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World Rogaining Championships

World Rogaining Championships

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The World Rogaining Championships are the championships of the International Rogaining Federation (IRF) and the pinnacle rogaining event in the world. The championships are organised by the national rogaining organisation chosen by the IRF as the host of that particular championships.

World Rogaining Championships 2013 Men's Open winners. From left: Rait Pallo, Timmo Tammemäe – silver (Estonia), Rain Eensaar, Silver Eensaar – gold (Estonia), Oleg Kalinin, Evgeny Dombrovskiy – bronze (Russia)

World championship rogaines are always of 24 hours duration, and are conducted in accordance with standard rogaining rules.

The team with the highest score in each of the three gender classes (Men's, Women's and Mixed teams) are declared the World Rogaining Champions. Within each gender class, all teams participate in the Open age category. Additionally, there are age sub-categories as follows: Youth (up to 23), Veteran (45 and over), Super Veteran (55 and over) and Ultra Veteran (65 and over).[1]

From 1992 to 2012 the World Rogaining Championships were held every two years, from 2012 to 2020 they have been held annually (with the exception of 2018), from 2020 onwards they are again held every other year.

History of the Championships

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Multiple winners

Perpetual trophies for World Rogaining Championship category winners

Men's Estonia Silver Eensaar - 3 Estonia Rain Eensaar - 3 Estonia Timmo Tammemäe - 3 Australia David Rowlands - 3 New Zealand Chris Forne - 3 New Zealand Greg Barbour - 2 Australia James Russell - 2

Women's Russia Anna Shavlakova - 2 Australia Julie Quinn - 2 Russia Marina Galkina - 2 Russia Nina Mikheeva - 2

Mixed Latvia Guntars Mankus - 3 Latvia Raimonds Lapiņš - 2 Latvia Anita Liepiņa - 2 Russia Andrey Shvedov - 2

Overall Australia Julie Quinn - 3 Australia David Rowlands - 3 Estonia Silver Eensaar - 3 Estonia Rain Eensaar - 3 Estonia Timmo Tammemäe - 3 Latvia Guntars Mankus - 3 New Zealand Chris Forne - 3 Russia Anna Shavlakova - 3 Australia James Russell - 2 Russia Natalija Abramova - 2 Russia Irina Safronova - 2 Russia Andrey Shvedov - 2 Russia Marina Galkina - 2 Russia Nina Mikheeva - 2 New Zealand Greg Barbour - 2 New Zealand Georgia Whitla - 2 New Zealand Greig Hamilton - 2 Latvia Raimonds Lapiņš - 2 Latvia Anita Liepiņa - 2 Latvia Andris Ansabergs - 2

See also

European Rogaining Championships

References

  1. [1]
    "IRF Rules of Rogaining".
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