The IOF Podcast

International Orienteering Federation

You'll meet some of the world's greatest orienteering athletes in this podcast from The International Orienteering Federation.

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S1 · E28
September 19 · 19 min
#28 Judita Traubaite - before the EOC in home country Lithuania
Lithuania's Judita Traubaite impressed the Orienteering World with a great relay leg at the Orienteering World Cup in Czechia in August. With the European Orienteering Championships and World Cup Final coming up in Lithuania, we decided to have a chat...
S1 · E27
May 25 · 25 min
#27 Tino Polsini - on his win in Locarno and loving map changes
Switzerland's Tino Polsini started the new World Cup season as he ended the previous - with a win on home soil. This time the individual sprint in Locarno in the first World Cup Round of 2026. In this episode of the IOF Podcast, we talk about his win...
S1 · E26
January 1 · 30 min
#26 - Pia Young Vik on her amazing season and 2026
Norway's Pia Young Vik had an amazing 2025 season. In her just second year as a senior, she won the EOC Sprint in Belgium, took the silver in KO Sprint two days before and another silver with her teammates at the WOC Relay in Finland. In this episode...
S1 · E25
Oct 13, 2025 · 58 min
#25 - Max Peter Bejmer, Cécile Calandry and Jonas Merz on the 2025 Season
The 2025 international orienteering season took us to Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland and provided a lot of great and memorable moments. Together with IOF TV Expert Commentator Jonas Merz we look back on the season and look forward to the...
S1 · E24
Sep 22, 2025 · 31 min
#24 - Mathias Barros-Vallet on his EOC Sprint win and World Cup final preview
Mathias Barros-Vallet sprinted his way to a huge surprise when he won the sprint at the European Orienteering Championships in Belgium in August. The 22-year-old Frenchman had never finished better than 10th in a World Cup race before, but managed to...
S1 · E23
Aug 24, 2025 · 22 min
#23 - Yannick Michiels and Tille de Smul on EOC 2025
Belgium is hosting its first major IOF championship, as the 2025 European Orienteering Championships and World Cup Round 2 takes place this week. Newly crowned World Games sprint champion Yannick Michiels and 21-year-old Tille de Smul share their...
S1 · E22
Jul 6, 2025 · 19 min
#22 - Ida Haapala on running home WOC and having Thierry Gueorgiou as coach
The 2025 World Orienteering Championships in Finland are just around the corner and we talk to the home nation's Ida Haapala about qualifying for the championships on home soil, having Thierry Gueorgiou as coach and her expectations for the three...
S1 · E21
Jun 16, 2025 · 17 min
#21 - Hanna Lundberg on her shocking World Cup win in 2021 and the new season
Hanna Lundberg (SWE) catapulted herself into the absolute top of the orienteering world, when she surprisingly won the middle distance at the World Cup in Idre Fjäll in 2021 at just 19 years old. Now the prestigious tournament returns to the Swedish...
S1 · E20
Apr 30, 2025 · 27 min
#20 - 10Mila 2025 preview with expert commentator Jonas Merz
It's 10Mila time and you can follow all the action from Finspång, Sweden in the weekend 3-4 May, 2025 on IOF TV with English, Swedish and Finnish commentary. Together with expert commentator Jonas Merz, we look into the terrain, the format and who...
S1 · E19
Mar 27, 2025 · 20 min
#19 MØ - on orienteering and music, racing Maja Alm in their early teens and struggling with the compass
Danish music artist MØ has spent the last 15 years creating some monster hits like Lean On and Final song and touring the world with her music. But what you probably don't know is that she is also a passionate orienteer, who took up the sport as a...
S1 · E18
Nov 29, 2024 · 19 min
#18 - Eirik Langedal Breivik on his EOC middle distance win in Hungary
Eirik Langedal Breivik (NOR) had a remarkable fall season in 2024: Taking a surprise European title on the middle distance in Hungary, where he also was part of Norwegian relay team that won EOC gold - and then another win at the World Cup Final...
S1 · E17
Nov 3, 2024 · 29 min
#17 Karolin Ohlsson - on the KO Sprint silver from WOC2024
Karolin Ohlsson (SWE) achieved the best individual result of her career so far at the WOC 2024 KO Sprint in Scotland, where she won the silver medal behind compatriot Tove Alexandersson. In this episode of the IOF Podcast, we watch the final with...
S1 · E16
Sep 23, 2024 · 24 min
#16 Andrine Benjaminsen on Norway's medal rush at EOC and the World Cup Final in Finland
Andrine Benjaminsen (NOR) played a big role in Norway's impressive performances at EOC in Hungary, where the Norwegians took seven medals and topped the medal standings. She won a relay silver and two individual bronze medals in the Hungarian heat...
S1 · E15
Jul 2, 2024 · 19 min
#15 Eef van Dongen - on WOC2024 in Edinburgh and her surprising bronze medal from WOC in Denmark
Eef van Dongen (NED) took the orienteering world by surprise, when she won the bronze medal as Knock-Out Sprint made its debut on the WOC-program in Denmark in 2022. In this podcast episode, she shares her memories from the day and look ahead to the...
S1 · E14
May 24, 2024 · 10 min
#14 Simona Aebersold - on kicking off a new World Cup season on home ground
The 2024 Orienteering World Cup begins in Olten, Switzerland this weekend. Simona Aebersold (SUI) starts the international season in great shape, she tells us in this podcast episode, where we also talk about her long distance World Champs title last...
S1 · E13
May 1, 2024 · 30 min
#13 - 10Mila preview with expert commentator Jonas Merz
This year's 10Mila relays take place in Nynäshamn in eastern Sweden May 4-5 with more than 6000 athletes. You can follow all three relays on close hand with IOF TV in both English and Finnish from Saturday afternoon. https://tv.orienteering.sport/ In...
S1 · E12
Jan 19, 2024 · 21 min
#12 - Daisy Kudre-Schnyder on WSOC in Austria and befriending Central European terrain
Daisy Kudre-Schnyder (EST) won four medals - two of gold - at the previous World Ski Orienteering Championships on homeground two years ago. This year, the world champs are held in Ramsau, Austria in a completely different terrain. Hear about Daisy's...
S1 · E11
Dec 13, 2023 · 27 min
#11 Ralph Street - on winning his first World Cup race and WOC 2024 in Edinburgh
The Orienteering World Cup saw a new race winner in August, when Ralph Street (GBR) took his first ever win in the sprint in Czechia. He tells us what fell into place that day in Ceska Lipa, looks ahead at WOC 2024 in Edinburgh next summer and talks...
S1 · E10
Sep 27, 2023 · 32 min
#10 Tereza Janosikova - on her EOC expectations and IOF's athletes' commission
Tereza Janosikova had a great start to the autumn season, finishing second in the World Cup Sprint Relay in Ceska Lipa with Team Czechia. In this episode of the IOF Podcast, we talk about what that means for the upcoming European Orienteering...
S1 · E9
Sep 19, 2023 · 28 min
#9 Yannick Michiels - on preparing for EOC in Italy and his favorite sprint terrain
The international orienteering season 2023 ends with three fast races in northern Italy in the first week of October. A Sprint, a Sprint Relay and a Knock-Out Sprint make up the European Orienteering Championships and World Cup final from October 4 -...

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