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The Coming Events Calendar has been updated to include information on Central Coast Orienteers (CCO) Summer Series of events which take place on a Sunday morning.

For those orienteers and runners who like longer than 45 minutes, this year CCO's score events will be conducted over 60 minutes.

The updated calendar also includes information on the CCO's inaugural bush run which takes place on December 12th, or take a look here.

Association members turned out in force last Saturday evening for the Annual Presentation Awards evening and to say thank you to OANSW's Executive Officer Dave Lotty who retires at the end of the year.

There was a full house at the North Ryde RSL for the Association's 2010 Awards night, an occassion that was also used to recognise Dave Lotty's significant contribution to the Association since 1973 when he first became secretary to the fledgling Association, and to publicly thank him for the many years of service he has given to OANSW and to OA. The night was made even more memorable by the attendance of other founding members Rod Dominish, Ross and Toy Martin, and Brian Wright.

To recognise his services to the Association Dave was awarded a Life Membership, which will entitle him to entry to each of the NSW's Championship events. In a "This is Your Life" moment, Dave was also presented with a photo-history of his time in Orienteering, which also included some of his history as a track athlete, prior to taking up Orienteering in November 1971.

In the Annual Awards, the Course Setter of the Year was awarded to Central Coast's Nick Dent for his SL2 courses on the World Masters Clandulla area, while the President's Award was made to Karen and Russell Blatchford for their significant contribution as Junior Squad and Schools Team Managers for a fourth successive year.

More pictures and a complete record of all award winners will be included in the next edition of the Association newsletter.

While considered by many as easier orienteering than the granite from the day before, there were still mistakes to be made for the unwary.

Day 3's event at Sawmill Creek was welcome relief for many competitors, with a return to gully spur navigation, but some competitors still found problems in the mostly runnable terrain, and especially on the long legs.

Big Foot junior Ewan Shingler,
Event Coordinator Dick Ogilvie.

In the Mens A competition it was a repeat of Day 2 with Julian Dent finishing in front of Sweden's Mats Troeng, and NSW's Josh Blatchford coming in third, while in the Womens A course Sweden's Johana Oberg recorded her second victory ahead of ACT's Jo Allison and NSW's Tracy Marsh. In Mens B, which is the same course as that for Womens A competition, it was a win for QLD's Tim Mcintyre from Tim Rogers and fellow club member Brenton Gray coming in third. In the Womens B competition first and second places were taken by World Masters Champions Jenny Bourne and Sue Yan Tay, with only 12 seconds separating the pair.In the Mens C course QLD's Oliver Crosato was again too strong winning in 39.35, ahead of NSW's Angus Roberts and Mark Shingler. In the Womens C competition Jacquie Rand led the field home in 44.51 with fellow Queenslander Linda Burridge coming in second. Sweden's Julia Davidsson finished third. In the Mens D competition there was success for Victoria's Tim Dent, ahead of ACT pair Bob Allison and Hugh Moore.

In the Womens D competition QLD's Glennie Nottie was too strong for NSW pair Lyn Dabbs and Val Hodson, while in the Mens E race NSW's John Hodson just edged out NSW's Kevin Williams for first place.

In the Womens E competition QLD's Heather Burridge came home first ahead of Jessica Hoey and NSW's Georgia Jones.

In the Junior M/WN competition less than three minutes separated the first four runners with NSW's Jared McKenna outsprinting QLD's Patrick Cantwell, with NSW's Ewan Shingler coming in third.

The day's results can be found here, and the splits found here.

NSW's Development Director
Barbara Hill
NSW's Aidan Dawson in Mens C

The popular Sydney Sprint Series returns in 2011. The full calendar and summary information is now available here. You can also visit the Sydney Sprint Series page to get results and reports after each event.