Junior World Orienteering Championships
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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).
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.
[edit] 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 |  Castelrotto, Italy |
| 1995 | 9-12 July |  Horsens, Denmark |
| 1996 | 8-14 July |  Govora, Romania |
| 1997 | 7-13 July | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small} Leopoldsburg, Belgium |
| 1998 | 13-18 July |  Reims, France |
| 1999 | 5-11 July |  Varna, Bulgaria |
| 2000 | 9-15 July |  Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic |
| 2001 | 9-15 July |  Miskolc, Hungary |
| 2002 | 7-14 July |  Alicante, Spain |
| 2003 | 7-12 July |  Põlva, Estonia |
| 2004 | 5-11 July |  Gdansk, Poland |
| 2005 | 11-16 July |  Tenero, Switzerland |
| 2006 | 2-7 July |  Druskininkai, Lithuania |
| 2007 | 7-15 July |  Dubbo, Australia |
| 2008 | 30 June - 6 July | Göteborg, Sweden |
| 2009 | 6 - 11 July | Primiero, Italy |
| 2010 | ??? | Aalborg, Denmark |
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.
