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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.

EOC 2021 Sprint Relay: Maps and Results

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Switzerland won a clear victory in the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) 2021 Sprint Relay on homeground in Neuchatel today, nearly a minute ahead of Sweden with Norway in third place. This was exactly the same podium as in the last EOC in 2018 – also organized in Switzerland. Simona Aebersold, ...

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EOC 2021: All You Need To Know

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Finally! Thursday May 13th at 16:40 CET the international orienteering elite will compete for medals again as the European Orienteering Championships (EOC) starts off with the Sprint Relay. EOC 2021 is the first pure sprint EOC, and is organized in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Excellent live coverage is promised, with live TV broadcasts of all ...

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International Orienteering Restart: Swiss Champs Sprint LIVE Sunday from 12:00 CET

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Just a few days ahead of the European Orienteering Championships (EOC), the Swiss Championships Sprint – with a large international start field – marks the restart of the international orienteering scene after a long Covid-19 break. In addition to all the Swiss EOC-favourites, athletes from Russia, Norway, Ukraine, Estonia, Spain, ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 24 2020

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For the final leg in Route to Christmas 2020 we found an interesting relay leg from Finland! The leg is from the Klaaniviesti 3-leg relay in Lappeenranta, Finland. Metsälä describes the terrain as very, very tough terrain. – The hills are steep, the ground is rocky and there’s lots of nasty ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 23 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a very interesting Runners’ Choice challenge from Sprintliga Oslo, with extensive analysis provided by Oskar Størmer.  In my opinion this is how a Knock Out Sprint can be made truly interesting, both for athletes and TV. Future course setters and stake holders: Take a ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 22 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from Estonia! The chosen leg is the first leg from the men elite course at the Suunto Games middle distance race at September 7th this year. Thanks a lot to course setter Markus Puusepp for the tip and the analysis. [PS! I still ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 21 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas  is another leg from the  chasing start final of the legendary night orienteering cup “Harry Lagerts Nattcup” in Oslo – a race which was already featured on Day 11. Thanks a lot to Søren Jonsson for the tip, and for course setter Kenneth Buch for pointing out this leg ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 20 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a leg from the second day of the Swedish 3-day race Kvarnsjötrippeln with some top names on the start list. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would attack this ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 19 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a really nice route choice leg from Czech Republic! The chosen leg is leg 11 from the Czech Long Distance Championships in september. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 18 2020

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2020 is from Portugal. This time we travel to a junior national team training camp where the athletes ran a competition on an interesting course. Thanks a lot to Tomás Lima for the tip and providing some analysis. Here is some background information from Lima: ...

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