The European Orienteering Championships were first held in 1962. They have been held biennially since 2000. From 2020, the European Orienteering Championships will be held annually, with sprint events and forest events in alternate years.
Format
The competition format has changed several times. From the beginning in 1962, the World Championships consisted of only two competitions: an individual race and an unofficial relay. The relay event was an official event for the first time in the 1964 European Championships. EOC was not arranged from 1964 to 2000. In 2000, a sprint race (roughly 12–15 minutes winning time). In 2002, a short distance race (roughly 20–25 minutes) was added. The middle distance (roughly 30–35 minutes) replaced the short distance in 2004 On IOF's 23rd congress in
Lausanne
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in 2012, it was decided that a sprint relay event would be added in the 2016 European Orienteering Championships in Jeseník, Czech Republic.
The sprint relay are competed in urban areas and consists of four-orienteer mixed-gender teams with starting order woman-man-man-woman.
Current competition format
The current championship events are:
Host towns/cities
Individual/Classic/Long
Men
Women
Middle
Men
Women
Short/Sprint
Men
Women
Relay
Men
Women
Sprint relay
See also
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World Orienteering Championships
The World Orienteering Championships (or WOC for short) is an annual orienteering event organized by the International Orienteering Federation. The first World Championships was held in Fiskars, Finland in 1966. They were held biennially up to 2 ...
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Junior World Orienteering Championships
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 ...
External links and references
European Orienteering Championships, senior statistics 1962-2004EOC 2006 Statistics EOC 2006 Official site EOC 2008 Official site EOC 2010 Official siteEOC 2012 Official siteEOC 2014 Official siteEOC 2016 Official siteEOC 2018 Official siteEOC 2020
in IOF Eventor
Hungarian orienteers on the European Championships
(9 June 2008)
References
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Orienteering competitions
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Recurring sporting events established in 1962