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01.09: World of O

EOC 2025 Sprint: Maps, Results and Analysis

Pia Young Vik (Norway) and Barros Vallet (France) won surprise gold medals when the 2025 Europ...
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12.09: Daniel Hubmann Facebook

World Ranking and testrace victory in Spiez! Good to see...

World Ranking and testrace victory in Spiez! Good to see some sprint orienteering skills from the gl...
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15.09: Daniel Hubmann Facebook

Swiss Champion relay 2025 OL Regio Wil🥇 #orienteering...

Swiss Champion relay 2025 OL Regio Wil🥇 #orienteering #swissorienteering #olregiowil #hubman...
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15.09: Judith Wyder Facebook

Running is so much more than just putting one foot in fr...

Running is so much more than just putting one foot in front of the other. 🏃‍♀...
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15.09: Yannick Michiels Facebook

🥉🥉- weekend 🇳🇱 Very fun weekend of racing in...

🥉🥉- weekend 🇳🇱 Very fun weekend of racing in the Netherlands. This t...
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06.09.2025 - News from ISR
11:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

A-maze-ing O

Yesterday we held an orienteering event in a maze. This is a real, permanent maze, that hosts visitors and (mostly) groups intermittently throughout the year, and I’ve been driving by it for yea ...
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20.07.2025 - News from ISR
19:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

The Big 🥇 Analysis

Credit to World of O for the concept! So how did this happen? How did Israel win an international gold medal in orienteering? This is a really momentous event, because hopefully it will multiply our s ...
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19.07.2025 - News from ISR
18:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

EYOC Gold !!!

Today history was made. For the first time ever, an Israeli orienteer won a medal at an international orienteering championship. Ofri Yacobi won the gold medal in the EYOC Sprint W18 race, and the Isr ...
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15.07.2025 - News from ISR
21:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

The Thrill of a WOC Relay

My first experience of watching a WOC relay was back in 1995, in Germany. I distinctly remember three teams appearing almost together up a very steep slope from the forest, and then sprinting like mad ...
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11.07.2025 - News from ISR
08:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

WOC Hopes

What does a small orienteering nation hope for at WOC? We hope for promotion to Division 2, so that next time (2027) we’ll be able to have two runners in the long final. (Division 1 includes the ...
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06.07.2025 - News from ISR
19:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

JWOC Conclusion

Just like the Sprint and Long distances, the Middle was nothing to write home about for our team. I wasn’t there, and I haven’t heard any direct feedback, but it seems they were having a t ...
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01.07.2025 - News from ISR
20:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

JWOC is Tough

After the success and euphoria of the Sprint Relay, the individual Sprint and Long competitions brought us a bit down to earth. JWOC is tough for 19-20 year old orienteers, it’s even tougher for ...
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28.06.2025 - News from ISR
19:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

Watch these Juniors

Today Israel fielded a Sprint Relay team for the first time at any international level, at JWOC in Italy. The reason for this is that usually we don’t have enough women. Though we have had girl& ...
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23.06.2025 - News from ISR
20:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

World Cup Summary

First, a correction. Rotem Yasur was not the first Israeli to qualify for a WC final, I forgot that his brother Nitsan qualified for the Middle final at EOC 2022, from 10th place in his heat. I follow ...
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20.06.2025 - News from ISR
08:00 - Dan Chissick - Israel

It’s been a while…

I’m back. This blog has been active since 2008, but It petered out a bit, and I stopped posting almost 4 years ago. Now my fingers have been itching for a while, and I’ve decided to start ...
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