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Farewell Hannah

11 December 2019
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Hannah Goddard

Hannah Meg Goddard

24.7.1997 – 7.12.2019.

Forever in our hearts.

Orienteering Australia was very sad to hear of the passing of Hannah Goddard (EVOC) after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Hannah was a wonderfully gifted all round athlete in orienteering, netball and rowing. She was a member of Tasmanian schools orienteering team for many years; a member of the Australian Schools team in 2013 which travelled to New Zealand; a member of the 2015 Australian Schools team and a member of the 2015 Junior World Orienteering Championship team which competed in Norway. She was a wonderfully warm friend to many young orienteers all over Australia and New Zealand.  After her initial diagnosis on her return from JWOC, Hannah showed great courage and determination throughout her treatment and provided a lasting legacy for all orienteers because of her selfless attitude and positive and caring nature. At this very sad time, everyone at Orienteering Australia would like to send our love, thoughts and prayers to her parents Jenny and Rob, brother Tom Goddard and their extended family and friends after the passing of their daughter.

Hannah will be privately cremated at her own request and a celebration of Hannah’s life will be held in ‘Our Olive Grove’, 121 Saunders Drive Hadspen, on Sunday, 15th December 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Hannah’s life will also be celebrated at St Mary’s College, Melbourne in January 2020.

 

Orienteering Australia Vacancy: National Manager of Coaching Development

18 November 2019
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Applications are sought for key position within High Performance and Coaching

Orienteering Australia (OA) is seeking a passionate leader to facilitate the development of orienteering coaching nationally. The successful candidate will be appointed initially for a one year term, with the role to be reviewed (subject to available funding) and extended if possible for an additional one year term.

The National Manager of Coaching Development will focus on securing a coaching development strategy between clubs, states and OA to enhance the number and quality of coaches, support athlete improvement at all levels, and raise the quality of coaching activities. This forms an important part of OA’s objective of strengthening coaching availability as part of giving all orienteers, regardless of their current level in the sport, the opportunity to improve their performance to the best of their ability.

This role formally reports to the Director (High Performance) and is a part of the High Performance Management Group (HPMG) together with the Head Coach, Administrator of Coaching Development and High Performance Administrator.

The core responsibilities of the position are:

  • The national coaching development program and standards
  • Coach accreditation and re-accreditation
  • Coach and athlete development materials and curricula, and
  • Monitoring and development of the coach and athlete pathways in collaboration with the Head Coach.

Further details are outlined in the position description available here.

There may be scope, if mutually agreed, for this role to take on additionally funded project work. Formal coaching qualifications and experience in coaching will be a significant advantage.

It is anticipated that the dates for the initial one-year term for the position will be from 1st February 2020 until 31st January 2021.

Remuneration: $35/hr, 6.5hrs per week on a casual, part time basis (based on 48 weeks) , plus the superannuation contribution guarantee of 9.5% (SGC), and reimbursement of reasonable work related expenses.

Applicants are requested to outline experience and aspirations for the role on no more than two A4 pages and forward to the Orienteering Australia Executive Officer at eo@orienteering.asn.au

Applications close: Thursday 12th December.

 

 

2019 Silva Medal

7 October 2019
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2019 Silva Medal

The Silva Medal has been won by Stephen Craig NC N. Congratulations Stephen.

The Silva Medal competition for 2019 is based on points for participating and placing in the Australian Championships (Sprint, Middle and Long), the Australian 3-Days Championships (each day considered as a separate event) and the Oceania Championships (Sprint, Middle and Long) (Elite and A classes in M/W16 and above). One’s best 6 events counts towards this award.

Points are scored for completing a course as follows: 1st – 4; 2nd – 3; 3rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters.
Four orienteers won at least 6 of the 9 events scoring a maximum of 24 points. To determine the winner of the Silva Medal a countback based on average winning margins was used.

Orienteers who scored 20 points of more are listed below.

A second list contains 4 previous winners of this award.

 

Darryl Erbacher

OA Statistician

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOL Points Update

5 October 2019
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The National Orienteering League pointscore has been updated following today’s Oceania Long Distance Competition.

Simon Uppill (SA Arrows) has defended his Senior Men title, in addition to the classes already resolved earlier in the week. Matt Doyle can tie and be a joint winner if he wins tomorrow and Simon places lower than fourth. Natasha Key (Victoria) has overtaken Bridget Anderson to lead senior women by 3 points but the final result in that class will depend upon the last race tomorrow.

In the Senior Women teams, Victoria have extended their lead over the Canberra Cockatoos but it is still possible, although unlikely, for the Cockatoos to win the season tomorrow.

The current pointscore can be found here.

Embargoes for Melbourne Sprint Weekend

1 October 2019
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Orienteering Victoria have announced embargoed areas for the Melbourne Sprint Weekend in March 2020. Details can be found here.

2019 Silva Medal – Progress Scores after the Australian Long Championships

30 September 2019
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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Australian WOC history updated

27 September 2019
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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.

Australian WOC history now online

7 August 2019
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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.

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Australia / New Zealand Challenge team.

29 July 2019
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Here’s your chance to represent Australia in the sport you love.

The Australia / New Zealand Challenge will be run in conjunction with all four disciplines (sprint, relay, long, middle) of the Oceania Championships from 28 Sep to 6 Oct 2019.

Australia and New Zealand  will contest all classes from M/W16 up to and including M/W70 except M35, W35, M65 and W65.

To be eligible for team selection, nominations are required in Eventor by 7 Sep 2019 at: https://eventor.orienteering.asn.au/Events/Show/8739

For non-elite A/NZ Challenge classes, selection will be based on performances in the last two national carnivals over all disciplines (sprint/middle/long and relay).

For elite classes, Bushrangers selection criteria will apply, with the top 3 of those selected for the A/NZ Challenge.

Nominate now to be selected to represent Australia!

 

Tracy Marsh, Cathy McComb & Bruce Arthur

Selection Panel Members

JWOC 2019 Finishes with the Relays, but not before Aston Key achieves another podium placing in Middle Distance A Final

12 July 2019
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The 2019 Junior Championships finished today with the traditional relay events, but the day before’s Middle Distance Final saw Australia’s Aston Key achieve yet another podium finish.

Starting as one of the last three runners in the A Final Aston found how hard it can be at the top. With less than 2 minutes separating the top five men’s placings, Aston secured a 5th place narrowly missing out on a medal after losing less than 30 secs on two legs. In a tight race at the top, Aston was in the hunt for a medal in 2nd/3rd place, but lost time late in the race on leg 11 to 12, with not enough distance left in the race to recover. Aston_Key_MiddleAFinal_JWOC2019

But JWOC 2019 will be an event to remember for Aston with gold and bronze medals and a podium finish to go home with. Orienteering Australia congratulates Aston on three great performances, across the three orienteering disciplines. Well done Aston.

The Middle Distance Final results can be found here, the race splits found here, and the courses here.

Thanks also to Orienteering Tasmania’s Christine Brown (and JWOC2019 Jury member) for these photos from the Middle Distance Finals.

In the relay races, the Mens #1 team finished a creditable 13th, less than 13 minutes behind winners Norway, and the Australian Women finished 21st.

Relay race results can be found here, the splits here, and the courses here.

In the teams event, Australia finished 13th. Full results here. Photos from the relay races can be found here.

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