Tomáš Dlabaja (born 13 October 1983) is 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 Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

. World Champion in the relay at World Orienteering Championships 2012 in

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along with Jan Sedivy and Jan Prochazka after nearly giving up the elite orienteering career the same year. This fast Czech runner got his breakthrough with a bronze medal at the

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in 2005 in the mixed relay, with Petr Losman, Marta Štěrbová and Dana Brožková. And individually with a 6th place at the WOC 2007 over the sprint. He repeated his success at the home World Championships in Olomouc in

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, where he placed sixth in the sprint, 13th in the middle distance, and fourth in the relay with the Czech team. Since then has struggled to get these top individual results, but training hard again in Finland in the 2013 season after the WOC gold in 2012. In 2014, he finished his university studies and sport career as well. Occasionally he took part in cross-country running or adventure races (e.g. Dolomitenmann 2011: 1. Place in the amateur class)

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* * 1983 births Living people Czech male orienteers Czech foot orienteers World Orienteering Championships medalists World Games bronze medalists for the Czech Republic Competitors at the 2009 World Games World Games medalists in orienteering 21st-century Czech sportsmen Medalists at the 2005 World Games {{CzechRepublic-orienteering-bio-stub

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