World Rogaining Championships

World Rogaining Championships 2013 Men's Open winners. From left: Rait Pallo, Timmo Tammemäe – silver (Estonia), Rain Eensaar, Silver Eensaar – gold (Estonia), Oleg Kalinin, Evgeny Dombrovskiy – bronze (Russia)

The World Rogaining Championships are the championships of the International Rogaining Federation (IRF) and the pinnacle rogaining event in the world. The championships are organised by the national rogaining organisation chosen by the IRF as the host of that particular championships.

World championship rogaines are always of 24 hours duration, and are conducted in accordance with standard rogaining rules.

The team with the highest score in each of the three gender classes (Men's, Women's and Mixed teams) are declared the World Rogaining Champions. Within each gender class, all teams participate in the Open age category. Additionally, there are age sub-categories as follows: Junior (under 20), Veteran (over 40), Super Veteran (over 55) and Ultra Veteran (over 65).[1]

World Rogaining Championships were previously held every two years, but since 2012 they have been held annually.

History of the Championships

No Year Country Place Number of teams Men's teams Women's teams Mixed teams
1 1992Australia AustraliaBeechworth194Australia James Russell,

Michael Walters

Australia Drusilla Patkin ,

Alexandra Tyson

Australia Tony Woolford, Barb Gare
2 1996Australia AustraliaMt Singleton271Australia David Rowlands,

James Russell

Australia Christine O'Keefe,

Jenny Casanova

Australia David Ellis, John Nitschke, Vanessa Walker
3 1998Canada CanadaKamloops134Australia Nigel Aylott,

Finland Iiro Kakko

Canada Catherine Hagen, Pam JamesAustralia Richard Matthews,

Helen Bailey

4 2000New Zealand New ZealandChristchurch193Australia David Rowlands,

New Zealand Greg Barbour

New Zealand Rachel Smith, Spain Encarna MaturanaNew Zealand Rob Hart, Jenni Adams
5 2002Czech Republic Czech RepublicLesná182Australia David Rowlands,

New Zealand Greg Barbour

Australia Julie Quinn, Kay HaarsmaLatvia Guntars Mankus, Raimonds Lapiņš, Anita Liepiņa
6 2004United States United StatesArizona176United States Mike Kloser,

Michael Tobin

United States Victoria Campbell, Jennifer KnowlesAustralia David Baldwin, Julie Quinn
7 2006Australia AustraliaWarrumbungles308New Zealand Dennis de Monchy,

Chris Forne

Australia Heather Logie, Julie QuinnLatvia Guntars Mankus, Raimonds Lapiņš, Anita Liepiņa
8 2008Estonia EstoniaKarula National Park339Russia Evgeny Dombrovskiy,

Pavel Shestakov

Latvia Alīda Ābola, Baiba OzolaRussia Pavel Sysoev, Irina Safronova
9 2010New Zealand New ZealandCheviot250New Zealand Chris Forne, Marcel HagenerAustralia Gill Fowler, Alexa McAuleyFinland Seppo Mäkinen, Ulla Silventoinen
10 2012Czech Republic Czech RepublicPrebuz333Estonia Silver Eensaar, Rain EensaarRussia Anastasia Galitarova, Irina SafronovaRussia Andrey Shvedov, Anna Shavlakova
11 2013Russia RussiaAlol314Estonia Silver Eensaar, Rain EensaarRussia Nastia Rostovtseva, Anna ShavlakovaRussia Andrey Shvedov, Natalija Abramova
12 2014United States USASouth Dakota180Estonia Silver Eensaar, Rain Eensaar, Timmo TammemäeRussia Marina Galkina, Nina MikheevaEstonia Heiti Hallikma, Viivi-Anne Soots
13 2015Finland FinlandSaariselkä374Finland Petteri Muukkonen, Hannu-Pekka PukemaRussia Anna Shavlakova, Natalija AbramovaRussia Konstantin Ivanov, Natalija Zimina
14 2016Australia AustraliaAlice Springs303New Zealand Chris Forne, Greig HamiltonNew Zealand Georgia Whitla, Lara PrinceAustralia Rob Preston, Kathryn Preston
15 2017Latvia LatviaRāzna National Park426Latvia Jānis Krūmiņš, Andris AnsabergsRussia Marina Galkina, Nina MikheevaNew Zealand Georgia Whitla, Greig Hamilton
16 2019Spain SpainLa Molina, Catalonia
17 2020United States USACalifornia, USA

Multiple winners

Perpetual trophies for World Rogaining Championship category winners

Men's Estonia Silver Eensaar - 3 Estonia Rain Eensaar - 3 Australia David Rowlands - 3 Australia Chris Forne - 3 New Zealand Greg Barbour - 2 Australia James Russell - 2

Women's Russia Anastasia Shavlakova - 3 Australia Julie Quinn - 2 Russia Marina Galkina - 2 Russia Nina Mikheeva - 2

Mixed Latvia Raimonds Lapiņš - 2 Latvia Anita Liepiņa - 2 Latvia Guntars Mankus - 2 Russia Andrey Shvedov - 2

Overall Estonia Silver Eensaar - 3 Estonia Rain Eensaar - 3 Australia Julie Quinn - 3 Australia David Rowlands - 3 New Zealand Chris Forne - 3 Russia Anastasia Shavlakova - 3 Australia James Russell - 2 Russia Natalija Abramova - 2 Russia Andrey Shvedov - 2 Russia Marina Galkina - 2 Russia Nina Mikheeva - 2 New Zealand Greg Barbour - 2 New Zealand Georgia Whitla - 2 New Zealand Greig Hamilton - 2 Latvia Raimonds Lapiņš - 2 Latvia Anita Liepiņa - 2 Latvia Guntars Mankus - 2

References

  1. ↑ "IRF Rules of Rogaining".
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