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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.

SPAS Analysis for EOC Sprint: Athletes please enter routes!

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In a cooperation between the EOC 2014 organizers and World of O, a SPAS Analysis has been set up for the EOC Sprint A-Finals. All athletes competing in the A-finals are kindly asked to click through the multiple-choice form leg-by-leg, and assign routes to each leg. “Spectators” and other interested ...

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EOC Sprint 2014: Maps and Results

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Jonas Leandersson (Sweden) and Judith Wyder (Switzerland) took gold medals in today’s European Championships Sprint in Portugal. The athletes met challenging courses in the hilly town Palmela just south of Lisboa. [Note! This article is based on unofficial results] In the men’s class there was big drama before the winner ...

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EOC 2014 Long Qual: A quick look at the forking

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There has been some discussion about the “forking” between the heats at EOC Long Qualification. The EOC qualification is run as three heats for men and three heats for women – where normally the courses in each heat are not forked, but rather completely different courses with a few controls ...

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EOC Sprint 2014 Preview: Who takes the Gold?

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EOC 2014 starts for real with the Sprint Final this Sunday at 17:30 CET. GPS-tracking, live results and a video feed is promised – and from the old map it looks like we should get very interesting and challenging sprint orienteering in this first EOC final. With the finals approaching, ...

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EOC Sprint Qualification: Map and Results

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[Updated with higher quality maps] Another great sprint day for Switzerland and Sweden: Heat winners in today’s EOC Sprint Qualification were Martin Hubmann (SUI), Jan Prochazka (CZE), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Rahel Friedrich (SUI), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Karolin Ohlsson (SWE). Note! This article is based on unofficial results! See full ...

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EOC Middle Qual: All Men AND Women to Final

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The final(!) decision for EOC Middle Qual was made late last night. All men AND women who started in the qualification on Thursday are allowed to start in the final on Monday. The complete qualification race is voided (both men and women). Qualification races April 10th were voided late tonight ...

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EOC Long Qualification: Maps and Results

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Heat winners in today’s EOC Long Qualification were William Lind (SWE), Fredric Portin (FIN), Gernot Kerschbaumer (AUT), Signe Søes (DEN), Judith Wyder (SUI) and Svetlana Mironova (RUS). Most favourites went on to the A-final. Notably Nikolov (BUL), Rüdlinger (SUI) and Oskarsson (NOR) missed the final according to the unofficial results. ...

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EOC Middle Qualification: Map and Results

[Updated Friday evening: All men into final, only top 17 women] Heat winners were Daniel Hubmann (SUI), Gernot Kerschbaumer (AUT), Timo Sild (EST), Helena Jansson (SWE), Mari Fasting (NOR) and Signe Søes (DEN). [Note! Results are unofficial, and according to @NOF_orientering 6 nations have protested – claim three controls are ...

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EOC 2014: All You Need To Know!

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The European Championships in Orienteering (EOC) starts off with three days of qualification races: Middle Thursday April 10th, Long Friday and Sprint Saturday. The first final is the Sprint final on Sunday late afternoon – and the championships concludes with middle final, long final and relay without a single day ...

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World Cup Spain Middle: Maps and Results

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Oleksandr Kratov (Ukraine) and Lena Eliasson (Sweden) both won their first World Cup victories in the World Cup middle distance in Spain today. Again the Spanish organizers offered technical and challenging courses. In the women’s class it was again a Swedish day – 4 Swedes among the top 5:  Helena ...

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