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Maps from Ski-o WOC in Japan

Last week the Ski-orienteering World Championship was arranged in Rusutsu, a big ski-resort on Hokkaido, the north island of Japan. Late Monday I came home after a 27 hour long travel, and after coming back in normal life I now think itÂ’s time to write some words from the last…
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two competitions and present the maps.On SaturdayÂ’s Middle distance it was good conditions for making shortcuts. I had a good start on my race, and after two thirds of the course I held the 8th place. But to the 12th control I did a one minute mistake, and ended on a 14th place, 3 minutes behind Olli-Markus Taivainen. Taivainen is still junior, and won gold medal on all 4 races during JWOC in Januray. In Japan he won gold, silver and bronze on the individual races, but was not selected for the Finnish relay team. ResultsThe Relay was the competition…

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