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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.

World Cup O-festivalen: Double Finland

On todays tough long distance (click for large map) Tero Föhr and Minna Kauppi took home victories. Kauppi beat Hausken only by a few seconds after the two being together for long parts of the course. In the mens class, everything looked like a clear victory for Thierry Gueorgiou – ...

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World Cup O-festivalen: Double Norway

Victories went to Anne Margrethe Hausken and Anders Nordberg at todays middle distance race which counted as the fourth race in this years orienteering World Cup. For Hausken, this was the best international middle distance race – a discipline which has been difficult for Hausken in the past. For Nordberg ...

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World Cup O-festivalen: Challenging courses

The middle distance courses in todays World Cup middle distance race at the O-festival in Siggerud south of Olso were challenging – with many of the top runners making large errors. The Norwegians mastered the terrain best on home ground – with Anne Margrethe Hausken and Anders Nordberg on top ...

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Get ready for Jukola: Old map

– The terrain this year is very demanding. Swiss and other Middle European runners will not be as strong at Jukola as they were on 10Mila this year, is the comment of the signature ‘hugo’ in a (Swedish language) discussion about Jukola 2008 at the Swedish website Alternativet.nu. – The ...

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Jukola: Time for tactics

The best Jukola tactics is usually to get a good start in the first part of the relay, because then the next runners will have faster runners around them when running their legs. But how high up does your team need to be after the first leg to be able ...

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Routechoice comparison: EOC Middle Final Women

The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Middle Final is again done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route to Christmas series here at World of O. This means that ...

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Routechoice comparison: EOC Middle Final Men

The routechoice comparison for the EOC 2008 Middle Final is again done in a way which gives you the possibility to think through each leg before seeing how the World Elite did it – similar to the popular Route to Christmas series here at World of O. This means that ...

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Grouping of runners: EOC Middle Qual

Here grouping graphics for the Middle Qualification at EOC 2008 is given. Again, a lot of grouping is seen. Note! Colored boxes in the below figures show that two runners have been within 15 seconds of each other at a control. Boxed in the same color show that two runners ...

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Grouping: EOC Middle Final

Heated discussions have errupted after the grouping analysis of the Long Final and Long Qualification published at World of O the last days (see e.g. in the comments section of this article). The present article gives a similar analysis of the EOC Middle Final – again provided by Henning Spjelkavik ...

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EOC Relay: Gold for Russia and Sweden

In the final day of the EOC 2008 Sweden and Russia took home the Gold medals in the Relay. The Swedish team with Lina Persson, Emma Engstrand and Helena Jansson finished only 12 seconds ahead of the Russian Silver medalists. In the mens class Russia took the gold medal with ...

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