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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.

Jukola Manager: Set up your virtual team & sit down and hope

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– In Jukola-Manager you can create your own virtual team and choose your seven runners from hundreds of orienteers, Kimmo Vilska tells in an e-mail. Vilska has set up a Jukola Manager team – above you see some of the most expensive runners. Your team’s performance is based on the ...

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Swiss WOC Team Selected

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The Swiss team for the World Orienteering Championships in Scotland in August has been selected. Especially in the men’s class the fight for a place in the team is tough – this year Baptiste Rollier did not make it into the team. Switzerland has gold favourites in all disciplines – ...

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Quick Analysis: Canceled WCup Sprint Women

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Emma Klingenberg had the highest speed – especially on the long legs – but Tove Alexandersson ran the best technical race and got the fastest time of the day. Judith Wyder did also a very good race except for two bad routechoices in the second half of the course. Nadiya ...

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Quick Analysis: Canceled WCup Sprint Men

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The most interesting legs in the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil were leg 2, the long leg to control 5, leg 6, leg 8, leg 9 and leg 11. For these legs a significant part of the start field chose a slower route than the ideal route – and ...

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Swedish WOC Team selected: – Six medals – two gold

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The Swedish team for the World Orienteering Championships has been selected. The goal is 6 medals – of which two gold medals.  Source: Orientering.se Damer Tove Alexandersson, Stora Tuna – sprint, medel, stafett, lång Annika Billstam, Linné – medel, stafett, lång Lena Eliasson, Domnarvet – sprintstafett, Sprint Lilian Forsgren, Tisaren ...

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Hubmann: – Never ran a WC-Sprint on such a bad map

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Swiss World Champion sprint from 2011, Daniel Hubmann, uses Twitter to complain about the map quality at the cancelled World Cup sprint in Lysekil last Saturday.  – Never ran a WC-Sprint on such a bad map. Too many thicknesses of lines, Hubmann writes on Twitter. The above map sample and picture ...

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World Cup Middle Munkedal Men: BIG Analysis

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[With 30+ illustrations] Finding the good micro-routechoices seemed to be the main problem for the runners in the men’s class in the World Cup middle distance race in Munkedal, Sweden Sunday. The fight for victory was close; William Lind (lost 26 seconds at leg 10, finished 25 seconds behind in 2nd) ...

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World Cup Middle Munkedal Women: Quick Analysis

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  [With 30+ illustrations] The women made more control mistakes than the men – but also the women struggled with finding the good micro-routechoices in the World Cup middle distance race in Munkedal, Sweden Sunday. Helena Jansson (Swedish Orienteering Federation) won 1:41 minutes ahead of Nadiya Volynska (Ukrainian Orienteering Federation) ...

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World Cup Middle: Maps, Results and Interviews

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[Updated with analysis illustrations] Helena Jansson and Thierry Gueorgiou won the World Cup race middle distance in Sweden today. In technically demanding courses the two strong technical orienteers showed the competitors the way. Jansson won nearly two minutes ahead of Nadiya Volynska while Thierry Gueorgiou won 24 seconds ahead of ...

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