INTERNATIONAL ORIENTEERING FEDERATION On-line Newsletter Issue 1 February 2014

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Anna Jacobson
Editor-in-chief
Tyumen welcomes
ski orienteers in March
A Word from the IOF
President ........................... 2
Winter Olympic Day in the
Czech Rebublic .................. 3
World Masters Orienteering
Championships in Brazil ... 4
New TV break-through ...... 6
North South East West:
Estonia ............................... 8
Behind the Scenes:
IOF Council members......12
Evaluating quality standards
in MTB Orienteering .......14
World Cup 2015,
Tasmania ........................16
News in brief .................... 17
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A Word from the IOF President
As I write these few words, I am spend-
ing a considerable amount of time
watching and thoroughly enjoying the
Olympic Winter Games from Sochi. As
an enthusiastic participant in the sport
of curling, I am especially interested in
seeing my country succeed in winning
medals in the Ice Cube. By the time
this is published then perhaps the re-
sults will be known!
As I watch the Games from Sochi I
have become even more convinced
that orienteering would be a great ad-
dition to the winter or summer Olym-
pic Games. The International Olympic
Committee, under their new Presi-
dent Thomas Bach, is reconsidering
how they consider new sports for the
Games. The IOC had previously said
that they were opening considera-
tion of the sports for the 2022 Winter
Games but that process is now on hold
until they have reviewed the whole ap-
proach to how sports are added and
indeed removed from the winter and
summer programmes.
Orienteering needs to be ready to
take advantage of whatever opportu-
nities result from this review and that
means continuing to build the profile
of our whole sport around the world
in ways which I have described previ-
ously. These include improving the
quality and broadcasting reach of our
TV coverage, building relationships
and networks at national and inter-
national level with the worlds sport-
ing decision makers and increasing the
revenue streams available to us. None
of this is easy but with a collective ef-
fort between the IOF and its member
federations, I believe we can achieve
our dream.
I am looking forward to attending the
European Ski Orienteering Champion-
ships in Tyumen, Russia shortly and
I am especially excited to hear that
there is to be significant TV broadcast-
ing from that event. This is exactly the
kind of initiative which we need to
take to raise our profile.
From a practical point of view, we will
keep everyone informed of the deci-
sions the IOC makes and any subse-
quent implications for our future cam-
paigns. In the meantime, lets all con-
tinue to build the quality of our events
and build our networks of influence.
Above all, lets enjoy the great games
of ice and snow from Sochi and realise
that we are one of the very few sports
which take place on ice and snow
which is not in the Winter Games yet.
The Games of
Ice and Snow
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Successful Ski Orienteering premiere
at the Winter Olympic Day
for Children in the Czech Republic
The 6th Winter Olympic Day for Chil-
dren of the Czech Republic brought a
huge success for Ski Orienteering. In
Nove Mesto na Morave, 112 athletes
from all the 14 regions of the Czech
Republic competed in four classes
(W14, W16, M14 and M16) in three
races Sprint and Middle distance and
two-person Mixed Relay.
In the W/M16 classes, Martina
Wankova and Ondrej Stary from the
Region of Hradec Kralove became the
Queen and King of Ski Orienteering.
Veronika Gallova and Stepan Nemecek
from the Region of Liberec dominated
the W/M14 classes.
The Organisers did an excellent job,
given that only standard courses with
artificial snow could be set. Course
planner Petr Marecek prepared three
demanding races in these difficult
conditions.
This is the first time that orien-
teering has had an opportunity to
become a part of the Youth Olympic
Winter Day. Many thanks go to Radan
Kamenicky, President of the Czech
Orienteering Federation, and to the
Vice-president Ivan Mateju, who both
worked a lot to make this happen.
Radan Kamenicky as the Event Direc-
tor managed to negotiate the number
of 8 competitors and 2 coaches from
each region, which was the same as
the number for traditional sports
cross-country skiing or biathlon. It
is unbelievable that orienteering
which is not an Olympic sport yet
is the only one sport that is a part of
the programme of both summer and
winter Youth Olympic Days in Czech
Republic. We, the Czech Orienteering
Federation, will try to do our best to
ensure that orienteering remains a part
of these Games, said Dusan Vystavel,
a member of the Czech Orienteering
Federation Board and the Chairman of
the European Working Group.
Mass start in the Mixed Relay in class M/W 16.
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Sarka Plhalova (W14) concen-
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World Masters Orienteering Championships in Brazil:
Good terrain for veterans, different
technical challenges from race to race
The last issue of Inside Orienteering (December 2013) contained a wealth
of travel and tourist information and advice regarding going to Brazil in
November for this years World Masters Orienteering Championships
(WMOC). Plus quite a bit about WMOC itself, of course! In this issue we tell
more about what the terrain will be like; what kind of orienteering chal-
lenges will be waiting for competitors in the southern-most region of Brazil.
the Event Centre in the city of Porto
Alegre on Saturday 1st November, on
which day there will also be a Sprint
model event.
The Qualification will take place
in an urban park in down-town Porto
Alegre on the Sunday morning, says
ivind. The park is flat with small
height differences and scattered trees
or groups of trees, greater patches of
open land and some small lakes inside
the park. There is a network of gravel
roads, and many small paths where
you will find benches to sit down for
a break. No likelihood of many com-
petitors doing that!
Clive Allen spoke with the Senior
Event Adviser for WMOC, ivind
Holt, Norway, who has now visited
Brazil three times as SEA. He says the
event will offer good terrain for veter-
ans, with different technical challenges
from race to race.
Sprint races
We start with the Sprint races a Qual-
ification race and a Final. Two quite
different venues will be used, on suc-
cessive days. These are the two days
following the Opening Ceremony at
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There are playgrounds for children,
some tennis courts and a skateboard
area. No built-up areas and no car traf-
fic inside the area, only bikers. There
may be several people watching since
the park is frequently used by town
people, tells ivind. The bikers, of-
ten as inconsiderate as car drivers of
people on foot, are the only potential
hindrance to free progress.
WMOC then moves en bloc to the
town of Canela, 120 km north-east of
Porto Alegre at an altitude of approxi-
mately 800 metres. Here, on the Mon-
day, the Sprint Final will take place.
The competition area is in a park
with no car traffic and no bikes, only
a few buildings and some fenced-in ar-
eas. The area is a mix of relatively open
grass lawns with scattered trees, quite
often used for picnics, and areas with
denser vegetation. There is a network
of narrow roads, paved walking paths
and smaller paths through the forest
bits. The height difference is 30-40
m., tells ivind.
Long distance races
A rest day (but with a model event
available) follows the Sprint Final,
then the format used for many years
for the Long distance races: two Quali-
fication races, then a rest day, then the
Final. Canela will be the Event centre
for all three races, which use an area
located 700850 m above sea level.
All three competition areas are quite
similar, on undulating terrain with few
intricate contour details. Boulders are
normally too small to be mapped, but
there are some rock faces and small-
er crags.
As for the nature of the forest itself,
there are three categories, as described
by ivind:
1. Natural forest is quite often a
mix of quite large old trees and dens-
er undergrowth with smaller trees and
bushes. In areas used by grazing cattle,
runnability is OK. Where there are no
cattle it may be quite slow. With re-
duced visibility, navigation will often
be quite challenging in natural forest.
2. Planted eucalyptus normally has
good visibility. In areas of younger
trees there may be a lot of grass, slow-
ing the speed. The tall forest is nice!
3. The greater part of the competi-
tion areas will consist of planted pine
with trees standing 3 metres apart in
rows. In some younger plantations the
trees are pruned, leaving branches and
needles on the ground, giving a feeling
of running on a soft carpet. In older
plantations with little undergrowth,
these areas will give very fast running.

ivind tells that there are also
some clear-felled and thinned out ar-
eas, normally with clear vegetation
boundaries. Yellow and green features
may be used as control sites. There are
networks of forest roads and trails due
to the intensive forestry in the areas of
planted forest.
There are some barbed wire fences
in the forests; fences will generally
be mapped as legal to cross (symbol
522). Gates and places to cross will
be marked on the competition maps.
The mapping for WMOC is being
done by experienced Brazilian map-
makers, mostly employed by the Mili-
tary but seconded to the WMOC 2014
project. LIDAR-style laser-plotted con-
tours are not available, but GPS instru-
ments are used extensively in map-
making in Brazil.
WMOC 2014 programme
Saturday 1st November: Sprint model event, Opening Ceremony
Sunday 2nd November: Sprint Qualification, Porto Alegre
Monday 3rd November: Sprint Final, Canela
Tuesday 4th November: Rest day, Long distance model event
Wednesday 5th November: Long distance Qualification 1
Thursday 6th November: Long distance Qualification 2
Friday 7th November: Long distance Final, Prize-giving, Closing Ceremony
ivind emphasises that It will be
good terrain for veterans, with differ-
ent technical challenges from race to
race. All arenas will be easily acces-
sible by car, with car parks close by.
Nordic summer at its best
The temperature range can be expect-
ed to be between 16 and 28 degrees.
I have experienced everything from
blue sky for several days in a row to
torrential rain (120 mm in 24 hours),
says ivind. I would say most days
a Nordic summer at its best. There is
less humidity at the higher elevation
of Canela.
The main industry of the twin towns
Canela and Gramado is tourism; visi-
tors will find a variety of good places to
eat and shop. The area is a well-known
wine district and there is the oppor-
tunity for wine-tasting and tours at a
number of vineyards. It is also called
the land of hortensia (hydrangea), so
there should be no shortage of colour
in the surroundings!
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New TV break-through for orienteering
Tove Alexandersson interviewed by the Swedish television SVT after winning a World Cup race in January. Photo: Anna Jacobson.
By Clive Allen
The World Championships finals in
Finland last year were televised in full
to a bigger audience than ever before,
with extensive coverage in Scandi-
navia and Switzerland and also, for
the first time, in the USA. The Junior
World Championships also enjoyed
full TV coverage in the organising
country, the Czech Republic. And now
this years European Ski Orienteering
Championships (ESOC), to be held in
Tyumen, Siberia in early March, is go-
ing to be televised to a greater extent
and with more resources than any
other Ski Orienteering event hitherto.
The production will be by a local TV
company called Tyumen Arena and
led by the well-known Czech TV Pro-
ducer Karel Jonak, who was responsi-
ble for the Junior World Champion-
ships production last year and has ex-
perience from a number of previous
world-standard events. The company
is used to televising international bi-
athlon and cross-country skiing events
with similar TV requirements to those
of ski orienteering, as well as covering
other sports such as diving and judo.
Special expertise in orienteering such
as GPS tracking and course planning
will be taken care of by skilled per-
sonnel from Nordic countries and the
Czech Republic.
Up to 400,000 viewers!
The biggest company that will broad-
cast the programmes is the Russian
VGTRK, host of one of the main sports
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channels in Russia. They will take a
1-hour long edited version for trans-
mission at a later time, says Vadim
Konyshev, the Event Secretary for ES-
OC. The Tyumen channel Tyumen
time which broadcasts in the Tyu-
men region will provide on-line as
live transmission from each race, at
a peak viewing time. Apart from the
Long race, the Tyumen time channel
will allocate 2 hours for each race.
Overall there is a potential audience of
between 200,000 and 400,000, con-
tinues Vadim.
Final details of timings and chan-
nels, and which other TV stations and
countries will take the transmissions,
are still to be finalised; at the time of
writing, everyone in sports TV in that
part of the world is fully engaged with
transmission of the Winter Olympics.
Sixteen cameras
Viewers who have followed orienteer-
ing in recent years will recognise lots
of elements of the coverage, including
GPS tracking and replays of decisive
route choices, says Per Frost, a mem-
ber of the TV production team. And
the less experienced viewer will be able
to follow tracking in SkiO easily, be-
ESOC Race Programme
The arena for all the races will be the Pearl of Siberia Ski
Centre at Tyumen.
Friday 7th March: Mixed Sprint Relay
Saturday 8th March: Sprint, interval start
Sunday 9th March: Long distance, mass start
Tuesday 11th March: Middle distance, interval start
Wednesday 12th March: Relay
All the ESOC races count also for the 2013-2014 World
Cup. On Friday 14th March there will be an additional
World Cup-only race, over Ultra-Long individual distance.
cause the possible tracks are marked
in green on the map.
Up to sixteen cameras will be de-
ployed around the arenas (start, re-
lay changeover and finish areas) and
out on the courses. State-of-the-art
action cameras on snow mobiles and
mini-helicopters (octocopters) will
be used, along with the latest graphical
and production techniques. We will
use new innovations in a way that will
show the core values of the sport of Ski
Orienteering as well as possible, con-
tinues Per Frost. And with Karel Jonak
in charge, we can be assured of a pro-
duction of the highest quality.
For viewers who will not have TV
coverage in their home country, a
live web stream will be arranged with
commentary in English provided by
Per, who has worked as a commenta-
tor on Swedish radio and also as are-
na speaker at several World Cup and
World Championship races in Ski Ori-
enteering.
Variety of distribution formats
The production company is offering a
variety of distribution formats to other
countries TV stations, with full live TV
coverage at one end of the spectrum
and highlight cuts at the other.
We hope to satisfy any customer,
states Karel Jonak. Full live coverage
offers either full live race (Sprint indi-
vidual, Mixed Sprint Relay) or the red
groups in the finals (Middle distance).
To cover the Long final and the Relay,
a combination of a shortened trans-
mission of the first part of the race
and live second part will be used. This
work-flow meets standard broadcast-
ing durations.
There will also be daily race high-
lights: Each race day a 52-minute pro-
gramme of highlights will be made,
including the most interesting and de-
cisive moments as well as interviews,
tells Konrad. Finally, a compilation
programme of the best moments from
the Championships will be produced.
The races are mostly scheduled for
the afternoon in Siberia, while it is
910 in the morning in central Eu-
rope. Full details of the transmissions
and which TV stations will carry them
will be published on the event web-
site www.esoc2014.ru and on the IOF
homepage as soon as they are avail-
able.
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North South East West is a regu-
lar feature in Inside Orienteering.
In every issue, we focus on one
of the IOFs 76 member nations.
In this issue we showcase:
Estonia.
North South East West
Estonia: Towards WOC 2017
In the first article of 2014 in the
North South East West series,
we visit Estonia. Mati Poom and
Sixten Sild take us on an orien-
teering journey around the small-
est of the Baltic republics, from its
birth and development through to
the 2017 World Championships in
Otep. Past, present and future
under one single banner: Passion
for orienteering!
By Joaquim Margarido
The history of Estonia, lying on the
eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, is
marked by many changes, both eco-
nomic and political. Despite its small
area, the territory has always held an
important place in the eastern Eu-
ropean scene and the changes have
come from Danish, Swedish, German
and Soviet influences several times
through history. But in regard to ori-
enteering in Estonia, the main influ-
ence has been Finland, in the north
across the Baltic Sea.
It was indeed the Finns who brought
orienteering to Estonia, with a concept
which, basically, was not so different
from the present. The foundations of
Estonian orienteering have never been
in the military, in spite of the fact that
the first official competition was held
by the Defence Guard in 1926, on June
26th that year, says Mati Poom, one
of the leading profiles in Estonian ori-
enteering since the end of the 60s.
Aleks Kaskneem,
the Grand Old Man
After the first competition, the out-
Inno Ling, Leho Haldna (now IOF Senior Vice President), Are Leesik and Sixten Sild in the
USSR Championships relay 1989.
A map from Estonia
Finland match in 1969.
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skirts of Tallinn became the centre of
the attention. From 1926 to 1935 there
were at least four nationwide events.
Its in this period that the name Aleks
Kaskneem arises, a scout who caught
the virus of orienteering and later be-
came its Grand Old Man in Estonia.
He brought his experience to the
post-war Soviet period and so built a
bridge between the pre- and post-war
periods, Mati recalls.
In the complicated post-war peri-
od there were no orienteering activi-
ties. Devoted people had perished or
become scattered all over the world,
but the main reason was the secrecy
of topographical maps. The first post-
war event took place in 1958 with 94
participants and the first Estonian ori-
enteering leader was Aleks Kaskneem,
the Chairman of the Hikers Orienteer-
ing Committee which was founded
in 1959 and was a forerunner of the
present Estonian Orienteering Feder-
ation (EOF).
The first Estonian National Champi-
onships in foot orienteering were held
in 1959, and the first ski orienteering
event was the following year. In 1960
the first night relay the Jri race -
was arranged with the mixed 5-mem-
ber team (M-W-M-W-M) format. This
night relay has, since its very begin-
ning, been a big and important open-
ing-season event and in April 2014
it will be held for the fifty-fifth time.
Two more milestones
In 1960 orienteering was recognised
as an independent sport after hav-
ing been just a part of hikers activi-
ties. And on 10th July 1992 the EOF
was officially granted membership
of the IOF, after a positive result by
telephone voting on 27th September
1991, remembers Mati. We have had
happy days with many medals from
the former USSR Championships and
later from the European and World
Championships and also a harder peri-
od in the early nineties. But orienteer-
ing has always been popular in Esto-
nia and will for sure remain so in the
nearer future and longer term, Mati
concludes.
Facts and fgures
The sport plays an important role in
Estonian culture. As in most other
countries, the Olympic sports get the
main attention of the state and sports
enthusiasts. Football is growing, but
traditionally basketball has been the
biggest sport in Estonia. Volleyball al-
so has long traditions. Track and field
and cross-country skiing have been the
most popular individual sports. Today
there are many new sports emerging,
but nevertheless orienteering has quite
a high status in Estonia. Comparing
the financial support from the state to
the different sports, the EOF is among
the best-supported non-Olympic fed-
erations.
There are 34 member clubs in the
EOF, and more than 5,500 different
people taking part in at least one ori-
enteering start every year. The biggest
weekend events attract 500600 par-
Sixten Sild: Time to remember a historic bronze medal
by Joaquim Margarido
With a bronze medal in Long Dis-
tance at the World Championships
(WOC) in 1991 (at Marinsk Lzne,
in what was then Czechoslovakia),
Sixten Sild has been the most suc-
cessful Estonian foot orienteer un-
til now. Sixten himself takes up the
story: Orienteering was quite a big
sport in the Soviet Union, but the
World Championships remained a
dream for a long time for the Soviet
athletes because the USSR didnt ap-
ply for IOF membership until 1986,
he says.
A serious injury during final train-
ing destroyed Sixtens chances of
participating in the 1987 WOC (G-
rardmer, France) and we had to wait
until Skvde (Sweden), two years
later, to see him for the first time in
the big event, where he achieved an
excellent 14th position.
In 1991 he was 27 years old and
had no problems in qualifying for the
WOC in Marinsk Lzne. Everything
went well, apart from the case that was
stolen from the Aeroflot hotel room
on my way to the main trial competi-
tion for the WOC team. I arrived at the
competition without my belongings,
so I had to run with borrowed equip-
ment, he remembers.
Sixten Sild was one of four lucky
guys who got the chance to run the
Long Distance race. His memories are
entertaining: As I was, supposedly,
the weakest one of these four, I was
placed near the beginning of the start
field. Later it turned out to be an ad-
vantage as the weather got very hot
on that day. I had no pressure on me
and just had a solid race with a cou-
ple of doubtful route choices. My lead-
ing position in the finish was not a
big surprise for me to begin with, be-
cause all the favourites were starting
behind me, but the tension climbed
higher and higher when the favourites
finished one after another and could
not beat my result. At last, only the
great and famous WOC runners Jr-
gen Mrtensson and Kent Olsson
beat me. My team-mate Alexeev was
probably the most unlucky man, in
fourth place.
The last and most memorable
of Sixten Silds impressions, about
those magic moments: All this hap-
pened a couple of days after the po-
litical putsch in Moscow, which ini-
tiated the declarations of independ-
ence in the Baltic countries. So I en-
tered the WOC as a Soviet runner,
but I won the medal as a citizen of
the independent Republic of Estonia.
There were many supporters from
Estonia at that WOC, and one can
imagine their joy for independence,
which was immediately decorated
with an (unexpected) WOC medal.
Probably the best memories from
these days are the sincere congratu-
lations from all orienteers, regardless
of their origin. Even the Soviet team
leaders were pleased and heartfelt.
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ticipants, and the average is 250300
participants. Almost all orienteering
events in Estonia are arranged by the
EOF member clubs. Most income for
the organisers is the entry fee.
There are national championships
in foot orienteering (sprint, middle,
long, night, relay, extra long), ski
orienteering (sprint, middle or long,
sprint relay) and mountain bike (MTB)
orienteering (middle, long). Trail ori-
enteering is just at the beginning of
its development in Estonia, and two
to four small events have been held
annually in the last four years.
The Rogaine is also very popular
in Estonia and the EOF is a member
of the International Rogaining Fed-
eration. The TA OK Rogaine event is
considered to be one of the biggest
Rogaine events in the world. Another
popular type of orienteering in Estonia
is indoor orienteering. The High Jump
Olympic Champion in 1972, Jri Tar-
mak, enthusiastically organises a series
of indoor events every winter.
Periodically, the EOF publishes its
own orienteering magazine, Orien-
teeruja (The Orienteer), which start-
ed in 1994 as a newspaper and now
has quite a stable print-run of 600
copies. All issues of the magazine (ex-
cept for the latest ones) are available
in the EOFs web archive, at http://ori-
enteerumine.ee/ajakiri/raamatukogu/
index.php.
Orienteering and schools
Orienteering is included in the school
curriculum as part of physical educa-
tion but, actually, the level of this edu-
cation depends on the teachers, says
Sixten Sild, another of the well-known
names in Estonian orienteering activi-
ties today. He explains: Unfortunate-
ly most of the teachers dont have ap-
propriate experience and know-how in
orienteering, and orienteering exercis-
es occur when local orienteering clubs
come to help them. So the orienteering
skills of young students mostly depend
on the activity level of orienteering
clubs and their co-operation with the
school teachers.
The EOF has had a couple of projects
financing the drawing of school maps,
and some years ago a Swedish book
for school teachers Att orientera i
skolan - was translated into Estonian
and distributed to many schools to
support the teachers efforts.
FootO the biggest discipline
Talking about development, how can
we compare FootO, MTBO and SkiO in
Estonia? Sixten Sild answers: FootO
has always been the biggest of these
three disciplines, but SkiO has always
been the orienteering activity that
most Estonian orienteers participate
in during the winter. MTBO came to
Estonia at the very beginning of its de-
velopment in the world, but the num-
ber of practitioners is still smaller than
SkiO. However we have always been
able to keep up with the best practice
abroad.
Up to 1991, behind the iron cur-
tain, Estonia was, together with Lat-
via and Lithuania, one of the leading
republics in the development of orien-
teering in the Soviet Union. After 1991
Estonia took an active part in the inter-
national orienteering movement and
regularly organised major IOF events.
Luckily we have always had some ori-
enteers at least on the level of top-20
in the world in FootO, SkiO and MTBO
disciplines, and it helps a lot in keep-
ing pace with international develop-
ment, Sixten concludes.
Sixten Sild and Mati Poom.
The Baltic Championships
The co-operation between the Orien-
teering Federations of the three Baltic
countries has always been very impor-
tant. Sixten Sild explains the compe-
titions format: We organise Baltic
Championships in FootO every year,
in turn. Belarus and St. Petersburg have
joined this event in the last six years.
There are individual Long Distance
and Relay events in the programme
for classes M/W16, 18, 20, 21, with
calculation of team score, and it is run
at the same time as the Open Masters
Baltic Championships.
From 2013 there are also Baltic Cham-
pionships in MTBO, which are organ-
ised in turn together with the Nation-
al Championships. The co-operation
extends also to SkiO, in coordinating
every countrys calendar and thus sup-
porting participation in neighbouring
countries events.
MTBO World Championships
2013: a huge success!
Last year the town of Rakvere hosted
the World Mountain Bike Orienteer-
ing Championships. The organiser was
Rakvere OK, a club in the northern
part of Estonia. This was its first IOF
major event, but the club could count
on experienced orienteers from other
clubs to bring the competence needed
to the organising team. One very im-
portant person to mention here is the
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Sixtens sons Lauri (to the left)
and Timo Sild dominated the CISM
World Military Orienteering Cham-
pionships 2013.
Information Technology Chief, Tarmo
Klaar, who has had this role at all IOF
major events held in Estonia.
The City of Rakvere was very hospita-
ble and helped make the event a real
success. Rakvere orienteering club at-
tracted more volunteers than ever be-
fore at IOF major events held in Es-
tonia. There were approximately 100
volunteers in addition to club mem-
bers and orienteers from other clubs.
One of the reasons for organising
IOF major events in ones homeland is
to offer domestic sportsmen a favour-
able opportunity to perform at their
best and to raise the profile of the sport
here, says Sixten. Estonia had Tnis
Erm, with two previous WMTBOC
medals, together with Lauri Malsroos
and Margus Hallik who had been with
him in relays for several years. Sixten
Sild has no doubts: They deserved this
chance to show up in front of their na-
tive supporters, and Estonian orien-
teering could expect positive report-
ing in the domestic and international
press. As it turned out, Estonia was
even more successful than anticipated,
and Tnis Erm got one of the six state
sport awards for his results in 2013.
Big goals for the future
Each passing day there is a page of his-
tory that turns. The future is tomorrow
and we need to realise what the major
challenges are that Estonian orienteer-
ing faces from now on. In brief, what
about the future? Again Sixten Sild an-
swering: Without doubt, the World
Masters Orienteering Championships
in 2016 and WOC 2017 are the ma-
jor challenges that we are facing now.
With a population of 1.3 million peo-
ple, Estonia is clearly the smallest na-
tion ever to organise a WMOC and a
WOC. We really need to mobilise all
active orienteers and to unite them to-
wards a common goal.
The financial side of WOC 2017 is
the most difficult task we can fore-
see. If we succeed in organising these
two events, we reach our other goals
automatically we increase the num-
ber of orienteers, raise the profile of
orienteering, attract the media, moti-
vate our best sportsmen, ensure
recruitment, and so on, he says.
The last words are still with
eyes on the future: I wish that we
can see orienteering in the pro-
gramme of both the summer and
winter Olympic Games, but at the
same time I wish we will not lose
too much of the values and the
essence of our sport. Actually, we
could become the first sport to
be included in the programme of
both summer and winter games.
World Orienteering Championships 2017 in Estonia:
Preparations already well under way
by Joaquim Margarido
Estonia has been appointed by IOF
as organiser of the 2017 World Ori-
enteering Championships, and the
event will take place in Otep, a small
town popularly known as the winter
capital, in Valga County, southern
Estonia.
Sixten Sild provides some interesting
comments about this major event and
the application process: Our strong-
est clubs and event organisers have
dreamt of a WOC in Estonia for many
years, and we felt like its the right
time now. Before submitting the ap-
plication, we gathered the leaders of
all the experienced clubs in south-east-
ern Estonia and asked ourselves if we
really wanted it and if we were ready
to do the job. Everyone supported the
idea and expressed readiness to con-
tribute, but the decisive moment was
when Markus Puusepp said that he was
ready to act as Event Director.
Competition areas chosen
And about the preparations: Now we
are at the stage where we have chosen
the competition areas and arena sites.
The Federation and clubs are about
to formally establish the appropriate
organisation for the WOC. We have
reached fundamental agreements with
the State Government and the local
authorities and started seeking spon-
sorship. Our intention is to co-operate
as much as possible with the organisers
of WMOC 2016, which will be held in
Tallinn, says Sixten.
In Sixtens experience, foreign ori-
enteers are often surprised about the
reduced runnability of Estonian ter-
rain they mostly find it to be worse
than expected. Variable vegetation,
often high grass and fallen trees, re-
duce both runnability and visibility.
It makes orienteering quite tricky for
those not accustomed to these condi-
tions. As Estonian terrain has very lit-
tle rock detail, it is often perceived as
diffuse by Scandinavian runners.
For those planning to prepare for
the WOC 2017, Sixten provides a
suggestion: Try bigger events in the
south-eastern part of Estonia from
2015 to 2017. We will select terrain
for the events which is as relevant to
WOC terrain as possible.
Regarding each particular event,
one can ask the WOC Event Director
or organising club how relevant the
terrain is compared to that for WOC
2017, he concludes.
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Behind the scenes is a regular feature in
Inside Orienteering. In every issue, we will
write about someone working for the IOF.
In this issue you meet IOF Council mem-
bers. In this issue we present IOF Vice Pres-
ident Mike Dowling (AUS).
Behind the Scenes
What is your profession?
I am a teacher at a Senior Secondary
College in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
The College is for young people from
16 to 18 years and is a step between
high school and university or work.
My specialisations are 3D visualisation
and animation, multimedia and visual
design. Im also have a lead role in our
Colleges marketing and promotion
team and our digital learning team.
What are your hobbies?
Aside from orienteering, they are
travelling (visited 35 countries at last
count), bushwalking (Tasmania has
some of the best walking anywhere),
reading, listening to music, cycling
and gardening.
What is your orienteering back-
ground?
I started orienteering in 1976 when I
was 17 years old. My athletics coach
was an orienteer as was a fellow where
I was working at the time. They sug-
gested I give it ago and have been
hooked ever since. Our whole family
are orienteers. My wife is one of the
top orienteers for her age group in
Australia and our two daughters are
successful junior orienteers. Both have
represented Australia in junior com-
IOF Council members
petition against New Zealand and my
eldest daughter is trying out for JWOC
in Bulgaria this year.
I have pretty well done almost every-
thing there is to do in our sport. My
wife and I are co-coaches of the Tasma-
nian Schools Orienteering team who
take part in our Australian Schools
Orienteering Championships in late
September every year. This is a jun-
ior competition between all the Aus-
tralian states and territories and New
Zealand attend as well. Over the last
three years we have been the champi-
on Australian state on two occasions
and were second last year behind Vic-
toria. Unfortunately we are yet to de-
feat the very strong New Zealand team
in the Southern Cross Challenge that
operates at the same time. In addition,
I have coached many juniors over a
number of years who have been for-
tunate to represent Australia at JWOC
and currently coach two juniors who
have good chances of JWOC selection
this year. Incidentally my daughter is
not one of them as I think it is best
that parents dont be coaches of their
children.
I have also done lots of mapping and
high level course setting, although not
so much of late now that Council work
takes up much more of my time. I was
the course setter and main mapper
when the World Cup first came to Aus-
tralia when we hosted a race here in
Tasmania in 1988. I have made about
60 odd maps and set courses on most
Mike working as the course setter for The World Games 2013. Photo: Anna Jacobson.
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occasions when Tasmania has host-
ed national or international com-
petitions. I also develop our major
carnival websites.
In fact Tasmania will be hosting
the opening round of the 2105 IOF
World Cup in conjunction with the
Oceania Regional Championships.
These are open Championships
and of course I think that north-
ern hemisphere readers of Inside
Orienteering should definitely take
the chance to visit Tasmania for the
Championships and enjoy what we
have both for the orienteering and
all the other great things to see and
do here. And its much warmer in
Tasmania in January.
During the 1980s I was a half de-
cent Elite orienteer and was fortu-
nate enough to be in the Australian
team when WOC came to Austral-
ia in 1985. After stopping being an
elite orienteer I became involved
in the national team in our man-
agement group going to WOC in
1993 (USA), 1995 (Germany) and
1997 (Norway).
Which of the orienteering disci-
plines have you tried?
Aside from foot orienteering I have
done some MTBO and a little bit of
TrailO. No SkiO as snow is too un-
reliable in Australia.
When did you become involved
in orienteering politics, and
why?
I first became involved in orienteer-
ing politics when I was elected Pres-
ident of Orienteering Tasmania in
1987. I was also President for three
years from 2007-2009. I was the
Director, High Performance on the
Board of Orienteering Australia from
2002-2007. That was a very satisfying
time to be involved as during that time
Hanny Allston, a fellow Tasmanian,
won gold at both JWOC and WOC and
Adrian Jackson also won gold at World
MTBO Championships.
In 2005 I became a member of the Foot
Orienteering Commission which was
my first foray into the IOF.
As to why be involved in the politi-
cal side of orienteering? I think for
me orienteering has added such rich-
ness to my life experiences and been
the source of many wonderful lifelong
friendships. The sport has so much to
offer on so many levels and I felt that
I could offer something to help make
our sport better and give back to some-
thing that has been so good to me.
Why did you want to become a
member of the IOF Council?
The opportunity arose to become a
member of the IOF Council when long
serving Vice President Hugh Cameron
from Australia retired from Council in
2010 and Orienteering Australia sup-
ported my candidature. It was very big
shoes to fill to follow on from Hugh
but my motivation is to help make our
sport truly global.
What is your responsibility area in
the IOF Council?
I am one of our three Vice Presi-
dents with responsibility for Market-
ing, a member of the Event Supervi-
sory Board (ESB), and Council contact
for FootO Commission and FootO Ath-
letes Commission. I also led the pro-
ject to review the IOF World Ranking
System.
What would you like the IOF to
achieve in 5 years? In 20 years?
Over next 5 years to get orienteering
better accepted in more TV markets
and other broadcasting mediums as a
well-accepted high quality sports prod-
uct, be seen as a cool sport by kids, be
stronger financially and to be closer
to Olympic inclusion. In 20 years to
be a true global sport where our high
level events are broadcast world-wide,
are held world-wide and where hyper
realistic gaming technology seamless-
ly merges with the race broadcast and
GPS systems so the viewer can be in
the shoes of the competitors in the
virtual forest as the race unfolds.
And we are in the biggest sports fest
in town, the Olympics.
Discussing the Mixed Relay map with Jos Fernando Gomez
Rueda (to the left), the Technical Delegate at the World
Games 2013. Photo: Anna Jacobson.
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Evaluating quality standards in MTB Orienteering:
Learning from experience is an important
way to avoid making mistakes in the future
By Joaquim Margarido
Once again the IOF MTB Orienteering
(MTBO) Commission has sought to
analyse the quality of MTBO compe-
tition at world level. For this purpose
the Commission invited those inter-
ested to answer a questionnaire about
the three most important events of
the 2013 international calendar: the
European Championships (Poland),
the World Championships (Estonia)
and the World Cup final round (Por-
tugal). These three events have all been
assessed from various angles by the re-
spondents to the questionnaire. Some
final conclusions are presented here by
Ursula Husermann (SUI), a member
of the Commission.
What was the IOF MTBO Commis-
sions main aim in launching this
questionnaire?
The online questionnaire, which can
be filled in by competitors, coaches,
media people, spectators etc., is one of
the tools that helps the MTBO Com-
mission to assess event quality. Evalu-
ation is very important and crucial to
improving event quality further and
to developing our sport. MTBO has
now evaluated two full years (2012
and 2013), and were happy to share
our experiences with others
Shouldnt the organisers them-
selves ask for feedback about
their own events?
Organising a major event such as
a World Cup round involves a lot of
work and I dont think that organis-
ers would have the time to conduct
a survey themselves, although its al-
so in the organisers own interest to
know what the participants thought
about their event. Theres no need for
organisers to be afraid of being eval-
uated, because in my opinion most
people who give feedback via the on-
line questionnaire try to do so in a fair
way. On the contrary, the event evalu-
ation might even be a motivation to
organise everything as well as possible.
Moreover, learning from experience is
an important factor to avoid mistakes
in the future.
Did you consider the number of
responses to be a suffciently rep-
resentative sample of all the par-
ticipants in the three World Cup
events last season?
This online survey was done for the
second time in 2013, and there are al-
most 3 times more responses than
in 2012. A total of 62 people (includ-
ing teams) gave feedback on the four
events in 2012, while 159 respons-
es were received for the three World
Cup rounds last year. When we com-
pare the number of responses with the
number of participants, we see that
overall about 46% of all participants
filled in the questionnaire in 2013. Not
surprisingly there are more answers
when the organisation of an event
gives reason for complaint; this means
that negative feedback is more readily
given than praise, which I think is a
shame. So for 2014 I hope for lots of
feedback but well-organised events!
Id like to add that the feedback from
participants via the online question-
naire is not the only way that the MT-
BO Commission assesses event quality.
Some Commission members always at-
tend the events as well, which gives us
the chance to see or experience things
for ourselves and to talk to participants
face to face during the event. Further-
more, the Event Advisers and organ-
isers inform the IOF in the form of
written reports about how the event
went and about particular incidents
or problems.
What do you feel about the re-
sults?
The results show that two of the
three World Cup rounds were very
well organised, but unfortunately one
got a lot of negative feedback. Its no
secret that the quality of this event
was well below average. Therefore it
could be expected that the answers
in the online questionnaire wouldnt
be favourable. Two or three questions
will be optimised for the 2014 ques-
tionnaire, but all in all Id say that the
responses can be considered as being
quite a truthful indicator of the qual-
ity of an event.
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Do you want to tell me anything
about those items whose set of
answers gave strong indications to
the Commission that something
must be done to prevent further
problems in the future?
As I already mentioned, the event
quality of one event in 2013 was un-
fortunately quite poor and gave reason
for serious concern within the MTBO
Commission and the IOF Council.
From the graphs, its clearly visible in
which areas the problems occurred:
maps, accommodation & food, public-
ity & media and bike mechanic servic-
es. The first two points are really vital
for the competitors. A poorly organ-
ised event isnt only a disappointment
for the MTBO Commission, its most
of all so for the athletes. Therefore its
clear to the Commission that we must
do everything in our power to prevent
similar problems in the future.
If I may, Id like to give some tips to
organisers: Allow enough time for your
work especially mapping and plan
well ahead, try to anticipate possible
problems, look at your event through
the eyes of a competitor and, last but
not least, ask your Event Adviser for
help, if necessary, and make use of the
many useful resources you can find on
the IOF website.
Will the treatment given to the
results and the conclusions gener-
ate a set of recommendations, or
may it even lead to a proposal for
changing some rules?
Yes, sure, it often happens that rules
amendments become an issue when
evaluating an event. This is quite nat-
ural as the rules (should) evolve with
the sport. Proposals for rules changes
come also from Event Advisers or the
Athletes Commission. Basically, the
MTBO Commission evaluates event
quality by analysing the feedback from
competitors and by studying the event
reports from organisers and advisers.
The results of this evaluation are the
basis for the education of Event Advis-
ers and for documents for organisers
and Event Advisers, e.g. the Guidelines
for Organisers and the Handbook for
Event Advisers, documents which can
be found on the IOF website. Togeth-
er with the Event Advisers, the MTBO
Commission tries to give as much sup-
port to the organisers as possible.
Will we continue to receive an in-
vitation to participate in this kind
of questionnaire promoted by the
Commission?
Yes, definitely! The MTBO Com-
mission appreciates the competitors
feedback very much. What I can say
for certain is that the responses and
remarks from the athletes and coaches
wont just disappear in a black box!
Finally, I ask you what you would
like to see happen in 2014.
Well, Id like to get more than 100
feedback responses on each event in
2014, and Id be happy to see no red or
orange graphs in the event evaluation
for 2014. So I wish good preparation
and good health to all MTBO athletes
and lots of success to the organisers
with their event!
The evaluation results can be found on the
IOF website in the MTBO section.
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Tasmania promises a spectacular opening
to the first round of the 2015 World Cup!
The first round of World Cup 2015 will open with a sprint prologue race
and opening ceremony in a fantastic setting - the Cataract Gorge in
Launceston, Tasmania. It would be difficult to find a more spectacular
venue for a World Cup sprint!
trict with several dozen wineries spread
along its slopes.
Recently named Australias Most
Family Friendly City, Launceston, with
a population of over 100,000, is a well
appointed city with excellent restau-
rants, museums and art galleries. The
streetscape includes many of the early
historic buildings dating back to its Eu-
ropean settlement. Orienteers arriving
in time for New Year celebrations will
be able to enjoy the family friendly
hospitality of the city with waterfront
celebrations and traditional fireworks.
But hidden from the city along a
15 minute walk through the narrow
Cataract Gorge along the South Esk
River is the First Basin with its lawns
and gardens spread around a deep gla-
cial lake and surrounded by steep for-
ested rocky hills a natural stadium!
In 1804 explorer William Collins in-
vestigating the river found his way to
the gorge: Upon approaching the en-
trance I observed a large fall of water
over rocks, nearly a quarter of a mile
up a straight gully between perpen-
dicular rocks about 150 ft high. The
beauty of the scene is probably not
surpassed in the world.
1940 a swing bridge was erected across
the river. Today, set among the lawns
and gardens are a swimming pool and
restaurants and bbq areas. A chairlift
operates over the basin offering visi-
tors fantastic views.
In more recent times the gorge cliffs
have become a major area for rock
climbers. While the flow of water
through the gorge has been limited
by a dam further up-river, after rain
it becomes an awesome torrent. This
has been the venue for Slalom Canoe
World Cup and World Champion-
ships. And all of this is just minutes
from the city centre!
This is the venue for the World Cup
Sprint Prologue which will be followed
by the official opening for the World
Cup round and the Oceania Champi-
onships. Runners will have to navi-
gate a network of tracks through the
gardens and bush including a route
choice across the river.
When athletes from around the
world compete here in the World Cup,
they will be meeting in a spectacular
and spiritual place where indigenous
people would have been meeting for
30,000 years and where over the last
200 years families have come to ex-
plore and relax.
This article was written by John Bram-
mall who lives in Launceston. John was
President of Orienteering Australia for
several years, and attended the 2002 IOF
Congress where the Leibnitz Convention
was discussed and endorsed. John signed
the convention on behalf of Orienteering
Australia. Now after 12 years, John says
he is excited at the prospect that he will
be part of an event that truly fits with
the Leibnitz Convention. The venue is
superbly spectacular, and it is favoured
by the people of Launceston and tourists
and really well suited for media coverage.
On a warm summers evening the World
Cup athletes can expect to be sharing the
area with families as they swim and pic-
nic and walk the numerous tracks.
The Tasmanian 2015 World Cup
round will be combined with the
Oceania Orienteering Championship
in a carnival extending over two weeks
with events in Launceston in the north
of the island state, the Tasmanian mid-
lands, the East Coast and then the
state capital, Hobart.
Launceston will be the centre for the
first three events. The WC prologue
and carnival opening ceremony will
be held in the Cataract Gorge basin
area with the WC Sprint and Oceania
Sprint Championships at the Tasmania
University campus the following day,
while the Oceania Relays will be held a
short distance from Launceston in the
foothills of Mount Barrow.
Launceston is one of Australias old-
est cities being established in 1803 at
the point where the North Esk and
South Esk rivers combine to form the
Tamar River which then flows 50 kil-
ometres to the coast. Before this Eu-
ropean settlement, the valley was first
inhabited by the indigenous Tasma-
nians over a period of 30,000 years.
Once a major fruit producing area, the
Tamar Valley is now a prime wine dis-
Tasmania offers spectacular views
for the orienteers coming to the
World Cup Opening Round in 2015.
Photo: John Brammall
Early European set-
tlers reportedly felt
uneasy in the Austral-
ian bush and import-
ed many exotic trees to
tame this wild envi-
ronment. In the early
1900s they developed
extensive park and gar-
den areas in the gorge
basin where these trees
are now a garden oasis
within the wilder Tas-
manian bushland. It
took 8 years to build a
walkway through the
gorge to the basin. In
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News in brief
WMTBOC Long distance qualification
system under revision
The IOF is currently revising the qualification system for the World MTB Ori-
enteering Championship Long distance final. The main motivation for the
revision is that the old system does not allow the flexibility to allocate start
slots to quickly developing overseas nations that are unable to take part in
the World Championships every year. In the middle ranks there also seems
to be a major gap in performance between the best rider of a nation and the
team strength of the given nation.
The IOF MTB Orienteering Commission is proposing a revised system
where start slots are allocated to athletes instead of federations. All nations
are still guaranteed one start slot in the A Final. For more details regarding
the proposed model, please see the full description.
National federations have been asked to submit comments on the pro-
posed system by 23 February 2014.
Approval for
Emit Touch Free
in MTBO
The IOF Council has decided to
grant provisional approval for the
use of Emit Touch Free Punching
System in MTB Orienteering World
Ranking Events. The provisional ap-
proval will expire in two years and
it is possible for Emit to seek final
approval for World Ranking Event
level after a minimum of one year
period.
WMOC first
entry deadline
approaching
The early bird deadline for the
World Masters Orienteering Cham-
pionships 2014 to be held 1-8 No-
vember in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is 20
February.
To enter with the lowest price,
make sure the organisers receive
your entry by that date! For more
information, please visit the event
website wmoc2014.org.br/en.
Six on the podium in
the World Championships
As announced at the Joint Meeting of the IOF Council and Commissions,
and consequently on the IOF Twitter and Facebook pages, the IOF Council
has decided, after listening to the IOF Athletes Commissions, to go back to
having six athletes on the podium in most medal ceremonies. This has been
the tradition since the 1980s.
In detail, the award ceremonies podiums will look like this from now on:
World Championships: 6 individual, 3 relay
World Cup overall: 6 individual, 3 relay (when applicable)
Junior World Championships: 6 individual, 6 relay
World Masters Championships: 3 individual
Buy live TV broadcast from European
Ski Orienteering Championships
There will be live TV broadcasting from the European Ski Orienteering
Championships in Tyumen, Russia. The races to be broadcast are: Mixed
Relay on March 7, Sprint on March 8, Long Distance on March 9 and Re-
lay on March 12.
The price for all broadcasts will be 5000 EUR, but it is also possible to or-
der one-day packages, and/or daily highlight packages. For more informa-
tion, please contact Mr Per Frost (per (at) perfrost.se), or check out the event
homepage: http://esoc2014.ru/direct-television-broadcasting/
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Official Sprint Relay
World Cup in 2015
The IOF Council has decided to make Sprint Relay an official part of World
Cup 2015 in their recent meeting in Helsinki. The overall programme for
World Cup 2015 was also confirmed as follows:
Event 1: Sprint prologue and final in Tasmania, Australia (2-3 January)
Event 2: Middle distance in Tasmania, Australia (8 January)
Event 3: Long distance in Tasmania, Australia (10 January)
Event 4: Long distance in Halden, Norway (3 June)
Event 5: Sprint relay in Halden, Norway (5 June)
Event 6: Sprint in Lysekil, Sweden (6 June)
Event 7: Middle distance in Uddevalla, Sweden (7 June)
Event 8: Sprint relay in Inverness, Scotland, Great Britain (1 August)
Event 9: Sprint in Inverness, Scotland, Great Britain (2 August)
Event 10: Middle distance in Inverness, Scotland, Great Britain (4 August)
Event 11: Long distance in Inverness, Scotland, Great Britain (7 August)
Event 12: Sprint Relay in Switzerland (2 October)
Event 13: Long distance in Switzerland (3 October)
Event 14: Middle distance in Switzerland (4 October)
Live TV from
WOC 2014
There will be live TV coverage from all
the 2014 World Orienteering Cham-
pionships finals in July in Italy. The
broadcasts will be produced by Gear-
box Production Company with the
renowned Czech TV producer Karel
Jonak.
The price for the packages ranges
from 300 eur to 25 000 eur depend-
ing on the size of the package. If you
or your federation are interested in the
TV broadcasts from the World Cham-
pionships, please contact IOF Sports
Director Bjrn Persson bjorn.persson.
iof@orienteering.org for more informa-
tion as soon as possible.
New World Ranking:
gender equity, world wide
awareness, high level events
The World Ranking scheme for foot orienteering has been changed for 2014.
The basis for the changes was to recognise the importance of the most pres-
tigious IOF events as major contributors to the World Ranking Scheme; to
ensure that all nations who conduct a World Ranking Event have partici-
pants contributing to the World Ranking Scheme and to improve the value of
the Regional Championships as contributors to the World Ranking Scheme.
IOF Vice President responsible for the World Ranking review, Mike Dowl-
ing, comments: The analysis of data shows the Council decision achieves the
remit aims. We now have our major events, WOC and World Cup, making
more of a contribution to an orienteers World Ranking score. We provide a
means by which our Regional Championships make more of a contribution
to an orienteers World Ranking score. We have a wonderful promotional
opportunity with the possibility of our athletes achieving the perfect rank-
ing score. We ensure gender equity by having all World Ranking Events re-
gardless of where they are held in our family now contributing to the World
Ranking Scheme.
Gender equity, no more zero-points events worldwide, and promotion for
the best events and best athletes these are the keys for the new foot orien-
teering world rankings!
The IOF provides background information and calculations on a specific
World Ranking 2014 page. Please view the page here: World Ranking (foot
orienteering) 2014.
Updated WADA
Prohibited List
The 2014 List of Prohibited Substanc-
es and Methods took effect on Janu-
ary 1, 2014.
The List which was approved by
WADAs Executive Committee on Sep-
tember 11, 2013 can be viewed at
WADAs website or through the free
iPhone application.
The List can also be accessed us-
ing other mobile devices via the mo-
bile site.
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