Aston adds Long bronze to Sprint gold
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 09 July 2019 19:31
Aston Key has followed up his sensational win in the JWOC Sprint event with an equally impressive 3rd place in the Long Distance event.
Aston covered the 10km course (with 625m of climb) in 67m49s, just 5m30s behind last year’s defending champion from Norway, Kasper Fosser.
Unfortunately, Alastair George (Big Foot) mispunched while Garingal's Duncan Currie was 135th in 98m59s.
Our recent scholar Grace Molloy from Scotland made it two bronze medals in a row in the women's Long, finishing just 31 seconds behind joint winners Ida Haapala (Finland) and Veronika Kalinina (Russia) who had her time adjusted after her SI Air stick stopped working.
Results for both Men and Women can be found here, and splits here. Men’s course can be found here, and the women’s here.
Once again, well done Aston. A fantastic performance! Tuesday is a rest day.
Spring chicken Ewan takes out Turkey Trot
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 09 July 2019 08:50
Big Foot junior Ewan Shingler has upstaged 10-time winner Glenn Horrocks of Garingal to take out WHO's annual Turkey Trot multi-map long distance race at Stanhope Gardens on Sunday.
Ewan found some extra gas on the last few legs to triumph by just over a minute over the 18km, with daylight back to third-placed Ross Morrison (GO).
In the women's long course, Toni Bachvarova (GO) edged out Zoe Melling (Uringa) and Belinda Kinneally (WHO).
Big Foot made it a double in the Medium course via Ewan's mum Paula and Fergus Mackie, while in the Short course WHO junior Niamh Cassar came out ahead along with Bennelong's Joel Putnam.
The fire trails, tracks, bush and contours of last year's run were replaced by a predominantly flat area with numerous parks, cycle paths, creeks and a couple of the new NW Metro stations.
You can find a full wrap here, the results here and Facebook photos here. Thanks to WHO for another successful and unique event.
Aston Key wins JWOC gold!
- Last Updated: Monday, 08 July 2019 10:51
A huge congratulations from everyone at ONSW to Victorian Aston Key who is the new junior world sprint champion!
Aston led from the very first control in Aarhus, Denmark and increased his narrow lead at each radio control to win by 13 seconds - a sizeable margin in this discipline.
It's only the second win at JWOC by an Australian, following Hanny Allston's victory in the Long Distance race in Lithuania in 2006.
Big Foot's Alastair George came 47th and Garingal's Duncan Currie 52nd. So there were four Australian men in the top 52 - a very impressive result.
We should also make special mention of our most recent scholar Grace Molloy of Scotland who came third in the women's sprint. Well done Grace (pictured below, right).
The race was held in a complex area of flats and houses, with some height differences. Especially in the arena, which was superb for spectators who had a superb sloping grass viewing area above the finish, with the spectator passage also clearly visible beyond it.
Race times were very fast from the start, but times at the spectator point kept being bettered, so there was excitement all the way with a lively and knowledgeable commentary and pictures from the course on the big screen.
Men’s and Women’s results can be found here and the splits here.
The men’s course can be found here and the women’s course can be found here.
The JWOC website can be found here. Monday is the Long champs.
JWOC, WMOC start this weekend
- Last Updated: Friday, 05 July 2019 14:44
Duncan Currie (Garingal) and Alastair George (Big Foot) will be representing Australia at the junior world championships in Denmark starting this weekend.
After Model events on Saturday, the medal races get underway with the Sprints from 10am on Sunday (6pm NSW time).
This is Alastair's second JWOC and Duncan's first. You can follow them via the event website here or the team blog here.
In a curious piece of scheduling, the annual World Masters champs are on at the same time in Latvia, starting on Saturday.
The seven NSW orienteers we found in the start list are Bennelongers Eric Morris and Gordon Wilson, Central Coast's Colin Price and Robyn Pallas, Garingal's James Lithgow, and Jean and Basil Baldwin from Goldseekers.
You can follow their progress via the event website here.
