Middle distance
In the middle distance each federation can participate with 3 men and 3 women. Winner form the last world and regional Championships has a personal start place added to the federation entry.
It is first a qualification race where the athletes are divided into 3 heats. The 15 best from each heat are qualified to the final.
Long distance
The number of competitors per federation is based on the results from the last “forest” World Championship. Based on this federation is divided into 3 divisions.
- Division 1 federations have 3 places
- Division 2 federations have 2 places
- Division 3 federations have 1 place
- Winner form the last world and regional Championships have a personal start place
Relay
Each federation can enter 1 team in men and 1 team in women.
8 June – Middle qualification
9 June – Middle final
10 June – Long
12 June – Relay
Welcome to Finland!
Live here on orienteering.sport
- LIVE Web-TV (English)
- Live GPS tracking
- Live results
Useful links
- Organisers event info page
- IOF Eventor page
- World of O – “all you need to know about WOC”
How to purchase a ticket for Web-TV
You can buy the ticket several days before the competitions as the purchase is tied to your login account.
- Go to tv.orienteering.sport
- If you have an account you can log in, if not you need to set up an account.
- Pay by credit card
- The Web-TV is now ‘unlocked’ and you will bee able to see the broadcast. You can login on any supported device and watch your purchased Web-TV shows after the purchase.
Help pages for IOF Live services can be found here.
The races from Finland will be produced in high-quality broadcasts and available on IOF TV.
Middle qualification will only be broadcasted on IOF TV (free).
TV Broadcasters:
| Middle | Long | Relay | |
 IOF TV |
14:30-18:20 | 14:10-18:20 | 13:20-17:30 |
| UTC +3, Finnish time | |||
 SVT |
13:30-17:20 | 13:10-17:20 | 12:20-16:30 |
 NRK |
13:20-17:20 | 13:00-17:20 | 12:20-16:30 |
 YLE |
14:15-18:20 | 13:55-18:30 | 13:10-17:40 |
 SRG |
13:30-17:30 | 13:15-17:15 | 12:20-16:30 |
 ORF |
15:20-17:25 | 16:00-17:25 | 14:45-16:30 |
 TV8 Mont Blanc |
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ERR |
14:30-18:35 | 14:10-18:15 | 13:20-17:30 |
CzTV |
13:30 | ||
Times are local time for each country.
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