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 – 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.

World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships
Status	active
Genre	sports competition
Date(s)	July–August
Frequency	annual
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	2002 (2002)
Organised by	IOF

Host towns and cities

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.

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]

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	Kryštof 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	Kryštof Bogar	Davide Machado
2017	Rasmus Soegaard	Jiří Hradil	Anton Foliforov
2018	Kryštof Bogar	Simon Braendli	Anton Foliforov
2019	Ruslan Gritsan	Baptiste Fuchs	Anton Foliforov
2021	Andre Haga	Pekka Niemi	Simon Braendli

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 Bajtošová
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 Tichovská	Svetlana Poverina	Cecilia Thomasson
2016	Emily Benham	Gaëlle Barlet	Maja Rothweiler
2017	Emily Benham	Martina Tichovská	Olga Vinogradova
2018	Martina Tichovská	Antonia Haga	Svetlana Poverina
2019	Emily Benham Kvale	Veronika Kubínová	Gabriele Andrasiuniene
2021	Camilla Soegaard	Veronika Kubínová	Marika Hara

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 Tomeček
2008	Adrian Jackson	Søren Strunge	Lubomír Tomeček
2009	Torbjørn Gasbjerg	Jiří 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	Jiří Hradil	Anton Foliforov
2015	Anton Foliforov	Luca Dallavalle	Marek Pospíšek
2016	Anton Foliforov	Vojtěch Ludvík	Ruslan Gritsan
2017	Kryštof Bogar	Anton Foliforov	Valeriy Gluhov
2018	Simon Braendli	Baptiste Fuchs	Grigory Medvedev
2019	Vojtěch Ludvík	Anton Foliforov	Grigory Medvedev
2021	Samuel Pokala	Simon Braendli	Kryštof Bogar

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2004	Michaela Gigon	Laure Coupat Belinda Allison
2005	Michaela Gigon	Christine Schaffner	Ramune Arlauskiene
2006	Michaela Gigon	Hana Bajtošová	Ingrid Stengård
2007	Ksenia Chernykh	Hana Bajtošová	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 Tichovská	Emily Benham
2016	Olga Vinogradova	Emily Benham	Camilla Soegaard
2017	Olga Vinogradova	Martina Tichovská	Emily Benham
2018	Olga Vinogradova	Martina Tichovská	Veronika Kubinova
2019	Emily Benham Kvale	Veronika Kubínová	Marika Hara
2021	Svetlana Foliforova*	Martina Tichovská	Marika Hara	*Neutral athlete, born in Russia

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	Jiří Hradil	Tõnis Erm
2009	Adrian Jackson	Lasse Brun Pedersen	Ruslan Gritsan
2010	Adrian Jackson	Tõnis Erm	Anton Foliforov
2011	Anton Foliforov	Jiří Hradil	Erik Skovgaard Knudsen
2012	Tobias Breitschädel	Marek Pospíšek	Ruslan Gritsan	Length 6.9 km, Climb 135m, 20 controls
2013	Tõnis Erm	Lauri Malsroos	Kryštof Bogar	Length 6.1 km, Climb 55m, 22 controls
2014	Hans Jorgen Kvale Anton Foliforov		Grigory Medvedev
2015	Luca Dallavalle	Vojtěch Stránský	Lauri Malsroos
2016	Anton Foliforov	Luca Dallavalle	Cedric Beill
2017	Grigory Medvedev	Jussi Laurila	Lauri Malsroos
2018	Anton Foliforov	Grigory Medvedev	Kryštof Bogar
2019	Grigory Medvedev	Anton Foliforov	Yoann Courtois
2021	Kryštof Bogar	Simon Braendli	Valeriy Glukhov*	*Neutral athlete from Russia

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Laure Coupat	Mervi Väisänen	Antje Bornhak
2007	Ksenia Chernykh	Michaela Gigon	Hana Bajtošová
2008	Hana Bajtošová	Michaela Gigon	Martina Tichovská
2009	Hana Bajtošová	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 Tichovská	Svetlana Poverina	Cecilia Thomasson
2016	Emily Benham	Marika Hara	Henna Saarinen
2017	Marika Hara	Emily Benham	Olga Vinogradova
2018	Henna Saarinen	Martina Tichovská Camilla Soegaard
2019	Emily Benham Kvale	Veronika Kubínová	Clare Dallimore
2021	Marika Hara	Svetlana Foliforova*	Anna Tiderman	*Neutral athlete from Russia

Mass Start

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2017	Luca Dallavalle	Ruslan Gritsan	Simon Braendli
2018	Jussi Laurila	Davide Machado	Kevin Haselsberger
2019	Jiří Hradil	Kryštof Bogar	Vojtěch Stránský
2021	Samuel Pokala	Jiří Hradil	Anton Foliforov*	*Neutral athlete from Russia

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2017	Emily Benham	Olga Vinogradova	Gaëlle Barlet
2018	Camilla Soegaard	Martina Tichovská	Sonja Zinkl
2019	Emily Benham Kvale	Camilla Soegaard	Anastasiya Svir
2021	Svetlana Foliforova*	Mervi Pesu	Martina Tichovská	*Neutral athlete from Russia

Relay

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
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
2018	Russia	Sweden	Czech Republic
2019	Russia	Czech Republic	Finland
2021	Finland	Neutral*	Switzerland	*Neutral team from Russia

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
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
2018	Czech Republic	Russia	Finland
2019	Russia	Finland	Sweden
2021	Denmark	Finland	Neutral*	*Neutral team from Russia