World Orienteering Championships / 14-21 July

WOC 2012 is starting tomorrow in Lausanne, Switzerland with the Sprint qualifications in the morning and the finals in the afternoon (coincidentally a few of us are running in the NSW Sprint Championships out at Richmond). During next week they will hold the middle and long distance qualifications and also finals, and will be finishing off with the relays next Saturday.

I found this interesting statistic on the WOC website (www.woc2012.ch): 

During the WOC 2012, the maps will be once more in the center of attention with 55’000 maps produced for a total cost of CHF 340’000.- (almost ten percent of the budget). This World Championships require the production of 30 different kinds of maps. In total, the area covered by the WOC maps includes 91 km².

The budget for this WOC is therefore about 3.4 million Swiss Francs (CHF:AUD is about 1:1), incredible !! I believe that the budget for the 2003 WOC in Switzerland was about 1 million CHF!!