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Fri 27 Sep 4:00 pm
Independent Athlete Development Camp Aus Champs 2024

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Wed 9 Oct 3:30 pm
2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #1 – Watsons Bay
Watsons Bay, The Gunyah, 335 Old South Head Rd, Watsons Bay.

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Wed 9 Oct 5:00 pm
Newcastle Summer Street Series (Warmup) - Lambton
Lambton

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Sat 12 Oct 12:00 am
NSW MTBO 3 Event Discount Entry

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Sat 12 Oct 7:30 am
IKEA Dream Run Orienteering event
IKEA Marsden Park.

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Sat 12 Oct 9:00 am
NSW MTBO Championships - Sprint
Mt Annan

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Sat 12 Oct 2:00 pm
Sydney City Short Distance Race, Pyrmont (changed from Cockatoo Island)
Pirrama Park, Pyrmont.

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Sat 12 Oct 2:00 pm
NSW MTBO Championships - Middle
Appin

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Sat 12 Oct 6:30 pm
NSW MTBO Championships Social Dinner
RSL Campbelltown, 1 Carberry Lane.

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Sun 13 Oct 8:00 am
Sydney City Race
Race Headquarters is at Fort Street Public School, Observatory Hill. Short Walk from Wynyard Station

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.


Entries open for 2024 Goanna

Entries are open for Garingal's innovative Goanna 'goat race', which this year will be held on the Galston map. 

The event is on this Sunday, July 16th, with a mass start at 10am, 10.05am and 10:10am for the 3 main courses. 

Goat races are a wacky form of line orienteering in which:
* there is a mass start
* following is allowed (this is usually a no-no)
* you may skip a control (yippee!)
* there are forked controls (you go to 'a' or 'b')
* in the boxed section you visit the controls in any order  

There are 3 course lengths (GeckO 3.6km, DraGOn 4.2km and GOanna 6km), with the standard varying from to moderate to hard depending on where you are on the course.

Tactics have to be made up on the run - which control will you skip? Which fork will you take? and in which order will you do 'the box'? A 'fun' run in its own right.

Entries close on Saturday at 5pm. Please note there will be an Easy course with a start window of 10.15-11am, but no Very Easy course.

Courses

ONSW 2024 Meeting Dates 

Major Events

 Schedule 2024 - 2031 (Updated Sept 2024)

2024 Sydney City Race

2024 NSW MTBO

2024 Aust MTBO

2024 Xmas 5days Sydney

2025_Oceania_NZ

2025 Easter Victoria

2025 Run the River QLD

Event Series

NSW State League

MetrO League

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