At a time when the world of sports is of minor relevance compared to the health and wellbeing of people all around the world, the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) and the organisers of the Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in Denmark, which were planned to be held in 7-11 July 2020 have agreed to postpone the event to a later date. This was due to the uncertainty about the development of the Corona Virus (Covid -19) outbreak and being able to guarantee broad participation and fairness of the competitions.
There are several alternative dates being considered and the information will be shared as soon as it becomes available.
The Selection Races, scheduled to be held on the 30 - 31 May will be postponed correspondingly, with future dates to be announced.
As well as the postponement of the World Orienteering Championships 2020, there have been changes to other IOF events:
With the cancellation of the Orienteering World Cup Round 2 and EOC 2020, along with the postponement of the World Cup in Switzerland which was due to be held in May, which has now been moved to 2021, the IOF announced that there will be no overall Orienteering World Cup for the 2020 season and that the final round of the Orienteering World Cup which was scheduled to be in Italy on 1 - 4 October is cancelled.