Event details:
29 June individual Sprint: Trossö in Karlskrona. 
30 June Sprint Relay. Trossö in Karlskrona. Mixed four-member team relay, the first and last legs are women’s legs. 
1 July Long DIstance Augerum. Varied vegetation, from beech forest with fast runnability to areas with coniferous forest
3 July Middle Distance event Bussevik. Countryside, mainly forest (pine, oak, beech) with a few small areas of farmed landscapes.and areas with rock surfaces
4 July Relay Bussevik. Terrain similar to Middle event. Men a7 women run separate relays with different start times. 

JWOC athlete Q&A:
Rachel Baker, Wellington
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Technical Forest
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering 
Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Font Romeu in France, Idre fjäll in Sweden, and lots more!
3. “What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
I’ve been doing pretty well with my compass, and keeping a cool head in the forest.
4. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
I’m motivated to go and chat with my friends at training, and post training ice cream, or packinsave pick&mix is always good!
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because… I’m racing my final JWOC in super technical terrain, with a fun and supportive NZ team.

Tide Fa’avae, Nelson
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Mid-course swimming spot
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
China, somewhere with jungle type forest/rice fields
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
Breathing underwater, so I can go snorkelling without a mask
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Orienteering without a compass
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Running so I can eat sweet treats! 

6. I can’t wait for JWOC because its a fun social week with some orienteering on the side.

Phoebe Hunt, Canterbury
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Maze o
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering ?
Rarotonga
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
To be Freja Hjerne
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Following Anna Taksdal
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done? My strava graph, looking at my strava graph
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because I can eat bilar and go to Ikea!

Georgia Lindroos, Auckland
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
One that is close to an ice-cream shop
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
Japan
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
To fly
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Reading the map and running at the SAME TIME!!
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Chocolate milk
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because I can eat lots of pick & mix lollies

Greta Prince, Canterbury
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Satisfying and interesting
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
I would love to go to Swiss O-week one day, and to try orienteering in lots of other European countries in general.
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
I would want them to teach me how to pace count or estimate distance as that is usually my downfall.
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Using stepping stones
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
I think about specific goals that I have set myself for motivation before/during training, and afterwards I put the training on Strava and get the post training high/productive feeling
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because I get to rep the fern in my home country, and I get to experience and run in one of the highest level orienteering events there is!

Zara Toes, Auckland
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Having a sausage sizzle.
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
Norway, Finland
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
Super ankle-strength (so I can sprint through rocky terrain)
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Using attack points
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done? Having an attitude of gratitude! My go-to reward after a forest training is always real-fruit ice cream
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because it’ll be my first time going!

Oscar Burns, Bay of Plenty
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Europe
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
Ikea
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
200m disc golf drive
4. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Orienteering without a compass
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Matcha and feminist literature
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because it’s pretty epic

Sam Carryer, Auckland
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Night, relay
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
New Zealand, can’t get enough of it, you should come try it.
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
I reckon teleportation would be helpful.
4. “What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Relocation 
5. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Skipping studying, and sleep
6. I can’t wait for JWOC because of the awesome people and great terrain.

Matthew Greenwood, Auckland
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Technical Forest
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
Switzerland
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
How to follow the pink road
4. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Food and a nap
5. I can’t wait for JWOC because the terrain is awesome

Blake McKinnon, Auckland
1. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
Kyrgyzstan
2. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
Infinite stamina
3. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Cliff jumping
4. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
The boys, the boys.
5. I can’t wait for JWOC because I’m impatient

Jake McLellan, Wellington
1. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering?
The moon
2. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you?
Teach me to fly
3. What’s an orienteering skill you’ve been nailing recently?
Following the pink roads
4. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done?
Squashies
5. I can’t wait for JWOC because then we can race!

Thomas Potts, Hawke’s Bay
1. What makes an orienteering event truly successful?
Fun and challenging
2. Apart from JWOC, what places do you want to go orienteering ? Italy, Spain, France and Australia again
3. If you could have a personal coach, what superpower skill would you want them to teach you? The ability to know when you are starting to veer off your compass bearing.
4. What gets you fired up to train, and what’s your go-to reward when you’re done? The chance to go overseas more. Chocolate milk
5. I can’t wait for JWOC because it’s my first JWOC and it’s in Sweden – whoop whoop!!