News Archives

06/03/2014 || Follow European Championships LIVE online! ||News||

The European Ski Orienteering Championships kick off with Mixed Relay on Friday in Tyumen, Russia. The organisers have secured high quality live TV broadcast from the events with English (and Russian, if you like) commentary.

05/03/2014 || Climax of Ski Orienteering season in Russia ||News||

The European Ski Orienteering Championships, the pinnacle of this ski orienteering season, takes place near Tyumen in Russia starting on Friday and continuing throughout next week. 106 competitors from 17 nations will be taking part.

02/03/2014 || Sweden victorious in Mixed Sprint Relay ||News||

The first race in the new unofficial World Cup in Sprint took place today, a Mixed Sprint Relay held in the town of Kemer, south of Antalya on the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The winning team was from Sweden with a 19-second lead over Denmark at the finish.

01/03/2014 || Swiss and Swedish dominance in first World Cup round ||News||

The Swiss men and Swedish women were at the forefront in yesterday’s qualification races in the first World Cup event of the new season in Turkey, and their dominance was emphasised again today. In the top six, four of the men were Swiss and three of the women were Swedish. The winners were Daniel Hubmann and Tove Alexandersson.

01/03/2014 || Athlete of March on the way to the top ||News||

From the junior who “ran faster than the map” to the senior who runs faster than everybody else – an amazing story of how the Spanish orienteer Andreu Blanes climbs to the top of the orienteering world!

28/02/2014 || World Cup Opening Round in Turkey: qualification race ||News||

Orienteering World Cup 2014 kicked off in Antalya, Turkey today.

27/02/2014 || Ski orienteering on TV in Turkey ||News||

Orienteering is in a strong tail wind in Turkey! The country hosts its first major IOF Event this weekend, when the Orienteering World Cup Round 1 takes place in Antalya. In addition, the first-ever Turkish Ski Orienteering World Ranking Events were held a couple of weeks ago. Now ski orienteering has even made it on TV in Turkey.

26/02/2014 || Turkey hosts World Cup opener ||News||

A new landmark in the growth of orienteering in Turkey will be set this weekend with the country hosting its first-ever World Cup event in any discipline. Twenty nations will be represented in a two-day World Cup Middle distance Qualification and Final competition, followed on Sunday by a Mixed Sprint Relay, the first race in the unofficial Sprint World Cup.

25/02/2014 || Webinar: The Future of International Federations’ Media Rights Strategies ||News||

IOF President Brian Porteous will be one of the speakers at a webinar organised by the SportAccord Convention and SportBusiness this afternoon at 15 GMT.