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30/06/2016 || Cæcilie is ready for WMTBOC ||Newsletter||

After a good number of promising results in the younger classes, Cæcilie Christoffersen moved up to the senior Elite group in 2012. Since then she has become one of the strongest prospects in the MTB orienteering world.

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02/06/2016 || Wojciech Dwojak’s many roles ||News, Newsletter||

Last year, Wojciech Dwojak retired from top level orienteering, but during the last week he has been involved in orienteering for morning to late night, and the Pole also has big challenges ahead. At the first round of the World Cup, Wojciech was the Event Director, and also the mapper for the different competitions. – […]

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31/05/2016 || Volunteering at EOC – setting out controls ||News, Newsletter||

For Asaf Avner, it was a goal to take part in European Championship in orienteering. The athlete from Israel was also doing just that, but not in the way he was thinking some months ago.

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26/05/2016 || Hard work behind home success ||Newsletter||

Pavel Kurfürst thought TrailO was very difficult to understand the first time he tried it. But he tried again and again, and now the Czech athlete is a European Champion. The 41-year-old TrailO-athlete won the TempO with a margin of eight seconds, ahead of Norwegian Martin Jullum. They both had an incredible flow, but none […]

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26/05/2016 || World Cup leader jerseys introduced ||Newsletter||

See an athlete whizz past wearing a yellow jersey? Must be the World Cup leader! World Cup Leader Emily Benham sporting her yellow leader’s jersey at the MTBO’s first World Cup round this season. The IOF wants to recognise the performances of the top athletes in the World Cup. A part of this is to […]

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26/05/2016 || Beautiful orienteering in Albania ||Newsletter||

For the second year in a row, Austrian orienteer Inge Bosnia organised a popular three day international orienteering competition in Albania, with the assistance of Arlind Subashi. Pierre Almén was one of the competitors, and he has provided us with a report from the event. Great orienteering, good food and beautiful scenery made for very happy competitors! The […]

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26/05/2016 || World Cup MTBO: Good start for Benham and Foliforov ||Newsletter||

Round 1 of the 2016 MTB Orienteering World Cup has finished. Held in France, the event’s programme included two exciting individual stages – Long and Middle – and a tightly contested Mixed Relay. At the beginning of a new season, Emily Benham and Anton Foliforov are the World Cup leaders.

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09/05/2016 || Helena Jansson: “All I do is related to WOC” ||News, Newsletter||

The World Championships (WOC) are approaching and the best orienteers in the world are looking forward to being in Strömstad in August. Having ‘home advantage’ as an extra factor this year, Helena Jansson is no exception: “I am both excited and anxious; I am both longing for it to happen and at the same time […]

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04/05/2016 || Successful school orienteering in Dominican Republic ||News, Newsletter||

Orienteering is a part of the National Student Games in the Dominican Republic, most recently held in Gaspar Hernández in the Espaillat province. The country is one of the newest IOF Member Federations, gaining its provisional membership in 2015. Orienteering in the country has taken a big step forward during the last year, and a […]

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03/05/2016 || 30 mappers on clinic in Asia ||News, Newsletter||

The successful Asian Mapping Clinic recruited 30 mappers from 5 Asian Federations. Organised in tandem with the Asian Orienteering Championships 2016, the Asian Orienteering Mapping Clinic (AOMC), with the support of the IOF, opened on the 22nd April 2016 at the National Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan. The Chinese Taipei Orienteering Association welcomed 30 mappers from […]

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