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Open meeting on SkiO Rules and Map symbols on Sunday

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Published: November 18, 2024 21:52

IOF’s Ski Orienteering Commission is organising an open meeting regarding the changes to Rules and Map Symbols before the start of the new season. The meeting takes place on Sunday, November 24th at 18:30 CET (UTC+1) and everyone is invited to join. Please…

Updated SkiO rules published

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Published: November 2, 2024 10:07

The competition rules for Ski Orienteering Events valid from November 1st, 2024 have now been approved and published here at the IOF website. Find them at the SkiO competition rules section here.

IOF establishes prize on sustainability and orienteering

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Published: October 15, 2024 09:32

IOF has established a prize and will from now on award the ‘Best scientific publication relating to Sustainability and Orienteering’ every two years. The prize shall reward the best research paper that considers the relationship between Orienteering and…

New series of webinars kick off on Wednesday

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Published: October 14, 2024 10:55

This Wednesday, October 16th, the 2024-25 series of webinars organised by IOF’s Global Development Commission kick off. The first webinar bears the title “Prevention of injuries among young competitive orienteers” and features Martin Krause from Back In…

Finland to host European Ski Orienteering Championships in 2025

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Published: October 10, 2024 09:04

Finland will host next year’s European Ski Orienteering Championships in the city of Posio from March 19 – 23, 2025 The races in the northeastern part of the country will at the same time serve as Junior World SkiO Championships and the European Youth SkiO…

New IOF President, VPs and Council Members elected by General Assembly

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Published: July 17, 2024 10:12

IOF XXXII Ordinary General Assembly took place on Monday at the WOC 2024 event centre in Pollock Halls in Edinburgh. Delegations from 39 member federations were present – either on site or through the hybrid meeting solution online. Here all the reports…

IOF welcomes new timing cooperation

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Published: June 18, 2024 09:54

Earlier in June, German company arntech GmbH – a sister company of IOF partner SPORTident GmbH – announced its acquisition of Norwegian timing company EMIT AS. The acquisition is expected to open new markets for SPORTident and EMIT products and give…

New athlete representatives at IOF Council

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Published: May 30, 2024 12:42

Eline Gemperle and Jonathan Ståhl are appointed by the newly elected IOF Athlete Representatives to represent the athletes at IOF Council in the upcoming General Assembly period, which starts after the IOF General Assembly 2024. The four elected Athlete…

Here are the candidates for the 2024 IOF Council Elections

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Published: April 22, 2024 12:01

The list of candidates for the 2024 IOF Council elections taking place at IOF General Assembly on July 15th is now final as the deadline for nominations has passed. During this year’s General Assembly, a President, two Vice Presidents and four Council…

New basic Fair Play E-learning course available

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Published: April 15, 2024 13:28

How should you act if you know the terrain before a race, meet an injured runner in the forest or are asked for directions? These are some of the topics covered in the new basic Fair Play course, that has just become available on IOF’s E-learning platform.…