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).

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

See also

• International University Sports Federation (FISU)

External links

• 13th WUOC 2002
• 14th WUOC 2004
• 15th WUOC 2006
• 16th WUOC 2008 Template:Webarchive
• 17th WUOC 2010
• 18th WUOC 2012
• 19th WUOC 2014
• 22nd WUOC 2022
• 23rd WUOC 2024
• Hungarian orienteers on the World University Orienteering Championships Template:Webarchive
• 1974 International University Championships in Orienteering Template:Webarchive — Results
• 1986 World University Orienteering Championships Template:Webarchive — Results
• 1994 World University Orienteering Championships Template:Webarchive — Results
• 1996 World University Orienteering Championships Template:Webarchive — Results
• 1998 World Universities Orienteering Championships Template:Webarchive — Results
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