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

Newcastle's Bike Orienteering Summer Series (BOSS) wrapped up a rain-affected season at Killingworth on Sunday.

Congratulations to Steve Todkill and Carolyn Matthews for taking out the LineScore category, and Wayne Hawken and Margaret Peel on winning the AllScore class.

Final place-getters were (all Newcastle except where stated):

Male Line Score 1 Steve Todkill, 2 Hamish Mackie (Big Foot), 3 Andrew Haigh
Female Line Score 1 Carolyn Matthews, 2 Nicole Haigh, 3 Sally-Anne Todkill
Male All Score 1 Wayne Hawken, 2 Martin Cousins (Garingal), 3 Ori Gudes (Uringa, pictured)
Female All Score 1 Margaret Peel, 2 Dale Graham, 3 Carol Pearce / Amanda Mackie (BF)
E Bike Male 1 Graham Fowler, 2 Tim Hackney, 3 Bruce Graham
E Bike Female 1 Andrea Hackney

You can view the final points tallies here.

A big thanks to all the setters, controllers, helpers and participants.

The start lists for Saturday's NSW Sprint Champs at Ourimbah can be found here and the final information sheet here. Please note the out of bounds restrictions.

For Sunday's Middle Distance at Richmond Vale, the program has also been posted.

Entries are now open for the annual QBIII carnival over the June long weekend, being held this year in Wagga. Bulletin 1 is here. We thank Wagga Council for their support of this event.

NSW elites were very successful at Melbourne Sprint Weekend, with two first places overall and two second placings.

Big Foot siblings Ewan and Nea Shingler won M20E and W20E respectively. Ewan took out all 4 individual events and would have finished third overall if competing in M21E!

(Nea also won the knockout on the last day but a bug in Eventor showed her as a mispunch in the qualifying race.)

Bush n Beach's Sam Woolford tied for second in M20E, and combined with Ewan and Oskar Mella (Newcastle, pictured) to win the Junior Men's relay as NSW went 1-2 in the team event.

Alastair George (BF) had a best race placing of third in M21E but finished second overall in a reward to his consistency. With 2022 a Sprint World Championship year, this performance augurs well for Alastair's chances for making his WOC debut in Denmark.

Erika Enderby (NC) was sitting third overall after day two but missed the knockouts because she had to get back to school on Monday.

In the public sections, Paula Shingler (BF) won W50, Hilary Wood (Central Coast) won W60 and Julia Prudhoe (CC) was third, Ross Barr (Garingal) won M70 and Warwick Selby (GO) was third, Tony Woolford (B) was third in M40, Shane Doyle (Uringa) was third in M50, and Thomas Whitehead (NC) was second MOpen.

You can see the weekend standings here and great photo albums linked via the Orienteering Australia Facebook page.

Thanks to Orienteering Victoria for a great weekend, and stay tuned for something similar in Sydney next year.

Wednesday's Sydney Summer Series event at Lindfield is off. All council bush tracks are closed and this event was to have half the controls in bushland.

While the forecast for tomorrow is much better, using those tracks would damage them even further.

Not to mention the danger in navigating steep tracks and crossing watercourses that may well be still full from three weeks of run-off.

Safety of our organisers and participants is paramount, as is being good environmental citizens.

With the season almost done, there is no time to reschedule, so this event will be held next summer.

We thank setter Gill Fowler and Big Foot for their work in preparing this event and look forward to a dry run in season 32.

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