Huge congratulations to Ewan Shingler (Big Foot, left) who has taken out the men's junior elite title at our big Easter carnival at Gumble Pinnacles near Molong.Ewan was fourth in Monday's final race - featuring open farmland as a welcome relief in the first section - but had enough time up his sleeve to prevail in M20E overall by almost 13 minutes.
Clubmate and first year senior Alastair George was another bright spot on a tough day at the office with a third placing in M21E with a km rate of 6 minutes - a massive achievement against some way more credentialled interstate rivals. That lifted him to fourth in the overall standings.
Mikalya Enderby (Newcastle, W18E) was third on Monday to secure second overall - well done Mikayla!
Alas - three days of good work by Nea Shingler (W20E), Sam Woolford and Oskar Mella (M18E) was undone when they mispunched, thus forfeiting their overall chances.
Other outstanding NSW results from our juniors on the final day were:
* Cooper Horley (Garingal) winning M16A and running up an age class
* Aurelie Valais (WHO) winning W20A
* Rookie Kelvin Meng (Uringa, right) coming fourth in M18E
Across all classes, NSW orienteers on Monday recorded 15 wins, 20 seconds and 21 thirds.
In the final carnival standings, NSW orienteers achieved 14 first placings, 14 second placings and 19 third placings.
All participants are asked to complete the very brief course setter surveys for each day here.
A massive thank you to the organisers, setters, controllers and helpers as they had to prepare this carnival twice due to covid.
The end result was a huge success on very challenging courses.
