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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/

Orienteering Australia is seeking volunteers interested in the positions of team coach and team manager/assistant coach for several national teams for 2018, including WOC and JWOC. Details can be found here.

OA has appointed Brodie Nankervis as coach of the Australian Junior Development Squad. He will also become a member of the national junior selection panel. We would like to thank Brodie for volunteering and welcome him to the new role.
We are still looking for a coach of the National Development Squad and Brodie’s new position means we also need a coach of the Targeted Talented Athlete Squad. Further details of the squad positions can be found here.

2017 Non-Elite Rankings

Darryl Erbacher – OA Statistician

Rankings in non-elite classes have been determined based on the results of each of the days in the Australian 3-Days Championships (3S, 3M, 3L) and the Australian Championships (AS, AM, AL). Points are awarded for each event completed on the basis of 100 points for first place and a lower score for other competitors. An orienteer’s best 3 events count towards their ranking. Where more than one competitor achieves the maximum points, orienteers are ranked based on the average of their best 3 winning margins.

Some points of interest in the 2017 rankings:

• The winners with a ranking of 100 points and their winning margins were: Ann Ingwersen (PO.A) 22.6; Jenny Hawkins (NT.N) 9.8; Carolyn Jackson (BK.V) 9.0, Elye Dent (RR.A) 7.2; Jamie Woolford (BB.N) 7.1; Erika Enderby (NC.N) 6.8; David Stocks (BS.A) 6.5; Douglas Jay (SH.N) 5.1; Ross Barr (GO.N) 3.6; Steve Flick (BN.N) 3.6; Jenny Bourne (EU.V) 3.3; Aoife Rothery (BF.N) 2.0; Kevin Paine (BS.A) 1.9; Rebecca Minty (RR.A) 1.8; Allison Jones (RR.A) 0.6; Ella Cuthbert (BS.A) 0.06; Serryn Eenjes (BG.V) 0.04; Warren Key (MF.V) 0.01; Ted van Geldermalsen (YV.V) 0.01.

• In 2 classes, 2 orienteers earned maximum points (separated by winning margins): M70 – Ross Barr (GO.N), Steve Flick (BN.N); M85 – Kevin Paine (BS.A), Graeme Cadman (YV.V).

• 29 clubs had members in the first three placings of their respective classes: BF.N (8); NC.N (8); BS.A (8); PO.A (7);RR.A (6); YV.V (6); BB.N (4); UG.Q (4); EN.Q (3); MF.V (3); SH.N (3); BN.N (3); UR.N (3); AL.T (2); OH.S (2); CC.N (2); BK.V (2); AO.A (1); TJ.S (1); GO.N (1); TT.S (1); WE.A (1); BG.V (1); EU.V (1); WH.N (1); WO.W (1); NT.N (1); GS.N (1); NE.V (1).

• Families with members in the first 3 places were: Dent (Elye M10, Kathie W35); Woolford (Alex M10, Jamie M12, Sam M14, Tony M50); Hogg (Makhaya M12, Andy M35, Luca W10); Stocks (David M14, Matthew M45); Craig (Alvin M16, Rebecca W12, Martina W45); Key (Jensen M16, Warren M55); Simson/Quantock (Scott M45, Gayle W45); Simpson (Andy M50, Lyra W10); Rothery (Eoin M60, Aoife W10); Uppill (Adrian M65, Robin W60); Tarr (Alex M75, Janet W75); Enderby (Erika W12, Mikayla W14, Jennifer W45), Melhuish/Herceg (Zoe W16, Ana W55).

Readers may wonder why Graeme Cadman has a negative winning margin.

The winning margins are  calculated by dividing the difference between first and second’s time by first’s time.  When orienteers do not come first they obtain a negative winning margin based on the difference between their time and first’s time.  In the rankings an orienteer needs 3 events.  Graeme won three events but some events did not have another finisher.  Under these circumstance it is not possible to calculate a difference.  These wins count towards the orienteer’s 3 events but other events are used to calculate the margin.  Hence it is possible to win 3 events (without another finisher) and need to use a negative margin to calculate the best 3 margins.

The final scores for the 2017 NOL season are available here. Congratulations to the ACT Cockatoos who won senior men and women; to NSW Stingers for a last race win in junior men; and the Queensland Cyclones for the win in junior women.
Jo Allison won senior women with a strong performance in the last race. Winners of the other individual classes were announced a few weeks ago. They were Simon Uppill, Aston Key and Tara Melhuish.

Silva Medal 2017

The Silva Medal competition for 2017 is based on points for participating and placing in the Australian Championships ( Sprint, Medium and Long), and the Australian 3-Days Championships (each day considered as a separate event), (Elite and A classes in M/W16 and above).
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.
Ann Ingwersen (PO.A) was the only orienteer to win all 6 of her events and is the winner of the Silva Medal for 2017
Congratulations Ann.
Darryl Erbacher
Statistician

Name                       AgeClass        Club        Silva Score

Ann Ingwersen                  W75A        PO.A        24
Jenny Hawkins                 W70A        BS.A        22
Tara Melhuish                  W20E        PO.A        22
Allison Jones                    W40A        RR.A        21
Aston Key                          M20E        MF.V        20
Warren Key                       M55A        MF.V        19
Jock Davis                         M45A        BF.N         18
Carolyn Jackson               W60A        BK.V         18
Simon Uppill                     M21E        OH.S         18
Ross Barr                           M70A        GO.N        17
Melvyn Cox                        M60A        BN.N        17
Jennifer Enderby              W45A        NC.N        17
Steve Flick                         M70A        BN.N        17
Tony Woolford                 M50A        BB.N         17
John Le Carpentier          M75A        SH.N         16
Ella Cuthbert                    W16A        BS.A          16
Darryl Erbacher               M75A        PO.A         16
Ted van Geldermalsen    M60A        YV.V         16
Douglas Jay                      M40A        SH.N         16
Belinda Lawford              W21E        AO.A          16
Zoe Melhuish                   W16A        PO.A          16
Linda Sesta                       W50A        UR.N         16

Silva Medal winner Ann Ingwersen with OA Statistician Darryl Erbacher