| World University Orienteering Championships | |
| Status: | active |
| Genre: | sporting event |
| Date: | July–August |
| Frequency: | biannual |
| Location: | various |
| First: | 1978 |
| Prev: | 2022 |
| Next: | 2024 |
| Organised: | FISU, IOF |
The World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) is a biannual orienteering competition organized by International University Sports Federation (FISU). Entry is open to athletes aged 17 to 25 who are enrolled in university either the year of or the year before the competition (ie. can compete in the year after they finish study). Representative countries must be members of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF).[1]
The current championship events are:
| Year | Date | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | July 10 |  Jyväskylä, Finland | |
| 1980 | July 16 | St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
| 1982 | August 10–15 |  Česká Lípa, Czechoslovakia | |
| 1984 | August 1–4 |  Jönköping, Sweden | |
| 1986 | August 1–3 |  Miskolc, Hungary | |
| 1988 | July 20–22 |  Trondheim, Norway | |
| 1990 | August 1–3 | Plavinas, USSR-Latvia | |
| 1992 | July 26–31 |  Aberdeen, Great Britain | |
| 1994 | September 4–11 | Fiesch, Switzerland | |
| 1996 | July 16–21 | Veszprém, Hungary | |
| 1998 | August 10–15 | Trondheim, Norway | |
| 2000 | August 25–September 2 |  Roanne, France | |
| 2002 | August 20–24 | Varna, Bulgaria | |
| 2004 | June 21–27 | Plzeň, Czech Republic | |
| 2006 | August 14–20 |  Košice, Slovakia | |
| 2008 | July 29 – August 2 |  Tartu, Estonia | |
| 2010 | July 17–24 | Borlänge, Sweden | |
| 2012 | July 2–7 |  Alicante, Spain | |
| 2014 | August 12–16 | Olomouc, Czech Republic | |
| 2016 | July 30 – August 4 | Miskolc, Hungary | |
| 2018 | July 17–21 | Kuortane, Finland | |
| Cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic |  | ||
| 2022 | August 17–21 | Biel/Bienne, Switzerland | |
| 2024 | August 1–5 | Bansko, Bulgaria |