On May 18th, 2024 the last race of the individual component of the 2024 National Orienteering League supported by Wildfire Sport and Trek concluded. It was held on the technically challenging limestone terrain of the Cooradigbee map at Wee Jasper northwest of Canberra.
In the Senior Women’s division Grace Crane (Canberra Cockatoos) continued her great form to bring home the win by a comfortable 4 minute plus margin from Emily Sorensen (Southern Arrows) and Mikayla Cooper (Tassie Foresters).
Melissa Thomas was the highest placed Stinger coming in 5th, Briohny Seaman, Serena Doyle & Rebecca George also ran in this division
In the Senior Men’s division Patrick Jaffe (Victoria Vikings) held off Brodie Nankervis (Tassie Foresters) by 40 sec with Alastair George (NSW Stingers) a further 24 sec back.
Other Stingers who featured were Toby Wilson 4th, Ewan Shingler 6th as well as Oscar Woolford, Andrew Brown, Duncan Currie & Greg Barbour.
Over in the Junior Women’s division Natalie Miller (Canberra Cockatoos) had a great race to beat out Nea Shingler (NSW Stingers) by 90 sec with Mikaela Gray (QLD Cyclones) in 3rd, 4 mins adrift of Natalie. Erika Enderby was 5th and Mikayla Enderby & Maggie competed in this division as well.
Finally in the Junior Men’s division Sam Woolford (NSW Stingers) continued his dominant form by taking out the race by 3:35 from Niko Stoner (Tassie Foresters) with Cooper Horley (NSW Stingers) a further 18 sec behind to fill out the placings. Jamie Woolford came 5th & Oliver Freeman & Seth Sweeney ran in this division as well
Orienteering Australia extends a massive thank you to the organising team from Orienteering ACT for putting on an excellent day of challenging orienteering.
