During the recent World Championships whilst trying to review WOC history I found out just how difficult it was to find full results for previous WOCs. It also struck me that the commentary team were struggling to determine quite how significant some of the results were. Had a Chinese runner ever qualified for a final before? I've managed to obtain nearly all results from WOCS (no B Finals yet), and have got everything in a single database. Please try out the various queries available and see what you find.

The information in the database has come from a number of sources, but most notably the records maintained by Bryan Teahan, Blair Trewin, the IOF, Wikipedia ,and various copies of CompassSport, Orienteering World and other things I happen to have around the house.

There is still a lot of work needed to correct errors, and more importantly to correct names and link together various names that are actually the same person. If you spot anything obvious then please let me know.