okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Thursday, July 12, 2007
JWOC to WOC?
Since I spent some time looking at JWOC team runners who then made a WOC team, I thought it'd be interesting to go out on a limb and pick a few Swedish and Norwegian orienteers who have never run a WOC but have a good chance of making the 2007 WOC team. In making these predictions, the only information I'm looking at is a list of prior JWOC teams. So these aren't really my best predicitions. It is more like a test of a very simple method of predicting WOC team debuts.
I think the Swedish and Norwegian teams are having selection races this weekend and will announce their teams next week.
Based on nothing but a list of previous JWOC teams, I'd say the following Norwegians have a reasonable chance at running their first WOC: Jorid Flatekval, Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen, and Oystein Sorensson. Possible Swedish WOC debuts would be: Jan Troeng, Anders Holmberg, Anna Lampinen, and Elin Skantze.
Please, don't take this stuff too seriously (just a few minutes playing with Google searches would easily eliminate a few of the names I've listed). It might make more sense to say that these are the Norwegian and Swedish runners who have run JWOC s since about 2000 who are most likely to make WOC teams. It'll be interesting to see if any of them make their first WOC.
