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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.

Jukola video competitions: Winners!

The jury in the Jukola video competition along with the Jukola organizers have made its decision: The winner of the Jukola video competition came from Sweden: Jukola promotion video, made by Jesper Eriksson, OK Ravinen was chosen the best video. The winner takes it all – and the prize will ...

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Swiss and French in Hovden

The two absolute world number one runners – Thierry Gueorgiou and Simone Niggli-Luder – were again the best here at the second World Cup round in Bykle, Norway. They both had fantastic runs – and got very clear victories. Results (unofficial)

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WC at Hovden from 18:00 – live results

Fabien Pasquasy and Becky Carlyle are the first man and woman to head into the forest at this second World Cup race of the year here in the beautiful Norwegian mountains at Bykle/Hovden. Everything is set for a very interesting middle distance race, with most of the absolute world elite ...

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World Cup round 1: Highlights

I was asked to make a video with highlights from the first World Cup round to be shown at the international coaching seminar at the free day between the first World Cup round and the Jukola relay. Being only one man with one camera, I knew that I had to ...

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Jukola: Thierry Gueorgiou takes home victory for KR

Kalevan Rasti with Thierry Gueorgiou went out in the lead about 1 minute before Halden’s Mats Haldin on the last leg of this years Jukola relay – and everything looked like this would be another Jukola thriller. However, Gueorgiou and Haldin decided the race already at the very start of ...

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Venla: Minna Kauppi took Asikkalan Raikas to victory

Minna Kauppi did a magnificent run on the last leg in todays Venla relay, and took Asikkalan Raikas to a very popular victory here in Lapua, Finland. Below you see an interview with Minna Kauppi after her run by woO-TV: Online results – follow the Jukola relay from 22.00 CET

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Pictures heat-winners WC Qual Lapua

Pictures from todays qualification of the heat-winners. From the top: Thierry Gueorgiou, Audun Hultgreen Weltzien, Mats Haldin, Simone Niggli-Luder, Lena Eliasson and Paula Iso-Markku. Full results

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Maps World Cup Qualification

The maps from the World Cup Qualification in Lapua, Finland for Men-1 and Women-1 are given below. Men Many runners had problems with a control in the area around control 2 and control 3. Women

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Quiet World Cup Qualification

At the Jukola site here in Lapua, Finland, nearly everybody is working very hard to make the site ready for the more than 13.000 runners turning up during the coming days to run the Jukola and Venla relays. In contrast to this was the World Cup Qualification this morning. When ...

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