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19/02/2012 || Ski Orienteering World Cup Round 2: preview ||News||
In Round 1 of this year’s Ski Orienteering World Cup, Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson won all three individual races and was in the winning Mixed Relay team. This highly promising 19-year-old has taken the ski orienteering world by storm – but in Ukraine she will take part in the Junior World Ski Orienteering Championships instead of the European Championships/World Cup.
09/02/2012 || Updated application form for eligibility for paralympic class ||News||
All athletes wishing to compete in paralympic class in IOF Trail Orienteering events, but not having a valid eligibility certificate, need to apply for eligibility for paralympic class no later than eight weeks before the planned competition.
08/02/2012 || Successful IOF High Level Event Seminar in Venice ||News||
Participants from 13 nations gathered past weekend in Venice, Italy, for the 4th IOF High Level Event Seminar (HLES). The seminar focused on organising at the highest level, and in particular on organising World Championships.
07/02/2012 || World Cup 2012 quotas ||News||
The number of athletes that each nation can enter in the World Cup events in 2012 is based on the World Ranking List Federation League table (World Cup 12 Quotas) as at 1 January 2012.
06/02/2012 || WMOC Guidelines updated ||News||
Guidelines for World Masters Orienteering Championships have been reviewed and published on the IOF website.
05/02/2012 || Praise for course setter in Ski Orienteering World Cup ||News||
The Ski Orienteering World Cup 2012 in Lake Tahoe, California, ended with Mixed Sprint Relay in Tahoe City. 22 teams were fighting for the World Cup points. The course setter Greg Walker provided a true surprise to the competitors by designing a relay course that got almost all the competitors out of balance and making big mistakes.
04/02/2012 || Sweden wins Ski Orienteering World Cup Mixed Relay ||News||
Ski Orienteering World Cup Round 1 concluded with Mixed Relay in California, USA, on Friday. After the three individual events it was no surprise that Sweden dominated even the relay.
03/02/2012 || Ski Orienteering World Cup: technically demanding middle distance ||News||
On the Ski Orienteering 2012 World Cup the Swedish success continued when the middle distance races were run at the Tahoe City Cross Country Center in California, USA. Erik Rost got his form to match his orienteering skills and took a neat victory in the men’s competition. Tove Alexandersson continued to impress and took her third straight victory, in spite of small difficulties in the first part of the race. The courses were difficult and demanding and many of the top competitors lost their chances in big mistakes.
02/02/2012 || On roller skis in Tokyo ||News||
Our Athlete of the Month has recently moved to a new city and new work place, with no snow in the neighbourhood. Still he is aiming to improve his ski orienteering results from previous years – as well as win the Japanese Championships for the tenth consecutive year.
02/02/2012 || Ski Orienteering World Cup: Sprint double for Sweden ||News||
Tove Alexandersson took her second Ski Orienteering World Cup victory yesterday, when the sprint race was held at the Auburn Ski Club in Truckee, California. She was accompanied by her team mate, Peter Arnesson, who grabbed the first place in the men’s sprint race by keeping two Norwegians, Lars Hol Moholdt and Hans Jörgen Kvåle, behind him.
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