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Information and Documents for Organisers and Event Advisers
Applications
Major events:
All IOF member federations are invited to submit an application to host a major event:
The application documents for each event are available on the IOF website. They consist of the application form, the guidance notes and the IOF standard agreement. Apart from the guidance notes, the following documents will help organisers to prepare their application:
World Ranking Events:
The deadline for applications is always 30 September the year before the event. However, due to COVID-19 and the impact on organising events, the IOF Office will be more flexible about late applications for the season 2021. Please read the clarification regarding the organisation of WREs for the season 2021.
Major events:
All IOF member federations are invited to submit an application to host a major event:
- World MTBO Championships for Elite and Juniors WMTBOC/JWMTBOC
- European MTBO Championships for Elite and/or European Junior and Youth MTBO Championships EJYMTBOC
- a World Cup round
- World Masters MTBO Championships WMMTBOC
The application documents for each event are available on the IOF website. They consist of the application form, the guidance notes and the IOF standard agreement. Apart from the guidance notes, the following documents will help organisers to prepare their application:
- IOF policy on conflicting event dates
- Sanction fees for events 2017-2022
- Organiser contributions to the IOF Anti-doping Fund 2017-2022
- IOF event fees for application period 2019 (sanction fees and contribution anti-doping)
- Events applications overview 2020-2023
World Ranking Events:
The deadline for applications is always 30 September the year before the event. However, due to COVID-19 and the impact on organising events, the IOF Office will be more flexible about late applications for the season 2021. Please read the clarification regarding the organisation of WREs for the season 2021.
- World Ranking application instructions (on the IOF website)
Bulletins
Information on writing a bulletin for a World Cup event:
Information on writing a bulletin for a World Cup event:
IOF Eventor
- Organiser's guide to IOF Eventor
- Information to IOF event organisers
- IOF Eventor (event calendar and more)
- Excel template for importing results to IOF Eventor
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SPORTident
SPORTident documents:
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Mapping
- International Specification for MTBO maps ISMTBOM, latest edition from 2010
- Manual for importing complete MTBO maps into OCAD course setting projects
- other mapping documents
- Maps of previous major events
- Tip from OCAD: How to convert an orienteering map to an MTBO map (only possible with OCAD 12)
Resources
for organisers:
- Anti-Doping
- Overview entry fees of past and future MTBO World Cup events and WMMTBOC
for organisers:
- Guidelines for Organisers (including the competition rules), latest edition from January 2012
- Administrative Guidance for Organisers
- Templates for start group allocation forms: - individual competition - mass start - relay
- IOF Protocol Guide
- GNSS / GPS list that provides guidance on legal and illegal devices
- further documents for organisers
for event advisers:
- Handbook for MTBO Event Advisers (March 2015)
- further documents for event advisers
- Event advising (accreditation, clinics etc.)
World Ranking Events (WREs)
- Guidelines
- IOF World Ranking Events Manual (2019) - This manual is primarily published for World Ranking Event organisers in FootO, but most parts are applicable to WRE organisers in MTBO as well.
- IOF World Ranking Scheme Rules (March 2019)
- Application Form WRE (template for organisers to send mandatory information to their federation)
