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Jan Kocbach

Jan Kocbach is the founder of WorldofO.com - taking care of everything from site development to writing articles, photography and analysis.

Route to Christmas 2024: Bonus leg

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Today we offer a bonus leg in Route to Christmas 2024 – a second leg from the World Cup Final long race. This course was already featured on Day 19 – but the leg to control 13 was interesting enough to make a bonus leg. Especially with this being the area for next year’s ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the Finnish Championships long distance. This course is one of the Top 10-finishers in Course of the Year 2024. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about ...

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Course of the Year 2024: Maximus O Meeting Middle

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The “Orienteering Course of the Year 2024″ is a very technical and fast middle distance course in Spain: The Men Superelite course at stage 2 of the Maximus O Meeting 2024! The course offered technical orienteering at high speed – testing a variety of skills.  The terrain – never used for orienteering before – looks like a dream for a ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from the long distance race Langløpet, organized this November in the Oslo-area. Thanks a lot to Arild Andersen for the tip! This was a mass start event with some big stars on the start line – including Kasper Fosser and the Norwegian Junior ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a quite short leg from the middle distance of the Maximus O Meeting in Spain, organized this February. Here is the terrain description from the bulletin: This terrain offers a fascinating mix of pine and oak forests, enabling high running speeds while demanding ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is from one of the Top 10 courses in Course of the Year 2024: The World Orienteering Championships Sprint, organized in Edinburgh, Scotland this July. The chosen leg is one of the decisive legs – the leg to the 15th control in the men’s ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a 4.8 km long leg from the Swedish Championships Ultralong. Thanks a lot to Per Forsgren of the course setting team for the tip along with analysis! Note that this was a mass start race – and here is what Per had to ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2024

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2024 is a long leg from the long distance race at the World Cup final in Finland – which was also the pre-WOC for next years’ World Orienteering Championships.  The chosen leg is the 3rd leg on the men’s course – one of the ...

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