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 after the competition. 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 event2019
Next event2021
Organised byFISU, IOF

Format

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

See also

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