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.

WHO's brand new Mulgoa map returned MetrO League to its true bush roots and sealed the 2016 finalists in telling fashion on Sunday.

The Barry Hanlon-Janet Morris creation is on the very eastern edge of the Blue Mountains National Park and was soon being spoken of as a potential State League venue.

Some of the legs on the moderate courses (Divisions 3, 4, 5) were of hard standard and required the full range of orienteering skills to navigate without substantial time loss.

As it was, only eight runners across the 140-odd Metro entries finished in under 40 minutes - a testament to the mental and physical difficulty of the courses.

As is often the case, when the going got tough, the tough got going. Big Foot and Garingal triumphed in Division 1 with six of the eight fastest times and will meet in the last round at Galston, with the Goannas needing a win to retain the trophy they took from the Feet a year ago.

In Division 2 it will be the new merged entity SHOO-IKO taking on the GO Dragons and looking for promotion to Division 1.

Bennelong Northside are in the other three finals: taking on SHOO-IKO in Divison 3, the unbeaten GO Legless in Division 4, and WHO in Division 5.

The ML web page has been updated with all the scores and splits, including the race for the individual medal in each grade. The current leaders are Andrew Hill (Div 1), Doug Jay (Div 2), James Southwell (Div 3), Rod Parkin (Div 4) and Tshinta Hopper (Div 5).

It was great to see the Needhams from the ACT and Northern Tablelands president Felix Burkhard participating.

Thanks to the WHO crew for a lovely day out. The finals are on a new Garingal map at Galston on September 4.

Orienteering NSW is pleased to announce our inaugural scholarship holder: Atte Lahtinen.

Atte is 22 and from Espoo, a city right next to Finland's capital Helsinki.

He started orienteering at age seven and has competed in eight Jukola races and six Tiomila relays. Atte lists his best achievement as winning Ungdomens 10mila in 2012, a 10-leg night relay for ages 13-18. His Finnish club is Helsingin Suunnistajat, one of the largest orienteering clubs in the world.

"In civilian life I am an Information Technology student in Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. I come from an orienteering family - my dad is president of our club. In my free time I like to follow NFL, NHL and NBA, and learn or find out about all kinds of things. I speak three languages and try to learn fourth," said Atte.

"I enjoy generally helping people and seeing the development in progress. Four years ago I dreamed about an opportunity like the scholarship, and now it's all getting real. Travelling to Australia has also been a dream of mine, and now I can do it the best way possible: doing what I love the most, and living with "normal" people, because that is how you truly experience a country."

Atte is expected to arrive in September and will spend six months living with orienteering families across the state. We thank all the hosts for their generous offers to house Atte.

Pic credit: Kimmo Hirvonen.

Almost 300 students from the Macarthur region took part in the annual Sydney South West primary schools champs at Camden on Wednesday.

The event was rescheduled from June due to inclement weather and resulted in 298 entries from 11 schools.

Champion school was Narellan Vale, wresting the title from Mawarra for a change.

A huge thanks to Lyn Malmgron, Sandy Stewart and the team of helpers for making it a great day out.

A reminder that entries are open for our annual NSW schools championships at Lansdowne on August 27-28. Students must register via Trybooking.

To honour our annual major award winners and world championship representatives, we are delighted to announce a web page dedicated to these champions of NSW orienteering.

Under the 'ORIENTEERING NSW' tab above, you will see a new tab 'Honours and Awards'. Clicking on this will take you to the President's Award page. On the left hand side of this is a list of each category of our legends.

The web pages are a work in progress and we invite orienteers to advise us (marketing @ onsw.asn.au or admin @ onsw.asn.au) of updates as required.

ONSW thanks Marketing & Communications Officer Ian Jessup for his forensic work in putting these pages together.

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