International Orienteering Federation

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Member nations.

The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) is an international confederation of national orienteering organizations. Its primary activities are organized through standing Commissions that are each responsible for some aspect of the sport's development worldwide. The IOF sponsors a variety of international orienteering competitions, including the Orienteering World Championships.

The IOF was formed in 1961. The founding national member societies were Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. By 2005, the IOF had grown to include sixty-seven national orienteering federations, representing all six inhabited continental areas of the world.

[edit] Governance structure

The IOF has an elected President, a Senior Vice-President, two Vice-Presidents, and other council members. Day-to-day operations of the IOF are the responsibility of the IOF Secretariat and Assistant to the Secretariat. Several standing commissions of the IOF are responsible for the development of the sport world-wide. These commissions include:

Environment
Foot-O
IT
Map
Medical
MTB-O
Policy and Development
Rules
Ski-O
Trail-O

[edit] Publications

The IOF publishes a wide variety of journals and reference works related to the sport. These include Orienteering World, an annual magazine, The Scientific Journal of Orienteering, the IOF Newsletter, and official editions of the rules of orienteering and specifications for orienteering maps.