Štěpán Kodeda (5 February 1988 – 30 March 2015) was a
Czech orienteering
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competitor, and twice junior world champion.
Career
Štěpán was a runner of the Swedish club
IFK Mora in
Dalarna from 2005 until 2010, when he changed to the Finnish club
MS Parma.
[ He achieved many good team results as the 7th place in ]Tiomila
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Tiomila attracts ...
's Relay 2008, where he ran the first for Dalarna's team exchanging 6th among 347 runners. Starting in 2006 he also ran for Sportcentrum Jičín in the Czech Republic and since 2009 for Club Esportiu Farra-O in Spain.
In 2007, he became Junior World Champion in ''relay'' in Dubbo
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, Australia together with Jan Benes and Adam Chromy
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.["Profile: Stepan Kodeda"]
– World of O Runners (Retrieved on July 1, 2008) In 2008, he won a gold medal in ''sprint'' distance at the Junior World Championships in Göteborg
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, Sweden.
His best results at the World Orienteering Championships
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were an 18th place in the 2011 sprint final in Savoie
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, France, and an 18th place in the 2013 long distance in Vuokatti, Finland.[
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Death
Kodeda died on 30 March 2015 in Prague
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, after having been seriously injured in a traffic accident.
See also
* Czech orienteers
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Places
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* List of orienteers
* List of orienteering events
References
External links
*
Profile
at Český svaz orientačního běhu
1988 births
2015 deaths
Czech male orienteers
Czech foot orienteers
Sportspeople from Plzeň
Junior World Orienteering Championships medalists
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