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WOC 2008 Sprint National records

China, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Russia, Norway, Slovakia and Italy all set new national records with respect to best result achieved at a WOC Sprint ever at the Olomouc WOC Sprint Final on Sunday. Below National records for WOC Sprint 2008 are listed. See also pictures of all of these runners ...

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WOC pics sorted by name and country updated

Sprint Final pictures have now been added to World of O Runners WOC 2008 Team Pictures. All pictures are sorted by name and country to make it easy to find the runner you are interested in. You are free to use all these pictures on any webpage as long as ...

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WOC Sprint: Khramov on top!

Andrey Khramov (RUS) won the Gold medal in the mens opening distance in this years WOC in Olomous, Czech Republic, with Daniel Hubmann (SUI) and Martin Johansson (SWE) in the next spots. – Some small mistakes – I had some small mistakes. 6-7 seconds, maybe 10 seconds mistake three times, ...

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WOC Sprint: Gold for Hausken

Anne Margrethe Hausken (NOR) continued her success from the EOC by winning todays WOC sprint with 9 seconds in front of Minna Kauppi (FIN) and Helena Jansson (SWE). – I had some really nice days at the European Champs, but this is a lot better, a very happy Norwegian said ...

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500 WOC pictures sorted by Name and Team

Pictures of all runners (except a handful) from the WOC Sprint Qual is now available sorted by Team and Name. Thus you can easily find your favourite. You are free to use all these pictures on your webpage as long as the source to the pictures are given as described ...

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WOC Sprint Q: Easy course – no surprises

Helena Jansson (SWE), Signe Søes (DEN), Dana Brožková (CZE), Alex Lubina (GER), Daniel Hubmann (SUI), and Matthias Müller (SUI) were the winners in a tight WOC Sprint qualification in Czech Republic today. The course was rather easy – leading to the cut to get to the final being between 40 ...

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Top 2008 Events: Highlands Open

How do you orienteer and plan your routechoices in the terrain used for Highlands Open 2008? Highlands Open 2008 – staged from August 29th until August 31st in Italy – is the last event featured in the article series “Top Multiday O-events 2008″ at World of O – giving you ...

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GPS race analysis: QuickRoute 2.0 released

QuickRoute is a computer program for Windows that allows you to display a route from a GPS device, such as a GPS-clock, on an orienteering map saved as an image file. There are several other alternatives to do the same, but QuickRoute made by Swedish Elite runner Mats Troeng has ...

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JWOC Middle: Gold for Niemi and Runesson

After being very close at the Sprint distance in both mens and womens categories, Sweden got its Gold medal at todays Middle distance with Johan Runesson after an excellent race in a very technical middle distance. In the womens class the Finn Venla Niemi took the victory after beating Swedens ...

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JWOC Middle Qual: Results

Sören Bobach, Timo Sild, Tore Bjørseth Berdal, Siri Ulvestad, Signe Klinting and Jenny Lönnkvist were the heat winners when the middle distance qualification of the JWOC 2008 was held in Gothenburg, Sweden today. 60 men and women found their way to the finals. 20 from each heat 20 runners from ...

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