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Judith Wyder: – I choose a sprint course

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Swiss Judith Wyder has been one of the most successful orienteers in 2015 – winning three gold medals at both the World Orienteering Championships and the European Orienteering Championships. With sprint and relay being the most successful WOC and EOC disciplines of the new Swiss superstar, it is maybe no ...

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Ida Bobach: – I felt entertained the whole way

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Danish star Ida Bobach has had a great season this year with two WOC silver medals and a World Cup victory. Her favorite course of the year was in Italy at the most important race of the year: The WOC middle distance. – The course was set so that the ...

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Baptiste Rollier chooses Spain as favourite

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After running orienteering in 9 countries this year, Swiss star Baptiste Rollier chooses a course in Spain as his favourite course of the year. – Long at World Cup in Spain was good. Long legs with many possibilities, shorter legs with technical challenges, Rollier comments the World Cup race in ...

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Course of the Year 2014: Submit your suggestions!

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What was the best orienteering course of 2014? Two years in a row we have had a Portuguese winner – a spectacular sprint between boulders and old building last year and some great technical orienteering in 2012. In 2011 the WOC middle distance in France took the first place and the year before a ...

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World Cup Final Sprint: Analysis & Results

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The World Cup Final Sprint in Switzerland today offered some interesting and intricate sprint orienteering. The Swiss and Swedish runners dominated the sprint as usually – with Tove Alexandersson winning the women’s race and Daniel Hubmann the men’s race. Below you first find the leading results, then the overall analysis ...

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World Cup Final Middle 2014: Maps, Analysis and Results

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Daniel Hubmann (Switzerland) showed that he is a worthy winner of the overall World Cup 2014 by taking a clear victory in the World Cup Final’s middle distance race in Switzerland Saturday. Denmark’s Ida Bobach, silver medalist from the World Champs middle in Italy earlier this year, won a tight ...

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JEC 2014: All You Need to Know!

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[Sprint Friday Oct 3rd 17:30 CET, Long Saturday Oct 4th 10:30 CET, Relay Sunday Oct 5th 10:30 CET] The Junior European Cup (JEC) is in 2014 organized in Lommel, Belgium from October 3rd to October 5th. The organizers promize “live broadcast from the field” (probably speaker sound ) – this ...

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World Cup Final 2014: All You Need to Know!

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[Sprint Relay Friday 15:00 CET / Middle Saturday 12:30 CET / Sprint Sunday 13:31 CET] The World Cup 2014 will be decided in Switzerland this weekend – starting with a mixed sprint relay on Friday as part of the unofficial sprint relay World Cup, continuing with a middle distance on ...

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WUOC Sprint Relay: Gold for Switzerland!

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Switzerland won the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) after strong races by Sarina Jenzer, Martin Hubmann, Julia Gross and Matthias Kyburz. Reigning World Champion in mixed sprint relay Switzerland was the big favourite ahead of the race – and managed to take the victory ahead of Sweden and Czech Republic. ...

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WUOC 2014: All You Need to Know!

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[Update: Live Results Link] The World University Orienteering Championships starts with a mixed sprint relay in Olomouc Tuesday August 12th at 15:30 CET. With 5 races in 5 days – including a tough long distance race at day 2 – this will be a tough 5-day week for the athletes. ...

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