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WOC 2008 - the Israeli team -…

Israel will be represented at WOC 2008 by two athletes - Pavel Gvozdev and Alexey Marchenko. While both come from a similar background, immigrating to Israel as youths from the former Soviet Union with previous orienteering experience, they have taken separate paths since then.Pavel (age 24) came to Israel from…
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Russia at the age of 18, without his family, and immediately dominated the local youth category. However, his ability declined during the years of compulsory army duty, and after that he returned to Russia to study and train (including a spell with OK Orion), appearing again in much better form at WOC 2006, where he was noted for the unprecedented feat of missing qualification for all three finals by one place. In WOC 2007 he improved, qualifying for both the long distance final (where he finished 21st) and the sprint. He is the only Israeli ever to qualify for a…

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