Junior World Orienteering Championships
The Junior World Orienteering Championships are an annual orienteering competition. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition. Representative countries must be members of the International Orienteering Federation.
History
An international junior match was arranged first time in 1983 in Ry, Denmark, and then in 1984 and 1985. From 1986 the events became the unofficial Junior European Championships, and were held the following years, 1987, 1988 and 1989. From 1990, the competition became official Junior World Orienteering Championships.Current program
Current program includes:- Individual Sprint Event
- Individual Middle Distance Event
- Individual Long Distance Event
- Team Relay
An unofficial Sprint Race was held in Switzerland in 2005 in conjunction with the PostFinance-Sprint . Shortly following this event the Sprint discipline was added to the program for Lithuania 2006.
Host Towns/Cities
Year | Date | Place |
1990 | 7–12 July | Älvsbyn, Sweden. |
1991 | 7–13 July | Berlin, Germany. |
1992 | 7–13 July | Jyväskylä, Finland |
1993 | 7–10 July | Kastelruth, Italy |
1994 | 12–16 July | Gdynia, Poland |
1995 | 9–12 July | Horsens, Denmark |
1996 | 8–14 July | Govora, Romania |
1997 | 7–13 July | Leopoldsburg, Belgium |
1998 | 13–18 July | Reims, France |
1999 | 5–11 July | Varna, Bulgaria |
2000 | 9–15 July | Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic |
2001 | 9–15 July | Miskolc, Hungary |
2002 | 7–14 July | Alicante, Spain |
2003 | 7–12 July | Põlva, Estonia |
2004 | 5–11 July | Gdańsk, Poland |
2005 | 11–16 July | Tenero, Switzerland |
2006 | 2–7 July | Druskininkai, Lithuania |
2007 | 7–15 July | Dubbo, Australia |
2008 | 30 June–6 July | Gothenburg, Sweden |
2009 | 6–11 July | Primiero, Italy |
2010 | 4–10 July | Aalborg, Denmark |
2011 | 3–8 July | Wejherowo, Poland |
2012 | 8–13 July | Košice, Slovakia |
2013 | 30 June–6 July | Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. |
2014 | 22–27 July | Borovets, Bulgaria |
2015 | 4–10 July | Rauland, Norway |
2016 | 10–18 July | Engadin, Switzerland |
2017 | 9–16 July | Tampere, Finland |
2018 | 8–15 July | Kecskemét, Hungary |
2019 | 6–12 July | Silkeborg, Denmark |
postponed | Kocaeli, Turkey | |
2021 | 11–17 July | Aguiar da Beira, Portugal |
2022 | TBA | Baia Mare, Romania |
Individual/Classic/Long
This event was called "Classic distance" from 1991 to 2003, and since 2004 it is called "Long distance".Men
Women
Short/Middle distance
This event was called "Short distance" from 1991 to 2003. Since 2004 it is called "Middle distance".Men
Women
Sprint
This event was first held in 2006Men
Women
Relay
Men
Women
Medal table
Updated after JWOC 2019.The 2006 Junior World Champion in the long distance event for women was Johanna Allston of Australia. It was the first time in this event that a gold medal has been won by a non-European nation. Since then, Matt Ogden, Aston Key, and Tim Robertson, are the only non-Europeans to win gold medals at the Junior World Championships.