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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

OA is pleased to announce the Australian Bushrangers team to travel to New Zealand on the first weekend of June for a test match against the New Zealand Pine Stars.

The team is:
W20
Abigail George
Arabella Phillips
Caitlin Young
W21
Bridget Anderson
Krystal Neumann
Aislinn Prendergast
M20
Dante Afnan
Duncan Currie
Thomas Garbellini
Alastair George
Daniel Gray
Angus Haines
M21
Brodie Nankervis (Manager and Coach)
Simon Uppill
Toby Wilson

Jim Russell (Assistant Manager and Coach)letes have been selected

2019Silva Medal

Progress Scores

The Silva Medal winner is the orienteer with the maximum number of

points accumulated from their best six events. In the event of a tie,

the Silva Medal will be determined by count back using the average of the six best winning margins.

In 2019 the relevant events will be:

• 20 April Day 1 3-Days Scotts College

• 21 April Day 2 3-Days Hill Park Dale

• 22 April Day 3 3-Days Umuna

• 26 April Australian Sprint Narrogin

• 27 April Australian Middle Narrogin

• 28 September Oceania Sprint Wagga

• 29 September Australian Long Wagga

• 5 October Oceania Long Wangaratta

• 6 October Oceania Middle Beechworth

As there 9 qualifying events in 2019 it is expected there will be more runners than usual who will amass six wins. Winning margins will be crucial is determining the winner of the Silva Medal this year.

After 5 days of competition the leaders in the progressive scores are as below.

Three orienteers are on maximum points so far and only have to win one of the remaining 4 events in September/October to have 6 wins and achieve maximum points.  Of course, any orienteer who has 2 wins so far can also gain maximum points.

It would appear that more than one orienteer will achieve maximum points and so a countback system based on winning margins may be required.

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician

Point scores in the National Orienteering League following the Australian sprint and middle distance championships in WA can be found here.

The Canberra Cockatoos continue to lead senior men and both junior categories and Victoria the senior women, but NSW Stingers closed the gap quite a bit in junior men.

In the individual categories Henry McNulty (WA), Natasha Key (Vic), Tara Melhuish (ACT), and Patrick Miller (ACT) all continue to lead. The junior men has become very close with Angus Haines, Alastair George and Dante Afnan using Patrick’s absence this week to come within 1 or 2 points of the lead.

The next round is the NSW Championships at Cowra on May 18-19.

2019Silva Medal

Progress Scores

The Silva Medal winner is the orienteer with the maximum number of

points accumulated from their best six events. In the event of a tie,

the Silva Medal will be determined by count back using the average of the six best winning margins.

In 2019 the relevant events will be:

• 20 April Day 1 3-Days Scotts College

• 21 April Day 2 3-Days Hill Park Dale

• 22 April Day 3 3-Days Umuna

• 26 April Australian Sprint Narrogin

• 27 April Australian Middle Narrogin

• 28 September Oceania Sprint Wagga

• 29 September Australian Long Wagga

• 5 October Oceania Long Wangaratta

• 6 October Oceania Middle Beechworth

As there 9 qualifying events in 2019 it is expected there will be more runners than usual who will amass six wins. Winning margins will be crucial is determining the winner of the Silva Medal this year.

After 4 days of competition the leaders in the progressive scores are as below.

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician

2019Silva Medal

Progress Scores

The Silva Medal winner is the orienteer with the maximum number of

points accumulated from their best six events. In the event of a tie,

the Silva Medal will be determined by count back using the average of the six best winning margins.

In 2019 the relevant events will be:

• 20 April Day 1 3-Days Scotts College

• 21 April Day 2 3-Days Hill Park Dale

• 22 April Day 3 3-Days Umuna

• 26 April Australian Sprint Narrogin

• 27 April Australian Middle Narrogin

• 28 September Oceania Sprint Wagga

• 29 September Australian Long Wagga

• 5 October Oceania Long Wangaratta

• 6 October Oceania Middle Beechworth

As there 9 qualifying events in 2019 it is expected there will be more runners than usual who will amass six wins. Winning margins will be crucial is determining the winner of the Silva Medal this year.

After the 3 days of the Australian 3-Days Championships, the maximum points score is 12 and the progressive scores are below.

                                           Darryl Erbacher
Statistician

The point score for the National Orienteering League following Easter in WA can be found here.

The Canberra Cockatoos lead the senior men and both junior classes with Victoria leading senior women.

In the individual competitions Natasha Key, Simon Uppill and Tara Melhuish are looking strong to defend their victories from last year although there are many races to come. Patrick Miller continues to lead the junior men. Henry McNulty leads senior men but he leaves for Norway next weekend so is unlikely to keep that lead.

The next round is at Narrogin WA on Friday and Saturday.

Orienteering Australia has offered the following athletes a place in the Australian team for the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Denmark in July. 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
Alastair George NSW
Angus Haines SA
Aston Key Vic
Patrick Miller ACT
Noah Poland ACT

Athletes have two weeks to accept their place in the team.