Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

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 Robina Park (between Robina & Cynthia Crescents)

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

map	Sat 9 Nov 9:30 am SOS 4 Gore Hill Oval, 209 Pacific Highway, St Leonards. Meet by the oval car park and playground.

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

map	Sun 10 Nov 4:00 pm River and Bay Series #3 - Canterbury The Gallops, Tasker park, Phillips Avenue Canterbury

map	Wed 13 Nov 4:30 pm 2024/25 Sydney Summer Series #6 - Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, Camperdown.

map	Thu 14 Nov 5:00 pm Summer series #2 TBA

The extended Seaman family has led WaggaRoos to a comfortable victory over Albury Wodonga in event 4 of their Interclub Challenge at Connorton on Sunday.

Seven-year-old Ryder Seaman won the Easy course, his father Trent won the Moderate course, his mother Briohny took out the Long Hard course, and his grandmother Deb Davey won the Short Hard course to guide WaggaRoos to a 52-38 victory for the day. That's some pedigree!

With four of the eight events contested, WaggaRoos has retaken the overall lead 187-174.

In the Interclub Challenge, points are awarded for participating, completing a course and to the placegetters on each course. The points earned by place-getters are weighted in favour of the longer and harder navigation courses.

Thanks to John Oliver for this report.

We are delighted to announce that the first official event for our new Port Macquarie club will be on Sunday July 14.

This will be a 45-minute score course held in and around the wonderful Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park in the centre of Port Macquarie.

The starting point will be in the Arboretum on Gordon Street - just look for the giant water dragon!

The start window is 11am-1pm. The HOGs will also be cooking a BBQ for participants to celebrate their first event. For further information, contact HOGs president Matt Bell on 0435 048 408 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please note there will not be a State League event on July 14 - so everyone is free to get to Port!

There was a handful of Australians - and an honorary Aussie - in the thick of things at the opening World Cup round in Finland this week.

In the last event held overnight, the Sprint Relay in Helsinki, NSW Junior squad coach Rob Bennett and Garingal's Duncan Currie teamed up with Victorian Mary Fleming and Kiwi Lizzie Ingham to finish 36th - eight minutes behind champions Sweden.

The map was made, and course set, by our inaugural ONSW coach-in-residence Atte Lahtinen.

Rob also ran in the opening Middle Distance race on Sunday, placing 112th. You can find all the results here.

Three great maps and two days of gorgeous weather made for one bumper QB III carnival in the Southern Highlands.

A cold, drizzly afternoon at Belanglo State Forest on Saturday afternoon was soon eclipsed by two calm, sunny days at Canyonleigh and WSU Campbelltown where temps hit a balmy 20C.

Challenging courses made for some long times on course for those who made errors, but the results also show some very fast times for those who nailed their nav.

A big thank you to the Uringa and Central Coast host clubs, the setters and controllers, organiser Ron Pallas, all the helpers, the landowners and the 300+ participants each day who enjoyed three very different terrains.

We should also give special mentions to two Uringans:

(1) Zoe Melling for a phenomenal effort. Zoe did Parkrun on Saturday morning, then rode 31km to Belanglo and back again. On Sunday she rode 38km to the event and was on course for a further three hours. Thankfully her clubmates gave her a lift back that day!

(2) Jane Boland for abandoning her course on Saturday to assist an injured competitor. Fantastic sporting spirit.

All the results and splits are on the State League web page. Routegadget will be uploaded soon.

Please fill out the very brief course setter surveys for each day. These provide valuable feedback for setters and controllers, and determine who wins one of our annual major awards!