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The Junior Team for this year’s Bushrangers Challenge has been named.

You can find the Aus team here And the NZ team here

There is no Senior team, as NZ didn’t select one

Orienteering Australia would like to thank all athletes and wish them well in there selected races

Some of our JWOC team are getting some early competition from tomorrow at the European Youth Orienteering Championships in Bulgaria. You can follow the action here.
Competing are:
W16
Zoe Melhuish
M18
Alastair George
Angus Haines
Aston Key
Patrick Miller
M16
Jensen Key

Aston Key won the M16 sprint at 2016 EYOC.
Good luck to everyone.

OA would like to congratulate the following athletes selected to represent Australia at the World Orienteering Championships in Latvia in August.

Australia’s ranking from WOC2017 means we only get one runner in women’s forest races and two in the men. The team was selected by discipline, considering the best athletes for each race. The team manager is Christopher (Toph) Naunton and the coach is Jim Russell.

Round 3 of the National Orienteering League was held in Victoria last weekend with the Victorian Middle Distance Championships on Saturday and a tough long distance race on Sunday. For some these were also WOC selection trials.
In senior women, Natasha Key maintained her lead with a win on Sunday and Krystal Neumann’s win on Saturday brings her to a close second.
Simon Uppill continues to lead senior men, but Matt Doyle (Saturday) and Matt Crane (Sunday) got the wins.
Zoe Dowling won both junior women’s races to take the overall lead. Aston Key kept his lead in junior men with a win on Sunday while Pat Jaffe won on Saturday.
Canberra Cockatoos have taken the lead in the senior men teams. Victoria continue their lead in senior women and took the lead in junior men. Junior women is led by the Cockatoos as well.
The full point score can be found here.

This Sunday sees the start of a major highlight of the 2018 international calendar with round 1 of the World Cup and the European Championships being held in Ticino Switzerland. Australia is represented by a strong team of:
Henry McNulty
Jasmine Neve
Aislinn Prendergast
Vanessa Round
Bryan Russel-Keely

These athletes will also be using the events as selection trials for WOC 2018.
See here for how to follow the action.

The Silva Medal competition for 2018 is based on points for participating and placing in the Australian Championships ( Sprint, Medium and Long), and the Australian 3-Days Championships (each day considered as a separate event) and the South Australian Championships (Elite and A classes in M/W16 and above).

Points are scored for completing a course as follows: 1^st – 4; 2^nd – 3; 3^rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters.

One’s best 6 from the above 7 events are used to determine the winner of the Silva Medal.

Progressive scores after the Australian 3-Days Championships are published below.

The Statistician normally publishes runners who have amassed 20 points and above, so for this progressive list runners who have 7 points are included.

In recent years there has usually been a number of runners who have scored maximum points (24) in 6 events.

It is probable that the winner will come from the list below. Of course if enough runners on the list fail to score significant points in the remaining events then others not on the list could appear in the final list.

The list contains the following previous winners:

• Warren Key MF.V 2013

• Aston Key MF.V 2015

• Ann Ingwersen PO.A 2017

• Jenny Bourne EU.V 2019, 2012, 2016

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician

Entries are now open for NOL 9 and 10 on the 19/20th May, in Central Victoria. This event is also the final WOC Selection trial. Middle distance race on Saturday at Yorkshire Hill, Bendigo,  last used for Easter 2013, and Long distance on Sunday at the Blowhole, Daylesford

Enter HERE  Information can be found HERE or on the Entries site

Entries close 6th May.

Orienteering Australia is pleased to announce the Australian Bushrangers team that will compete against New Zealand at Woodhill Forest north of Auckland in June.

The team is :
Junior men (6): Angus Haines, Aston Key, Brody McCarthy, Thomas Garbellini, Josh Allen, Daniel Gray
Junior women (3) Mikayla Cooper, Jessica Rogers, Miho Yamazaki
Senior men (4): Rob Bennett, Brodie Nankervis, Matthew Schepisi and Simon Uppill
Senior women (6): Bridget Anderson, Michele Dawson, Natasha Key, Krystal Neumann, Anna Sheldon and Olivia Sprod.

The junior women team is subject to approval by New Zealand as the rules state that the minimum size is three in a class. OA would like to hear from any other junior women interested in joining the team. Anna Sheldon is managing the team.

Orienteering Australia is pleased to announce that Christopher ‘Toph’ Naunton has been appointed as the manager for the Australian team to attend the World Orienteering Championships in Latvia in August. Toph’s wife Jacqui Naunton has also been appointed as assistant manager but will cover her own costs to attend WOC. Thanks to them both for volunteering and joining team coach Jim Russell.