Orienteering NSW

Coming Events

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 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.

Alvin Craig has shown his pedigree with a stunning second place in the junior boys sprint at the Australian schools championships on Monday.

Alvin, just 12 and still in primary school at Newcastle, was up against students aged 14 and 15 but showed the benefits of six years of orienteering in Sweden to zip around the 2.5km course in 10m29s, just 22 seconds off the winning time at Palm Beach Currumbin High School.

"I made a few tiny mistakes and probably dropped about 15 seconds but otherwise it was a good clean run," said Alvin, pictured left with his medal.

The map was one of the tiniest ever seen at a major event, and the navigation was a tad easier than at Griffith Uni on Saturday.

Duncan Currie was fifth in the senior boys, just 12 seconds off third. Our best result in the senior girls was Georgia Jones (11th) and sister Sophie 16th in the junior girls.

In the public races on the same courses, Nicola Blatchford (Newcastle) won the 2.5km senior girls course while clubmate Rob Bennett was second in the senior boys over 2.8km, and Jamie Woolford (Bush n Beach) won the easy course.

Our Stingers went oh so close at the Australian Relay Championships on Sunday, being pipped in the finish chute by ACT in the men's elite class.

Rob Bennett gave it everything but Ian Lawford had just a bit too much as they rounded the final bend in the race for home (see pic).

Alex Massey and Toby Wilson put NSW in the lead with two fast, consistent runs - but WOC rep Lawford triumphed in a grandstand finish.

NSW winners were W45 (Jenny Enderby, Karen Blatchford, Barbara Hill), M35 (Jock Davis, Lee Coady, Damian Enderby), M45 (Eric Morris, Peter Annetts, Scott Simson), M65 (Robert Preston, Ross Barr, Gordon Wilson).

Rumour has it an ONSW employee was waiting in line for the portaloos when his relay buddy finished in just 12 minutes, and was subsequently eight minutes late tagging her to start the second leg. Sounds like a wombie!

Thanks to OQ for a lovely setting at Mundoolun. Map attached.

NSW orienteers cleaned up at the Australian Sprint Championships on the Gold Coast on Saturday, led by Duncan Currie's domination of M16A.

Duncan (Garingal) streeted the field by nearly three minutes on a very tricky map that would have been easier to read at 1:3000 than the 1:4000 presented.

Other winners were Anna Fitgerald (Goldseekers, W40A), Barbara Hill (GO, W45A), Jenny Hawkins (Northern Tablelands, W70A), Maureen Ogilvie (Uringa, W80A), Alvin Craig (Newcastle, M14A), Hugh Gingell (GO, M20A), Shane Doyle (UR, M45A), Jock Davis (Big Foot, M50A), Ross Barr (GO, M70A), Peter Meyer (SHOO, M75A), Katie Wallace (Western Plains, Open Easy).

Sunday sees the relays at Mundoolun.

Click here to see the NSW teams to contest the Australian relay championships in Queensland this Sunday.