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09/07/2004 || 2004 Junior World Championships: Gold for Matthias Merz and Silja Tarvonen ||News||
Matthias Merz, Switzerland is certainly making his mark in elite orienteering at junior level. He has now added a gold medal in the long distance race to the silver he acquired at middle distance, thus equalling his tally of individual medals gained at the 2003 JWOC. But it was a very close call; Sweden’s Martin […]
08/07/2004 || 2004 Junior World Championships: Swedish & Norwegian Juniors Win Middle Distance Golds ||News||
Helena Jansson, Sweden, and Audun Bjerkreim Nilsen, Norway, were the winners of the Middle Distance final, the first of the finals at the Junior World Championships being held this week in northern Poland.
30/06/2004 || World Masters Championships a Popular Attraction ||News||
Asiago, on the southern slopes of the Dolomites in northern Italy, is the venue for this year’s World Masters Orienteering Championships to be held early in July. It is proving a popular attraction, with 3,270 competitors now entered for the various age classes, spaced at 5-year intervals for participants aged 35 right up to 90 […]
28/06/2004 || Junior World Championships Attracts 34 Nations ||News||
The 2004 edition of the Junior World Championships in foot orienteering (JWOC) has attracted entries from 140 women and 156 men representing 34 IOF member nations. These include, as expected, all the active orienteering nations in Europe and Scandinavia; there are also a number of teams from much further afield, including full teams of 6 […]
20/04/2004 || Mountain Bike Orienteering: Launch of World Ranking Events Series ||News||
The 2004 mountain bike orienteering season sees the launch of a World Ranking Event series.
11/03/2004 || IOF Launches Expanded World Events Programme: First World Championships in Trail Orienteering ||News||
The 2004 foot orienteering season sees the launch of the new IOF event programme which features both a World Championships and a World Cup programme every year. The annual Championships in foot-o for juniors and for veterans, the first ever World Championships in Trail Orienteering and the second World Championships in Mountain Bike Orienteering will […]
08/01/2004 || Preview – World Ski Orienteering 2004: Tracking with GPS at World Championships ||News||
In the 2001 World Orienteering Championships in Finland, every step taken by the runners in the forest was for the first time tracked with GPS, providing a fascinating picture of the races as they progressed. The second use of this technology will be at this year’s World Championships in Ski Orienteering, when a number of […]


















