Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

map	Sat 2 Nov 9:30 am SOS 3 - Middle Cove Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, 5A Glenroy Ave, Middle Cove

map	Sat 2 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #3 Croome Sporting Complex John O Dwyer Oval within Croome Sporting Complex - use the northern entrance from Croome Road - most direct access to Oval.

map	Sun 3 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #2 - Randwick Over the Rainbow, Randwick

map	Wed 6 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #5 - Lindfield Primula Oval, Lindfield.

map	Wed 6 Nov 5:00 pm Newcastle Summer Street Series #4 - Blackalls Park Blackalls Park

map	Thu 7 Nov 5:00 pm Summer series #1 72 Ross Street

map	Fri 8 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #2 - Gosling Creek Gosling Creek

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4

map	Sat 9 Nov 10:00 am Illawarra Map Running Series - Spring #4 Unanderra Lindsay Maynes Park, cnr Princes Highway & Factory Rd, Unanderra

map	Sun 10 Nov 9:00 am Central Coast Summer Series 1 - Shelly Beach Naomi Honey Reserve, Shelly Beach Rd, Shelly Beach

Don MacIntyre set some interesting courses that provided participants with a good introduction to the sport. Starting from near the Museum on Baden Powell Dr courses looped around the water storage reservoir and along the main ridgeline.

Edward and Oliver Gunter had little trouble on their first orienteering venture finding the fences, watercourses and power poles to record a very good 16:13 on the 1600m Short Course, galloping along at 10 mins/km.

NSW had a massive team of 21 Stingers travel to Victoria to compete in the Easter 3 Day Carnival. Events for the Elites comprised a Sprint Prologue at La Trobe University Bendigo, a middle distance event in complex goldmining terrain of "Yorkshire Hill", a gruelling long distance event at Mt Alexander and finally a reverse chasing start relay distance event in the fast, open terrain of Kangaroo Flat, "Crusoe" map. The Men’s 21 Elite competition was fierce the entire weekend, and 13 of the 46 competitors were wearing NSW blue. Click here for the full report

Want to see our Stingers in action? See The Stingers Movie from the Prologue here

Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) and Michele Dawson (Garingal) have both been selected for the Australian team to compete at JWOC 2013 in the Czech Republic. This will be Michele's second trip to Europe to compete in this competition, and she is hoping to improve on last year's solid opening performance. Nicola will be on the team for the first time, having missed out due to injury last year. It is a tremendous achievement to have two young elites from NSW on the JWOC team and is testament to their hard work and the support of their managers and coaches.

Ron Junghans at Easter 2013 NSW had much to celebrate at the Easter Carnival held in Bendigo but the top spots were hard won over the holiday weekend, with challenging terrain and fierce competition. Nearly 750 competitors from all over Australia attended the carnival and some of the age classes were the largest we have seen for some time, outside the Australian and Oceania Championships.

Topping the podium over the whole carnival for NSW was Phoebe Dent (W21A), Lynn Dabbs (W60A), Jean Baldwin (W70A), Janet Morris (W75A), Glenn Meyer (M21AS), Cath Chalmers (W35AS) and Peter Baldwin (M35AS). Other notable successes were Mikayla Enderby (W10A), Sophie Jones (W12A), Val Hodsdon (W65A), Eoin Rothery (M55A), Gordon Wilson (M60A), Ron Junghans (M70A), Vicki Wilmott (W45AS), Shane Jenkins (M35AS), Greg Barbour (M40A), Gayle Quantock (W50A), Nicki Burnett (W Easy B), Douglas Jay (M35A), and Ian Jessup (M Open B) who all narrowly missed out on the top spot, coming second in their classes