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18/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering World Cup, Event 4: Emphatic victories for Lamov and Tomilova ||News||
Andrei Lamov, current Long distance World Champion, and Natalia Tomilova, winner of the middle distance race on Friday, were emphatic winners of today’s long distance race, the last in the present round of the World Cup held at St. Petersburg, Russia. Tomilova was 5 minutes and 45 seconds faster than Long distance World Champion Anastasia […]
16/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering World Cup, Event 3: Swedes and Russians edge in front in relays ||News||
The second event of the day was a sprint relay, two athletes per team each skiing three legs. Competition was fast and furious throughout, ending with tight wins for a women’s team from Sweden and a men’s from Russia. Sweden’s athletes will take great heart from their performance in the women’s race, in which they […]
16/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering World Cup, Event 2: Sprint victories for Novikova and Veselov ||News||
The first session of a busy day for the world’s leading ski orienteers ended with wins in the individual sprint race for Olga Novikova, now representing Kazakhstan, and home athlete Kiril Veselov. This afternoon there is a 2-person sprint relay. Novikova’s win was by 1.8 seconds over the Russian Alena Chukareva, who achieved her best-ever […]
15/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering World Cup, Event 1: Convincing wins for Taivainen and Tomilova ||News||
Olli-Markus Taivainen, Finland and Natalya Tomilova, Russia were the clear winners of the first World Cup event of the year, a mass-start Middle distance race held close to St. Petersburg, Russia. Taivainen, who won medals in all formats in both the junior and senior World Championships last year, set out his stall for this season […]
15/01/2010 || World Cup in Orienteering: Three new formats in 2010 programme ||News||
A Nordic Orienteering Tour with three new race formats will feature in the 2010 World Cup programme, which also includes the World Championships Finals in Norway, the European Championships in Bulgaria and a final round on the French-Swiss border, culminating in the well established and popular PostFinance Sprint in Geneva. There will be 12 races […]
11/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering World Cup – a long and tough season ahead ||News||
Sixteen races in four rounds: the 2010 Ski Orienteering World Cup season will for sure be one of the longest and toughest ever to be held. One of the highlights will be the third round in Romania, where the whole ski orienteering world family will gather for the European Championships (World Cup races 9-12), the […]
08/01/2010 || Sue Harvey awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire ||News||
IOF Honorary President Sue Harvey has been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. She received the award for her services to orienteering and to the local community. Sue Harvey has contributed significantly to the development of the sport for over forty years at the local, […]
07/01/2010 || Ski Orienteering Event Adviser Clinic in Russia ||News||
The IOF organises an Ski Orienteering Event Advisers Clinic in conjunction with the ski orienteering World Cup events in St Petersburg, Russia. The clinic is organised for the education and recruitment of new IOF licensed Event Advisers. The national orienteering federations are kindly asked to identify and enter suitable candidates. In addition to individuals seeking […]


















