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).

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Junior World Orienteering Championships
Finish chute 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	2023
Next event	2024
Organised by	IOF
Website	https://www.jwoc2024.cz

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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 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 (from 2024^[1]) includes:

• Individual Sprint Event
• Sprint Relay
• Individual Middle Distance Event
• Individual Long Distance Event
• 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 ****PostFinance Sprint****. Shortly following this event the Sprint discipline was added to the program for Lithuania 2006. From 2022 onward the Middle Distance Qualification has been replaced by the Sprint relay discipline with four runners in each team. Two women (1st & 4th leg) and two men (2nd &3rd leg).

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

Men

More information Year, Gold ...

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Mikael Boström	Jimmy Birklin	Sören Nymalm
1991	Ivars Zagars	Tomas Dolezal	Mikko Lepo
1992	Johan Näsman	Chris Terkelsen	Fredrik Löwegren
1993	Odin Tellesbø	Torben Nørgård	Tommi Tölkkö
1994	Robert Banach	Janusz Gliszczyński	Tommi Tölkkö
1995	Gabor Domonyik	Michael Mamleev	Jani Lakanen
1996	Maricel Olaru	Anders Axenborg	Jani Lakanen
1997	Johan Modig	Vladimír Lučan	Marián Dávidík
1998	Håkan Pettersson	Thierry Gueorgiou	Jørgen Rostrup
1999	Andrey Khramov	Mikko Heikelä	Troy de Haas
2000	Jiří Kazda	Pasi Ikonen	Jaromír Švihovský
2001	Andrey Khramov	Mårten Boström	Michal Smola
2002	Daniel Hubmann	Wojciech Kowalski	Alexei Bortnik
2003	Dmitry Tsvetkov	Matthias Merz	Daniel Hubmann
2004	Matthias Merz	Martin Johansson	Simonas Krepsta
2005	Olav Lundanes	Andreas Ruedlinger	Philippe Adamski
2006	Anders Skarholt	Olav Lundanes	Markus Puusepp	12.6 km, 22 controls[10]
2007	Olav Lundanes	Magne Dæhli	Christian Bobach	11.1 km, 27 controls[11]
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	Pavel Kubát	Johan Runesson	Matthias Kyburz	11.3 km, 31 controls
2011	Yngve Skogstad	Robert Merl	Lucas Basset	11.1 km, 23 controls
2012	Eskil Kinneberg	Marius Thrane Ødum	Gleb Tikhonov	11.5 km, 23 controls
2013	Piotr Parfianowicz[4]	Florian Schneider[4]	Andrey Kozyrev[4]	9.9 km, 21 controls
2014	Anton Johansson	Assar Hellström	Marek Minář	10.2 km, 23 controls
2015	Olli Ojanaho	Simon Hector	Andreas Soelberg	10.7 km, 24 controls
2016	Joey Hadorn	Thomas Curiger	Isac von Krusenstierna	8.8 km, 21 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho	Simon Imark	Simon Hector	10.7 km, 21 controls[12]
2018	Kasper Fosser	Mathieu Perrin	Daniel Vandas	15.0 km, 29 controls[13]
2019	Kasper Fosser	Elias Jonsson	Aston Key	10.1 km, 24 controls[14]
2021	Basile Basset	Soren Thrane Odum	Ferenc Jonas	11.1 km, 24 controls[15]
2022	Noel Braun	Kornelius Kriszat Lovfald	Touko Seppa	10.8 km, 24 controls[16]
2023	Jakub Chaloupsky	Noel Braun	Pascal Schaerer	10,7 km, 23 controls[17]

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Women

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Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1990	Torunn Fossli	Marlena Jansson	Mari Lukkarinen
1991	Mari Lukkarinen	Marcela Kubátková	Katarina Allberg
1992	Barbara Bączek	Johanna Tiira	Hanne Staff
1993	Liisa Anttila	Tenna Nörgård	Hana Doleželová
1994	Christina Grøndahl	Pia Olsson	Ewa Kozłowska
1995	Christina Grøndahl	Lenka Čechová	Kateřina Mikšová
1996	Enikö Fey	Kateřina Pracná	Karin Schmalfeld
1997	Simone Luder	Hanna Heiskanen	Regula Hulliger
1998	Hanna Heiskanen	Tatiana Pereliaeva	Eva Juřeníková
1999	Regula Hulliger	Tatiana Pereliaeva	Katalin Hecz
2000	Tatiana Pereliaeva	Marianne Riddervold	Nataliya Potopalska
2001	Dana Brožková	Pinja Satri	Daria Smolik
2002	Tiina Kivimäki	Michaela Przyczková	Minna Kauppi
2003	Martina Dočkalová	Anni-Maija Fincke	Helena Jansson
2004	Silja Tarvonen	Seline Stadler	Allison O'Neill
2005	Mari Fasting	Elise Egseth	Paula Iso-Markku
2006	Hanny Allston	Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen	Elin A Skantze	8.8 km, 16 controls[10]
2007	Siri Ulvestad	Kine Hallan Steiwer	Heini Saarimäki	7.2 km, 16 controls[11]
2008	Jenny Lönnkvist	Beata Falk	Siri Ulvestad	6.7 km, 15 controls
2009	Ida Bobach	Jenny Lönnkvist	Teini Marika	5.7 km, 18 controls
2010	Ida Bobach	Therese Klintberg	Sari Anttonen	7.3 km, 22 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Emma Klingenberg	Tove Alexandersson	7.7 km, 20 controls
2012	Kirsi Nurmi	Frida Sandberg	Emily Kemp	7.7 km, 13 controls
2013	Lisa Risby[4]	Sara Hagström[4]	Ekaterina Savkina[4]	7.1 km, 15 controls
2014	Gunvor Hov Høydal	Sara Hagstrom	Emmi Jokela	7.2 km, 16 controls
2015	Sara Hagstrom	Anna Haataja	Sandrine Mueller	7.3 km, 16 controls
2016	Anna Haataja	Valerie Aebischer	Sofie Bachmann	6.5 km, 16 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold	Veera Klemettinen	Sofie Bachmann	7.6 km, 16 controls[12]
2018	Simona Aebersold	Zsofia Sarkozy	Tereza Janošíková	10.2 km, 18 controls[13]
2019	Ida Haapala Veronika Kalinina		Grace Molloy	6.5 km, 18 controls[14]
2021	Lilly Graber	Lucie Semíková	Viktoria Mag	7.0 km, 18 controls[18]
2022	Hanna Lundberg	Eeva Liina Ojanaho	Oda Scheele	7.3 km, 20 controls[19]
2023	Lucie Dittrichova	Henriette Radzikowski	Pia Young Vik	7,8 km, 17 controls[17]

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

Men

More information Year, Gold ...

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1991	Janusz Porzycz	Mikko Lepo	Stefan Sandahl	6.02 km, 14 cp, 48 participants
1992	Mikko Lepo	Bernt Bjørnsgaard	Joakim Carlson	3.6 km, 10 controls
1993	Václav Zakouřil	Bernt Bjørnsgaard	Miko Lepo
1994	Jon Engkvist	Holger Hott Johansen	Tommi Toikko	5.2 km, 12 controls
1995	Domonyik Gábor	Tomáš Zakouřil	Michael Mamleev	4.675 km, 11 cp, 142 participants
1996	Domonyik Gábor	Johan Modig	Horatio Grecu
1997	Jørgen Rostrup	Rikard Gunnarsson	Per Oberg	5.0 km, 18 cp, 60 participants
1998	Jørgen Rostrup	Rikard Gunnarsson	H. Peterson
1999	Jonne Lakanen	Sergey Detkov	Thierry Gueorgiou	4.8 km, 14 controls
2000	Michal Smola	Zbyněk Hora	Jaromír Švihovský
2001	Marius Bjugan	Jan Troeng	Michal Smola	4.808 km, 13 controls
2002	Erik Andersson	Tuomas Tervo	Jörgen Wickholm	4.65 km, 14 controls
2003	Matthias Merz	Tuomas Tervo	Aleksei Bortnik	3.6 km, 11 controls
2004	Audun Bjerkreim Nilsen	Matthias Merz	Simonas Krepsta	4.61 km, 14 controls
2005	Fabian Hertner	Philippe Adamski	Hannu Airila	3.5 km, 17 controls
2006	Jan Beneš Søren Bobach		Olav Lundanes	4.4 km
2007	Olav Lundanes	Petter Eriksson	Martin Hubmann	4.5 km, 22 controls
2008	Johan Runesson	Ulf Forseth Indgaard	Sören Bobach	4.1 km, 16 controls
2009	Olli-Markus Taivainen	Philipp Sauter	Ulf Forseth Indgaard	4.1 km, 19 controls
2010	Gaute Hallan Steiwer	Jonas Leandersson	Olle Boström	4.7 km, 23 controls
2011	Topias Tiainen Robert Merl Dmitry Nakonechnyy			4.2 km, 17 controls
2012	Matt Ogden	Jan Petržela	Florian Schneider	4.8 km, 19 controls
2013	Emil Svensk[4]	Anton Johansson[4]	Jens Wängdahl[4]	3.6 km, 17 controls
2014	Miika Kirmula	Riccardo Scalet	Olli Ojanaho	3.8 km, 16 controls
2015	Olli Ojanaho	Erik Andersson	Sven Hellmuller	4.2 km, 19 controls
2016	Thomas Curiger	Joey Hadorn	Audun Heimdal	3.8 km, 17 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho	Audun Heimdal	Simon Imark	4.1 km, 18 controls
2018	Jesper Svensk	Simon Imark	Henrik Johannesson	4.5 km, 17 controls[13]
2019	Kasper Fosser	Guilhem Elias	Lukas Liland	4.7 km, 17 controls[20]
2021	Axel Elmblad	Viktor Svensk	Ferenc Jonas	4.2 km, 16 controls
2022	Zoltán Bujdosó	Edvin Nilsson	Touko Seppa	4.0 km, 16 controls
2023	Hannes Mogensen	Jakub Chaloupsky	Oscar David Brom Jensen	4,8 km, 18 controls[21]

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Women

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Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1991	Kristin Liebich	Johanna Tiira	Karolina Arewång	4.43 km, 11 controls 48 participants
1992	Barbara Bączek	Riita Korpela	Elisabeth Ingvaldsen	2.8 km, 8 controls 49 participants
1993	Tenna Norgaard	Satu Mäkitammi	Liisa Anttila	3.35 km, 12 controls
1994	Synne Lea	Pia Olsson	Terhi Hyttinen	3.9 km, 9 controls
1995	Christina Gröndahl	Karin Schmalfeld	Iva Navrátilová	3.52 km, 10 controls, 101 participants
1996	Enikõ Fey	Annika Björk	Julia Morozova	3.79 km, 9 controls, 113 participants
1997	Hanna Heiskanen	Kateřina Mikšová	Heli Jukkola	4.2 km, 14 controls
1998	Tatiana Pereliaeva	Astrid Fritschi	Hanna Heiskanen
1999	Regula Hulliger	Salla Sukki	Johanna Seppinen	3.95 km, 14 controls
2000	Camilla Berglund	Maria Bergkvist	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	Laura Hokka	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	Heini Wennman	Hanny Allston	3.0 km, 14 controls
2006	Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen	Ulrika Uotila	Signe Klinting	3.6 km, 14 controls
2007	Jenny Lönnkvist	Ida Marie Bjørgul	Tatyana Mendel Saila Kinni	3.6 km, 21 controls
2008	Venla Niemi	Beata Falk	Karine D`Harreville	3.0 km, 12 controls
2009	Tove Alexandersson	Britt Ingunn Nydal	Ida Bobach	3.1 km, 15 controls
2010	Tove Alexandersson	Lilian Forsgren	Sarina Jenzer	3.9 km, 20 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Tove Alexandersson	Emma Klingenberg	3.5 km, 14 controls
2012	Tove Alexandersson	Frida Sandberg	Sandrine Müller	3,6 km, 17 controls
2013	Miri Thrane Ödum[4]	Lisa Risby[4]	Mathilde Rundhaug[4]	3.0 km, 14 controls
2014	Sina Tommer Sara Hagstrom		Andrea Svensson	3,1 km, 15 controls
2015	Anine Ahlsand	Johanna Oberg	Sandrine Mueller	3.6 km, 18 controls
2016	Simona Aebersold	Aleksandra Hornik	Johanna Oberg	3.1 km, 17 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold	Linnea Golsäter	Veera Klemettinen	3.5 km, 16 controls
2018	Csilla Gardonyi	Sanna Fast	Barbora Chaloupská	3.6 km, 14 controls[13]
2019	Isa Envall	Fiona Bunn	Tereza Janošíková	4.3 km, 14 controls[20]
2021	Hanna Lundberg	Lilly Graber	Tilda Ostberg	3.5 km, 15 controls[22]
2022	Hanna Lundberg	Elsa Sonesson	Eeva Liina Ojanaho	3.5 km, 14 controls[23]
2023	Henriette Radzikowski	Lucie Dittrichova	Pia Young Vik	4,7 km, 14 controls[21]

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This event was first held in 2006.

Men

More information Year, Gold ...

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2006	Mikael Kristensson	Patrik Karlsson	Ruslan Glebov	3.2 km, 16 controls
2007	Vojtěch Král	Olav Lundanes	Ivan Sirakov	3.3 km, 18 controls
2008	Stepan Kodeda	Johan Runesson	Sören Bobach	2.8 km, 16 controls
2009	Matthias Kyburz	Miloš Nykodým	Martin Hubmann	3.1 km, 24 controls
2010	Rasmus Thrane Hansen	Kristian Jones	Vegard Danielsen	2.7 km, 22 controls
2011	Lucas Basset	Andreu Blanes	Florian Howald	2.9 km, 23 controls
2012	Gleb Tikhonov	Jan Petržela	Eskil Kinneberg	2,9 km, 20 controls
2013	Florian Schneider[4]	Michal Hubáček[4]	Tim Robertson[4]	2.4 km, 21 controls
2014	Tim Robertson	Piotr Parfianowicz	Anton Johansson	3.0 km, 20 controls
2015	Tim Robertson	Aleksi Niemi	Algirdas Bartkevičius	2,9 km, 17 controls
2016	Joey Hadorn	Thomas Curiger	Isac von Krusenstierna	3.7 km, 19 controls
2017	Olli Ojanaho	Tommy Hayes	Joey Hadorn	3.5 km, 23 controls[12]
2018	Colin Kolbe	Matthew Fellbaum	Kasper Fosser Otto Kaario	4.1 km, 24 controls[13]
2019	Aston Key	Samuel Pihlstrom	Guilhem Elias	3.3 km, 23 controls[24]
2021	Francesco Mariani	Touko Seppa	Axel Elmblad	3.5 km, 15 controls[25]
2022	Axel Elmblad	Tobias Alstad	Mikkel Holt Ilian Angeli Basile Basset	3.3 km, 15 controls[26]
2023	Anselm Reichenbach	Guilhem Verove	Jurgen Joonas	4,3 km, 28 controls[27]

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Women

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Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2006	Ingunn Hultgreen Weltzien	Hanny Allston	Eva Svensson	2.5 km, 13 controls 121 participants
2007	Eva Svensson	Šárka Svobodná	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	Tereza Novotná	2.5 km, 21 controls
2010	Ida Bobach	Hanna Wiśniewska	Monika Gajda	2.3 km, 19 controls
2011	Ida Bobach	Emma Klingenberg	Tereza Novotná	2.5 km, 22 controls
2012	Tove Alexandersson	Emma Klingenberg	Frida Sandberg	2.3 km, 17 controls
2013	Heidi Mårtensson[4]	Nicoline Friberg Klysner[4]	Anastasia Denisova[4]	2.1 km, 19 controls
2014	Sara Hagstrom	Heidi Mårtensson	Miri Thrane Ødum	2.5 km, 17 controls
2015	Simona Aebersold	Heidi Mårtensson	Karoliina Ukskoski	2.4 km, 13 controls
2016	Simona Aebersold	Anna Dvorianskaia	Anna Haataja	3.3 km, 16 controls
2017	Simona Aebersold	Tereza Janošíková	Linnea Golsater	3.0 km, 21 controls[12]
2018	Simona Aebersold	Tereza Janošíková	Csilla Gardonyi	3.7 km, 21 controls[13]
2019	Eline Gemperle	Tilda Ostberg	Grace Molloy	2.9 km, 17 controls[24]
2021	Malin Agervig Kristiansson	Hanna Lundberg	Cecile Calandry	3.0 km, 13 controls[25]
2022	Elisa Mattila	Lilly Graber	Anna Karlová	3.0 km, 13 controls[26]
2023	Rita Maramarosi	Pia Young Vikon	Eeva Liina Ojanaho	3,8 km, 23 controls[28]

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Updated after JWOC 2019.

More information Rank, Nation ...

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 entries)		219	210	216	645

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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.