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WOC 2006: Great Britain team for WOC 2006

The Great Britain WOC 2006 Team consists of 13 runners. Jamie Stevenson is the best on the World Ranking in the team with a 22th position. Jamie became one of the world stars by winning the WOC-gold in sprint in Switzerland 2003 – and showed with his silver medal at ...

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WOC 2006: Finland team for WOC 2006

The Finland WOC 2006 Team consists of 13 runners. Heli Jukkola is the best on the World Ranking in the team with a 3rd position. However, all of the Finish team is strong as usually, and all of the team can fight for gold medals on both the individual distances ...

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WOC 2006: WOC 2006 venues and detailed satelite pictures

The main site of WOC 2006 is in Århus in Denmark. In the map you can see the venues of the different competitions on an interactive map. You can zoom in to the venues, and also change the map type to satellite map. Note that the quality of the satelite ...

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WOC 2006: Bulgaria team for WOC 2006

The Bulgaria WOC 2006 Team consists of 9 runners. Iliana Shandurkova is the best on the World Ranking in the team with a 41st position. Iliana had significant improvements after her stay as Au-pair in Norway last year, and did three very good races in WOC in Japan last year ...

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WOC 2006: Austria team for WOC 2006

The Austria WOC 2006 Team consists of 9 runners. Gernot Kerschbaumer is the best on the World Ranking in the team with a 43th position. Gernot is a young and promising athlete who did an impressive performance at last years WOC in Japan, with a 9th place in middle and ...

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WOC 2006: Swedish team for WOC 2006

All the runners in the Swedish Team for WOC 2006 have the capability to take home an individual gold medal – and the swedes are thus also among the hottest favourites for relay gold both in the men and women categories. If I have to pick two names from this ...

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WOC 2006: Denmark team for WOC 2006

The Denmark WOC 2006 Team has been named at a press conference today. There are several strong runners in the danish team – some of whom will be fighting for gold medals at homeground in Århus this august. Claus Bloch at EOC 2006. Photo: Henrik Skoglund Silver in Japan Chris ...

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WOC 2006: Ireland team for WOC 2006

The Ireland team for WOC 2006 consists of 6 runners, for which the goal will probably be to reach the A finals. Ireland did not have a team at WOC 2005 in Japan. In 2004, none in the Irish WOC team managed to reach the finals. Andrew Quin (result history) ...

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WOC 2006: Czech Republic team for WOC 2006

The Czech team for WOC 2006 is strong as always. The best Czech runner now is probably Dana Brozkova, who has a 4th place from WOC 2004 as her best result. In addition, she has won several Park World Tour races. Michal Smola and TomᚠDlabaja are the best male ...

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WOC 2006: Germany team for WOC 2006

The star in the German WOC 2006 team is no doubt Karin Schmalfeld, who is one of the outsiders for a medal at WOC 2006. The best male German runner is probably still Ingo Horst, although Ingo is training less this season, and will concentrate only on the sprint and ...

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