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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.

Splitsbrowser fra NOC Sprint

Simone Niggli lost nearly 3 minutes at the 9th of 14 controls – after being in the lead at control number 8 with nearly a minute. This was because she did not see the 9th control at the map, as it was exactly between the 8th and 10th control on ...

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Sprint gold for Merz and Jansson

Victories for Matthias MerzMatthias Merz (Switzerland) and Helena Jansson (Sweden) in todays sprint in the Nordic Orienteering Championships at Bornholm, Denmark. Home favorite Søren Bobach took the Gold medal in the mens junior class, whereas Siri Ulvestad (Norway) won gold in the womens junior class. Below you find the six ...

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NOC sprint today from 14.45

Today the Nordic Orienteering Championships starts with the sprint distance at 14.45. The last runner, Matthias Müller, starts at 17.28. It has often been said that it is more difficult to win the Nordic Champs than the World Championships, as all the Nordic countries can have up to 10 runners ...

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Reminder: World of O Mobile

For all of you going to Tiomila this weekend: At http://mob.worldofo.com you can access “World of O” from your mobile phone, giving you the latest 6 news items at World of O. Each file is only about 6 Kb. To get only pages from Sweden (including news from the 10Mila ...

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Macr-o: A step forward for orienteering?

Macr-o orienteering is a further development of the micr-o concept, a concept originally developed mainly to market orienteering as a better TV sport. Macr-o is however something very different from micr-o. The motivation here is not mainly to promote orienteering as a TV sport, but rather macr-o is brought forward ...

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More Finnish and Danish NOC tests ++

Saturday there were Finnish NOC tests long distance (won by Petteri Muukkonen and Minna Kauppi), Elitserien in Sweden (won by David Andersson and Simone Niggli-Luder), as well as Danish NOC tests long distance (same venue as Elitserien in Sweden – won by Chris Terkelsen and Signe Søes). Parallel to Elitserien ...

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Tervo and Kauppi in Finnish testruns NOC

This weekend there are Finnish testruns for the Open Nordic Champs. In the sprint on Friday, victories went to Tuomas Tervo and Minna Kauppi. Read more: SuunnistusNet (Finnish) Kim Fagerudd (Swedish) Map + course sprint men, from Kim Fagerudd Results

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woO-TV Norge: Intervju med Olav Lundanes

På woO-TV Norge finner du nå et intervju med en av Norges aller beste juniorløpere for tiden – Olav Lundanes. Du kan enten se intervjuet i web-browseren din med relativt dårlig bildekvalitet eller i full-skjerm modus på datamaskinen din i god kvalitet ved å klikke på filmsnutten nedenfor og velge ...

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Get to know the Orienteering Elite!

Who is this Alexey Bortnik who did several very good runs in the Mediterranean Open Champs two weeks ago? I wondered about this when I read the results two weeks ago, and now I know more: A Russian fast running and talking upcoming man, aiming for the Top 10 in ...

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Jukola video competition to be hosted at woO-TV

Bergen, Norway / Lapua, Finland, March 28th 2007 (in Finnish below): WoO-TV and Virkiä Jukola have agreed to cooperate around the Jukola video competition previously announced by Virkiä Jukola. Instead of submitting videos by email as previously announced, the woO-TV/Veoh system will be used for submitting videos to the Jukola ...

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