The World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) will be stating on Monday 11th August in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Australia has a team of four women and four men competing in these championships.

The WUOC are held every two years and comprise this year of a Sprint Relay, Long Distance, Sprint Distance, Middle Distance and Relay. Each country can have one team in each of the relays and up to four women and four men in each of the sprint, middle and long distance events.

The team is

Women: Bridget Anderson (Sprint, Middle, Long, Sprint Relay, Relay), Lauren Gillis (Sprint, Middle, Long), Belinda Lawford (Sprint, Middle, Long, Sprint Relay, Relay), Krystal Neumann (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay).

Men: Andrew Barnett (Sprint, Middle, Long, Relay), Bryan Keely (Sprint, Middle, Long, Sprint Relay, Relay), Todd Neve (Sprint, Long, Middle), Murray Scown (Sprint, Middle, Long, Sprint Relay, Relay).

The program is

Monday 11th Aug: Opening Ceremony– Olomouc

Tuesday 12th Aug: Sprint Relay-Kromeriz

Wednesday 13th Aug: Long Distance-Nectava Valley

Thursday 14th Aug: Sprint Distance-Kopecek

Friday 15th Aug: Middle Distance– Protivanov

Saturday 16th Aug: Relay– Protivanov

The city of Olomouc which is the center for these championships was also the center for the World Orienteering Championships in 2008. The maps which are being used however are different to those used in 2008. To be eligible for the WUOC you need to be under 28 years of age and have been enrolled at University, either in 2014 or 2013. We hope to be able to provide daily updates on the results through this website as we are not sure that there will be any live results available on the event website.

All the team have now assembled in Olomouc and have being doing some terrain familiarisation over the last two days and this afternoon take part in a warm up Sprint Relay in Prostejov the map that was used for the sprint qualification at WOC 2008.