Junior World Orienteering Championships
- Junior World Orienteering Championships
The Junior World Orienteering Championships (or JWOC) are held every year. 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 (IOF).
History
An international junior match was arranged first time in 1983 in Ry, Denmark, and then in 1984 (Hartberg, Austria) and 1985 (Font-Romeau, France). From 1986 (in Pécs, Hungary) the events became the inofficial Junior European Championships, and were held the following years, 1987 (Ambleside, England), 1988 (Eupen, Belgium) and 1989 (Seefeld/Kufstein, Austria). From 1990 (Älvsbyn, Sweden), the competition became official Junior World Orienteering Championships.
Current program
Current program includes:
Individual Sprint Event (Straight Final)
Individual Middle Distance Event (Consists of a qualifier and ranked finals)
Individual Long Distance Event (Straight Final)
Team Relay
Originally JWOC started with an Individual (Classic) 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 ChampionshipsAn unofficial Sprint Race was held in Switzerland in 2005 in conjunction with the PostFinance-Sprint [http://www.postfinance-sprint.ch/] . Shortly following this event the Sprint discipline was added to the program for Lithuania 2006.
Host Towns/Cities
hort/Middle distance
This event was called "Short distance" from 1991 to 2003. Since 2004 it is called "Middle distance".
Men
Women
The 2006 Junior World Champion in the long distance event for women is Johanna Allston (or Hanny Allston) of Australia. It is the first time in this event that a gold medal has been won by a non-European nation.
ee also
*World Orienteering Championships
*European Orienteering Championships
*World University Orienteering Championships
*Orienteering World Cup
External links and references
* [http://157.181.171.3/tajfutas/history/jwoc/jwoc-0.htm Hungarian orienteers on the Junior World Orienteering Championships] (10 June 2008)
* [http://orienteering.org/i3/index.php?/iof2006/results/foot_orienteering/junior_world_orienteering_championships Junior World Orienteering Championships] – "International Orienteering Federation" (Retrieved on June 29, 2008)
* [http://www.gmok.nu/jwoc2008 Junior World Orienteering Championships 2008] – "Results, photos and maps" (Retrieved on July 06, 2008)
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