The World Masters Orienteering Championships are currently being held in Brazil. This is the first time a world orienteering championship has been held on the South American continent. There is a small contingent of Australians who have made the journey to Brazil to compete in these championships.

Yesterday the Sprint Finals were held. This description of the terrain comes from Blairs  Attackpoint log.

WMOC Sprint Qualification– this was largely a running race, although the use of artificial fences added a bit of interest to it, particularly early in the course

WMOC Sprint Final– was in a park around a major waterfall- partly cleared picnic grounds but a lot of thick forest with an extensive track network. There wasn’t a lot that actually made you go into the thick forest, but it made for some interesting route choice. Quite hilly too.

Australia has one world masters champion Jenny Bourne who won the W60 Sprint Final by quite a large margin 47 seconds.

Australian results in Sprint Finals (apologies to anyone I missed).

Jenny Bourne 1^st W60A

Margi Freemantle 4^th W55B

Anne Scown 1^st W60B

Kerryn Jones 32^nd W60B

Janet King 8^th W65B

Ann Ingwersen 10^th W70A

Blair Trewin 13^th M40A

Geoff Lawford 7^th M55A

Ted Van Geldermalsen 4^th M60A

Paul Pacque 12^th M60A

Bill Jones 57^th M60A

John Scown 14^th M60B

Murray King 29^th M60B

Frank Ingwersen 26^th M70B

Kevin Paine 4^th M85

Today (Wed) is the Long Distance qualification 1, Thurs the Long Distance qualification 2 and on Saturday the Final of the Long Distance will be held.

All results and Route gadget

http://www.wmoc2014.org.br/en/resultados/

Nick Dent