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Plitvice lakes - new orienteering destination

One of the most beautiful parts of Croatia, the National park Plitvicka jezera, has become a new orienteering destination. Last Saturday POK Maksimir organized the first orienteering event there in a form of Sprint race, with most of controls in the forest areas. Unfortunately, due to neverending quarells between certain…
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groups of Croatian orienteers, some home clubs didnt send their competitors to this race. However, this hasnt prevented a few foreign orienteers to join the event. The winners in strongest classes were Vit Pospisil (SVK) and Asa Lindqvist (SWE). When asked about the area, map and the course Pospisil said: In all aspects it was a very good event. The terrain is really nice, quite hard someplaces and therefore I had to watch which routes to choose. The map was very good, I had no problems whatsoever on the course. The winner of Womens class, Asa Lindqvist was also most…

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