JWOC Poland 2011: All you need to know

Jan Kocbach June 30, 2011 Orienteering News Comments Off on JWOC Poland 2011: All you need to know

The Junior World Championships starts with the Sprint Sunday July 3rd at 14:00 CET – and continues with Long distance on Monday, Middle qualification on Wednesday, Middle final on Thursday and Relay on Friday. Expect a lot of interesting route choices in the hilly terrain – above you see one example from one of the old maps of the terrain (at the bottom of this page you can draw your ideal route for this leg in a Webroute).

Useful links

JWOC 2011 webpage
Link for LiveBlog in separate windows
Mobile version of LiveBlog
Old maps JWOC 2011: Map 1, map 2, map 3, map 4

Program

The following is the program for JWOC 2011 in Poland:

3.07.2011 – Sunday – Sprint 14:00 (no qualification)
4.07.2011 – Monday – Long 9:00 (no qualification)
6.07.2011 – Wednesday – Middle Qualification 10:00
7.07.2011 – Thursday – Middle Final 10:00
8.07.2011 – Friday – Relay 10:00

JWOC 2011 Live coverage

The organizers will provide live results from all competitions – you will find the link to the live results at the JWOC page. In addition, there will be a LiveBlog offered by the organizers in cooperation with World of O. The LiveBlog is planned to be live during all stages.

Embargoes areas

Facts and Course details

Sprint

Long

Middle Qualification

Middle Final

Relay

Webroute – what would you choose?

This years JWOC terrain makes it possible to make a lot of interesting route choice legs – while the fine orienteering is not the most tricky. The competitors will probably get a lot more tricky legs than the one you see below – but still it might be interesting to find your way to the first control on one of the old JWOC maps….