World University Orienteering Championships

The World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) is a biannual orienteering competition organized by International University Sports Federation (FISU). Entry is open to athletes aged 17 to 25 who are enrolled in university either the year of or the year before the competition (ie. can compete in the year after they finish study). Representative countries must be members of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF).[1]

World University Orienteering Championships
Statusactive
Genresporting event
Date(s)July–August
Frequencybiannual
Location(s)various
Inaugurated1978
Previous event2022
Next event2024
Organised byFISU, IOF

Format

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The current championship events are:

  • Relay – three-person teams (four-person teams until 2008)
  • Long distance
  • Middle distance
  • Sprint
  • Sprint Relay – four-person teams of two males and two females (added in 2014)

Host towns/cities

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Year Date Place
1978 July 10   Jyväskylä, Finland
1980 July 16   St. Gallen, Switzerland
1982 August 10–15   Česká Lípa, Czechoslovakia
1984 August 1–4   Jönköping, Sweden
1986 August 1–3   Miskolc, Hungary
1988 July 20–22   Trondheim, Norway
1990 August 1–3   Plavinas, USSR-Latvia
1992 July 26–31   Aberdeen, Great Britain
1994 September 4–11   Fiesch, Switzerland
1996 July 16–21   Veszprém, Hungary
1998 August 10–15   Trondheim, Norway
2000 August 25–September 2   Roanne, France
2002 August 20–24   Varna, Bulgaria
2004 June 21–27   Plzeň, Czech Republic
2006 August 14–20   Košice, Slovakia
2008 July 29 – August 2   Tartu, Estonia
2010 July 17–24   Borlänge, Sweden
2012 July 2–7   Alicante, Spain
2014 August 12–16   Olomouc, Czech Republic
2016 July 30 – August 4   Miskolc, Hungary
2018 July 17–21   Kuortane, Finland
2020 Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic   Smolensk, Russia
2022 August 17–21   Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2024 August 1–5   Bansko, Bulgaria

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "FISU Orienteering". International University Sports Federation. Retrieved 1 August 2020.