Junior World Orienteering Championships

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Junior World Orienteering Championships
Finish shoot at JWOC 2005 in Switzerland
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date(s)	June–July
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	various
Country	various
Inaugurated	1990 (1990)
Previous event	2021
Next event	2022
Organised by	IOF
Website	https://www.jwoc2021.pt

The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 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 (IOF).

History[]

An international junior match was arranged first time in 1983 in Ry, Denmark, and then in 1984 (Hartberg, Austria) and 1985 (, France). From 1986 (in Pécs, Hungary) the events became the unofficial 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 Championships. An unofficial Sprint Race was held in Switzerland in 2005 in conjunction with the PostFinance-Sprint [1]. 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.[1]
1991	7–13 July	Berlin, Germany.[2]
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.[3]
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
2020	postponed until 2021	Kocaeli, Turkey
2021	5–10 September	Kocaeli, Turkey
2022	11–16 July	Aguiar da Beira, Portugal
2023	2–9 July	Baia Mare, Romania
2024	TBA	TBA, Czech Republic

Individual/Classic/Long[]

This event was called "Classic distance" from 1991 to 2003, and since 2004 it is called "Long distance".

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Mikael Boström	Jimmy Birklin
1991
1992		Chris Terkelsen	Fredrik Löwegren
1993
1994
1995		Michael Mamleev	Jani Lakanen
1996			Jani Lakanen
1997	Johan Modig	Vladimir Lucan	Marian Davidik
1998	Håkan Pettersson	Thierry Gueorgiou	Jørgen Rostrup
1999	Andrey Khramov		Troy de Haas
2000		Pasi Ikonen
2001	Andrey Khramov	Mårten Boström	Michal Smola
2002	Daniel Hubmann
2003	Dmitry Tsvetkov	Matthias Merz	Daniel Hubmann
2004	Matthias Merz	Martin Johansson	Simonas Krepsta
2005	Olav Lundanes		Philippe Adamski
2006	Anders Skarholt	Olav Lundanes	Markus Puusepp	12.6 km, 22 controls[4]
2007	Olav Lundanes	Magne Dæhli		11.1 km, 27 controls[5]
2008	Johan Runesson	Timo Sild	Matthias Kyburz	10.2 km, 21 controls
2009	Gustav Bergman	Søren Bobach	Martin Hubmann	9.5 km, 29 controls
2010		Johan Runesson	Matthias Kyburz	11.3 km, 31 controls
2011		Robert Merl	Lucas Basset	11.1 km, 23 controls
2012	Eskil Kinneberg		Gleb Tikhonov	11.5 km, 23 controls
2013	[3]	[3]	[3]	9.9 km, 21 controls
2014				10.2 km, 23 controls
2015	Olli Ojanaho			10.7 km, 24 controls
2016	Joey Hadorn		Isac von Krusenstierna	8.8 km, 21 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho			10.7 km, 21 controls[6]
2018	Kasper Fosser			15.0 km, 29 controls[7]
2019	Kasper Fosser			10.1 km, 24 controls[8]
2021				11.1 km, 24 controls[9]

Women[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Torunn Fossli	Marlena Jansson	Mari Lukkarinen
1991	Mari Lukkarinen	Marcela Kubatkova	Katarina Allberg
1992	Barbara Bączek	Johanna Tiira	Hanne Staff
1993	Liisa Anttila
1994
1995
1996			Karin Schmalfeld
1997	Simone Luder
1998		Tatiana Pereliaeva	Eva Jurenikova
1999		Tatiana Pereliaeva
2000	Tatiana Pereliaeva	Marianne Riddervold
2001	Dana Brožková
2002			Minna Kauppi
2003	Martina Dockalova	Anni-Maija Fincke	Helena Jansson
2004	Silja Tarvonen
2005	Mari Fasting	Elise Egseth
2006	Hanny Allston	Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen	Elin A Skantze	8.8 km, 16 controls[10]
2007	Siri Ulvestad	Kine Hallan Steiwer		7.2 km, 16 controls[11]
2008	Jenny Lönnkvist	Beata Falk	Siri Ulvestad	6.7 km, 15 controls
2009	Ida Bobach	Jenny Lönnkvist		5.7 km, 18 controls
2010	Ida Bobach		Sari Anttonen	7.3 km, 22 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Emma Klingenberg	Tove Alexandersson	7.7 km, 20 controls
2012				7.7 km, 13 controls
2013	Lisa Risby[3]	Sara Hagström[3]	[3]	7.1 km, 15 controls
2014		Sara Hagstrom		7.2 km, 16 controls
2015	Sara Hagstrom			7.3 km, 16 controls
2016				6.5 km, 16 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold			7.6 km, 16 controls[12]
2018	Simona Aebersold			10.2 km, 18 controls[13]
2019				6.5 km, 18 controls[14]
2021				7.0 km, 18 controls[15]

Short/Middle distance[]

This event was called "Short distance" from 1991 to 2003. Since 2004 it is called "Middle distance".

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1991				6.02 km, 14 cp, 48 participants
1992		Bernt Bjørnsgaard		3.6 km, 10 controls
1993		Bernt Bjørnsgaard
1994		Holger Hott Johansen		5.2 km, 12 controls
1995			Michael Mamleev	4.675 km, 11 cp, 142 participants
1996		Johan Modig
1997	Jørgen Rostrup			5.0 km, 18 cp, 60 participants
1998	Jørgen Rostrup
1999		Sergey Detkov	Thierry Gueorgiou	4.8 km, 14 controls
2000	Michal Smola
2001	Marius Bjugan		Michal Smola	4.808 km, 13 controls
2002				4.65 km, 14 controls
2003	Matthias Merz			3.6 km, 11 controls
2004		Matthias Merz	Simonas Krepsta	4.61 km, 14 controls
2005	Fabian Hertner	Philippe Adamski		3.5 km, 17 controls
2006	Jan Benes Søren Bobach		Olav Lundanes	4.4 km
2007	Olav Lundanes		Martin Hubmann	4.5 km, 22 controls
2008	Johan Runesson	Ulf Forseth Indgaard	Sören Bobach	4.1 km, 16 controls
2009	Olli-Markus Taivainen		Ulf Forseth Indgaard	4.1 km, 19 controls
2010	Gaute Hallan Steiwer	Jonas Leandersson	Olle Boström	4.7 km, 23 controls
2011	Robert Merl Dmitry Nakonechnyy			4.2 km, 17 controls
2012		Jan Petržela		4.8 km, 19 controls
2013	Emil Svensk[3]	[3]	[3]	3.6 km, 17 controls
2014	Miika Kirmula	Riccardo Scalet	Olli Ojanaho	3.8 km, 16 controls
2015	Olli Ojanaho			4.2 km, 19 controls
2016		Joey Hadorn	Audun Heimdal	3.8 km, 17 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho	Audun Heimdal		4.1 km, 18 controls
2018				4.5 km, 17 controls[16]
2019	Kasper Fosser			4.7 km, 17 controls[17]
2021				4.2 km, 16 controls[18]

Women[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1991		Johanna Tiira	Karolina Arewång	4.43 km, 11 controls 48 participants
1992	Barbara Bączek		Elisabeth Ingvaldsen	2.8 km, 8 controls 49 participants
1993			Liisa Anttila	3.35 km, 12 controls
1994				3.9 km, 9 controls
1995		Karin Schmalfeld		3.52 km, 10 controls, 101 participants
1996				3.79 km, 9 controls, 113 participants
1997			Heli Jukkola	4.2 km, 14 controls
1998	Tatiana Pereliaeva
1999				3.95 km, 14 controls
2000			Minna Kauppi
2001	Minna Kauppi	Ieva Sargautyte	Kajsa Nilsson	3.903 km, 11 controls
2002	Minna Kauppi	Indre Valaite	Martina Fritschy	3.8 km, 13 controls
2003		Signe Søes	Eveli Saue	3.7 km, 12 controls
2004	Helena Jansson	Radka Brožková	Anni-Maija Fincke	4.13 km, 12 controls
2005	Anna Persson		Hanny Allston	3.0 km, 14 controls
2006	Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen		Signe Klinting	3.6 km, 14 controls
2007	Jenny Lönnkvist	Ida Marie Bjørgul	Saila Kinni	3.6 km, 21 controls
2008	Venla Niemi	Beata Falk		3.0 km, 12 controls
2009	Tove Alexandersson	Britt Ingunn Nydal	Ida Bobach	3.1 km, 15 controls
2010	Tove Alexandersson			3.9 km, 20 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Tove Alexandersson	Emma Klingenberg	3.5 km, 14 controls
2012	Tove Alexandersson			3,6 km, 17 controls
2013	[3]	Lisa Risby[3]	[3]	3.0 km, 14 controls
2014	Sara Hagstrom			3,1 km, 15 controls
2015				3.6 km, 18 controls
2016	Simona Aebersold	Aleksandra Hornik		3.1 km, 17 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold			3.5 km, 16 controls
2018				3.6 km, 14 controls[19]
2019				4.3 km, 14 controls[20]
2021	Hanna Lundberg			3.5 km, 15 controls[21]

Sprint[]

This event was first held in 2006

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2006			Ruslan Glebov	3.2 km, 16 controls
2007	Vojtech Kral	Olav Lundanes	Ivan Sirakov	3.3 km, 18 controls
2008	Stepan Kodeda	Johan Runesson	Sören Bobach	2.8 km, 16 controls
2009	Matthias Kyburz		Martin Hubmann	3.1 km, 24 controls
2010	Rasmus Thrane Hansen	Kristian Jones		2.7 km, 22 controls
2011	Lucas Basset	Andreu Blanes	Florian Howald	2.9 km, 23 controls
2012	Gleb Tikhonov	Jan Petrzela	Eskil Kinneberg	2,9 km, 20 controls
2013	[3]	[3]	Tim Robertson[3]	2.4 km, 21 controls
2014	Tim Robertson			3.0 km, 20 controls
2015	Tim Robertson	Aleksi Niemi		2,9 km, 17 controls
2016	Joey Hadorn		Isac von Krusenstierna	3.7 km, 19 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho		Joey Hadorn	3.5 km, 23 controls[22]
2018			Kasper Fosser	4.1 km, 24 controls[23]
2019				3.3 km, 23 controls[24]
2021				3.5 km, 15 controls[25]

Women[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2006	Ingunn Hultgreen Weltzien	Hanny Allston	Eva Svensson	2.5 km, 13 controls 121 participants
2007	Eva Svensson	Sarka Svobodna	Maja Alm	2.7 km, 17 controls
2008	Emma Klingenberg	Silje Ekroll Jahren	Jenny Lönnkvist	2.6 km, 13 controls
2009	Jenny Lönnkvist	Ida Bobach		2.5 km, 21 controls
2010	Ida Bobach			2.3 km, 19 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Emma Klingenberg		2.5 km, 22 controls
2012	Tove Alexandersson	Emma Klingenberg		2.3 km, 17 controls
2013	[3]	[3]	Anastasia Denisova[3]	2.1 km, 19 controls
2014	Sara Hagstrom			2.5 km, 17 controls
2015	Simona Aebersold			2.4 km, 13 controls
2016	Simona Aebersold			3.3 km, 16 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold			3.0 km, 21 controls[26]
2018	Simona Aebersold			3.7 km, 21 controls[27]
2019				2.9 km, 17 controls[28]
2021		Hanna Lundberg		3.0 km, 13 controls[29]

Relay[]

Men[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Finland Mikael Boström	Sweden Jimmy Birklin	Norway Tore Sandvik
1991	Sweden Fredrik Löwegren	USSR	Czechoslovakia
1992	Finland	Norway	Sweden Fredrik Löwegren
1993	Finland	Norway Holger Hott Johansen Bernt Bjørnsgaard	Poland
1994	Russia Michael Mamleev Valentin Novikov	Finland Jarkko Huovila	Hungary
1995	Denmark	Hungary	Finland Jarkko Huovila
1996	Czech Republic Michal Horacek Vladimir Lucan	Slovakia Marian Davidik	Switzerland David Schneider
1997	Sweden Johan Modig	Czech Republic Michal Horacek Vladimir Lucan	Slovakia Marian Davidik
1998	Sweden	Finland Pasi Ikonen	France Thierry Gueorgiou François Gonon
1999	Finland Pasi Ikonen	France Thierry Gueorgiou François Gonon	Switzerland
2000	Czech Republic Michal Smola	Sweden David Andersson Peter Öberg	Finland Pasi Ikonen
2001	Czech Republic Michal Smola	Poland	Sweden David Andersson
2002	Switzerland Matthias Merz Daniel Hubmann	Finland	Sweden Anders Holmberg
2003	Russia Dmitry Tsvetkov	Norway Lars Skjeset Audun Weltzien	Switzerland Matthias Merz Daniel Hubmann
2004	Sweden Martin Johansson	Czech Republic Jan Šedivý Jan Procházka	Switzerland Fabian Hertner Matthias Merz
2005	Norway Magne Dæhli Olav Lundanes	Czech Republic Adam Chromy Jan Benes	Sweden Erik Rost
2006	Estonia Timo Sild Markus Puusepp	Sweden Fredrik Johansson	Norway Anders Skarholt Olav Lundanes
2007	Czech Republic Stepan Kodeda Jan Benes Adam Chromy	Norway Magne Dæhli Olav Lundanes	Latvia Kalvis Mihailovs
2008	Sweden Olle Boström Johan Runesson	Russia 2	Norway Ulf Forseth Indgaard
2009	Sweden Olle Boström Albin Ridefelt Gustav Bergman	Switzerland Matthias Kyburz Martin Hubmann	Denmark Rasmus Thrane Hansen Søren Bobach
2010	Norway Gaute Hallan Steiwer Eskil Kinneberg	Sweden Olle Boström Gustav Bergman Johan Runesson	Denmark Andreas Hougaard Boesen Rasmus Thrane Hansen
2011	Poland	Sweden Albin Ridefelt	Czech Republic
2012	Russia Gleb Tikhonov	Denmark Jakob Ekhard Edsen	Norway Jon Aukrust Osmoen Hakon Jarvis Westergard Eskil Kinneberg
2013	Czech Republic	Sweden Emil Svensk	Russia
2014	Sweden	Czech Republic	Switzerland
2015	Finland Topi Raitanen Aleksi Niemi Olli Ojanaho	Norway	Sweden
2016	Switzerland Joey Hadorn	Sweden Isac von Krusenstierna	Finland Olli Ojanaho
2017	Norway Kasper Fosser Audun Heimdal	Finland Olli Ojanaho	Russia
2018	Norway Kasper Fosser	Sweden Isac von Krusenstierna	Czech Republic
2019	Norway Kasper Fosser	Sweden	France
2021	Sweden	Hungary	Switzerland

Women[]

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Norway Hanne Staff Torunn Fossli Sæthre Hanne Sandstad	Sweden Gunilla Svärd Marlena Jansson	Finland Mari Lukkarinen	official race?
1991	Finland Johanna Tiira Mari Lukkarinen	Germany	Norway Hanne Staff
1992	Sweden Lena Hasselström	Finland Johanna Tiira	Norway Hanne Staff Elisabeth Ingvaldsen
1993	Switzerland Marie-Luce Romanens	Finland Liisa Anttila	Norway Birgitte Husebye Elisabeth Ingvaldsen
1994	Sweden	Finland	Poland
1995	Czech Republic Eva Jurenikova	Sweden	Switzerland
1996	Romania Zsuzsa Fey	Switzerland Simone Luder	Russia Tatiana Pereliaeva
1997	Sweden Emma Engstrand Jenny Johansson	Czech Republic	Switzerland Simone Luder
1998	Finland Heli Jukkola	Russia Galina Galkina[30] Tatiana Pereliaeva	Switzerland Simone Luder
1999	Russia Eugenia Belova Tatiana Pereliaeva	Ukraine	Switzerland
2000	Russia Julia Sedina Eugenia Belova Tatiana Pereliaeva	Sweden	Finland Minna Kauppi
2001	Sweden Kajsa Nilsson	Czech Republic Dana Brožková Martina Dockalova	Finland Bodil Holmström Minna Kauppi
2002	Switzerland Martina Fritschy Lea Müller	Finland Minna Kauppi	Sweden Helena Jansson Lina Persson
2003	Finland Silja Tarvonen	Sweden Helena Jansson	Norway Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen Line Hagman
2004	Sweden Elina Skantze Anna Persson Helena Jansson	Finland Anni-Maija Fincke Silja Tarvonen	Norway Elise Egseth Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen
2005	Norway Elise Egseth Mari Fasting Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen	Sweden Elina Skantze Helena Jansson Anna Persson	Finland Saila Kinni Silja Tarvonen
2006	Russia Ekaterina Terekhova Tatiana Kozlova Maria Shilova	Sweden Anna Persson Eva Svensson	Finland Sofia Haajanen Saila Kinni
2007	Norway Kine Hallan Steiwer Silje Jahren Siri Ulvestad	Sweden Eva Svensson Jenny Lönnkvist	Switzerland Judith Wyder Sabine Hauswirth
2008	Sweden Beata Falk Lina Strand Jenny Lönnkvist	Denmark Ida Bobach Signe Klinting Maja Alm	Norway 2 Kine Hallan Steiwer
2009	Switzerland Julia Gross	Norway Ingunn Nydal	Denmark Emma Klingenberg Ida Bobach Signe Klinting
2010	Denmark Emma Klingenberg Ida Bobach Signe Klinting	Czech Republic	Russia Natalia Vinogradova Anastasia Tikhonova Anastasia Trubkina
2011	Sweden Tove Alexandersson	Czech Republic	Denmark Emma Klingenberg Ida Bobach
2012	Denmark Emma Klingenberg	Sweden Tove Alexandersson	Switzerland
2013	Czech Republic	Finland	Sweden
2014	Sweden Sara Hagstrom	Norway	Switzerland
2015	Sweden Sara Hagstrom	Switzerland Simona Aebersold	Norway Marie Olaussen
2016	Switzerland Simona Aebersold	Finland	Norway
2017	Sweden	Switzerland Simona Aebersold	Norway Victoria Haestad Bjornstad Marie Olaussen
2018	Russia	Czech Republic	Norway Ragne Wiklund Victoria Haestad Bjornstad
2019	Great Britain	Russia	Sweden
2021	Sweden Hanna Lundberg	Hungary	Czech Republic

Medal table[]

Updated after JWOC 2019.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden (SWE)	49	59	36	144
2	Finland (FIN)	32	31	38	101
3	Norway (NOR)	32	24	27	83
4	Switzerland (SUI)	29	16	31	76
5	Denmark (DEN)	18	14	12	44
6	Czech Republic (CZE)	16	26	18	60
7	Russia (RUS)	15	8	13	36
8	Poland (POL)	6	6	4	16
9	Hungary (HUN)	4	4	6	14
10	Romania (ROU)	4	0	1	5
11	New Zealand (NZL)	3	1	1	5
12	France (FRA)	2	5	8	15
13	Germany (GER)	2	2	1	5
14	Australia (AUS)	2	1	3	6
15	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	3	7
16	Estonia (EST)	1	1	2	4
17	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	0	2
20	Lithuania (LTU)	0	2	3	5
21	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	2	3
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	2	3
23	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
24	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
25	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 nations)		219	210	216	645

The 2006 Junior World Champion in the long distance event for women was Johanna Allston (or Hanny 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 (2012), Aston Key (2019), and Tim Robertson (2014 and 2015), are the only non-Europeans to win gold medals at the Junior World Championships.

Gallery[]

See also[]

• World Orienteering Championships
• European Orienteering Championships
• World University Orienteering Championships
• Orienteering World Cup

External links and references[]