2011 Archive

NSW JUNIOR SQUAD BRINGS YOU

 XMAS 5 DAYS 2011 

NEWCASTLE and the CENTRAL COAST

Day 1 will be a sprint event on a typical University campus map- many buildings, paths and gardens providing a lot of route choice and quick decision making.

Days 2-5 will be held on typical Newcastle terrain which closely resembles some continental European terrains- many gullies, changes of vegetation, irregular track network and many small landform features.
The NOL events in May 2012 which will be WOC trials will be held in similar terrain.

EVENTS
Day 1 – Tuesday 27th December
Long Sprint – Map “Ourimbah Campus ” Ourimbah
1:4000 First Start 3:30pm Winning time 20 minutes
Course Setter – Michele Dawson; Controller – Hilary Wood

Day 2 – Wednesday 28th December
Middle Distance- Map “Southams Road West” Kitchener
1:10000 First Start 8:00am Winning time 30 minutes
Course Setters – Nicola Blatchford/Rhiana Roberts; Controller – Scott Simson

Day 3 – Thursday 29th December
Long Distance – Map “The Chimney” Abernethy
1:10000 First Start 8:00am Winning time 50 minutes
Course Setters – Sally Henderson/Emily Prudhoe; Controller – Steven Todkill

Day 4– Friday 30th December
Mass Start per class- Map “Stanford Scrubs” Kurri
1:10000 First start 8:00am Winning time 40 minutes
Course Setter – Alex Massey; Controller – Paul Prudhoe

Day 5– Saturday 31st December
Loops event- 2 starters each minute- Map “Brush Creek” Glendale
1:10000 First start 8:00am Winning time 40 minutes
Course Setter – Kaz Gregory; Controller – Nick Dent

COURSES/CLASSES
Hard 1- Mens A
Hard 2- Mens B/ Womens A
Hard 3- Mens C/ Womens B
Hard 4 – Mens D/ Womens C
Hard 5 – Mens E/ Womens D
Moderate- Mens F/ Womens E
Easy – Mens G/Womens F
Very Easy- M/W Novice

Online entry and more event details  http://www.ccorienteering.org/

Entries close Friday 16^th December

The National Senior Squad for 2012 has been named by OA’s senior selection panel.

The National Senior Squad acknowledges athletes who are aiming for selection in an Australian senior team (World Orienteering Championships, World Cup, World Games or Bushrangers) in the next two years.

Selection is based on:

1. a) the perceived ability of the athlete to make a senior team in at least one discipline; and
2. b) their demonstrated training at an appropriate level and consistency to achieve this. In alphabetical order:

Women

Jo Allison (ACT)

Bridget Anderson (Qld)

Susanne Casanova (SA/NT)

Grace Crane (TAS)

Rachel Effeney (Qld)

Kathryn Ewels (Vic)

Shannon Jones (ACT)

Natasha Key (Vic)

Belinda Lawford (ACT)

Tracy Marsh (NSW)

Laurina Neumann (Qld)

Jasmine Neve (Vic)

Mace Neve (ACT)

Aislinn Prendergast (Vic)

Anna Sheldon (Qld)

Vanessa Round (SA)

Rachel West (WA)

Men

Bruce Arthur (Vic)

Evan Barr (Vic)

Josh Blatchford (NSW)

Julian Dent (NSW)

Lachlan Dow (ACT)

Bryan Keely (Vic)

Ian Lawford (ACT)

Christopher Naunton (Vic)

Max Neve (Vic)

Oscar Philips (Tas)

Rob Preston (NSW)

Tom Quayle (ACT/Sweden)

Murray Scown (ACT)

David Shepherd (ACT)

Simon Uppill (SA)

High Performance Group (HPG)

Julian Dent

Simon Uppill

Grace Crane

Vanessa Round
Updated selection criteria for Australian senior teams in 2012 will be released before the new year.

Jenny Casanova

Chair of Selectors

October 28, 2011

Melanie Simpson and Ricky Thackray both had convincing wins in the NSW Championships at Jenolan East last Sunday. Melanie Simpson was “in the zone” after racing 3 events the previous weekend and did some cunning route choices to finish 6 minutes ahead of NZ’s Maquita Gelderman.

Finnish champion Ingrid Stengaard was a further 2 minutes back in 3^rd, perhaps a bit jetlagged after her long flight. Nevertheless she enjoyed riding in the Australian bush again, having been at the Worlds in Victoria in 2004.

Ricky Thackray handled the steep and sometimes rocky 33 kilometre, 950 metre climb course to finish in 95 minutes, with a 10 minute gap to NZ’er Brent Edwards.  New Aussie National coach, Ian Dalton was pleased to grab 3^rd a further 5 minutes back.  Route Gadget can be accessed through:

http://garingal.com.au/cgi-bin/gadget3/reitti.cgi

AUS v NEW ZEALAND classes for the challenge in January 2012 will be:

M20, M21, M40, M50, M60 and W21, W40, W50.

Actual teams will be named closer to the competition.

ROUTE GADGET Analysis of Australian Championship courses is on the Eureka Orienteers website.

Add your route choices and see where the winners went.

http://www.eurekaorienteers.asn.au/routegadget/cgi-bin/reitti.pl

Two convincing wins each at Round 4 in Oberon NSW gave Melanie Simpson (NSW Stingers) and Ricky Thackray (WA Nomads) wins in the Elite MTBO Division for the 2011 season.  Victoria’s Carolyn Jackson and Steven Cusworth took second placings, ahead of Damian Welbourne (NSW) and Mary Fien (NSW), last years’ winner of W21-E.

Tasmania’s Oscar Phillips and Victoria’s Jasmine Sunley took out the M-20 and W-20 honours respectively in the junior elite ranks.

In the Elite Team Rankings  Victoria’s depth proved decisive  with Victorian Nuggets 170, NSW Stingers 112, Queensland Storm 87, WA Nomads 52, and ACT 25.

Strong competition from visiting New Zealand riders, a feature of the last 5 years, will make the upcoming Otago MTBO Festival – the ANZ Challenge – in early January 2012 a terrific competition.

In the Masters MTBO Division, winners came from 3 different states: Craig Steffens (Qld, M40-), Carolyn Matthews (NSW, W40-), Rob Prentice (NSW, M50-), Heather Leslie (Vic, W50-), Rick Armstrong (Vic, M60-), Kathy Liley (Vic, W60-), Graham Fowler (NSW, M70+), and Joyce Rowlands (Vic, W70+). The strong New Zealand contingent in W50-, M40- and  M60- lifted the Masters competition to new heights.

The Masters Teams Rankings saw the Victorian Nuggets establish a new record 434 points, with NSW Stingers 2nd (257), edging Queensland Storm into 3rd (221), with ACT (66), SA and WA (50) and WA (18).

The full 2011 National League Team and Individual Standings are now published.
Round 1 of the 2012 National MTBO Series and the Selection Trials for Hungary will be staged at Maryborough and Newstead, Victoria on 28-29 April.

Blake Gordon

This weekend’s NSW Championships at Jenolan East, and the lead up event at Black Springs, will be hot! In W21, the top 3 riders from the Australian MTBO Championships last weekend – Marquita Gelderman (NZ), Melanie Simpson (NSW via Norway) and Carolyn Jackson (VIC) will go head to head with 2010 National Series winner Mary Fien (NSW) and current World No.1, Ingrid Stengaard (Finland), who is en route to Tasmania for the Adventure Racing Worlds.

November 13^th  – ACT Championships  Kowen Forest, Canberra

5 courses from 12-36kms.  Contact Julie Sunleyjuliesunley64@gmail.com   Ph:0433 222 644

November 13^th – SA Championships  (rescheduled date)  Knott Hill, south of Adelaide

Information – Ruth Nicolson 8339 5247 or  www.sa.orienteering.asn.au/

Jan 6-15^th  – Aus v NZ Challenge, South Island of NZ.   We need to nominate age classes for challenge asap. If you haven’t indicated your intention to compete on the mtbo.com register page then please email me at kayhaarsma@hotmail.com with your name and age class by Oct 26^th.

2012 MTBO NOL DATES

NOL Round 1 = 28-29th April – VIC Champs & National Selection Trials @ Maryborough and Newstead, Victoria.

NOL Round 2 = 18-19^th August QLD Champs @ Beerburrum, QLD

NOL Round 3 = 27-28^th October – Australian Champs @ Taree NSW

Analysis of GPS tracking data from races outside Europe is still a novelty in the orienteering world. With the exciting and picturesque native forest of the Oceania 2011 Orienteering Championships – and several longer legs with different route choice options – this was really an interesting task for World of O to assess.

Read the full article here at World of O.

The MTBO Championships were held this weekend in glorious weather in and around Beechworth, Victoria.

Steven Cusworth dominated the elite men winning all three individual titles while New Zealand superstar Maquita Gelderman did similiarly in the women.  Melanie Simpson won the Australian long championship resident trophy with a good second place while it was no suprise that the evergreen Carolyn Jackson was second in the ulta detailed middle distance event held on a 1:5,000 map of Rowdy Flat.  Tassie star Oscar Phillips also took out the trifecta in M20, but had Chris Firman, Tom Goddard and Heath Jamieson all close behind.  That good form augurs well for Oscar’s move to M21 next year.  Rebecca Sunley also won all races in W20 but the long was only a 4 second margin over her sister Jasmine.   The New Zealnd contingent did well in the veteran classes also, with their W50 runners even filling all places in the long.   All races were run on excellent maps well suited to the specific disciplines.    Victoria took home the interstate trophy with New south Wales being second. Many thanks to Albury-Wodonga and ACTO for the well run weekend that also inluded catering for all meals.

Results and splits are now available at the OA Results page

The Championships season continues next weekend with the NSW Championships.

It’s the turn of the MTBO riders to invade the Beechworth area this weekend with 4 races over 3 days.   These include IOF World Ranking events for the middle and long championships and National Orienteering League races 5, 6 & 7.

The races kick off with the Middle Distance Champs at Yackandandah on Friday afternoon.  Reading the 1:5,000 map while riding on small tracks in technical goldmining should prove a challenging exercise.

Saturday starts with a sprint in the Beechworth town and surrounds followed by the “Indigo Winery” relay based at a nearby vineyard.  Sunday sees the more traditional format of the long based in the forests around Stanley.

Steven Cusworth, after riding brilliantly in the Scott 24 hr last week, is the favourite in men’s elite. NZ’s Brent Edwards, ACT’s David Simpfendorfer and WA’s Ricky Thackray look to be his main challengers.

The elite women’s 12 rider field is very strong. New Zealander Marquita Gelderman has usually reigned supreme in past visits but the NSW pair of Melanie Simpson and Mary Fein are both in good form. The wily Carolyn Jackson will certainly be a danger in the technical middle event.

The M20 class has 3 of the JWOC team in Tom Goddard, Oscar Phillips and Chris Firman, as well as Victorian Heath Jamieson all vying for wins.

Entries for this year’s carnival have broken previous Australian MTBO Champs records with over 150 starters including a contingent from New Zealand.

Please be advised that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released the 2012 Prohibited List, which will come into effect on 1 January 2012.  To give you a chance to familiarise yourself with the List, WADA has published it on their website along with a summary of major modifications and details on the 2012 monitoring program.

The major change to the 2012 List which will affect Australian athletes and support personnel is to inhaled formoterol.

In its announcement of the 2012 List WADA advised that, “The List prohibits the administration of all beta-2 agonists except salbutamol (maximum 1600 micrograms over 24 hours), salmeterol when taken by inhalation, and now formoterol (maximum 36 micrograms taken over 24 hours).”

WADA also has a monitoring program that focuses on substances which are not on the Prohibited List, but which it wishes to monitor in order to detect patterns of misuse in sport. WADA has confirmed that in 2012 it will be monitoring the effects nicotine can have on performance when taken in oral tobacco products such as snus. WADA stressed that it was not the Agency’s intention to target smokers.

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) encourages you to be aware of the new List, and also reminds you that it is your responsibility to check the status of any medication prior to use.

You can re-check the status of any medications at any time by referring to the Check Your Substances tool on the ASADA website. The Check Your Substances tool will be updated to reflect the 2012 changes on 23 December 2011.

More information about the List and anti-doping in general can also be found on ASADA’s:

website: www.asada.gov.au

Twitter page: twitter.com/anti_doping

YouTube channel: youtube.com/asadavideo

The quarantine requirements for the Oceania Sprint Distance Championships apply to all Elite competitors, both Senior and Junior. ALL are to be at the Quarantine Area adjacent to the Start by 12 noon – not just the WRE competitors as stated in the program. And the quarantine area is 600m (down hill) from the assembly area and there will be a clothing return for all elite competitors from the quarantine area to the registration tent.