The heat is on at World Uni champs
- Last Updated: Thursday, 19 July 2018 12:36
A heatwave has made competition very tough at the World Uni champs in Finland.
Temperatures in the range of 33-35C - plus humidity - took their toll in the Middle Distance on Wednesday.
Garingal's Toby Wilson finished 62nd, more than 23 minutes off the pace, as the Scandinavians fared best in familiar but vague terrain. It was very rough going underfoot.
Organisers were giving brief cold showers as runners finished (see pic).
The champs opened on Tuesday with a Sprint Relay. The Australian team came a creditable 14th, with GO siblings Aidan and Michele Dawson anchoring the four-person team.
The individual Sprint is later today (Thu) and a cool change is expected for Friday's Long Distance event and Saturday's Relays.
You can follow all the action via the event website.
2018 NSW Schools team announced
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 17 July 2018 12:44
Students from seven of our clubs are in the 2018 NSW Schools team (the Carbines) for the Australian championships in South Australia in the September-October holidays.Congratulations to the following students upon their selection:
Senior Girls: Claire Burgess (NC), Ellen Currie (GO), Serena Doyle (UR), Tshinta Hopper (BN)
Senior Boys: Duncan Currie (GO), Alastair George (BF), Ewan Shingler (BF), Oscar Woolford (BB). Reserve: Angus Leung (GO)
Junior Girls: Niamh Cassar (WH), Mikayla Enderby (NC), Iida Lehtonen (GO), Nea Shingler (BF). Reserves: Julia Barbour (BF), Louise Barbour (BF)
Junior Boys: Alvin Craig (NC), Clyde McGhee (BN), Oskar Mella (NC), Sam Woolford (BB). Reserve: Jamie Woolford (BB)
All selected will travel with the team to SA and run in the three schools championship events from October 1-3 (Sprint, Individual and Relay), while also competing in the other major events on both weekends of the carnival.
Manager Damian Enderby will be in contact with team members to co-ordinate travelling arrangements.
ONSW thanks selectors Jock Davis, Hilary Wood and Rob Bennett for their time and energy spent in this important role, and to the Carbine Club for their generous financial support.
NSW Sprint Champs entries close this week
- Last Updated: Monday, 16 July 2018 15:06
A reminder that entries to the NSW Sprint Champs close this Wednesday (July 18).
The awesome UNSW map is a densely built university campus with a varied landscape and architecture. There are many staircases, passageways and canopies. It will be intense navigation and a great challenge regardless of your speed.
All controls will be Air+ enabled so bring your SIAC stick if you have one.
Please note that there will be no Very Easy course - but parents are welcome to shadow children in the 10A classes around the Easy course. Please do this after you have run your own course.
Enter-on-day will be available on Hard, Moderate and Easy courses.
Don't forget this event offers double points in the Orienteer of the Year standings.
We look forward to an exciting day of Sprint orienteering on Sunday July 29.
Meanwhile, our Newcastle club started their preparations for the champs with a weekend of four sprints.
Saturday saw events at St Philips College, Nulkaba and Kurri Kurri TAFE. Sunday it was closer to town, with both races at Heaton PS/Callaghan College Campus.
Points were awarded for placings, rather cumulative times, and a person's best three scores counted. When the numbers were crunched, all four winners were from the host club:
Women's Boxers (shorter course) – Erika Enderby
Women's Boardies (longer course) – Jenny Enderby
Mens's Boxers – Kendall O'Connor
Mens' Boardies – Rob Bennett (pictured)
Alastair's JWOC done with relay
- Last Updated: Sunday, 15 July 2018 15:20
Alastair George, our sole NSW representative at JWOC, has finished with a good result in the Middle Distance final and relays.
Alastair (pictured left) was 43rd in the B final in the Middle, then his No.2 Australian team upstaged the No.1 team by three minutes in the Relays, which concluded an intriguing week in Hungary.
The Middle and Relays were on a map rapidly becoming known as the Hungarian Labyrinth (see here for the maps). The Middle final was in a particularly brutal section, while the Relays were in an more open area that allowed for much faster running.
Apparently the green bits were juniper bushes. Pity the poor mapper having to get it right.
OA has a nice photo album on Facebook taking all the events. World of O also has some excellent analysis.
Congratulations Alastair on your first junior world champs.
Meanwhile in Denmark, the annual World Masters champs wrapped up in beachside terrain at Tisvilde Hegn.
Our Waggaroos club had some great results, with NSW Stinger Briohny Seaman (W35A, pictured right) 23rd in the Middle followed by an outstanding 14th in the Long. Her mum Debbie Davey was mid-field in both W60A finals.
You can see all the maps and results on the event website.
