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Coming Events

map	Sat 20 Apr 9:00 am Forest Orienteering and Navigation Skills Day Smiths Creek Reserve, Campbelltown (meet at Waminda Reserve, Macquarie Av, Campbelltown.

map	Sun 21 Apr 9:30 am NOY2 - Redgum Ridges (Freemans Waterhole) Redgum Ridges. 1:10 000. 5m contours.

map	Sun 21 Apr 11:00 am Broken Bago Orienteering Scout Hall, Tallwood Avenue, Wauchope.

Mon 22 Apr 7:30 pm

Orienteering Australia 2024 AGM

Online via Zoom.

Tue 23 Apr 7:30 pm

Orienteering NSW April Board Meeting

map	Wed 24 Apr 5:30 pm Moonlight Madness #1 Northbridge corner of Sailors Bay Road and Kameruka Road (Bonds Corner), Northbridge

map	Sun 28 Apr 9:30 am Newcastle Pairs Relay Champs & Minor Event The Range (South) 1:7500, Killingworth

Sun 28 Apr 10:00 am

Waggaroos - AWOC Interclub #1, 9 Mile Reserve

map	Wed 1 May 6:30 pm Newcastle Night Champs - Eleebana Thomas H Halton Park. Revised by D. Orr 2024. 1:4000, 2 metre contours and 1:1000, 2 metre contours. , Thomas H Halton Park, Eleebana

Sat 4 May 9:30 am

SOS Northside

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.

World champs start tonight (Sat)

Details: Last Updated: Sunday, 06 July 2014 13:01

The annual world championships start tonight in Italy with a tricky sprint qualification in Burano and the final through the alleyways of Venice.

NSW has two overseas-based representatives - Julian Dent and Felicity Brown - in the Australian team. You can follow their fortunes via the team blog and the official event website.

Changes to IOF rules (no qualification races for the middle and the long distance events) means entry numbers are limited, so there is a lot of pressure on athletes to (1) maintain their country's number of entries and (2) attempt to increase that.

Anyone who has strolled around Venice can vouch for the intricacy of the water-based city's layout - so imagine trying to do a sprint around there (see a previous map)?!

Winning times are expected to be just 15 minutes - with the men running 4.5km and the women 4km!