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Current NOL point scores have been published leading into the final weekend of competition at the Australian Long Distance and Relay Championships.
Charlotte Watson now has a single point lead in the senior women’s competition over teammate Jo Allison with Belinda Lawford a close third.
In the teams competitions the closest contests are in the juniors where ACT leads Tasmania in the men and Queensland leads Tasmania in the women. ACT has a strong lead in both the senior classes. The relays count double points so all will be decided there.

Silva Medal 201

Progressive Scores After Australian Medium Championships

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: 1^st – 4; 2^nd – 3; 3^rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters.

Progressive scores after the Australian 3-Days, Sprint and Medium Championships are published below.

The Statistician normally publishes runners who have amassed 20 points and above, so for this progressive list runners who have 16 points are included. These runners can theoretically achieve 20 points.

In recent years there has usually been a number of runners who have scored maximum points (this year 24 points) in 6 events. So as it stands, only the two following runners can obtain maximum points:

• Ann Ingwersen

• Tara Melhuish.

Of course if both these runners fail to win the Australian Long Championships, then the Silva Medal will be won by someone reasonably high in the list below.

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician

Name                    Class    Club   AM AS 3L 3M 3S Silva Score

Ann Ingwersen      W75A   PO.A   4    4    4    4   4         20

Tara Melhuish        W20E   PO.A   4    4    4    4   4         20

Jenny Hawkins       W70A   BS.A   4    4    4    4   3         19

Allison Jones          W40A   RR.A   4    4    4    4   3         19

Steve Flick              M70A   BN.N   1    4    4    4   3         16

Douglas Jay            M40A   SH.N   4    4    2    2   4         16

Aston Key                M20E   MF.V   –     4    4    4   4         16

Belinda Lawford      W21E   AO.A   4    3    2    3   4         16

Riders in the team for the upcoming Australia-New Zealand MTBO Challenge at the Australian Championship at Wingello on 7 & 8th October have now been confirmed.

Craig Steffens

Chair of Selectors

The Australian team to compete against New Zealand at the forthcoming Australian Championships has been announced by the senior and junior selection panels. The team can be found here.

Orienteering Australia is seeking volunteers to coach and manage two of its national training squads: the Australian Junior Development Squad and the National Development Squad. The coaches will also be given the option of managing or coaching either the JWOC or WOC team.

Further details can be found here.

Congratulations to Simon Uppill (Senior Men), Aston Key (Junior Men), and Tara Melhuish (Junior Women) who all won at the National Orienteering League in Canberra on the weekend to achieve perfect season scores of eight wins and wrap up their titles.

Jo Allison still leads senior women from Natasha Key who closed the gap with two wins but the season winner will be decided at the Australian Championships.

In the teams category the ACT Cockatoos have a stranglehold on the Senior Mens category and a strong lead in Senior Women. In Junior Women the Tasmanian Foresters have just maintained their lead over the Qld Cyclones and in the Junior Men the ACT Cockatoos extended their lead.

Full updated results are here.

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: 1^st – 4; 2^nd – 3; 3^rd – 2 and 1 for finishing, 1 point if there are less than 4 starters.

This year the Statistician will attempt to prepare the results of the Silva medal competition in time for the presentation ceremony at the Australian Long Championships or failing that at the Australian Relays the next morning.

As part of this effort, progressive scores will be published after the Australian 3-Days Championships (below) and after the Australian Sprint and Medium Championship events.

The Statistician normally publishes runners who have amassed 20 points, so for this progressive list runners who have 8 points are included. These runners can theoretically achieve 20 points, most with low probability.

In recent years there has usually been a number of runners who have scored maximum points (this year 24 points) in 6 events. So as it stands, only the following runners can obtain maximum points:

• Ann Ingwersen

• Aston Key

• Rebecca Minty

• Tara Melhuish.

Of course if all four runners fail to win their 3 events at the Australian Championships carnival, then the Silva Medal will be won by someone reasonably high in the list below.

Darryl Erbacher

Statistician

Most of the Australian Team for the World Orienteering Championships are now in Estonia for their final training camp. Competition starts on Friday week with the sprint qualification. You can follow the team in several ways:

• the Live Orienteering website
• the WOC event website
• the OA Facebook page and
• the Australian Orienteering Team blog which will be updated by the team during the training camp.

Support our team as they compete in Estonia.  The team was announced last month here.

NOL point scores for the season have been updated following the Australian 3 Days in Wagga on the weekend. Simon Uppill and Jo Allison have cemented their leads in the senior categories. Some athletes missed the latest round as they headed overseas to prepare for WOC and JWOC. In the junior classes this helped Aston Key and Tara Melhuish to win all three races and pull away in the lead.

In the teams categories the Canberra Cockatoos lead both senior categories while absences have tightened the junior categories with the Cockatoos pulling level with the Tasmanian Foresters in junior men and a three way tie for the lead in junior women between the Foresters, Queensland Cyclones and NSW Stingers.

The next round is in Canberra toward the end of August before the season finishes with the Australian Championships Carnival.

Sturt Public School Hall is booked for the meetings. Car parking is in the school car park on White Avenue.
Schedule:
Travel time back into Wagga from the events is about 15 mins on Saturday and 50 mins on Sunday.
Meeting Schedule:
Saturday 4.30-5.00: Events Committee
Saturday 5.00-6.15: Technical Committee
Sunday 3.30-4.30: Mapping Committee
Sunday 3:30-4:30: Schools Championship 2017 Managers and Coaches Meeting
Sunday 4.30-6.00: OA Special General Meeting

OA Special General meeting agenda

1. Filling of vacant Board positions: Director (High Performance); 2 Directors at large
2. OA proposal on finance for 2018: Budget proposal for OA Special General Meeting 190517
3. Update on governance: 2017 SGM – governance update
4. Uptake of Eventor as a national membership and participation database:
   i. 2017 SGM – Eventor paper
   ii. 2017 SGM – Eventor renewal
5. Implementation of the digital edition of the Australian Orienteer: 2017 SGM – Australian Orienteer paper
6. Participation and Sporting Schools: outcome of the ASC’s Participation and Sporting Schools Workshop on 1 June
7. Coaching development: update from Barbara Hill on 2 national projects:
   a. Level 1 coaching manual
   b. A set of Sporting Schools lessons for years 7 and 8 in high schools for which we need education department endorsement and endorsement by all states at the 2017 OA Conference

8. OA Annual Conference: 2 & 3 December, AIS, Canberra

Mapping Committee
Agenda: Mapping Committee meeting agenda June 2017

Technical Committee
Agenda: 2017 Tech Committee Agenda

Events Committee
Agenda: 2017 OA Events Committee Meeting Agenda