The World Ski Orienteering Championships (Ski-WOC) is the official event to award the titles of World Champions in ski orienteering. The World Championships is organized every odd year. The programme includes Sprint, Middle and Long Distance competitions, and a Relay for both men and women. The first Ski-WOC was held in 1975.^[1]

Host towns/cities

Number	Year	Date	Place
1	1975	26–28 February	Hyvinkää, Finland
2	1977	25–27 March	Velingrad, Bulgaria
3	1980	26 February – 1 March	Avesta, Sweden
4	1982	8–12 February	Aigen / Ennstal, Austria
5	1984	30 January – 4 February	Lavarone, Italy
6	1986	19–24 February	Batak, Bulgaria
7	1988	2–6 March	Kuopio, Finland
8	1990	1–4 March	Skellefteå, Sweden
9	1992	28 January – 2 February	Pontarlier, France
10	1994	1–5 February	Val di Non, Italy
11	1996	19–24 February	Lillehammer, Norway
12	1998	19–25 January	Windischgarsten, Austria
13	2000	28 February – 5 March	Krasnoyarsk, Russia
14	2002	23 February – 2 March	Borovetz, Bulgaria
15	2004	11–15 February	Åsarna / Östersund, Sweden
16	2005	5–12 March	Levi / Kittilä, Finland
17	2007	23 February – 3 March	Moscow Oblast, Russia
18	2009	3–8 March	Rusutsu, Japan
19	2011	20–28 March	Tänndalen, Sweden
20	2013	3–8 March	Ridder, Kazakhstan
21	2015	7–15 February	Hamar / Løten, Norway
22	2017	6–12 March	Krasnoyarsk, Russia
23	2019	19–24 March	Piteå, Sweden
24	2021	22–28 February	Kääriku, Estonia
25	2022	15–19 March	Kemi-Keminmaa, Finland

Classic/Long

This event was called "Classic distance" from 1975 to 1986. Since 1988 it is called "Long distance".

Men's classic/long distance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1975	Olavi Svanberg	Jorma Karvonen	Heimo Taskinen	23.4 km, 4 cp, 33 part.
1977	Örjan Svahn	Pekka Pökälä	Jorma Karvonen	22.0 km, 29 part.
1980	Pertti Tikka	Jan-Erik Thorn	Matti Väisänen	23.9 km, 9 cp, 38 part.
1982	Olavi Svanberg	Pertti Tikka	Sigurd Dæhli	20.5 km, 12 cp, 61 part.
1984	Anssi Juutilainen	Stefan Larsson	Pertti Tikka	19.6 km, 10 cp, 64 part.
1986	Claes Berglund	Anssi Juutilainen	Hannu Koponen	19.1 km, 8 cp, 69 part.
1988	Anssi Juutilainen	Hannu Koponen	Anders Björkman
1990	Anders Björkman	Stig Mattsson	Vidar Benjaminsen
1992	Vidar Benjaminsen	Vesa Mäkipää	Ivan Kuzmin	25.0 km, 12 cp, 65 part.
1994	Nicolo Corradini	Lars Lystad	Vladislav Kormtshikov	17.7 km, 14 cp, 60 part.
1996	Nicolo Corradini	Vidar Benjaminsen	Bertil Nordqvist	22.0 km, 25 cp, 78 part.
1998	Viktor Korchagin	Pekka Varis	Nicolo Corradini	21.0 km, 16 cp, 79 part.
2000	Vladislav Kormtshikov	Jukka Lanki	Andrei Gruzdev	64 participants
2002	Matti Keskinarkaus	Eduard Khrennikov	Raino Pesu Bertil Nordqvist	19.85 km, 32 cp, 70 part.
2004	Eduard Khrennikov	Tomas Löfgren	Tommy Olsen	23.23 km, 28 cp, 63 part.
2005	Eduard Khrennikov	Andrei Gruzdev	Jukka Lanki	25.5 km, 37 cp, 59 part.
2007	Eduard Khrennikov	Kirill Veselov	Andrei Gruzdev	24.81 km, 48 cp, 69 part.
2009	Andrei Lamov	Eduard Khrennikov	Olli-Markus Taivainen
2011	Andrey Grigoriev	Staffan Tunis	Vladimir Barchukov
2013	Peter Arnesson	Janne Häkkinen	Staffan Tunis
2015	Lars Moholdt	Andrey Lamov	Staffan Tunis
2017 [2]	Erik Rost	Kirill Veselov	Lars Moholdt	8.2 km, 48 participants[2][3]
2019	Andrey Lamov	Lars Moholdt	Tero Linnainmaa

Women's classic/long distance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1975	Sinikka Kukkonen	Agneta Mansson	Lena Samuelsson	13.8 km, 2 cp, 16 participants
1977	Marianne Bogestedt	Sonja Johannesson	Sinikka Kukkonen	13.0 km, 18 participants
1980	Mirja Puhakka	Kaija Silvennoinen	Ann Larsson	15.6 km, 9 cp, 22 part.
1982	Arja Hannus	Mirja Puhakka	Sirpa Kukkonen	13.0 km, 8 cp, 41 part.
1984	Mirja Puhakka	Lena Isaksson	Ann Larsson	14.2 km, 5 cp, 46 part.
1986	Ragnhild Bratberg	Arja Hannus	Virpi Juutilainen	12.6 km, 5 cp, 45 part.
1988	Virpi Juutilainen	Ragnhild Bratberg	Sirpa Kukkonen	12.1 km, 6 cp, 36 part.
1990	Ragnhild Bratberg	Arja Hannus	Annika Zell	18.95 km, 9 cp, 34 part.
1992	Annika Zell	Mirja Ojanen	Arja Hannus	13.0 km, 8 cp, 53 part.
1994	Pepa Milusheva	Virpi Juutilainen	Maret Vaher	13.0 km, 13 cp, 54 part.
1996	Annika Zell	Hilde G.Pedersen	Arja Nuolioja	14.0 km, 18 cp, 51 part.
1998	Liisa Anttila	Annika Zell	Lena Hasselstrom	15.6 km, 18 cp, 61 part.
2000	Arja Hannus	Liisa Anttila	Hanna Kosonen	34 participants
2002	Lena Hasselstrom	Erja Jokinen	Mervi Väisänen	13.7 km, 22 cp, 41 part.
2004	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	Hannele Valkonen	Natalia Tomilova	15.94 km, 22 cp, 43 part.
2005	Tatiana Vlasova	Natalia Tomilova	Olga Shevchenko	18.1 km, 26 cp, 43 part.
2007	Tatiana Vlasova	Hannele Valkonen	Reenaas Marte	13.91 km, 31 cp, 49 part.
2009	Anastasia Kravchenko	Barbora Chudíková	Helene Söderlund
2011	Helene Söderlund	Tatiana Kozlova	Marte Reenaas
2013	Mervi Pesu	Tatiana Kozlova	Tove Alexandersson Josefine Engström
2015	Josefine Engström	Mira Kaskinen	Kseniya Tretyakova
2017 [2]	Maria Kechkina	Alena Trapeznikova	Polina Frolova	7.3 km, 30 participants[2][4]
2019	Tove Alexandersson	Alena Trapeznikova	Maria Kechkina

Short/Middle

This event was called "Short distance" from 1988 to 2000. Since 2002 it is called "Middle distance".

Men's short/middle distance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1988	Hannu Koponen	Vidar Benjaminsen	Anssi Juutilainen	9.2 km, 11 cp, 63 participants
1990	Anssi Juutilainen	Vidar Benjaminsen	Anders Björkman	12.31 km, 9 cp, 60 participants
1992	Vidar Benjaminsen	Vesa Mäkipää	Ivan Kuzmin	10.0 km, 12 cp, 65 participants
1994	Nicolo Corradini Ivan Kuzmin		Vidar Benjaminsen	7.7 km, 12 cp, 61 participants
1996	Bjorn Lans	Vidar Benjaminsen	Raino Pesu	8.0 km, 14 cp, 78 participants
1998	Raino Pesu	Nerijus Šulčys	Kjetil Ulven	10.8 km, 23 cp, 73 participants
2000	Nicolo Corradini	Eduard Khrennikov	Andrei Gruzdev	64 participants
2002	Eduard Khrennikov	Andrei Gruzdev	Kjetil Ulven	11.2 km, 64 participants
2004	Tomas Löfgren	Tommy Olsen	Arto Lilja	12.38 km, 36 cp, 68 participants
2005	Ruslan Gritsan Andrei Gruzdev		Eduard Khrennikov	12.7 km, 21 cp, 63 participants
2007	Eduard Khrennikov	Staffan Tunis	Kirill Veselov	11.48 km, 29 cp, 71 participants
2009	Olli-Markus Taivainen	Staffan Tunis	Matti Keskinarkaus
2011	Staffan Tunis	Andrei Lamov	Peter Arnesson
2013	Peter Arnesson	Andrei Lamov	Kiril Veselov
2015	Staffan Tunis	Stanimir Belomazhev	Lars Moholdt
2017 [5]	Stanimir Belomazhev	Erik Rost	Lars Moholdt	3.4 km, 53 participants[5][6]
2019	Erik Rost	Audun Heimdal	Gion Schnyder

Women's short/middle distance

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1988	Ragnhild Bratberg	Virpi Juutilainen	Sirpa Kukkonen	6.7 km, 8 cp, 35 participants
1990	Ragnhild Bratberg	Virpi Juutilainen	Arja Hannus	9.23 km, 9 cp, 34 participants
1992	Arja Hannus	Virpi Juutilainen	Annika Zell	7.0 km, 10 cp, 53 participants
1994	Virpi Juutilainen	Sanna Savolainen Hilde G. Pedersen		5.5 km, 9 cp, 55 participants
1996	Arja Nuolioja	Annika Zell	Svetlana Haustova	6.0 km, 12 cp, 53 participants
1998	Annika Zell	Lena Hasselstrom	Liisa Anttila	8.6 km, 23 cp, 64 participants
2000	Tatiana Vlasova	Lena Hasselstrom	Liisa Anttila	32 participants
2002	Stina Grenholm	Erja Jokinen	Lena Hasselstrom	8.4 km, 42 participants
2004	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	Marie Lund	Stina Grenholm	9.03 km, 27 cp, 46 participants
2005	Tatiana Vlasova	Erja Jokinen	Stina Grenholm	10.1 km, 17 cp, 44 participants
2007	Tatiana Vlasova	Liisa Anttila	Natalia Tomilova	7.45 km, 20 cp, 49 participants
2009	Tatiana Vlasova	Helene Söderlund	Josefine Engström
2011	Polina Malchikova	Alena Trapeznikova	Stine Olsen Kirkevik
2013	Anastasia Kravchenko	Tatiana Kozlova	Josefine Engström
2015	Milka Reponen	Marjut Turunen	Mervi Pesu
2017 [7]	Tove Alexandersson	Polina Frolova	Salla Koskela	7.3 km, 32 participants[7][8]
2019	Maria Kechkina	Tove Alexandersson	Alena Trapeznikova

Sprint

This event was first held in 2002.

Men's sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Andrei Gruzdev	Viktor Korchagin	Raino Pesu	4.2 km, 11 cp, 66 participants
2004	Eduard Khrennikov	Bengt Leandersson	Peter Arnesson	3.96 km, 21 cp, 73 participants
2005	Matti Keskinarkaus	Bertil Nordqvist	Tobias Aslund	3.9 km, 10 cp, 63 participants
2007	Eduard Khrennikov	Vadim Tolstopyatov	Staffan Tunis	3.84 km, 16 cp, 70 participants
2009	Andrei Lamov	Olli-Markus Taivainen	Staffan Tunis
2011	Olli-Markus Taivainen	Staffan Tunis	Peter Arnesson
2013	Peter Arnesson	Andrei Lamov	Kirill Veselov
2015	Andrey Lamov	Stanimir Belomazhev	Erik Rost
2017 [9]	Ulrik Nordberg	Andrey Lamov	Sergey Gorlanov	3.4 km, 55 participants[9][10]
2019	Sergei Gorlanov	Erik Rost	Eduard Khrennikov

Women's sprint

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2002	Lena Hasselstrom	Erja Jokinen	Tatiana Vlasova	3.3 km, 8 cp, 41 participants
2004	Tatiana Vlasova	Liisa Anttila	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	3.48 km, 19 cp, 48 participants
2005	Stine Hjermstad Kirkevik	Erja Jokinen	Katja Rajaniemi	3.6 km, 10 cp, 44 participants
2007	Tatiana Vlasova	Olga Novikova	Liisa Anttila Tatiana Kozlova	2.79 km, 14 cp, 48 participants
2009	Hannele Tonna	Helene Söderlund	Tatiana Vlasova
2011	Tove Alexandersson	Helene Söderlund	Liisa Anttila
2013	Tove Alexandersson	Mervi Pesu	Tatyana Kozlova
2015	Tove Alexandersson	Audhild Bakken Rognstad	Josefine Engström
2017 [9]	Tove Alexandersson	Polina Frolova	Salla Koskela	3.1 km, 32 participants[9][11]
2019	Tove Alexandersson	Magdalena Olsson	Maria Kechkina

Relay

Men's relay

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1975	Finland	Sweden	Switzerland
1977	Sweden	Bulgaria	Czechoslovakia
1980	Sweden	Finland	Bulgaria
1982	Sweden	Norway	Finland
1984	Sweden	Finland	Norway
1986	Norway	Bulgaria	Finland
1988	Finland	Sweden	Norway
1990	Sweden	Finland	Norway
1992	Finland	Russia	Norway
1994	Norway	Finland	Russia
1996	Sweden Pär-Ove Bergqvist Bertil Nordqvist Björn Lans	Finland	Norway
1998	Russia	Sweden	Finland
2000	Russia	Finland	Sweden
2002	Russia	Finland	Sweden
2004	Russia	Norway	Finland
2005	Russia	Finland	Sweden
2007	Russia	Sweden	Switzerland
2009	Finland	Russia	Sweden
2011	Finland Olli Markus Taivainen Matti Keskinarkaus Staffan Tunis	Sweden Johan Granath Erik Rost Peter Arnesson	Norway Eivind Tonna Hans Jörgen Kvåle Lars Hol Moholdt
2013	Russia Andrey Grigoriev Kiril Veselov Andrei Lamov	Sweden Johan Granath Martin Hammarberg Peter Arnesson	Finland Ville-Petteri Saarela Hannu-Pekka Pukema Staffan Tunis
2015 [12]	Russia Kiril Veselov Eduard Khrennikov Andrei Lamov	Sweden Peter Arnesson Erik Rost Andreas Holmberg	Czech Republic Jakub Skoda Radek Laciga Jiří Bouchal
2017 [13]	Russia Andrey Grigoriev Kirill Veselov Andrey Lamov	Sweden Martin Hammarberg Ulrik Nordberg Erik Rost	Finland Tero Linnainmaa Juri Uusitalo Ville Petteri Saarela	6.7 km, 16 controls, 14 countries[13][14]
2019	Russia Vladislav Kiselev Sergei Gorlanov Andrey Lamov	Sweden Markus Lundholm Martin Hammarberg Erik Rost	Norway Bjørnar Kvale Audun Heimdal Lars Moholdt

Women's relay

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
1975	Finland	Sweden	Great Britain
1977	Finland	Sweden	Czechoslovakia
1980	Finland	Sweden	Czechoslovakia
1982	Sweden	Finland	Norway
1984	Sweden	Finland	Bulgaria
1986	Norway	Sweden	Bulgaria
1988	Finland	Norway	Sweden
1990	Finland	Sweden	Norway
1992	Sweden	Finland	Norway
1994	Sweden	Norway	Finland
1996	Sweden	Russia	Finland
1998	Finland	Sweden	Norway
2000	Finland	Sweden	Russia
2002	Russia	Sweden	Finland
2004	Finland	Russia	Sweden
2005	Norway	Sweden	Finland
2007	Russia	Finland	Sweden
2009	Sweden	Russia	Czech Republic
2011	Russia Alena Trapeznikova Tatyana Kozlova Polina Malchikova	Norway Barbro Kvåle Stine Olsen Kirkevik Marte Reenas	Finland Marjul Turunen Liisa Anttila Hannele Tonna
2013	Russia Anastasia Kravchenko Yuliya Tarasenko Tatyana Kozlova	Sweden Magdalena Olsson Josefine Engström Tove Alexandersson	Finland Milka Leppäsalm Marjut Turunen Mervi Pesu
2015 [12]	Sweden Frida Sandberg Tove Alexandersson Josefine Engström	Finland Milka Reponen Mira Kaskinen Mervi Pesu	Russia Kseniya Tretyakova Tatiana Oborina Yuliya Tarasenko
2017 [13]	Russia Maria Kechkina Polina Frolova Alena Trapeznikova	Finland Mirka Suutari Marjut Turunen Salla Koskela	Czech Republic Petra Hancova Kristina Kolinova Hanna Hancikova	5.6 km, 13 controls, 5 countries[2][15]
2019	Russia Alena Trapeznikova Tatjana Oborina Maria Kechkina	Sweden Linda Lindkvist Magdalena Olsson Tove Alexandersson	Finland Mirka Suutari Milka Reponen Salla Koskela

Mixed Sprint Relay

This event was first held in 2011.

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Notes
2011	Russia Andrey Grigoriev Polina Malchikova	Sweden Peter Arnesson Helene Söderlund	Finland Matti Keskinarkaus Liisa Anttila
2013	Sweden Tove Alexandersson Peter Arnesson	Finland Mervi Pesu Staffan Tunis	Bulgaria Antoniya Grigorova Stanimir Belomazhev
2015	Russia Yuliya Tarasenko Andrey Lamov	Finland Mira Kaskinen Staffan Tunis	Sweden Josefine Engström Erik Rost
2017 [16]	Sweden Tove Alexandersson Erik Rost	Russia Polina Frolova Andrey Lamov	Finland Salla Koskela Ville Petteri Saarela

2017 redistribution of medals

In July 2017 it was announced that the IOF Council had decided to redistribute the medals for 2017, following the disqualification of Polina Frolova's results from the World Ski Orienteering Championships 2017 due to violation of anti-doping rules.^[17]

All-time medal table

(Updated after 2019 competition)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	48	30	28	106
2	Sweden	45	44	34	123
3	Finland	37	52	49	138
4	Norway	14	17	24	55
5	Italy	4	0	1	5
6	Bulgaria	3	4	4	11
7	Czech Republic	0	1	3	4
8	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
9	Czechoslovakia	0	0	3	3
	Switzerland	0	0	3	3
11	Estonia	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		151	149	150	450