The World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships is the official event for awarding World Champion titles in mountain bike orienteering. The World Championships, also known as WMTBOC, were first held in 2002, and since 2004 they have been organized annually – except in 2020.^[1] The programme includes Long distance, Middle distance, Sprint, Mass Start (unofficial in 2016 and official from 2017), and a Relay for both men and women.

Below is a list of towns and cities that have hosted World Championships in mountain bike orienteering. Year, date, place and number of participating countries are shown.

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Year	Date	Place	# Countries	Notes
2002	1–6 July	Fontainebleau, France	29	[2]
2004	19–23 October	Ballarat, Australia	26	[3]
2005	5–11 September	Banská Bystrica, Slovakia	26	[4]
2006 (in conjunction with TrailO WTOC 2006)	9–13 July	Joensuu, Finland	25	[5]
2007	5–12 August	Nové Město na Moravě, Czech Republic	22	[6]
2008	24–31 August	Ostróda, Poland	26	[7]
2009	9–16 August	Ben Shemen, Israel	20	[8]
2010	11–17 July	Montalegre, Portugal	25	[9]
2011	20–28 August	Vicenza, Italy	27	[10]
2012	20–25 August	Veszprém, Hungary	30	[11]
2013	26–31 August	Rakvere, Estonia	26	[12]
2014	24–31 August	Białystok, Poland	27	[13]
2015	14–23 August	Liberec, Czech Republic	28	[14]
2016	24–30 July	Águeda, Portugal	22	[15]
2017	19–27 August	Vilnius, Lithuania	23	[16]
2018	5–12 August	Zwettl, Austria	27	[17]
2019	28 July–3 August	Viborg, Denmark	24	[18]
2020	17–22 August*	Jeseník, Czech Republic		cancelled
2021	10–18 June	Kuortane, Finland	16	[19]
2022	15–20 July	Falun, Sweden	25	[20]

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