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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.

Course of the Year 2022: Overall Top 20 as of now

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After 3 days of voting, courses from 11 countries are represented in the Top 20 of “Course of the Year 2022″: Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Norway, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Poland and Ukraine. Take a look at the courses below – and make your vote if you have not ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 16 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a 4600 meter long monsterleg! For the second time in this series we visit the Norwegian Championships Ultralong, always one of the highlights in Route to Christmas. There were some really long legs in this year’s edition, but the first leg we ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 15 2022

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In today’s edition of Route to Christmas 2022 we travel to Spain for a long leg at the 34th Costa Calida long distance race, organized in march. Thanks a lot to Luis Nogueira for the tip! The leg (control 14 to 15) is as usually first provided without routes – you may take ...

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Vote for Course of the Year 2022 Now!

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What was the best orienteering course of 2022? Set up your personal Top 5 List from the nominated maps – and win prizes from our sponsors! The nominated maps have been chosen based on submissions from the WorldofO.com readers and some of the world’s top orienteers. Now YOU can choose “The Course ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 14 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is another sprint leg – this time from MOC Camp Sprint Final in Rotondella organized by PWT Italia. The chosen leg is the longest leg in the competition – leg 15 – and the tip comes from Riccardo Scalet (thanks a lot!). Riccardo ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 13 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is a real long distance forest leg again – this time from the men’s class in the Swedish Champs Long distance. Thanks a lot to Agnar Reolen and Georgi for the tip to consider this course! There were several interesting legs here, but I ...

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Course of the Year 2022: Last chance to add suggestions!

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[See all nominations here] Tuesday December 13th is the last chance to add suggestions to “Course of the Year 2022″. We already got 45 nominations in the comments to the intro article  – most of these are high quality courses which will be part of the voting in “Course of the Year 2022″. Based on all ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 12 2022

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Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is again from one of the courses nominated for Course of the Year 2022 – a very interesting leg from the men’s class of the Junior World Orienteering Championships Sprint in Portugal this summer. Thanks a lot to Rafael Miguel for the tip! The leg ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 11 2022

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From ultralong distance in marshes to running in tunnels of a fortress: Today’s leg in Route to Christmas 2022 is the complete opposite of yesterday’s leg from the roots of orienteering at the Norwegian Champs Ultralong distance. At the 11th day of Route to Christmas we visit a very special ...

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Route to Christmas: Day 10 2022

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– The leg to the 2nd control is one of the best route choice legs I’ve seen this year, and personally I think it’s probably the route choice I was struggling with the most to decide in the last few years. These are the words of elite runner Ivar Lundanes of Ivarnational ...

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