Earlier today Valerie Barker, Orienteering Australia Schools Committee Coordinator and 2019 Australian Schools Orienteering Championships organiser released confirmation of the results from the 2019 Australian Schools Championships and Southern Cross Junior Challenge held recently in the Wagga Wagga area.
The full results can be found here.
Orienteering Australia is pleased to confirm the 2019 Australians Schools Orienteering Championships Honour Team as follows:
Junior Girls
Mikaela Gray (QLD), Milla Key (VIC)*, Iida Lehtonen (NSW), Nea Shingler (NSW)
Junior Boys
Torren Arthur (VIC), Aldo Bosman (WA), Alvin Craig (NSW), Sam Woolford (NSW)
Senior Girls
Mikayla Cooper (TAS), Ella Cuthbert (ACT), Zoe Melhuish (ACT), Caitlin Young (ACT)
Senior Boys
Dante Afnan (SA), Jensen Key (VIC), Grant Reinbott (QLD), David Stocks (ACT)
* Milla Key was the inaugural recipient of the Rob Simson Memorial Shield for the Best Newcomer. This was presented by Neil Simson on behalf of the Simson family, to acknowledge the work done by Rob Simson 31 years ago (in 1989) in establishing and championing what we now know as ASOC.
And for the Honour team, every state was represented at least once!
Congratulations to all on their selection.
Silva Medal 2019
Progress Scores after Australian Long
After seven events that contribute to the determination of the winner of the Silva Medal 3 orienteers have achieved the maximum points (24) with at least 6 wins. They are Robin Uppill and Bruce Arthur with 7 wins and Stephen Craig with 6 wins. 6 other orienteers can achieve 6 wins with 1 or 2 wins from the remaining 2 events.
Therefore the Silva Medal winner will be determined on a countback.
With 9 events used to calculate the Silva Medal this year the maximum points can be achieved with less that 6 victories provided significant points are achieved in events other than those won. Theoretically, 22 other orienteers can reach maximum points at this time. These orienteers will have less than 6 wins and therefore will have to carry at least one negative winning margin, making their chances of a win possible but slim.
The average winning margin for the current leading three orienteers are:
Stephen Craig 28%
Bruce Arthur 19%
Robin Uppill 3%
Robin has had some narrow wins. Both Stephen and Bruce have had some good wins.
Progressive scores will be announced at the presentation for each event providing time allows between finalisation of the event and the presentation to carry out the calculations.
Darryl Erbacher
Statistician
| Points | Wins | |
| Robin Uppill | 24 | 7 |
| Bruce Arthur | 24 | 7 |
| Stephen Craig | 24 | 6 |
| Natasha Key | 21 | 4 |
| Jenny Bourne | 21 | 4 |
| Warren Key | 21 | 4 |
| Darryl Erbacher | 21 | 3 |
| Tara Melhuish | 20 | 4 |
| Simon Uppill | 20 | 2 |
| Martina Craig | 20 | 3 |
| Eoin Rothery | 20 | 2 |
| David Stocks | 20 | 5 |
| Craig Feuerherdt | 19 | 3 |
| Clare Hawthorne | 19 | 3 |
| Cath Chalners | 19 | 2 |
| Alex Tarr | 19 | 3 |
| Paul Hoopmann | 18 | 4 |
| Cathy McComb | 18 | 1 |
| Tim Ashman | 17 | 3 |
| Judi Herkes | 17 | 3 |
| Basil Baldwin | 17 | 3 |
| Zoe Melhuish | 16 | 2 |
| Rachel West | 16 | 3 |
| Paul Pacque | 16 | 0 |
| Alastair George | 16 | 1 |
The Australian WOC results history has been updated. After WOC 2019, Simon Uppill has matched Natasha Key on 10 WOC appearances, and has set a new Australian record of 31 WOC events. (He also equalled his personal-best result with 30th in the middle). Patrick Jaffe and Mary Fleming made their debuts, Brodie Nankervis ran in his first individual final, and Bridget Anderson’s 47th in the middle was a personal best.
A full list of results is here, and a summary of each individual’s results is here.
With the 2019 World Orienteering Championships set to start in Norway next week, Orienteering Australia has published a history of Australian WOC performances, since Rod Dominish became the first Australian to compete at WOC in 1972.
Hanny Allston remains Australia’s only medallist with her sprint gold in 2006. Four other Australians have top-ten individual results: Kathryn Ewels (Preston) (5th, 2009 sprint), Troy de Haas (7th, 2005 sprint), Grant Bluett (8th, 2003 sprint) and Natasha Key (10th, 2003 sprint). Australia’s best relay result was 4th for the women in 2006, through Jo Allison, Grace Elson (Crane) and Hanny Allston, while the men were 6th in 1981 and 2001.
Natasha Key has been in 10 WOC teams, with Jo Allison, Simon Uppill and Vanessa Round in 9. Uppill will make his 10th appearance next week, and with 29 WOC events already under his belt, is also expected to pass the Australian record of 30, held jointly by Key and Allston. Grant Bluett’s 8 WOCs are also noteworthy as most of his career took place when WOC was only held every second year.
A full list of Australian WOC results is here, and a summary of each team member’s results is here.
Four new members have been inducted into the Orienteering Australia Hall of Fame.
Hermann Wehner has been inducted into the Athlete Division. Hermann has a long history of outstanding national and international performances in masters-level competition, most recently his gold medal in the M90 sprint in the 2017 World Masters Orienteering Championships.
Three new members have been inducted into the General Division: Eric Andrews (deceased), John Brammall (deceased) and Bob Mouatt. All made outstanding contributions to the sport over a period of many years; among many things, John and Bob both served as Presidents of Orienteering Australia, whilst Eric is responsible for many of Australia’s best orienteering maps.
Hermann Wehner receiving his gold medal at the 2017 World Masters Orienteering Championships.
The annual Silva Award for Services to Orienteering in Australia has been presented to Barbara and Ron Junghans. This award reflects their contribution to orienteering in Australia over a period of decades, culminating in their stewardship of the highly successful 2017 Australian Championships carnival.
Other major service awards announced at Easter were made to Bob Mouatt (David Hogg Medal for Services to Event Management) and Wendy Read (Silva Award for Services to Coaching). Both have also been long-term contributors in their fields, both within their home states and nationally.
Wendy Read (top left), Bob Mouatt (top right) and Barbara Junghans (bottom left).
Congratulations to Lucy Mackie (NSW) who was named as 2017 Athlete of the Year by Orienteering Australia at Easter. This was due to her great results at the Junior World MTBO Championships in Lithuania last year, winning a silver medal in the middle & placing a close 7th in the long.This follows further outstanding results in 2016.
She is only the 2nd MTB orienteer, after multiple World Champion Adrian Jackson, to win this award.
The following Orienteering Australia meetings will happen this weekend:
Saturday 31 March
Room 1
4.00-5.00 Schools
5.00-6.00 Coaching
Room 2
4.00-5.15 Mapping
5.15-6.30 Technical
Room 3
4.00-5.00 IT
5.00-6.00 Participation and development
Sunday 1 April
5.00 Orienteering Australia AGM
All meetings will take place at the Domain Athletics Centre, Hobart.
The Australian Orienteering Championships have been taking place since 1971 (with some question marks about the official status of the 1971 event, which took place before Orienteering Australia was formed).
A file with the full set of results from the Long Distance event (which was the only all-ages individual event prior to 2006) is now available. This file is sorted by name (making it possible to check your career record, or to see that Hermann Wehner won his 22nd title this year). It is in a text, fixed-width format so can be readily imported into a spreadsheet if you want to sort it by other fields (e.g. year or club).
File with full set of results (approximately 2.1MB).
It is hoped to add the Middle and Sprint Championships results to this archive at a later date.
There will be cases where people have run under two or more different names, or where two people with the same name are mixed together in the file (in most cases it will be obvious which is which from the age group, the club or both).