Poll 2006: 2400 votes – close race

Jan Kocbach January 5, 2007 Poll Comments Off on Poll 2006: 2400 votes – close race

With 13 days to go, 2400 votes have been given in the “Best of Orienteering 2006 Poll” staged by World of O and Orienteering Today. There is a close race for the top position in both the “Achievement of the year 2006″ category and in the “Junior 2006″ category.

Interviews

More interviews to come the next days! Go to the poll page and vote – and tell your friends and club mates about the poll!

Junior News
Some small notes about some of the juniors nominated for “Junior of the year 2006″:

Søren Bobach, Olav Lundanes and Jan Benes are among the juniors who are in Australia preparing for the JWOC 2006. See newspaper article, this article by Kenneth Buch and the NSW Stingers homepage.
Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nielsen is the best youth skier in “Tour de Ski” – finishing in a very strong 8th spot at the second part of “Tour de Ski” at January 2nd. See this and this article at NRK.no.
Hanny Allston is
awarded the Jörgen Mårtensson International Award.

Help us getting out to the corners of the o-world!
Have you got a web page in your orienteering club? Or a personal home page? Put up a link to the “Best of Orienteering 2006 Poll” – and make it possible for everybody to read about the fantastic achievements these fine nominated men and women have done this year – and to decide who really did the best achievement.
This is also a good way to spread orienteering as an elite sport out to the people doing orienteering in their small corner of the world – not really knowing much about the top runners. Feel free to take a few extracts from the poll description for some of the runners to tell what these achievements are really about. What’s in it for you? As you can see at the poll page, Among all orienteering related websites with on average more than 50 visits a day linking to the poll using the small image to the right or writing a news story about the poll, three prizes will be drawn..

Sites linking to the poll
The following pages are linking to the poll or have written a news article about the poll, and are in on the drawing for Orienteering Today subscription and ads at the World of O (see more about prizes at poll page). Thank you to all of you! And for those not in: Link up – write an email to jan@kocbach.net, and you are on the list next time. Still 10-15% chance to get a prize if you join in…