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After a sensational win in the Sprint event Aston Key has followed up a day later with an equally impressive 3rd place in the Long Distance event.  Aston started at 12:46 (local time), 114th in a field of 170, which meant that the M20 competitors were spread out from 9:00am until 14:38. Covering the 10.1Km course with 625m of climb and 18 controls, Aston finished in 67m49s just 5m30s behind last year’s defending champion  from Norway, Kasper Fosser.

Results for both Men and Women can be found here, and splits here.

Men’s course can be found here, and the women’s here.

The Women’s race was subject to a protest, and again Australia was involved in the action, albeit OT’s Christine Brown being one of the three jury members.

Once again, well done Aston. A fantastic performance!

Pictures from yesterday’s Sprint event can be found here.

Orienteering Australia hopes to send a full team of 12 athletes to the World Cup round in China in late October. As part of that OA is seeking to appoint a manager/coach to lead the team. The World Cup will be held near Guangzhou from 24-30 October. The appointee will have their airfare and living costs covered. If you are interested in volunteering please contact Jim Russell (headcoach@orienteering.asn.au) or Ian Prosser (Ian.prosser11@gmail.com) by July 30.

Orienteering Australia is keen to send a full team of 12 athletes to the final round of the 2019 World Cup to be held in China in late October. To help the World Cup become more global it is important to support this round and OA is providing more support for this round than for a typical World Cup. Further information about the team and how to nominate for it can be found here. Nominations close on August 15.

The point score in the National Orienteering League has been updated following last weekend’s NSW Championships at Cowra. It can be found here.

Bridget Anderson has taken the lead in the Senior Women and Matt Doyle has done the same in Senior Men. Alvin Craig, the youngest competitor, has taken the lead in Junior Men while Tara Melhuish has strengthened her lead in Junior Women.

The Canberra Cockatoos continue to lead  Senior Men and both junior categories and Victoria the Senior Women.

That’s it for the NOL season now until the Oceania Carnival in September.

Thee Australian team for the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark in July has been finalised. Congratulations to all athletes:

Women
Mikayla Cooper Tas
Ella Cuthbert ACT
Joanna George SA
Tara Melhuish ACT
Caroline Pigerre Qld
Caitlin Young ACT

Men
Dante Afnan SA
Duncan Currie NSW
Alastair George NSW
Angus Haines SA
Aston Key Vic
Noah Poland ACT

Team Manager and Deputy Coach: Krystal Neumann

Team Coach: Brodie Nankervis

Silva Medal 2019

Progress Scores after Australian Easter Carnival in Perth

After the five events in Western Australia that contribute to the determination of the winner of the Silva Medal the list of orienteers below (but not all of them) can theoretically achieve six victories with four more events to be conducted in September/October at the Oceania Championships. That is, they have already achieved two or more victories.

Three orienteers have achieved five victories. They only need to achieve one victory from the remaining four events to achieve six victories and score the maximum points. Other orienteers on the list will need to achieve a greater number of victories to achieve the maximum points.

It is highly likely that there will be more than one orienteer who will achieve maximum points and it is therefore expected that that the countback process based on average winning margins will apply.

The average winning margin for the leading three orienteers are:

• Stephen Craig 23%

• Bruce Arthur 16%

• Robin Uppill 1%

Robin has had some narrow wins. Both Stephen and Bruce have had some good wins.

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician