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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 Sprint Final: Maps, Statements and Results

The EOC Sprint Final was flat and fast – and the orienteering was a bit more challenging than in the qualifications, which was said to be very technically easy. Winning times were in the low end for sprint – the fastest women Anne Margrethe Hausken running the 2.6 kilometers long ...

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EOC Sprint: Wingstedt again!

Gold for Emil Wingstedt (SWE) in EOC Sprint distance! Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Andrey Khramov (RUS) are in the next spots. Wingstedt is the king of sprint – with 2 WOC Gold medals and 3 EOC Gold medals over the Sprint distance. Last year at WOC Wingstedt was pushed down ...

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EOC Sprint: Gold for Hausken!

Gold for Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) in EOC Sprint distance! Heli Jukkola (FIN) and Helena Jansson (SWE) are in the next spots. Hausken har previously a Silver medal from the sprint distance in WOC in Japan in 2005, a Gold medal from NOC 2005 in Norway and a Bronze medal ...

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EOC: Sprint Qualification

Minna Kauppi, Heli Jukkola and Helena Jansson won the three womens heats, whereas Michal Smola, Emil Wingstedt and Jamie Stevenson won the three mens heats. Women – Heat 1 1 Minna Kauppi FIN 11:19 2 Sofia Johansson SWE 11:30 3 Anna Margarethe Hausken NOR 11:39 Women – Heat 2 1 ...

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What is your opinion of different separation methods in orienteering?

Are you an elite orienteer? Or interested in the future of orienteering? Please use 5 minutes of your time to fill out a questionary about separation methods in orienteering provided by a work group set up by the Technical Committee of the Norwegian Orienteering Federation. The questionary has already been ...

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Top 2008 Events: EOC Tour 2008

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the EOC Tour 2008? EOC Tour 2008 – staged from May 31st until June 1st in Latvia – is one of the events featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – ...

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Top 2008 Events: Hungaria Cup 2008

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the Hungaria Cup 2008? Hungaria Cup 2008 – staged from July 2nd until July 6th in Hungary – is one of the events featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – ...

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Top 2008 events: WOC Orienteering Festival

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for the Orienteering Festival – accompanying event to the World Orienteering Championship 2008? The Orienteering Festival WOC 2008 – staged from July 14th until July 19th 2008 in Czech Republic – is one of the events featured in ...

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Map + report: Lipica open 2008 – Season Opening

Following is a short report from Lipicia Open 2008 – the season opening for quite a few elite orienteers in Slovenia a week ago. Winners in the elite categories where Mikhail Mamleev in front of Thierry Gueorgiou in the mens class and Karine D’Harreville in the womens class. Thanks to ...

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Top 2008 events: O-ringen 2008

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for O-Ringen 2008 in Sweden? O-Ringen 2008 – staged from July 19th until July 25th 2008 close to the Norwegian border in the western part of Sweden – is one of the events featured in the article series ...

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