World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships

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.^[1] The programme includes Long distance, Middle distance, Sprint, and a Relay for both men and women.

Host towns/cities

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

Long distance

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Jussi Mäkilä	Jérémie Gillmann	Alain Berger
2004	Alain Berger	Mika Tervala	Adrian Jackson
2005	Ruslan Gritsan	Victor Korchagin	Adrian Jackson
2006	Mika Tervala	Ruslan Gritsan	Matti Keskinarkaus
2007	Ruslan Gritsan	Lasse Brun Pedersen	Jaroslav Rygl
2008	Ruslan Gritsan	Torbjørn Gasbjerg	Beat Okle
2009	Adrian Jackson	Ruslan Gritsan	Matthieu Barthelemy
2010	Anton Foliforov	Adrian Jackson	Erik Skovgaard Knudsen
2011	Samuli Saarela	Erik Skovgaard Knudsen	Ruslan Gritsan
2012	Ruslan Gritsan	Juho Saarinen	Samuel Pokala	Length 29.3 km, Climb 310m, 29 controls
2013	Krystof Bogar	Samuli Saarela	Anton Foliforov	Length 34.9 km, Climb 405m, 32 controls
2014	Anton Foliforov	Baptiste Fuchs	Jiří Hradil
2015	Anton Foliforov	Jussi Laurila	Luca Dallavalle
2016	Anton Foliforov	Krystof Bogar	Davide Machado
2017	Rasmus Søgaard	Jiri Hradil	Anton Foliforov

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Päivi Tommola	Emily Viner	Antje Bornhak
2004	Anke Dannowski	Päivi Tommola	Antje Bornhak
2005	Päivi Tommola	Antje Bornhak	Anke Dannowski
2006	Christine Schaffner	Ksenia Chernykh	Ingrid Stengård
2007	Michaela Gigon	Ksenia Chernykh	Christine Schaffner
2008	Christine Schaffner	Marika Hara	Line Pedersen
2009	Christine Schaffner	Sonja Zinkl	Hana Bajtošova
2010	Christine Schaffner	Ksenia Chernykh	Marika Hara
2011	Rikke Kornvig	Ingrid Stengard	Laura Scaravonati
2012	Susanna Laurila	Ksenia Chernykh	Marika Hara	Length 21.5 km, Climb 250m, 24 controls
2013	Marika Hara	Susanna Laurila	Cecilia Thomasson	Length 26.0 km, Climb 265m, 27 controls
2014	Olga Vinogradova	Svetlana Poverina	Camilla Soegaard
2015	Martina Tichovska	Svetlana Poverina	Cecilia Thomasson
2016	Emily Benham	Gaëlle Barlet	Maja Rothweiler
2017	Emily Benham	Martina Tichovska	Olga Vinogradova

Middle distance

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2004	Adrian Jackson	Alain Berger	Victor Korchagin
2005	Ruslan Gritsan	Jaroslav Rygl	Mika Tervala
2006	Tuomo Tompuri	Mika Tervala	Ruslan Gritsan
2007	Mika Tervala	Jérémie Gillmann	Lubomír Tomecek
2008	Adrian Jackson	Søren Strunge	Lubomír Tomecek
2009	Torbjørn Gasbjerg	Jiri Hradil	Lasse Brun Pedersen	Length: 20.4 km, Climb: 355 m, 19 controls
2010	Samuli Saarela	Adrian Jackson	Luca Dallavalle
2011	Samuli Saarela	Ruslan Gritsan	Tobias Breitschadel
2012	Samuli Saarela	Anton Foliforov	Samuel Pökälä	Length 14.4 km, Climb 240m, 21 controls
2013	Tõnis Erm	Anton Foliforov	Samuli Saarela	Length 15.6 km, Climb 290m, 24 controls
2014	Ruslan Gritsan	Jiri Hradil	Anton Foliforov
2015	Anton Foliforov	Luca Dallavalle	Marek Pospisek
2016	Anton Foliforov	Vojtech Ludvik	Ruslan Gritsan
2017	Krystof Bogar	Anton Foliforov	Valeriy Gluhov

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2004	Michaela Gigon	Laure Coupat Belinda Allison
2005	Michaela Gigon	Christine Schaffner	Ramune Arlauskiene
2006	Michaela Gigon	Hana Bajtošova	Ingrid Stengård
2007	Ksenia Chernykh	Hana Bajtošova	Markéta Jirásková
2008	Ksenia Chernykh	Michaela Gigon	Päivi Tommola
2009	Marika Hara	Michaela Gigon	Christine Schaffner	Length: 15.6 km, Climb: 225 m, 15 controls
2010	Michaela Gigon	Rikke Kornvig	Marika Hara
2011	Michaela Gigon	Anna Kaminska	Rikke Kornvig
2012	Ursina Jäggi	Ingrid Stengard	Nina Hoffmann	Length 11.7 km, Climb 205m, 17 controls
2013	Marika Hara	Emily Benham	Susanna Laurila	Length 11.3 km, Climb 200m, 18 controls
2014	Cecilia Thomasson	Emily Benham	Marika Hara
2015	Gaelle Barlet	Martina Tichovska	Emily Benham
2016	Olga Vinogradova	Emily Benham	Camilla Soegaard
2017	Olga Vinogradova	Martina Tichovska	Emily Benham

Sprint

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Mika Tervala	Alain Berger	Jérémie Gillmann
2007	Torbjørn Gasbjerg	Jérémie Gillmann	Anton Foliforov
2008	Lasse Brun Pedersen	Jiri Hradil	Tõnis Erm
2009	Adrian Jackson	Lasse Brun Pedersen	Ruslan Gritsan
2010	Adrian Jackson	Tõnis Erm	Anton Foliforov
2011	Anton Foliforov	Jiri Hradil	Erik Skovgaard Knudsen
2012	Tobias Breitschädel	Marek Pospisek	Ruslan Gritsan	Length 6.9 km, Climb 135m, 20 controls
2013	Tõnis Erm	Lauri Malsroos	Krystof Bogar	Length 6.1 km, Climb 55m, 22 controls
2014	Hans Jorgen Kvale Anton Foliforov		Grigory Medvedev
2015	Luca Dallavalle	Vojtech Stransky	Lauri Malsroos
2016	Anton Foliforov	Luca Dallavalle	Cedric Beill
2017	Grigory Medvedev	Jussi Laurila	Lauri Malsroos

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Laure Coupat	Mervi Väisänen	Antje Bornhak
2007	Ksenia Chernykh	Michaela Gigon	Hana Bajtošova
2008	Hana Bajtošova	Michaela Gigon	Martina Tichovska
2009	Hana Bajtošova	Marika Hara	Michaela Gigon
2010	Anna Kaminska	Christine Schaffner	Martina Tichovská
2011	Gaelle Barlet	Marika Hara	Michaela Gigon
2012	Christine Schaffner	Emily Benham	Anna Kaminska	Length 5.1 km, Climb 105m, 17 controls
2013	Cecilia Thomasson	Eeva-Liisa Hakala	Tatiana Repina	Length 5.7 km, Climb 50m, 21 controls
2014	Marika Hara	Tatiana Repina	Emily Benham
2015	Martina Tichovska	Svetlana Poverina	Cecilia Thomasson
2016	Emily Benham	Marika Hara	Henna Saarinen
2017	Marika Hara	Emily Benham	Olga Vinogradova

Mass Start

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2017	Luca Dallavalle	Ruslan Gritsan	Simon Braendli

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2017	Emily Benham	Olga Vinogradova	Gaëlle Barlet

Relay

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002	France	Czech Republic	Finland
2004	Finland	Czech Republic	Australia
2005	Finland	France	Switzerland
2006	Finland	Russia	Switzerland
2007	France	Czech Republic	Denmark
2008	Denmark	Russia	Czech Republic
2009	Russia	Czech Republic	Finland
2010	Russia	Denmark	Czech Republic
2011	Denmark	Czech Republic	Finland
2012	Finland	Russia	Austria
2013	Czech Republic	Finland	Estonia
2014	Estonia	Finland	France
2015	Austria	Russia	Finland
2016	Czech Republic	Russia	France
2017	Czech Republic	Finland	Russia

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002	Finland	France	Czech Republic
2004	Finland	Austria	Australia
2005	Germany	Czech Republic	France
2006	Russia	Finland	Czech Republic
2007	Finland	Russia	Austria
2008	Finland	Russia	Austria
2009	Austria	Switzerland	Russia
2010	Denmark	Finland	Czech Republic
2011	Switzerland	Lituania	Slovakia
2012	Finland	Switzerland	Slovakia
2013	Finland	Denmark	Switzerland
2014	Russia	Finland	Czech Republic
2015	Finland	Russia	Czech Republic
2016	Finland	Russia	Czech Republic
2017	Finland	France	Russia

References

^ "World MTB Orienteering Championships". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2002 FRA. Fontainebleau, France, 1–6 July 2002". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2004 AUS. Ballarat, Australia, 19–23 October 2004". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2005 SVK. Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, 5–11 September 2005". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2006 FIN. Joensuu, Finland 9–13 July, 2006". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2007 CZE. Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic, 5–12 August, 2007". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2008 POL. Ostróda, Poland, 24–31 August, 2008". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
^ "MTB-WOC 2009 ISR. Ben Shemen, Israel, 9–16 August 2009". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
^ "MTB-WOC 2010 POR. Montalegre, Portugal, 11 – 17 July". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
^ Appointment of Organizers for IOF events 2018 and 2019
^ "IOF Eventor - Event information: World MTB Orienteering Championships 2019 and Junior World MTB Orienteering Championships". eventor.orienteering.org. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

[mtb-woc-1] "World MTB Orienteering Championships". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2002-2] "MTB-WOC 2002 FRA. Fontainebleau, France, 1–6 July 2002". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2004-3] "MTB-WOC 2004 AUS. Ballarat, Australia, 19–23 October 2004". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2005-4] "MTB-WOC 2005 SVK. Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, 5–11 September 2005". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2006-5] "MTB-WOC 2006 FIN. Joensuu, Finland 9–13 July, 2006". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2007-6] "MTB-WOC 2007 CZE. Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic, 5–12 August, 2007". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2008-7] "MTB-WOC 2008 POL. Ostróda, Poland, 24–31 August, 2008". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2009.

[mtb-woc-2009-8] "MTB-WOC 2009 ISR. Ben Shemen, Israel, 9–16 August 2009". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

[mtb-woc-2010-9] "MTB-WOC 2010 POR. Montalegre, Portugal, 11 – 17 July". International Orienteering Federation. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

[10] Appointment of Organizers for IOF events 2018 and 2019

[11] "IOF Eventor - Event information: World MTB Orienteering Championships 2019 and Junior World MTB Orienteering Championships". eventor.orienteering.org. Retrieved 27 October 2017.

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