Coming Events

map	Fri 1 Nov 5:30 pm Goldseekers Park #1 - Cook Park Cook Park

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

We had fantastic weekend of MTBO racing now off to Aust Champs in ACT see below!

Results of NSW MTBO Champs - Sprint

Results of NSW MTBO Champs - Middle

Results of NSW MTBO Champs - Long

Organiser - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Australian MTBO Carnival and Championships 2024, 17-20 October in Canberra:)!

Next Weekend. 🔥We are thrilled with already 165 ENTRIES and with more than 40(!) of them from New Zealand MTBOers and 2 from the UK!!

Info here: https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/19686

Limited Entry on a Day will be available ONLY to Carnival Classes.

👑ONLY $10 PER EVENT - Get a full advantage of super friendly Entry Price for Juniors under 21 and Seniors 70 and over:

We will be thrilled to have even more Juniors and Seniors joining the fun:)! We are inviting all Beginners and Newcomers to the sport to join!

👑CARNIVAL BULLETIN 3 is available here: Final Bulletin

For junior orienteerers 15yo and under in 2024

It is time to start filling in the Junior Participation Diaries for the Wattle (50pts), Banksia (75pts) and Waratah (100+pts) Awards.

All NSW juniors collect 10 points for participation in each major event (NSW State League events, Easter events , Australian Championships events, other National Orienteering League events)

Regional clubs juniors collect 10 points for all other events.

Sydney clubs juniors collect 5 points for all other events

You can find the Diary template spreadsheet (XLS) LINK for easy reference online.

Please contact Wendy McConaghy for any more information at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Diaries need to be submitted by 13^th October 2024 to Wendy McConaghy

The 7 events over 9 days carnival has finished, safe trip home and Thanks to all organisers, volunteers and athletes.

Well Sunday October 6th 2024, was the last day of the 2024 Australian Orienteering Championships with the Australian Sprint Championships at UNE Armidale.

The overall winner of the M21 was Ethan Penck Orienteering South Australia in a time of 15:09.

The first NSW Orienteer was Julian Dent Central Coast Orienteers in a time of 17:36 .

In the W21E overall winner was

Hanne Hilo in a time of 15:39, Mikayla Cooper Orienteering Tasmania was the 1st Australian in a time of 17:07.

1st NSW was Brionhy Seaman WaggaRoos Orienteers in a time of 19:38

In the M20E Cooper Horley 1st Garingal Orienteers 15:46 followed by Sam Woolford Bush n Beach Orienteering Club & Euan Best Orienteering Tasmania

In the W20E Nea Shingler Big Foot Orienteers was 1st in a time of 15:09, incidently as this was same course as the W21E, Nea's time was fastest overall.

Australian Schools Orienteering Honour Team - 4 NSW athletes included!

Junior Boys - Alton Freeman Orienteering NSW

Senior Girls - Rebecca Craig Orienteering NSW and Erika Enderby Orienteering NSW

Senior Boys - Cooper Horley Orienteering NSW

NSW won the overall point score for the Long Distance event at the Australian Orienteering Championships.

The OA Shield History Link

Australian School State Relay Results

1st Senior Boys (Cooper Horley, Nick Stanley and Jamie Woolford)

1st Senior Girls (Rebecca Craig, Maggie Mackay and Erika Enderby)

3rd Junior Boys (Matthew Slater (GS), Shay Sweeney (WHO) and Baxter Peel (NC))

3rd Junior Girls (Jessica Dun, Justine de Remy de Courcelles and Tiffany Palmer)

This is for Aust Schools OC not the overall with NZ included.

Results of Day 1 (Middle Champs) are here

Results of Day 2 Relays here

Results of Thunderbolt 3days

Results of Day 1 Australian Schools Champs - Sprint

Results of Day 2 Australian Schools Champs - Long

Results of Day 3 Australian Schools Champs - Relays

Results of Australian Long Distance Orienteering Champs

Results of Australian Sprint Distance Orienteering Champs

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Australian Orienteering Championships (aoc2024.com.au)

From Australian Middle some pictures from Simon George (Big Foot) - https://link.shutterfly.com/VE8VpjenhNb

Organisers: Ron Pallas - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Nick Dent - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Orienteering Australia is pleased to announce the team to ride against New Zealand in the ANZ Challenge during the forthcoming Australian MTBO Champs to be held in the ACT on 18-20 October 2024.

The team was chosen by the Australian Selection Panel: Ricky Thackray, Joel Young and Kay Haarsma. The Championships will consist of four events with a mass start, middle, sprint and long distances. This is the first time that ACT has hosted the Champs.

The team is as follows:

W21 - Maya Bennette, Cathy Hogg (sprint, middle, long), Natalie Schmitzer (mass start) and Rebekah Sunley

M21 - Seb Dunne, Alex Randall, Will Whittington and Mark Bourne (res)

W40 - Kate Gavens and Melanie Kent

M40 - Gavin Bennette, Ricky Thackray, Joel Young and Hamish Mackie (res)

W50 - Lisa Dodds, Carolyn Jackson, Eva Kovacs and Mary Fien (res)

M50 - Ant Nolan (middle), Michael Reed (mass start, sprint, long), Michael Ridley-Smith and Craig Steffens

W60 - Heather Leslie, Carolyn Matthews, Janelle Schafer and Norah Skilton (res)

M60 - Andrew Power, Jim Russell, Duncan Sullivan and Michael Halmy (res)

M70 - Peter Cusworth, Leigh Privett and Bill Vandendool

Congratulations to all riders who have made the Australian team and we wish you all the best of luck!

First photo is the 2014 Australian team.