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13/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Relay: victories for Norway and Russia ||News||
Norway’s women and Russia’s men came through victorious in the final races of the World Championships, the relays, today in Vuokatti in Finland. Technical terrain made for some dramatic situations as the story of each race unfolded.
12/07/2013 || World Trail Orienteering Championships, TempO event: Pinja Mäkinen has clear victory ||News||
Young Pinja Mäkinen, Finland was the clear winner of the TempO final this afternoon, beating another young woman, Sweden’s Marit Wiksell by a time difference of 70 seconds. The bronze medallist was the very experienced Finn Lauri Kontkanen.
12/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Middle distance final: clean sweep for Niggli, men’s gold to Russia ||News||
Simone Niggli achieved her dream result today – a third individual gold medal on the technically difficult and rocky terrain west of Vuokatti in Finland. The men’s gold medal went to Russia’s Leonid Novikov, who here won his first major race at top international level.
12/07/2013 || Constructive meeting of representatives of Orienteering Federations in Europe ||News||
The Assembly of the Orienteering Federations in Europe met in Sokos Hotel in Vuokatti, Finland on Tuesday 9th July, after the World Orienteering Championships 2013 Long distance race.
11/07/2013 || World Trail Orienteering Championships: Jana Kostova and Jari Turto are World Champions ||News||
The leaders from Day 1, Jana Kostova (Czech Republic) and Jari Turto (Finland) both managed to keep their leads on Day 2 to be crowned as World Champions. In Kostova’s case it was with an impressive 3-point lead, and for Turto it was a much closer affair with time difference only separating first from second.
11/07/2013 || IOF’s Olympic journey ||News||
President Brian Porteous announced at an IOF Press Conference this afternoon that the Council has been considering the future of the Olympic vision for orienteering, and taking soundings from within the IOC.
11/07/2013 || Hosts announced for 2016 Junior World and World Masters Championships ||News||
At an IOF Press Conference this afternoon it has been announced that the 2016 Junior World Orienteering Championships has been awarded to Switzerland, and that the World Masters Orienteering Championships the same year will be held in Estonia.
11/07/2013 || 75th member for the IOF! ||News||
The IOF Council has accepted the application from Association Sportive D’Orientation du Cameroun to become a member of the IOF.
11/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, men’s Middle qualification: two Swiss heat winners ||News||
Swiss stars Matthias Kyburz and Daniel Hubmann both won their heats today, with Kalvis Mihailovs from Latvia winning the third. Twenty-four nations have runners in the final, and seven of these have three finalists – Estonia, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine.
11/07/2013 || World Orienteering Championships, Middle qualification: 22 nations in women’s final ||News||
Twenty-two nations will be represented in the women’s final tomorrow afternoon, including Japan with a runner in a final for the first time this year.
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