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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.

WMOC 2016: Maps and Results

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Sweden with twelve Gold medals and Finland with eleven Gold medals were the strongest nations then the World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) were organized in Estonia the last week. More than 3000 athletes were at the start. The championships consists of a sprint final along with a single qualification race and a ...

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LIVE Friday Night & Saturday: NightHawk 2016

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[Live GPS, webTV++ from Friday 22:10 CET] NightHawk is working hard to become Norway’s answer to Jukola and 10Mila. This year’s edition is organized from Linderudkollen Sportsstue in Oslo, Norway on Friday August 12th and Saturday August 13th – and again the number of competitors is increasing compared to earlier editions. ...

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Summer-O 2016: O-Ringen 2016

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Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is O-Ringen 2016 – the largest of the summer orienteering events. O-Ringen 2016 was organized in Sälen in tricky and interesting mountain terrain with the slogan “Dreamorienteering”. Overall winners in this year’s edition were Tove Alexandersson (winning all stages!) and Thierry Gueorgiou. In the ...

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WUOC Relays & Middle: Maps and Results

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Sweden dominated both the Relay and the Middle distance at the World Orienteering University Championships in Hungary with four Gold medals of four possible, while Great Britain took a popular Gold medal at the Sprint Relay ahead of Czech Republic and Norway. Oskar Sjögren and Lilian Forsgren were the Swedish Gold medal ...

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WUOC Sprint & Long: Maps and Results

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Kris Jones (GBR) and Denisa Kosova (CZE) won the sprint and Rassmus Andersson (SWE) and Anna Haataja (FIN)  won the long distance at the World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) in Miskolc, Hungary. The championships has so far offered very interesting courses. The sprint race offered some very intricate orienteering – and the ...

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WUOC 2016: All You Need To Know

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July 31st – August 4th: The World Orienteering University Championships (WUOC) is organized in Miskolc, Hungary, from Sunday July 31st until Thursday August 4th. The program is intense – 5 races in 5 days – starting with Sprint on Sunday, Long on Monday, Sprint Mixed Relay Tuesday, Middle Wednesday and ...

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Summer-O 2016: Fjord-O 2016

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Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Fjord-O 2016, organized in Western Norway – this year with two races in the Stryn area and two races around Olav Lundanes’ home in the Ålesund area. Fjord-O offers the runners a combination of interesting orienteering and fantastic scenery – partly above the ...

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Summer-O 2016: Swiss O-Week

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Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is Swiss O-Week, organized every second/third year in Switzerland. Swiss O-Week was organized in St. Moritz in Engadin this year – and the runners met a combination of interesting orienteering and fantastic scenery. Most of the Swiss top runners were participating – but ...

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Summer-O 2016: FIN5

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Today’s event in the Summer-O 2016 series is FIN5 in Finland. FIN5 was organized close to Hamina in southeastern Finland from July 10th until July 16th 2016. Overall winners in FIN5 2016 were Frederic Tranchand (France) and Marika Teini* (Finland) Julia Novikova (Russia).  The terrain did offer quite a few routechoice alternatives due ...

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Summer-O: O’France 2016

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Today’s quick look at summer holiday races takes us to France and O’France 2016. One of the most tricky events of the o-summer 2016? “De la pure technique!”  Taking a look at the maps posted from O’France 2016, it surely looks like some athletes were challenged by the terrain. Partly ...

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