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23/08/2013 || Mountain bike orienteers head for Estonia ||News||
The World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships at both senior and junior level take place this coming week in Estonia. 261 athletes from 26 nations will be taking part in the three individual races and the relay. Furthest travellers are from Australia, Japan and USA.
23/08/2013 || Minutes from the annual meeting for orienteering federations in Europe ||News||
Minutes from the annual meeting for orienteering federations in Europe have been published on the Europe page on the IOF website.
21/08/2013 || Unofficial Sprint Relay World Cup to be introduced in 2014 ||News||
The IOF Council has approved the IOF Foot Orienteering Commission’s proposal to introduce an unofficial Sprint Relay World Cup series in the year 2014. Sprint Relay will be part of the World Orienteering Championships programme for the first time in Italy next year and the new event format was decided to be tested in advance in conjunction with World Cup 2014.
20/08/2013 || Orienteering World Cup Final sprint to be broadcast live ||News||
The sprint race of the Orienteering World Cup Final on 6 October 2013 in Baden, Switzerland, will be broadcast live by Swiss national TV, with the same production team as at the World Orienteering Championships 2012.
11/08/2013 || World Masters Orienteering Championships: seven win double gold ||News||
Seven of the Sprint gold medallists from earlier in the week, three women and four men, repeated the feat in the Long distance finals held on a hot day in Sagna Longa in the Italian Alps. One of these was M35 Petteri Muukkonen, Finland who achieved the same results in 2012 as well.
08/08/2013 || Ski orienteering special rules documents published ||News||
Special rules for Ski Orienteering World Cup 2013-2014 and World Masters Ski Orienteering Championships 2014 are now available.
08/08/2013 || The unbeatable feeling – Athlete of August ||News||
Cecilia Thomasson got her break through in MTB orienteering in June, when she became European Champion in long distance. But who is she, and where did she come from to the MTBO world? Find out this and more in Athlete of the Month!
06/08/2013 || First WMOC medals decided in the urban Sprint in Sestriere ||News||
The first final of the World Masters Orienteering Championships 2013, Sprint, took place yesterday in Italy at the heart of the Olympic Mountains. The competitors fought over medals in the narrow streets and small parks of Sestriere village located 2000 m above sea level and only 17 km from the French boarder.
05/08/2013 || Press release from WOC 2015 organiser ||News||
“We are pleased to announce that subject to final agreements with landowners and other bodies that Darnaway and Glen Affric will be used to stage Long, Middle and Relay World Orienteering Championships races in 2015. Forres and Nairn will be used to stage the Sprint Relay, Sprint Qualifiers and Sprint Final. […]”
04/08/2013 || Impressive gold for Switzerland – Kyburz King of the Games ||News||
As the first orienteer ever, Matthias Kyburz has won three World Games champion titles in one year. The last one he got with the help of his team mates – but he was without a doubt contributing a lot to the victory.
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