World Masters Orienteering Championships
Year Days Location
1996 April 8-12 Murcia , Spain
1997 September 29 - October 4 Minnesota , USA
1998 July 1-5 Novy Bor , Czech Republic
1999 July 18-23 Aarhus , Denmark
2000 January 1-7 Feilding , New Zealand
2001 July 1-5 Nida , Lithuania
2002 October 6-11 Bendigo , Australia
2003 July 13-17 Halden , Norway
2004 July 3-10 Asiago , Italy
2005 July 22-31 Edmonton , Canada
2006 July 1-8 Wiener Neustadt , Austria
2007 July 7-14 Kuusamo , Finland
2008 June 28 - July 5 Marinha Grande , Portugal
2009 October 10-18 Sydney , Australia
2010 July 31 - August 7 Neuchâtel , Switzerland
2011 July 1-8 Pécs , Hungary
2012 July 1-7 Bad Harzburg , Germany
2013 August 2-10 Sestriere , Italy
2014 November 1-8 Porto Alegre , Brazil
2015 July 27 - August 1 Gothenburg , Sweden
Venues
World Masters Orienteering Championships are an annual official world championship event of the International Orienteering Federation for orienteering runners aged 35 and over. The classes of competition are divided into women (W) and men (M) in five year age groups from W35 and M35 to W100 and M100 with a total of 28 classes. The first championships were arranged 1996 in Murcia, Spain. From 2018 onwards the competition programme includes Sprint, Middle distance and Long distance with qualifications runs before the final runs. Initially the WMOC programme included only Long distance with 2 qualification runs. From WMOC 2008 in Portugal, the Sprint distance was added to the programme. From 2018 in Denmark, the Middle distance was added to the programme.