Štěpán Kodeda (5 February 1988 – 30 March 2015) was a

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orienteering Orienteering is a group of sports that involve using a map and compass to navigation, navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specia ...

competitor, and twice junior world champion.

Career

Štěpán was a runner of the Swedish club

IFK Mora IFK Mora is a sports club in Mora, Sweden. The club was founded on 22 August 1909, and became an alliance club on 1 January 1992, following a 1991 decision. IFK Mora is known for its successes in orienteering and cross-country skiing (sport), cro ...

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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'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

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, Australia together with Jan Benes and Adam Chromy."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

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, Sweden. His best results at the

World Orienteering Championships The World Orienteering Championships (often abbreviated as WOC) is an international orienteering competition which has been organized by the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) since 1966. The World Orienteering Championships is considere ...

were an 18th place in the 2011 sprint final in

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, France, and an 18th place in the 2013 long distance in

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, Finland.

Death

Kodeda died on 30 March 2015 in

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, after having been seriously injured in a traffic accident.

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