FISO OCR WOrld Championships

The FISO OCR World Championships are the official championships of the national federation members of World OCR, representing athletes from over 80 countries. The event will be at the site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, in Sochi Russia, located in the beautiful Caucus Mountains by the Black Sea.

Races are Friday through Sunday. Details will be announced when registration opens.

Event formats include 100 m individual Sprint (10 obstacles, video here), 3 km individual and team Short  Course (20+ obstacles ) and 12+ km individual  Standard  Distance (40+ obstacles) cross country Obstacle Course Races. Qualification for FISO OCR World Championships assumes athletes study and train for the obstacle format, rules, terrain and possible weather conditions.

Competition Rules are specific to each events. These are not the same rules used by commercial events such as Spartan World Championships, Strong Viking OCR World Finals, World's Toughest Mudder, and Adventurey OCRWC. In general, rules allow only one obstacle attempt. This meets criteria accepted for OCR medal events in International Multisport Games under regulation by the International Olympic Committee for athletes competing at the highest level.

FISO has adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code and World OCR Anti-Doping Rules are implemented to advance FISO's continuing efforts to prevent doping in Obstacle Course Racing. All athletes competing in the FISO OCR World Championships will be required to undertake the WADA Athlete Learning Program about Health and Anti-Doping (ALPHA) and provide a certificate of completion prior to competing. 

Certificates will be validated during packet pick-up in Sochi. The Anti-Doping e-Learning platform (ADeL) is free of charge and can be done at the pace you choose. Register and complete the programme from the ALPHA link, then download your completion certificate and show it at packet-pick up. Instructions for creating an account:

• Fill in all fields with your personal information
• In the Sport field select "None"
• Leave the Federation / Organization field blank (do not enter anything)
• In the Role field enter Athlete
• Leave the Athlete Id field blank (do not enter anything)
• In the Name of event field enter FISO OCR World Championships

Cash Prizes for Elite Categories 

Competitive race categories include individual men and women in Elite plus five year age groups: U20 (minimum age 18 on race day) to 50+. National team races are mixed gender (3 people, at least 1 woman and at least 1 man) in the 3 km OCR event. Open waves will be available in each event format for non-competitive athletes.

Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are awarded for top three in each category. Prize money will be awarded to the top three finishers in Elite races. Medal tally will be kept for the top performing country and world records can be set in the Ninja OCR competition.

Qualification to represent each country is through the national federations. Championships such as the OCR European Championships, OCR Asia-Pacific Championships, national championships and races specified by each country's national federation may be qualifiers.

Details on qualification for in Country is available here

The  2020 FISO OCR World Championships are being hosted by OCR Russia, Hero League and Rosa Khutor Ski Resort in Sochi Russia. Athletes stay and dine in the Olympic Village at Rosa Khutor, the same rooms as the competing athletes in 2014.

The race venue is in Sochi, the home of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Rosa Khutor has a wide variety of terrain and 102 kilometres of trails and slopes.  This is a mountainous location so athletes need to be prepared for significant elevation gain and steep slopes.

Sochi airport was built for the 2014 Olympics and is a 2 hour flight from Moscow. Ground transport from the airport to the race venue to the Olympic Village in Rosa Khutor takes about 45 minute.