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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.

WOC 2019 Long Women: GPS analysis

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The women’s course had several interesting routechoice legs, but they were not decisive for the victory as Tove Alexandersson (SWE) had a winning margin which was so large that she could have taken the wrong routechoice every time and still won.  But Alexandersson is not only a fast runner, she ...

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WOC 2019 Long Men: BIG GPS analysis

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Kasper Fosser (NOR) won his silver medal on the two long legs – winning both with nearly half a minute. Olav Lundanes (NOR) won his gold medal due to his fast finish – from the 11th control to the finish, the Norwegian 6 times WOC Gold medalist was 1:51 faster ...

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WOC Long 2019: Maps and Results

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[Article updated with some split time analysis] The big pre-race favourites Olav Lundanes (NOR) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) won the World Orienteering Championships Long distance – each of them taking the fourth Long distance title in a row. For Lundanes this was his 6th WOC Long gold medal! While Alexandersson ...

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WOC 2019 Long Favourite Preview – LIVE webTV from 13:30 CET

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[First start men 10:24, first start women 13:15, men’s race decided 16:00, women’s race decided 18:10, TV-broadcast from 13:30] The Long distance on Wednesday August 14th is the first medal race at the World Orienteering Championships – a very tough race with around 100 minutes running time for the men and 80 ...

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WOC 2019 Middle Qual: Maps and Results

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Olav Lundanes (NOR), Lucas Basset (FRA), Matthias Kyburz (SUI), Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR), Kamilla Olaussen (NOR) and Cecilie Friberg Klysner (DEN) won the qualification heats when the WOC Middle Qualification opened this year’s World Orienteering Championships in Østfold, Norway. All top runners made it to Friday’s final – no big ...

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WOC 2019: All You Need To Know

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The World Orienteering Championships 2019 (#WOC2019) starts on Tuesday August 13th at 10:00 CET with Middle qualification in Østfold, Norway. This is the first forest only WOC – with the first medals battled for in the Long distance Wednesday (Men from 10:24, Women from 13:14). The Middle distance final is decided on Friday (Women from 13:30, men from 15:45) ...

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JWOC Relay 2019: Maps and Results

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Norway’s men and Great Britain’s women won the JWOC 2019 relay – finishing off this year’s Junior World Championships. Norway was the big favourite in the men’s class after great runs by Kasper Fosser throughout the championship – Fosser took his third gold medal in the championships with the relay ...

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JWOC Middle 2019: Maps and Results

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Kasper Fosser (NOR) and Isa Envall (SWE) won the JWOC 2019 Middle distance in Denmark. This was Fosser’s second victory at this JWOC – after winning the long distance earlier this week.  Envall won 54 seconds ahead of Fiona Bunn (GBR) with Tereza Janosikova (CZE) in 3rd at 1:24. In ...

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JWOC Long 2019: Maps and Results

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Kasper Fosser (NOR) won the men’s Junior World Orienteering Championships Long distance just like last year, while Ida Haapala (FIN) and Veronika Kalinina (RUS) took a shared victory in the women’s class (still unofficial as of Tuesday morning) after a late jury decision moving Kalinina from silver to shared gold. While the ...

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