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28/09/2009 || Niggli and Hubmann take World Cup titles ||News||
She’s done it! Simone Niggli rounded off her season in the best possible way by winning the PostFinance Sprint in Zurich city centre and in so doing, becoming the overall winner of the 2009 World Cup. Daniel Hubmann also won for the second day running, finishing with a huge points lead in the men’s World […]
26/09/2009 || World Cup: Exciting middle distance in Zurich ||News||
Today’s women’s race has set up a fantastic sprint competition tomorrow, with three runners having an almost equal chance of taking the overall World Cup title. Only 8 points separate the top three in the women’s World Cup standings after today’s middle distance race. In the men’s class, World Cup leader Daniel Hubmann won convincingly, […]
25/09/2009 || World Cup Final in Zurich ||News||
Who will take overall victory in the World Cup this year? That question will be decided this weekend when the two final events take place in and around Zurich, Switzerland. Both races count for World Cup points, along with a competitor’s best 5 of the 7 races held so far. A battle between world champions […]
11/09/2009 || IOF Ski Orienteering Event Advisers Clinics in Russia and Romania ||News||
When the international ski orienteering season kicks off in Russia in January, there will be more going on than just the World Cup events. Team leaders, officials and other people interested in the sport are invited to participate in the IOF Event Advisers clinic on the rest day of the World Cup Round 1. A […]
04/09/2009 || IOF World Ranking: Old and new leaders after the World Championships ||News||
Last year, Simone Niggli had been leading the World Ranking List for a record of 323 consecutive weeks, before her break in competing forced her to give up the first place to Minna Kauppi. Now she is back. After two bronze medals and one world champion title in Hungary, Simone is leading the world rankings […]
25/08/2009 || World Trail Orienteering Championships: Happy winners ||News||
Lennart Wahlgren won the paralympic class gold at the World Trail Orienteering Championships in Hungary, and became the first athlete to have two individual gold medals from WTOC. However, he might be challenged already next year: open class winner Vitaliy Kirichenko says that he will be prepared to win again in Trondheim. The gold medal […]
25/08/2009 || Slovakia appointed organiser of JWOC 2012 ||News||
At its meeting held in conjuncion with the World Orienteering Championships in Hungary, the IOF Council awarded the Junior World Orienteering Championships 2012 to the Slovak Orienteering Association. The events are going to be held in the second largest city of Slovakia, Kosice, in July 2012. The terrain types vary between an old town centre […]
25/08/2009 || World Orienteering Championships: Swiss Sunday ||News||
It was double gold for Switzerland in the long distance final on the last day of the World Orienteering Championships: both Simone Niggli and Daniel Hubmann produced superb performances to take the titles. First it was Simone Niggli, who clearly had this title as the chief goal of her week, as this is the format […]
25/08/2009 || World Trail Orienteering Championships: Victories to Ukraine and Sweden ||News||
Photo: Erik Borg World Trail Orienteering Championships ended today at the Miskolc Zoo. Lennart Wahlgren (SWE), who was leading the paralympic class after the first day performed well today too and secured a victory in the competition. In the open class, the world champion title went to Vitaliy Kirichenko, who was on the 8th place […]
25/08/2009 || Finland will host World Orienteering Championships in 2013 ||News||
For first time in the IOF history a nation will host the World Orienteering Championships for a fourth time: Finland won the fight against Italy for the World Championships 2013. Finland has previously organised the World Championships in 1966 in Fiskars, and in 1979 and 2001 in Tampere. The newly appointed organisers are promising good […]
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