Start lists out for NSW Sprint Champs
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 March 2022 12:23
The start lists for Saturday's NSW Sprint Champs at Ourimbah can be found here and the final information sheet here. Please note the out of bounds restrictions.NSW elites star at MSW 2022
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 March 2022 18:01
NSW elites were very successful at Melbourne Sprint Weekend, with two first places overall and two second placings.
Big Foot siblings Ewan and Nea Shingler won M20E and W20E respectively. Ewan took out all 4 individual events and would have finished third overall if competing in M21E!
(Nea also won the knockout on the last day but a bug in Eventor showed her as a mispunch in the qualifying race.)
Bush n Beach's Sam Woolford tied for second in M20E, and combined with Ewan and Oskar Mella (Newcastle, pictured) to win the Junior Men's relay as NSW went 1-2 in the team event.
Alastair George (BF) had a best race placing of third in M21E but finished second overall in a reward to his consistency. With 2022 a Sprint World Championship year, this performance augurs well for Alastair's chances for making his WOC debut in Denmark.
Erika Enderby (NC) was sitting third overall after day two but missed the knockouts because she had to get back to school on Monday.
In the public sections, Paula Shingler (BF) won W50, Hilary Wood (Central Coast) won W60 and Julia Prudhoe (CC) was third, Ross Barr (Garingal) won M70 and Warwick Selby (GO) was third, Tony Woolford (B) was third in M40, Shane Doyle (Uringa) was third in M50, and Thomas Whitehead (NC) was second MOpen.
You can see the weekend standings here and great photo albums linked via the Orienteering Australia Facebook page.
Thanks to Orienteering Victoria for a great weekend, and stay tuned for something similar in Sydney next year.
Another SSS called off
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 08 March 2022 18:52
Wednesday's Sydney Summer Series event at Lindfield is off. All council bush tracks are closed and this event was to have half the controls in bushland.40th O'Shea keeps it in the family
- Last Updated: Sunday, 06 March 2022 21:47
It was perhaps a fitting result that Central Coast's 40th anniversary O'Shea weekend was won by the event founder's daughter and grand-daughter.
In yet another lovely example of the family nature of orienteering, Jenny and Erika Enderby (Newcastle) won the Long Pairs section by four minutes across the three events held on Saturday afternoon and night and Sunday morning.
The event was started in 1983 by Jenny's parents Frank and Ethel Anderson, who were on hand on Sunday to present the perpetual trophies and the traditional keepsakes of fruit cakes adorned with spearmint leaf lollies.
Their time of 173m30s was enough to keep at bay clubmates Bjorn Mella (our NSW junior squad coach) and son Oskar. Garingal couple Toni Bachvarova and Andrew Smith were third, a further 20 minutes back.
The Short Pairs was taken out by newly appointed Orienteering Australia General Manager Arpad Kocsik and daughter Eszter in just under two hours.
They had a comfortable half-hour gap over fellow Hungarians and Garingal clubmates Nikolett Halmai and Istvan Kertsez, making a special visit from Cairns in the middle of their 18-month odyssey around Australia.
Robert Preston (NC) and David McGhee (Bennelong) were third.
The first and third events were on the Yambo map at a waterlogged Olney State Forest, yet somehow it didn't rain during any of the three runs!
You can see the final results here.
A massive thank you to Nick Dent, Hilary Wood and all the CC helpers for putting on a successful weekend in such trying conditions.
