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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.

Lucky voters: Check if you won!

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Check here if you won a full orienteering package including hotel/apartment for 6 days at Prague Easter/Sandstones.cz or Croeso 2012. Or maybe a package of 2 starts from one of the other event sponsors JK 2012, EOC Tour 2012, POM 2012, OOCup, Croatia Open or Fjord-O West. In addition Jukola ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2011

A long leg and many stones and boulders! Today’s leg in Route to Christmas brings us back to France again – but to very different terrain from what we have visited earlier in the 2011 edition of Route to Christmas. This leg is taken from a national league championship that ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2011

Today we are finally travelling out of Europe again – to some quite intricate terrain in the forests of Whitehorse in Canada! Todays leg is from the Western Canadian Championships Long distance 2011 organized on July 17th 2011. Thanks to Will Critchley for help with terrain description and analysis. The ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2011

In today’s edition of Route to Christmas we visit Hungary for another long leg in an ultralong event – although the leg is not as long as the Finnish one of yesterday. The leg is from the Men 21 Elite course in the Hungarian Ultralong Championships organized on April 4th. ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10 2011

Monsterleg! 4.5 km long! Today’s Route to Christmas is the longest leg in this years travel through the orienteering world. I choose a Saturday for it as I guess you all have some extra time for Route to Christmas in the weekend. Todays leg is leg number 34(!) in the ...

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2000 votes and counting! Vote today!

2000 votes and counting – YOU decide who will win “The Orienteering Achievement of 2011″. Prizes worth 2000 Euros are to be won by lucky voters. In the vote for “The Orienteering Achievement of 2011″, the best achievement of the year is to be named – and not necessarily the ...

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Course of the Year 2011: Lucky voters

716 people set up their Top 5 lists for “The Course of the Year 2011″ – and nearly 50 people suggested courses to be nominated. As a thank you to all participating, sponsor prizes are drawn among the ones suggesting courses and voting. All Top 5-lists and suggestions can be ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 9 2011

Todays we are visiting a new country in Route to Christmas: Moldova and the Moldavian Championships long distance organized on May 14th. Compared to the legs we have seen the last few days, this leg does not have the same technical challenges and analysis possibilities, but one of the nice ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 8 2011

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Todays leg in Route to Christmas is a celebration of the winner of the Course of the Year 2011 which was announced today. Thus we visit France for the second day in a row – and some of you might already be familiar with this leg. The course in question ...

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Course of the Year 2011: The winner is …

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… a very technical course which gave the runners a lot of interesting challenges. Read the interview with the course setters and see four different versions of the courses – from the early version to the final version. Course setters Tip: Don’t forget to offer the most pleasure to the ...

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