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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Swedish WOC team newcomers
Last week I used my super-simple prediction method to get an idea of which Swedish runners might run their first WOCs. My super-simple method was to pick runners who'd been on more than 2 JWOC teams and had run their first JWOC before 2004.
Short answer, not so good. But not as bad as it might look at first glance.
I listed Jan Troeng, Anders Holmberg, Anna Lampinen, and Elin Skantze, as possible newcomers to the Swedish WOC team. Two of those runners, Holmberg and Skantze, are alternates.
Lina Persson is runner her first WOC. She ran one JWOC (2002). Among Swedes who've run both a JWOC and a WOC, it is unusual to have run just one JWOC. It might not be unique, but no other WOC runners from Sweden in my lists (which cover JWOC teams since 1999) have run just one JWOC.