The latest to join is Iraq, in what will be its first international participation.
The dual objective of the Catalan Orienteering Federation when requesting the organization of a World Masters Championship was to make the sport known in Catalonia, and to make known the virtues of our country by hosting orienteers from all over the world. With just over three weeks left until registrations close, these milestones can be considered achieved. The WMOC in Girona will be the one that brings together the most countries in history, and there are already 47 territories represented, from the five continents.
The latest to join has been a delegation from Iraq, which will participate with its athletes in both the WMOC and the parallel races of the Costa Brava Cup organized by those runners under 35 years of age. It will be his first participation in an international IOF competition. Finland, Sweden and Norway remain the countries that will contribute the most runners. This year, due to geographical proximity, they are followed by France and Spain, which in both cases will reach the historical record of participants in this event.
The remaining European states currently represented are Great Britain, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, Moldova and Ukraine.
From America, the United States, Canada, Chile, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina are currently present. And from Asia, apart from the aforementioned Iraq, there are participants from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, India, Israel and Kazakhstan. Australia and New Zealand will represent Oceania, and Uganda from Africa.
The organization’s hope is to reach fifty, which is why it is still working with different delegations to achieve their participation. However, with the achieved goal of being the WMOC with the most different countries represented, it is already satisfied with these figures.
