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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.

JWOC Sprint Men: Big GPS Analysis

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The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2022 Sprint offered some very interesting routechoices, good GPS-tracking which made it interesting to make performance analysis – and tight battles for the medals. Read on to see how the men’s race was decided. The race was won by Axel Elmblad (Sweden) ahead of ...

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WOC 2022 Knock Out Sprint Qualification: Maps and Results

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Qualification for the WOC Knock Out Sprint was done this morning – the Quarterfinals start at 16:00 CET (available on free webTV)  and semi-finals start from 17:45 with full TV broadcast. Heat winners in the qualification were Aston Key (Australia), Jakob Edsen (Denmark), Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland), Charlotte Ward (Great Britain), ...

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WOC 2022 Sprint Relay: Maps, Results and Analysis

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Sweden took the gold medal in the Sprint Relay in the 2022 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) ahead of Great Britain and Norway. The world’s best female orienteer the last years, Tove Alexandersson, decided the relay on the last leg with a fantastic run. Lina Strand, Max Peter Bejmer and Gustav Bergman ran ...

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WOC 2022: All You Need To Know

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The first ever Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC) starts in Denmark on Sunday June 26th with the Sprint Relay. The championship continues with the first ever WOC Knock-Out Sprint on Tuesday June 28th – and rounds of with the traditional Sprint on Thursday June 30th. With this being the first ...

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Jukola 2022: All You Need To Know

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The 2022 edition of Jukola – the largest orienteering relay in the world  – is organized the coming weekend with nearly 17.000 competitors on the start. With about 11.000 on the start in the open Jukola relay and 6.000 in the women’s Venla relay, Jukola is not all the way back to ...

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World Cup opening 2022: All You Need To Know

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The Orienteering World Cup 2022 starts with a Sprint Round in Borås, Sweden from Thursday May 26th until Sunday May 29th. The races start off with an individual Sprint on Thursday, continues with a Knock-Out Sprint on Saturday and finishes off with a Sprint Relay on Sunday. This is the first of three World Cup rounds in ...

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10Mila 2022: All You Need To Know!

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Finally 10Mila again! After two long years without 10Mila, Saturday’s  2022 edition of 10Mila marks the real start of the 2022-season for many. Spectators both at home and on the arena in Sweden can expect highly entertaining competitions – read on for all you need to know about the 2022-edition of 10Mila. ...

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Lucky voters: Check if you won fantastic prizes!

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New Year’s Gift: Check here if you are one of the 24 winners of the prizes worth more than 6000 Euros in total in your voting or nomination for “The Orienteering Course of 2021″!  To all winners: Please try to bring as many friends as possible to the event you won ...

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