2010 Archive

After a disappointing start to her Easter twenty10 campaign Kathryn Ewels showed her class with a comfortable win in the Women’s Elite class today. Ewels handled the intricacies of the Kowen pine forest better than her rivals, to finish three minutes clear of South Australian Susanne Casanova. In third place was Queenslander Anna Sheldon. Going into the final day’s chasing start, Victoria’s Jasmine Neve has a two minute lead overall ahead of Casanova, with Casanova’s team mate Vanessa Round in third position.

Julian Dent again dominated the field in the men’s race clocking an impressive 74 minutes and 16 seconds for his 15.5 km course through the hilly Kowen terrain. His time was six minutes clear of South Australian Simon Uppill in second place and Canberran David Shepherd was a further two minutes in third.

Dent will be heading off to Europe to compete after the weekend and is eager to see how his scintillating form in Australia will compare against the world’s best when he toes the line in the prestigious Tiomila relay in Sweden. Dent goes into the final day with a ten minute margin to Uppill with Shepherd heading out in third position.

Prologue victor Tasmanian Sarah Buckefield recovered from a below par performance yesterday to score her second victory of the week in the Junior Women’s Elite class. Yesterday’s winner and fellow Tasmanian Claire Butler had another solid race to come home in second place with Canberra’s Georgia Parsons finishing in third.  Buckerfield has a two minute advantage over Butler heading into the final day.

Local boys dominated the Junior Men’s Elite class, filling all three places on the podium in today’s long distance race. Yesterday’s winner Lachlan Dow backed up for another victory today. Second place went to the young Oliver Poland who has had a consistent Easter weekend with two third placings prior to today’s result. Third position was claimed by Ian Lawford. Lawford has fallen just outside the places in the first two races, but with today’s result he moved up to third in the overall. The three Canberrans will head out in the first three positions in tomorrow’s chasing start, in the same order as today’s results.

In other classes Geoff Lawford is leading the Men’s 55 ahead of World Masters Games champion Paul Pacque. Geoff’s partner and multiple World Masters Champion Jenny Bourne is running down an age class but has still managed to establish a ten minute lead over Anthea Feaver. Maureen Ogilvie has a 15 minute lead in the Women’s 75 class over Sue Mount. Neil Schafer is six minutes up on Ron Lange in the Men’s 80.

RESULTS

Winsplits for All Classes – Day 2

Julian Dent showed again that he is in impressive form with a clear victory in today’s event at Gudgenby Homestead. In the Senior Men’s Elite class Dent toppled the rest of the field – the closest was Canberran Dave Shepherd who was nearly four minutes behind Dent’s time. The complex granite terrain provided sections of extremely technical orienteering which suited Dent’s strength and skill in the forest. Simon Uppill was three seconds behind Shepherd in third place.

In the Women’s Elite Jasmine Neve won again today which has set her up extremely well for the final two days of easter twenty10 competition. NSW’s Tracy Marsh made amends for a disappointing run yesterday to claim the silver spot – this was Marsh’s best National League result in recent times. Vanessa Round of the Southern Arrows led early on in the race but faded to finish in third.

The surprise win of the day came in the Junior Women’s Elite class. Claire Butler of Tasmania claimed her best ever result at the national level with a 44 second win over Queensland’s Lillian Burrill. These two girls were clearly better than their counterparts in being able to handle the tough terrain as Brea Pearce in third position was a further 4 minutes adrift.

Lachlan Dow of the ACT had a scintillating run in the Men’s Junior Elite class. He held a 2 minute and 20 second margin over second place’s Kurt Neumann of Queensland. Dow was pleased with today’s victory as he has been battling some ankle problems recently. Oliver Poland (still only 15 years of age) again proved his ability by rounding out the placings.

With two more days of competition remaining, the junior elites are looking to impress the national selectors and are fighting for spots on the Australian team to compete at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark later this year.

A highlight of the day was the Voice of the Forest’s prize giving ceremony which gave all competitors a chance to claim a prize. OA president Bill Jones and wife Kerryne have been declared “Mr and Mrs Average” – and the closest participants today to Mr Average’s time was Eric Wainright and to Mrs Average’s was Cathy Hogg. There were Captain Compass t shirts on offer, envirosax bags, easter twenty10 t shirts and Outer Edge magazine subscriptions.Stay tuned to Voice of the Forest for the final episode of the Captain Compass radio serial!

RESULTS

All classes

All classes – splits

Elite splits

Elite results

Elite Results available here on Winsplits

FRIDAY 2nd April – Family Teams Competition and Public Prologue

Team Zafelian has taken out this year’s Family Teams orienteering competition, held on a sunny day in Canberra’s centre. The team consisted of elite runners Julian Dent, Felicity Brown and Jose Zapata (co-Finish Manager at this year’s easter twenty10 carnival). All three live together in Canberra’s north and were favourites for the race. The Hill Family (Matthew, Barbara, Daniel) raced well to secure second spot and the ever present Uppill family from South Australia came in third. The Family Teams race also contains a ‘handicap’ competition aligning with the traditional Family Relays and this year the place getters were: The Hill Family, The Uppill Family and The Blatchfords from Newcastle.

In the Public Prologue competitors were given the opportunity to race against the nation’s best – the courses for both the Elite and Public Prologue were the same. In the Long Course it was Wesley Dose who was best able to match the pace clocking 18:38 with junior Brodie Nankervis not far behind on 18:52. It was a good day for the Nankervis family as Ashley Nankervis won the Medium Course with a competitive time of 18:52. Simon Phillips and Jenny Enderby were fastest seniors around the 3.2km course. On the Short Course it was Adrian Uppill who showed the most class taking only 13:12 to zip around the 2.3km course.

Easter twenty10 organisers are keen to know your thoughts on this year’s trial format for the Prologue and Family Teams races. Please complete a survey at registration or see Shannon Jones for more information.

Julian Dent was the standout performance in the opening stage of the easter twenty10 carnival held in Canberra today. Despite a small hiccup heading towards the last control, Dent, a NSW Stinger, clocked 15:14 for the 3.5km course in the urban jungle of Campbell. Dent’s time was 44 seconds ahead of South Australian’s Simon Uppill and local Canberran David Shepherd was a further 38 seconds adrift in third place.

In the Women’s Elite, Victorian’s Jasmine Neve edged out Queensland Cyclone member Rachel Effeney by four seconds and both had a clear margin over third place – Susanne Casanova of South Australia. Neve showed she is back to the form that has given her selection on the Australian team in recent years. 5^th place getter from the 2009 World Orienteering Championships Kathryn Ewels had some difficulty amongst the complex campus and finished in 15^th place. Ewels will be looking to make up that time over the next three days.

The Junior Elite Men’s class was a tight affair with the first 6 placegetters only separated by 9 seconds. The experienced Leon Keely (Vic) came out on top, two seconds clear of New South Welshman Josh Blatchford who had a strong run after returning from injury. 15 year old local Oliver Poland rounded out the placings finishing 3 seconds behind first place.

In the Women’s Junior class, Tasmanian Sarah Buckerfield who has recently moved to Canberra to study, proved the move was worthwhile as she secured an excellent start to her Easter campaign. Lillian Burrill of Queensland had a solid run to place second and Georgia Parsons continued her recent good form

Tomorrow’s event takes us on a journey from the urban maze to the wilds of Namadgi National Park with the elites running a middle race at Gudgenby Homestead.

Results

The Queensland Sprint championships were contested on Sunday at Kelvin Grove Urban Village, a technical area consisting of QUT Kelvin Grove campus, and adjacent schools, colleges and shops.  A feature of all courses was long route choice legs where runners needed to avoid significant climb while deciphering tricky passageways and level changes.

There were close contests for the wins in both senior elite classes.  In M21E Kieran Sullivan (BU.Q) took a 15sec lead over Oliver Mitchell (UG.Q) at the first control, and although he extended it to 30 secs through the middle part of the course, a fast finish by Mitchell had it back to 15secs by the finish.  Kurt Neumann (EN.Q) was in the mix with one control to go, but a late mistake relegated him to 3rd.  In the womens elite course Anna Sheldon (UG.Q) took an early lead, but was steadily caught and passed by Rachel Effeney through the mid part of the course.  Effeney (UG.Q) had a 14sec lead at the penultimate control, but in a late surge Sheldon fought back for a 30sec win.  Brea Pearce (EV.T) ran up into W21E to take 3rd.

Recently selected Australian Junior MTBO team member Chris Firman (EN.Q) took victory in M20E from Oliver Crosato (RR.Q) and Aaron Breed (UG.Q).  W20E was won by impressive newcomer Heather Muir (EN.Q), with Brooke Pye (TF.Q) 2nd and Emily Cantwell (UG.Q) 3rd.

Elite and age group results are available at –

Results

Splits

The following meetings are being held in conjunction with the Easter carnival this weekend. Everyone is most welcome to attend the OA Annual General Meeting on Sunday afternoon and those orienteers interested in development, technical issues, IT, mapping and coaching to attend the Development Forum and the committee meetings on these topics on Friday afternoon.

Easter Friday, 2 April at Sports House, 100 Maitland St, Hackett ACT
Meeting room 1:
3.30 – 4.40: Technical; 4.45 – 6.00:  IT
Meeting room 2:
3.30 – 6.00: Development Forum to exchange information and discuss development activities that are working well, a national marketing plan, a national sponsorship of an orienteering day in November, and other development planning
Kitchen meeting room:
3.30 – 4.30:  Schools (for state school team managers and coaches); 4.45 – 6.00:  Mapping
OA office:
5.00 – 6.00: Coaching

Easter Sunday, 4 April at Sports House, 100 Maitland St, Hackett ACT
3pm Annual General Meeting

Apologies for the delay in getting this episode out to you. It took a little longer to fix Captain Compass’s invisible jet than anticipated.

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Two episodes will be released each week, leaving the grand final release for the Easter twenty10 event. You can catch up on all the latest by clicking the Captain Compass menu item on the Easter twenty10 homepage – http://aus3days2010.orienteering.asn.au/

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Wendy Read has officially been appointed as new Australian Bushrangers Coach and Assistant Coach for WOC 2010.

Wendy did a fantastic job as Media reporter at WOC 2009 and the team really enjoyed her input. She has also been a keen member and manager of the Queensland Cyclones for many years.

Orienteering Australia would like to thank David Shepherd for the work he has done with the Bushrangers over the last few years.

Wendy’s Bio

Profession:  Teacher –  Head of Curriculum

Level 2 Coach – Orienteering. A keen participant in orienteering  for almost 20 years and is a member of Ugly Gully Orienteers. Since 1996 has been involved in orienteering coaching, management and administration at junior and senior elite level.

• Queensland School’s Orienteering Team Manager  / Coach  (1995-2003)
• School Sport Australia National Secretary – Orienteering  (1999 – 2005)
• Australian Schools Orienteering Team Manager (2005)
• Queensland Cyclones Orienteering Team Manager (2006 -2010)

First represented Queensland Cyclones in 2003. Selected to represent  Australia in ANZ Challenges in 2002, 2003 & 2006 (W35), and  also as a member of the Bushrangers Team in 2004. Competed in numerous major overseas events – from the delights of Tornio above the Arctic Circle in Finland, to the horrors of Naseby in New Zealand.

Other interests include road cycling, adventure racing and rogaining, and playing the piano or guitar when the body’s had enough.

Australian orienteers are invited to run on the 2005 WOC maps in the 2nd Asian Orienteering Championships in Japan from 30.4.2010 to 5.5.2010 (see www.orienteering.asia, with entries closing on 31 March) and in Kainuu Orienteering Week in Finland from 5-10.7.2010 (seehttp://www.rastiviikko.fi).

The Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and Australian Government Office for Women (OfW) are looking to develop more Australian women in leadership and decision making roles in sport.

Applications are now open for the 2010–11 round of the ASC and OfW’s Sports Leadership Grants and Scholarships for Women.

These Australian Government grants and scholarships are offered to inspire and assist women in the sports industry to reach their full potential in leadership, through education and development opportunities.

The ASC invites women from all areas and levels of the Australian sports community to apply, including women involved in sport as managers, administrators, media and communication officers, coaches, officials, and women in sport governance.

Women from culturally diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women in rural and regional areas and women with disability are encouraged to apply.

The grants include scholarships for women in upper sports management of up to $10,000 a year for three years, one-off grants of up to $5,000 for individuals and up to $10,000 for approved organisations.

Last year’s grants supported 132 projects across the country in developing women’s leadership skills in their sport. Now in its ninth year, these grants have supported more than 16,000 women around Australia.

Applications close on Friday 30 April 2010. Terms and conditions apply.

For more information, visit www.ausport.gov.au/women  or call 1800 224 412