Orienteering NSW - Great start to JWOC

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.

Great start to JWOC

Details: Last Updated: Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:53

The Australian team has continued its fantastic start to the junior world championships in Bulgaria.

Day 2 (Long) - Michele Dawson (Garingal) was the leading Australian woman in 58th - 70 places better than last year. Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) was 105th. Conditions underfoot were very wet following heavy rain during the sprint the previous day. Again it was the young Aussie men who produced outstanding performances for the second day in a row with two runners in the top 20 for the first time.

Day 1 (Sprint) - three of the Aussie men finished in the top 30 of the sprint race - to put that in perspective only Finland, Sweden and Switzerland did better than Australia. Gold went to Kiwi Tim Robertson ! NSW representatives Nicola (90th) and Michele (113th) found the going tough in the rain in the women's race.

You can catch up on the Australian team's progress via the team blog or Facebook page or the event website, and read Nick Dent's wraps of the Sprint and Long proceedings.

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