World University Orienteering Championships

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

See also

International University Sports Federation (FISU)

External links

References