World University Orienteering Championships

The World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) were first held in 1978.

The current championship events are:

  • Relay – for three-person teams (up until 2008 the relay where for four-person teams)
  • Long distance
  • Middle distance
  • Sprint
  • Sprint Relay – four-person teams of two male and two female (added in 2014)

Host towns/cities

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

See also

References

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