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10.08: Yannick Michiels Facebook

The World Games Sprint - GOLD 🥇 Incredible day winnin...

The World Games Sprint - GOLD 🥇 Incredible day winning the gold medal at the Orienteering Sp...
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08.08: Yannick Michiels Facebook

🇨🇳 TWG Middle (8th place) Started The World Games ...

🇨🇳 TWG Middle (8th place) Started The World Games 2025 with the most brutal race Ive...
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08.08: Daniel Hubmann Facebook

The transition from forest to sprint orienteering hasnâ€...

The transition from forest to sprint orienteering hasn‘t been that easy and I was stuggeling a...
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08.08: Judith Wyder Facebook

Take me back to the mountains! There’s nothing I love ...

Take me back to the mountains! There’s nothing I love more than discovering new trails and dan...
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05.08: Judith Wyder Facebook

Running together, breathing in fresh air, soaking up nat...

Running together, breathing in fresh air, soaking up nature, moving over rocks and roots – and...
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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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