge to that they encountered in the Long qualification yesterday.
16/07/2012 || World Orienteering Championships being staged in Sports Capital of the World ||News||
The Opening Ceremony of the World Championships took place after the Sprint Final and before the Sprint prize-giving, an arrangement that ensured that all the athletes could be present (no quarantine restrictions). Athletes were led in parade by a jazz band and each country’s team was headed by a local girl or boy who had competed in a youth championships in that part of Lausanne earlier in the day.
16/07/2012 || World Masters Orienteering Championships 2013 and 2014 ||News||
The World Masters Orienteering Championships 2014 will be organised in the period 1-8 November 2014 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Exact dates will be announced later.
Search
IOF Main Sponsor
IOF Sponsors
World Championships
Other Upcoming Events
IOF Partners
RSS