TheWorld Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) (formerly theVeteran World Cup) is an annualorienteering competition organized by theInternational Orienteering Federation (IOF).

Participants must be 35 years of age or older. The classes of competition are divided into women and men in five-year age groups from 35 to 100+ with a total of 28 classes.

The first competition was held in 1983 inLahti,Finland. However, the event was not sanctioned by the IOF until 1988. From 1986 to 1994, the competition was held biannually. In 1998, the event changed its name to the World Masters Orienteering Championships.^[1]

Until 2008, the competition consisted of a long ("classic") distance race with 2 qualification runs, after which a sprint race was added to the program.^[2] In 2018, a middle-distance race was added as well.^[3]The competition format now consists of: Sprint Qualification, Sprint Final, Forest Qualification, Middle Final, Long Final.

Year	Date	Location
1983	July 12–15	Lahti, Finland
1986	July 15–18	Mysen, Norway
1988	July 19–22	Åmål, Sweden
1990	August 1–5	Körmend, Hungary
1992	January 5–11	Tasmania, Australia
1994	August 1–5	Strathspey, United Kingdom
1995	May 29 – June 2	Saint Petersburg, Russia
1996	April 8–12	Murcia, Spain
1997	September 29 – October 4	Minnesota, United States[4]
1998	July 1–5	Nový Bor, Czech Republic[5]
1999	July 18–23	Aarhus, Denmark[6]
2000	January 1–7	Feilding, New Zealand[7]
2001	July 1–5	Nida, Lithuania[8]
2002	October 6–11	Bendigo, Australia[9]
2003	July 13–17	Halden, Norway[10]
2004	July 3–10	Asiago, Italy[11]
2005	July 22–31	Edmonton, Canada[12]
2006	July 1–8	Wiener Neustadt, Austria[13]
2007	July 7–14	Kuusamo, Finland[14]
2008	June 28 – July 5	Marinha Grande, Portugal[15]
2009	October 10–18	Sydney, Australia[16]
2010	July 31 – August 7	Neuchâtel, Switzerland[17]
2011	July 1–8	Pécs, Hungary[18]
2012	July 1–7	Bad Harzburg, Germany[19]
2013	August 2–10	Sestriere, Italy[20]
2014	November 1–8	Porto Alegre, Brazil[21]
2015	July 27 – August 1	Gothenburg, Sweden[22]
2016	August 7–13	Tallinn, Estonia[23]
2017	April 21–30	Auckland, New Zealand[24]
2018	July 7–13	Copenhagen, Denmark
2019	July 5–12	Riga, Latvia[25]
2020	Cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic
2021	August 7—13	Velence, Hungary
2022	July 9—16	Gargano, Italy
2023	August 11—18	Košice, Slovakia[26]
2024	August 2–9	Turku, Finland[27]
2025	August 8–15	Girona, Spain[28]
2026	August 7–14	Rzeszów, Poland
2027	May 21—29	Kansai, Japan

• World championships in orienteering
• Recurring sporting events established in 1996

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