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:
Originally JWOC started with an Individual competition followed by a relay. The Short Distance Championships were added in 1991, which remained until 2004 where the Short Distance became the Middle Distance, falling into line with the World Orienteering Championships.
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

YearDatePlace
19907–12 July Älvsbyn, Sweden.
19917–13 July Berlin, Germany.
19927–13 July Jyväskylä, Finland
19937–10 July Kastelruth, Italy
199412–16 July Gdynia, Poland
19959–12 July Horsens, Denmark
19968–14 July Govora, Romania
19977–13 July Leopoldsburg, Belgium
199813–18 July Reims, France
19995–11 July Varna, Bulgaria
20009–15 July Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic
20019–15 July Miskolc, Hungary
20027–14 July Alicante, Spain
20037–12 July Põlva, Estonia
20045–11 July Gdańsk, Poland
200511–16 July Tenero, Switzerland
20062–7 July Druskininkai, Lithuania
20077–15 July Dubbo, Australia
200830 June–6 July Gothenburg, Sweden
20096–11 July Primiero, Italy
20104–10 July Aalborg, Denmark
20113–8 July Wejherowo, Poland
20128–13 July Košice, Slovakia
201330 June–6 July Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
201422–27 July Borovets, Bulgaria
20154–10 July Rauland, Norway
201610–18 July Engadin, Switzerland
20179–16 July Tampere, Finland
20188–15 July Kecskemét, Hungary
20196–12 July Silkeborg, Denmark
2020postponed Kocaeli, Turkey
202111–17 July Aguiar da Beira, Portugal
2022TBA 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 2006

Men

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.

Gallery