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3rd place in cancelled sprint in Elitserien…

Last week I was at Elitserien in Sweden. Thursday it was sprint in Borlänge, with qualification in the morning and final in the afternoon. The qualification course was quite easy, with many easy legs with not so difficult orienteering and just running. I was 3rd in my heat, 6 sec…
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behind Erik Rost.The final was trickier, and you had to read the map well and at the same time take out the route choice for the next leg. But it was still full speed the whole way. I did a good race, without to the 9th control where I lost 15 seconds on a parallel-fail. When I came out from the buildings I thought I was at the other side of my control and first went to a wrong control to the left. David Andresson did a great race and was clearly fastest, with me at 3rd place, 18 sec…

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