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The Orienteering World Cup will again be hosted by the Czech Republic after 5 years. At the same time, this year marks exactly 40 years since the first unofficial edition of the Orienteering World Cup. Let’s take a look at the history of these races in the Czech Republic in the series by O-News.cz<\/a>. During the winter and spring of 2023, we will offer a behind-the-scenes look at all of these international events. Today we continue with the year 1986.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the last article, we focused on the history of the Orienteering World Cup in 1984<\/a> in Dol\u00e1nky near Turnov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

1986: Officially “World Cup”<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned in the last article<\/a>, even though we had a World Cup race in 1984, it was still an unofficial event. That changed in 1986, when the history of the Orienteering World Cup officially started. OWC were held every two years until 2004, when the race series were managed to be every year. And what was it like in 1986? The first race took place in the birthplace of orienteering – Norway. The second and third races were held in the USA (Hamilton and New York). The French Lorraine welcomed the competitors on the fourth round, and the Swedish Halland on the fifth. The sixth race took place in Czechia in Bran\u017ee\u017e, and the remaining two took place in Eger (Hungary) and Pfannenstiel (Switzerland).<\/p>\n\n\n

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OWC 1986 logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

OWC again as a part of the five-day spectator races<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 1986, Ji\u010d\u00edn organizes another five-day orienteering event, this time at Bran\u017ee\u017e, and the World Cup race as part of these big races during the 3rd stage. The competitors were welcomed by Vale\u010dov Castle, where popular multi-day races on large-scale maps have been held in recent years. Even here, by the conditions of the time, the map was run on a detailed scale: 1:10 000, which was prepared by Josef Bor\u016fvka and Petr Uher. “The start was right at the castle. There was a historical fencing group and armorers started the competitors by raising their crossed swords. We tried to make every race something special,”<\/em> recalled the then event director Jaroslav Havl\u00edk in OB magazine in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All controls map.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Czech competitors without a medal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This time, no Czech competitor has a say in the medal ranking. Kent Olsson won the men’s category. The fourth Vlastimil Uchytil lost less than 3 minutes, and the seventh was Jaroslav Ka\u010dmar\u010d\u00edk: “It wasn’t bad, but physically it wasn’t that good.”<\/em> In the women’s category, Sweden’s Sofie Ellen Olsvik won, the best of the Czechs was Ada Kucha\u0159ov\u00e1 in fifth place, Eva B\u00e1rtov\u00e1 finished the race in eighth place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vlastimil Uchytil \u2014 the best od the Czech competitors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful TV reports from that time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to digitized TV reports, you can watch the the race and the reactions of the competitors and winners. You can find everything on the Youtube channel SPORTCENTRUM Ji\u010d\u00edn<\/a> and below you can recall the entire event of the 1986 Orienteering World Cup in Vale\u010dov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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