The World Rogaining Championships are the championships of the
International Rogaining Federation
International Rogaining Federation (IRF) is the peak international body for the sport of rogaining. The aims of the IRF are to promote rogaining worldwide, maintain the culture and the rules of the sport.
The IRF has adopted the Rules of Rogaini ...
(IRF) and the pinnacle
rogaining
Rogaining is an orienteering sport of long distance cross-country navigation, involving both route planning and navigation between checkpoints using a variety of map types. In a rogaine, teams of two to five people choose which checkpoints to ...
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 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: Junior (under 20), Veteran (over 40), Super Veteran (over 55) and Ultra Veteran (over 65).
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 will again be held biannually
History of the Championships
Multiple winners
''Men's''
Silver Eensaar - 3
Rain Eensaar - 3
David Rowlands - 3
Chris Forne - 3
Greg Barbour - 2
James Russell - 2
Timmo Tammemäe - 2
''Women's''
Anastasia Shavlakova - 3
Julie Quinn - 2
Marina Galkina - 2
Nina Mikheeva - 2
''Mixed''
Raimonds Lapiņš - 2
Anita Liepiņa - 2
Guntars Mankus - 2
Andrey Shvedov - 2
''Overall''
Silver Eensaar - 3
Rain Eensaar - 3
Julie Quinn - 3
David Rowlands - 3
Chris Forne - 3
Anastasia Shavlakova - 3
James Russell - 2
Natalija Abramova - 2
Andrey Shvedov - 2
Marina Galkina - 2
Nina Mikheeva - 2
Greg Barbour - 2
Georgia Whitla - 2
Greig Hamilton - 2
Raimonds Lapiņš - 2
Anita Liepiņa - 2
Guntars Mankus - 2
Timmo Tammemäe - 2
References
External links
2WRC1996 Mt. Singleton, Australia8WRC2008 Karula National Park, Estonia9WRC2010 Cheviot, New Zealand10WRC2012 Přebuz, Czech Republic
11WRC2013 Alol, Russian Federation12WRC2014 Black Hills, South Dakota, USA13WRC2015 Saariselkä, Finland14WRC2016 Alice Springs, Australia15WRC2017 Rāzna National Park, Latvia16WRC2019 La Molina, Catalonia17WRC2020 Sierra Nevada, California, USA
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World championships in orienteering