The IOF Podcast
Episodes
#26 - Pia Young Vik on her amazing season and 2026
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sprin...
#25 - Max Peter Bejmer, Cécile Calandry and Jonas Merz on the 2025 Season
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 2025 international orienteering season took us to Sweden, Finland, Belgium and Switzerland and provided a lot of great and memorable moments.Toget...
#24 - Mathias Barros-Vallet on his EOC Sprint win and World Cup final preview
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 2...
#23 - Yannick Michiels and Tille de Smul on EOC 2025
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Belgium is hosting its first major IOF championship, as the 2025 European Orienteering Championships and World Cup Round 2 takes place this week.Newly...
#22 - Ida Haapala on running home WOC and having Thierry Gueorgiou as coach
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#21 - Hanna Lundberg on her shocking World Cup win in 2021 and the new season
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hanna Lundberg (SWE) catapulted herself into the absolute top of the orienteering world, when she surprisingly won the middle distance at the World Cu...
#20 - 10Mila 2025 preview with expert commentator Jonas Merz
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 com...
#19 MØ - on orienteering and music, racing Maja Alm in their early teens and struggling with the compass
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
#18 - Eirik Langedal Breivik on his EOC middle distance win in Hungary
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
#17 Karolin Ohlsson - on the KO Sprint silver from WOC2024
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
#16 Andrine Benjaminsen on Norway's medal rush at EOC and the World Cup Final in Finland
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andrine Benjaminsen (NOR) played a big role in Norway's impressive performances at EOC in Hungary, where the Norwegians took seven medals and topped t...
#15 Eef van Dongen - on WOC2024 in Edinburgh and her surprising bronze medal from WOC in Denmark
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 D...
#14 Simona Aebersold - on kicking off a new World Cup season on home ground
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 2024 Orienteering World Cup begins in Olten, Switzerland this weekend.Simona Aebersold (SUI) starts the international season in great shape, she t...
#13 - 10Mila preview with expert commentator Jonas Merz
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
#12 - Daisy Kudre-Schnyder on WSOC in Austria and befriending Central European terrain
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy Kudre-Schnyder (EST) won four medals - two of gold - at the previous World Ski Orienteering Championships on homeground two years ago.This year,...
#11 Ralph Street - on winning his first World Cup race and WOC 2024 in Edinburgh
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#10 Tereza Janosikova - on her EOC expectations and IOF's athletes' commission
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 episo...
#9 Yannick Michiels - on preparing for EOC in Italy and his favorite sprint terrain
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Kn...
#8 Sara Hagström - on her phenomenal spring of 2023 and expectations for WOC in Switzerland
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sweden's Sara Hagström has done impressive in the spring of 2023 and shares the lead in the Orienteering World Cup after her Middle distance win in N...
#7 Matthias Kyburz - on running WOC on home ground for the second time
23 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The six-time world champion Matthias Kyburz (SUI) is one of the favorites ahead of World Orienteering Championships in his home country Switzerland fr...
#6 Gustav Bergman - on World Cup start in Norway and winter training in the rain.
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gustav Bergman (SWE) has been part of the international orienteering elite for more than a decade and is ready for another international season - star...
#5 Linda Lindkvist - on winning three SkiO World Cup races in a row and her expectations for ESOC
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Lindkvist (SWE) was unbeatable at the first three Ski Orienteering World Cup races in 2023 in Austria. In this episode, she gives us her explana...
#4 Nikoline Splittorff - on being World Champion for the first time and having a strong Danish team
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nikoline Splittorff had the best possible start to the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships in Sweden in July 2022, when she won the Middle ...
#3 Megan Carter-Davies - on being World Champion and her amazing WOC 2022 in Denmark
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#2 Evely Kaasiku - on the silver miracle at EOC and how to prepare for championships on home soil
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
#1 Daniel Hubmann - on taking his 33th World Cup win and next year's WOC 2023
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a somewhat disappointing start to the 2022 international season, Daniel Hubmann (SUI) showed impressive from during the World Cup Final races in...