Author: craigf

The first four races of the 2018 National Orienteering League were held this weekend as part of the Melbourne Sprint Weekend.
Great British visitors running for Victoria, Peter Hodkinson and William Gardner, dominated the senior men competition while Belinda Lawford (ACT) is ahead of Krystal Neumann (QLD) and Natasha Key (VIC) in the senior women.
Aston Key (VIC) took over from where he left off last year, winning all three junior men races, but Asha Steer (VIC) has taken the early lead in the junior women over last year’s winner Tara Melhuish (ACT).
Race 3 was an exciting mixed relay won in the senior class by Victoria over the SA Arrows, and in the juniors the Cockatoos had a strong win over the SA Arrows.
See the full NOL Standings.
Thanks to Orienteering Victoria for the massive effort of putting on six races across six venues and three days.

Orienteering Australia is looking for a manager for the Australian team to attend the World Orienteering Championships in Latvia on August 4-11. The team coach will be Jim Russell. If you would like to volunteer or know someone who would be suitable please contact Ian Prosser (Ian.prosser11@gmail.com) or Jim Russell (headcoach@orienteering.asn.au).

Details can be found here.

Until Sunday, 4th March

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekuZfDMOktrtc13yl11o6Kwk9lZUa-adq5-Ks20q1v3dKd7A/viewform 

Nominations for Australian teams to WOC, JWOC, WUOC and Bushrangers trip to NZ close on the 20th Feb.

More information

Nomination Form

Links to who has nominated are below.

WOC
JWOC
WUOC
NZ Trip

For those who have nominated for the Sprint at WOC, there has been a change to the Embargo conditions, more information here

And finally, for all of you that have nominated, the 5 k Parkrun time trial is on the 24th Feb. All the best, and keep those PB’s rolling in

OA is pleased to announce team coaches and managers for 2018. The appointees can be found at:

High Performance Personnel

Thanks to the appointees for helping with these positions and associated national squad and national selector roles. These are  voluntary positions. Its great to see several of our senior elite orienteers volunteering for these positions and all members of the high performance personnel have had personal experience as elite orienteers and a long association with high performance orienteering in Australia.

The 2018 national training squads have been announced and can be found here.

Congratulations to all selected athletes.

For more information about National Squads, go here

Nominations are now open for next year’s Australian teams. Nominations should be completed through the Google Form at the following link:

2018 Australian Team Nomination Form

Nominations are due by 20 February 2018. Selection criteria for each team are available at:

SELECTION CRITERIA

Please note the age and university enrollment criteria for the World University Orienteering Champs as described in the selection criteria document. This event is growing in global status and we are keen to send a strong team. Its a great transition championship between JWOC and WOC.

In 2018 we will be sending a senior and junior Bushrangers Team to New Zealand to compete in the best Woodhill sand dune maps on the first weekend in June. We will probably organise a short training camp in association with that event. Please nominate now for that event as well.

2018 Mtbo Coach&Manager

Applications are now being called for the 2018 MTBO Team Coach & Manager for the World Championships in Austria in August 2018.  The coach is fully funded and is expected to organise training activities in Australia during 2018.  The manager will only have some subsidy of the 2 weeks of the on ground overseas based costs.    Applications are due by December 22.   See the link above for more details.

Selection criteria have just been published for the 2018 World Orienteering Championships; the 2018 World University Orienteering Championships and the 2018 Junior World Orienteering Championships. They can be found here.

Please note the new age criteria for the university championships.
Please also note that Ian Prosser has replaced Suzanne Casanova as the chair of the junior selection panel as Suzanne’s term has finished. Thanks Suzanne for all your help over the last two years.

Photo albums by John Harding: 2017 Australian Orienteering Championships Carnival

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/23-Sept-17-Aust-Sprint-Champs-Bathurst/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/24-Sept-17-Aust-Middle-Dist-Champs-Hill-End/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/26-Sept-17-Aust-Schools-Champs-Roseberg/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/27-Sept-17-Aust-Schools-Sprint-Champs/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/28-Sept-17-Aust-Schools-Relays/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/29-Sept-17-Lidar-mapping-workshop/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/30-Sept-2017-Aust-Long-Champs-Hill-End/

https://hardingjohn.smugmug.com/Sports/Orienteering/1-Oct-2017-Aust-Relays-Hill-End/