Nicola, Michele in action at World Uni O Champs
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 02 August 2016 16:34
NSW orienteers Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) and Michele Dawson (Garingal) have had their first two races at the World Uni Champs in Hungary.
Nicola placed 48th in the 9.8km Long distance event on Monday night our time, 27 minutes behind the Finnish winner.
Unfortunately, Michele was disqualified in Sunday's Sprint. Mum Barb explains: "There was a closed path marked on the map, but this was not taped on the course as per briefing instructions. Michele misread her map and ran through, and 12 girls were disqualified at this point. The controller went out and taped the area out of bounds before the men's event. At the team managers/coaches meeting that night the organisers apologised for the error."
The athletes get no break, with the Sprint Relays on Tuesday night, the Middle distance on Wednesday and the Relays on Thursday. Follow the action on the event website.
New WHO map is a real 'goa!
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 02 August 2016 11:35
WHO's brand new Mulgoa map returned MetrO League to its true bush roots and sealed the 2016 finalists in telling fashion on Sunday.
The Barry Hanlon-Janet Morris creation is on the very eastern edge of the Blue Mountains National Park and was soon being spoken of as a potential State League venue.
Some of the legs on the moderate courses (Divisions 3, 4, 5) were of hard standard and required the full range of orienteering skills to navigate without substantial time loss.
As it was, only eight runners across the 140-odd Metro entries finished in under 40 minutes - a testament to the mental and physical difficulty of the courses.
As is often the case, when the going got tough, the tough got going. Big Foot and Garingal triumphed in Division 1 with six of the eight fastest times and will meet in the last round at Galston, with the Goannas needing a win to retain the trophy they took from the Feet a year ago.
In Division 2 it will be the new merged entity SHOO-IKO taking on the GO Dragons and looking for promotion to Division 1.
Bennelong Northside are in the other three finals: taking on SHOO-IKO in Divison 3, the unbeaten GO Legless in Division 4, and WHO in Division 5.
The ML web page has been updated with all the scores and splits, including the race for the individual medal in each grade. The current leaders are Andrew Hill (Div 1), Doug Jay (Div 2), James Southwell (Div 3), Rod Parkin (Div 4) and Tshinta Hopper (Div 5).
It was great to see the Needhams from the ACT and Northern Tablelands president Felix Burkhard participating.
Thanks to the WHO crew for a lovely day out. The finals are on a new Garingal map at Galston on September 4.
Introducing our inaugural ONSW scholar Atte Lahtinen
- Last Updated: Sunday, 31 July 2016 19:37
Orienteering NSW is pleased to announce our inaugural scholarship holder: Atte Lahtinen.Narellan Vale takes out Sydney South West primary title
- Last Updated: Saturday, 30 July 2016 21:10
Almost 300 students from the Macarthur region took part in the annual Sydney South West primary schools champs at Camden on Wednesday.
The event was rescheduled from June due to inclement weather and resulted in 298 entries from 11 schools.
Champion school was Narellan Vale, wresting the title from Mawarra for a change.
A huge thanks to Lyn Malmgron, Sandy Stewart and the team of helpers for making it a great day out.
A reminder that entries are open for our annual NSW schools championships at Lansdowne on August 27-28. Students must register via Trybooking.
