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An Orienteer`s Dream Came True in Jukola

Not in my wildest dreams leading up to this year’s largest orienteering event did I dream about starting out on the last leg in a minute’s lead. Waking up in the middle of the magical northern night in a lake cabin and watching my teammates on the TV -screen pass…
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on the Jukola relay in the lead was unbelievable. Most of the guys on the team are friends since childhood and we have shared the dream about leading Jukola. I started out on my leg relaxed despite having all the eyes of the orienteering world set on me through the GPS unit on my back and managed the first three kilometers without trouble. After a denser part of the terrain the pack including OK Linné’s Mathias Millinger, Vehkalahden Veikot’s Tero Föhr and Delta’s Valentin Novikov caught me and the pace increased significantly. I hanged on for the next few kilometers,…

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