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Bennelong Northside president and all-round orienteering legend Terry Bluett has proved that you don't need a lot of bush to make a great State League event.
Terry took a segment of a summer series map and transformed it into a proper bush map (to sprint specs), thus proving that even small pockets of forest can be used for SL provided they are mapped accurately.
The result was a delightful bush sprint in the upper reaches of Bantry Bay (Frenchs Forest) on Sydney's northern beaches on Saturday afternoon.
The intricate track network and impassable cliffs made nav difficult, and most times were closer to Middle Distance anyway which made it good value.
We had visitors from Queensland and Tasmania, and it was great to see nearly 50 people do Enter on Day. Some people even went for a second run!
We noted first-time State League wins by Brian Black (BN, M35A), Linda Mandin (BN, W45AS) and John Bulman (GO, M55AS).
You can find a Facebook photo album by Brett Sewell here. Thanks to Terry who also set, controller Ron Junghans from Garingal, organiser Alitia Dougall, the BN club, and the local Guides for use of the hall.
Results and Winsplits are on our SL web page. Our next SL weekend is in Newcastle on August 3-4. Entries close on July 30.
Aston Key has followed up his sensational win in the JWOC Sprint event with an equally impressive 3rd place in the Long Distance event.
Aston covered the 10km course (with 625m of climb) in 67m49s, just 5m30s behind last year’s defending champion from Norway, Kasper Fosser.
Unfortunately, Alastair George (Big Foot) mispunched while Garingal's Duncan Currie was 135th in 98m59s.
Our recent scholar Grace Molloy from Scotland made it two bronze medals in a row in the women's Long, finishing just 31 seconds behind joint winners Ida Haapala (Finland) and Veronika Kalinina (Russia) who had her time adjusted after her SI Air stick stopped working.
Results for both Men and Women can be found here, and splits here. Men’s course can be found here, and the women’s here.
Once again, well done Aston. A fantastic performance! Tuesday is a rest day.
Big Foot junior Ewan Shingler has upstaged 10-time winner Glenn Horrocks of Garingal to take out WHO's annual Turkey Trot multi-map long distance race at Stanhope Gardens on Sunday.
Ewan found some extra gas on the last few legs to triumph by just over a minute over the 18km, with daylight back to third-placed Ross Morrison (GO).
In the women's long course, Toni Bachvarova (GO) edged out Zoe Melling (Uringa) and Belinda Kinneally (WHO).
Big Foot made it a double in the Medium course via Ewan's mum Paula and Fergus Mackie, while in the Short course WHO junior Niamh Cassar came out ahead along with Bennelong's Joel Putnam.
The fire trails, tracks, bush and contours of last year's run were replaced by a predominantly flat area with numerous parks, cycle paths, creeks and a couple of the new NW Metro stations.
You can find a full wrap here, the results here and Facebook photos here. Thanks to WHO for another successful and unique event.
A huge congratulations from everyone at ONSW to Victorian Aston Key who is the new junior world sprint champion!
Aston led from the very first control in Aarhus, Denmark and increased his narrow lead at each radio control to win by 13 seconds - a sizeable margin in this discipline.
It's only the second win at JWOC by an Australian, following Hanny Allston's victory in the Long Distance race in Lithuania in 2006.
Big Foot's Alastair George came 47th and Garingal's Duncan Currie 52nd. So there were four Australian men in the top 52 - a very impressive result.
We should also make special mention of our most recent scholar Grace Molloy of Scotland who came third in the women's sprint. Well done Grace (pictured below, right).
The race was held in a complex area of flats and houses, with some height differences. Especially in the arena, which was superb for spectators who had a superb sloping grass viewing area above the finish, with the spectator passage also clearly visible beyond it.
Race times were very fast from the start, but times at the spectator point kept being bettered, so there was excitement all the way with a lively and knowledgeable commentary and pictures from the course on the big screen.
Men’s and Women’s results can be found here and the splits here.
The men’s course can be found here and the women’s course can be found here.
The JWOC website can be found here. Monday is the Long champs.
