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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.

Route to Christmas: Day 9 2017

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is from the largest orienteering race in the worldo: O-Ringen. The chosen leg is leg number 6 from O-Ringen stage 3 in the Men Elite course. Thanks to Simon Hector for another good suggestion for this year’s Route to Christmas. Hector writes the following ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 8 2017

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is a real classic from the past year – the longest leg in the World Championships long distance in Estonia. The leg is chosen based on a tip from Aigars Kokins – who points out that even if this leg has been analyzed at WorldofO ...

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Orienteering Achievement of 2017: Vote Now!

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Read about the fantastic achievements of 16 athletes or teams from 10 nations which are nominated for The Orienteering Achievement of 2017. Then post your votes for your favourites – and be part of the drawing for prizes worth  5500 Euros! Vote here by December 12th: The Orienteering Achievement of ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 7 2017

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is leg 14 in the H17-20 course from JWOC Long – thanks a lot for Simon Hector for suggesting the leg and providing lots of analysis! The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 6 2017

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas takes us to a long leg in beautiful Karst-terrain in Italy – to the Italian Championships long distance in the Belluno-area. The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look at it and think about how you would ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 5 2017

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas is “a long way from anywhere” – and probably one of the most spectacular legs we have seen in competitions this year. The 3rd leg in the longest course in the Western Canadian Orienteering Championships Long 2017 does simply look amazing. What a leg! On the ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 4 2017

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Today we are traveling to Portugal in Route to Christmas. The course we consider placed third in “Course of the Year 2017″, and is definitely a very interesting course with lots of challenges: Aguiar da Beira Orienteering Meeting Long.  The chosen leg is the 7th leg – a quite long leg with ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 3 2017

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Today we travel to Finland and the Finnish Championships Long for Route to Christmas. The leg in question is the first leg – right out from the start in the middle of an alpine hill.  The leg is as usually first provided without routes – you may take a look ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 2 2017

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Today we are moving over to a long and decisive leg in the Swiss Alps. Fantastic nature and high altitude may make it tricky to do the right choice – can you take the right choice at Route to Christmas Day 2?  The chosen leg is the long leg from ...

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