2019 Orienteering Australia Annual Report

Aston Key - Junior World Champion

ANNUAL REPORT 2019

Message from Sport Australia It has and beenphysical a watershed yearhas for enormous the Australian Sportson Commission. launched a new publicSport activity influence our nation’sWe’ve health, education, social, economic and facing brand - Sport Australia – with a renewed vision for Australia to be the world’s most active diplomatic outcomes. sporting nation, known for its integrity, sporting success and world-leading sports industry.

It’s why Sport Australia and the AIS remain steadfast in our vision: to make Australia the world’s most active This aligns with the Australian long-term vision sport in this country, sporting nation, known for itsGovernment’s integrity, sporting success andforworld-leading sports outlined industry.in Sport 2030, released in August 2018 by Minister for Sport Bridget McKenzie. Sport Australia will be central to delivering the priorities outlined in this national sport plan.

Australia’s commitment, outlined in the Australian Government’s national sport plan, Sport 2030, is to reduce At the fundamental level, Sport Australia’s focus will be onSport getting Australians moving through sport physical inactivity by 15 per cent.

It’s a huge challenge Australia enthusiastically accepts. and, more broadly, physical activity. We want to inspire and activating people across every age, race, gender, cultural background and physical ability. We will continue to build partnerships in the health andare education to ensure physical is a national priority. are benefitting sport, as well as broader We makingsectors significant progress and activity Sport Australia’s programs

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Success will be measured by Australians consistently winning medals at majorgrants program $150million in new participation programs. The $100million Community Sport Infrastructure international events, but also in the national pride and inspiration generated by our athletes. is enhancing hundreds of grassroots facilities across Australia. The $28.9million Participation grants program is partnerships, encouraging the innovative programs help break down barriers toon physical activity. The new Working in AIS will be focusedthat on doing the bigthe system-level things the frontiers of ethical sporting performance that no other body is naturally positioned to do. $22.9million Better Ageing grants program is helping senior Australians 65 and older to get more active and socially The AIS connected. has launched a new Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement team, focused on supporting athletes to transition through their sporting careers and connect with their communities. We want

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High Performance Sport Strategy 2024 signals the first time all Federal and State/Territory sports agencies have signed up to a joint high performance strategy.

John Wylie AM Chair Sport Australia

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commitments giveAustralian sports more stability andlong-term certainty to plan for ahead.

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All of this work is important with the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics drawing near, and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games and Paris 2024 beyond that.

At the fundamental level, Sport Australia’s focus will be on getting Australians moving through sport and, more broadly, physical activity. We want to inspire and activating people across every age, race, Enhancing athlete pathways and wellbeing are will primary areastoofbuild focuspartnerships for the AIS, and arehealth keys to creating gender, cultural background and athlete physical ability. We continue in the long-term sustainable have embedded Athlete Wellbeing and education sectors success. to ensureWe physical activity is20 a national priority. Managers across National Sporting

Organisations, and, working closely with the AIS Wellbeing and Engagement team, are delivering key programs and

We need to ensure sporting organisations are equipped to make the most of a renewed interest in support from mental health programs, through to career guidance and connection to Australians at the community physical activity, and so we will continue working with sports to improve the workforce capability, level. governance and partnerships. We want to help sports innovate, connect with existing and new participants in the digital era and provide products that meet current expectations.

The AIS is also leading collaborative sports research, applied technology and innovation initiatives including the Gold

The AIS is redefining its role too, leading a united and collaborative high performance system for Medal Ready program, a unique partnership with the Australian Army to help athletes perform under pressure.

Australian sport. Success will be measured by Australians consistently winning medals at major From backyards to benchmark we believe unquestionably in our the power of sport and physical international events, but also ininternational the nationalevents, pride and inspiration generated by athletes.

activity to reflect the very best in our culture and to be a powerful vehicle for change.

Working in partnerships, the AIS will be focused on doing the big system-level things on the frontiers ofThank ethical performance that no other body naturally to do. yousporting for all you do for Australian sport and bestiswishes for positioned the year ahead The AIS has launched a new Athlete Wellbeing and Engagement team, focused on supporting athletes to transition through their sporting careers and connect with their communities. We want sporting champions to be positive influences.

Australia enjoyed genuine sporting success in 2018. In challenging times, the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games helped restore Australia’s faith in our sports and athletes.

Positions on the podium are wonderful to celebrate, but the narrative is incomplete without humility, generosity of spirit, confidence in what our athletes stand for and how they carry themselves. At the Gold Coast Games, we saw the very best in our athletes, and this display of spirit and integrity is sure to give them the best start to their preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

We also had some outstanding performances at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Australia equalled its most successful Winter Olympics haul of three medals in PyeongChang, two silvers and one bronze medal matching the result in Sochi 2014. It was also our best result at a Paralympic Winter Games in 16 years.

Sport integrity has justifiably gained additional focus in the past year, and is a very important priority for Sport Australia and for Australian sport more generally. We, and everyone involved in sport, owe it to the athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers, fans and the public at large to ensure that Australian sport is fair and clean, and is seen to be fair and clean.

We thank all of our partners – including athletes, coaches, board members and administrators – for your effort and contribution to Australian sport, and your enthusiasm for building a more active Australia. We look forward to continued success and progress together.

John Wylie AM Chair Sport Australia

Orienteering Western Australia

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Partners and Supporters 2019

Contents President’s Report Management and Administration Finance International Relations Technical and Competition Media and Communications Participation and Membership High Performance Mountain Bike Orienteering Orienteering Australia Awards 2019 Appendix 1 - National Results 2019 Appendix 2 - National Event Organisers 2019 Appendix 3 - National Teams/Squads 2019 Appendix 4 - Office Bearers 2019 Appendix 5 - Financial Report 2019

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President’s Report A

lot of good things happened in Australian orienteering in 2019. The Oceania Championships were the best-attended event in Australia for many years (apart from WMOC or events adjacent to it), and our other major events continue to go from strength to strength. We also have outstanding achievements to celebrate, with Aston Key becoming our second Junior World Champion with his win in the sprint in Denmark.

The sport continues to be a generally healthy state. Total participation numbers fluctuate, but in general the patterns of recent years continue, with national events and those close to where people live doing well, those in between those categories (like the traditional OY-type events and state championships) finding the scene more challenging. This is consistent with trends in many parts of the sporting world. The growth at the grassroots can’t be taken for granted, though, and although the formal programs (many of them funded through Sport Australia money) have been important, even more important has been the commitment of many volunteers to develop the sport at the grass roots.

Particularly important to our future is strengthening our junior programs. Many of the State Associations are doing excellent work in this area and I know they have it as a high priority. One of the key national programs in strengthening junior orienteering is the Australian Schools Championships. Since Orienteering Australia took over full responsibility for the event in 2018, we have been looking at how to make the event more inclusive while still preserving the essence of the teambased competition which has made it so successful over the last 30 years. Some moves in this respect were made last year, and more are coming this year.

Aston’s gold medal (and other outstanding results that week) was the obvious highlight of the season from a performance point of view, but there were plenty of other results to be pleased with too. We had our best relay performance for some years at WOC (with Henry McNulty coming back with the lead pack), Aston finished the year with a couple of excellent World Cup performances, and our junior women showed considerable promise, notably Ella Cuthbert beating all the seniors as well as the juniors at the Oceania Sprint Championships. We continue to look at what can be done to improve this pipeline, including strengthening coaching at both national and state level. There is also work ongoing to revitalise the National Orienteering 2 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

League, although it will be next year before the changes are fully implemented.

Our regional connections are important in both our junior development – as indicated by New Zealand’s regular presence here – and in giving our older athletes opportunities. Our relationship with New Zealand has been close for some time, something indicated by both the excellent New Zealand turnout at Oceania (which we will no doubt reciprocate next year) and the strong Australian presence at their sprint week early this year.

There are signs of development elsewhere in the region too; we are hoping that New Caledonia will finally be able to affiliate properly as an Oceania member soon, Singapore is starting to develop a strong urban orienteering scene, and there were even reports of some activity in Kiribati (probably not too many contours on their maps).

Sport Australia (or, under its former name, the Australian Sports Commission) has provided good support to Australian orienteering over the years (even if our sport generally isn’t amenable to the facility and infrastructure grants which have been in the news so much lately). There has been a shift in emphasis in the last year or two from participation programs delivered at state level, to national programs. We’re taking advantage of this as an opportunity to work on programs which will strengthen our national infrastructure, such as developing a Sporting Schools product for high schools (and a national product for primary schools) that those running programs will be able to implement easily, and making some long-awaited updates to our coaching and controlling curricula as part of expanding the skills base of our volunteers.

I would like to close, as always, by thanking everyone who does so much to make our sport happen in Australia. This includes my fellow members of the Board and Orienteering Australia’s staff, but also those who make State Associations and clubs function, as well as the hundreds of volunteers who make a myriad of events happen every week. The sport could not exist without you and we are all grateful.

Blair Trewin President

Management and Administration O

rienteering Australia (OA) in 2019 was managed and administered by:

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A Board of eight members headed by President Blair Trewin.

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Part-time paid officers: The Executive Officer, Head Coach, High-Performance Operations Manager, National Mountain Bike Orienteering Manager, Manager of Coaching and Officiating Administration, Sporting Schools Coordinator and the Editor of the Australian Orienteer. The position of Manager of Coaching Development remained unfilled in 2019.

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Part-time contracts for the Editor of the Monthly eNewsletter and the website curator.

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The 2-day Annual Conference comprising the Board members, delegates from each State and the ACT, and an athlete and a mountain bike orienteering representative, supported by OA paid staff.

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Various committees and working groups who assist in implementing the Operational Plan.

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Additional appointed officers: Public Officer, National Secretary for Schools Orienteering, elite and non-elite rankings officers, and the Badge Scheme Secretary.

Membership of the Board There were two changes to the Board membership in 2019 with Craig Feuerherdt (VIC) standing down from the Board as a Director at the 2019 AGM, and Stephen Craig (NSW) joining as Director, High Performance.

Board members in 2019 were Blair Trewin, President; Mike Dowling, Director, International; Bruce Bowen Director, Finance; Jenny Casanova, Director, Technical; Bill Jones remained as Director at Large; Prue Dobbin, Director at Large and Paul Prudhoe (NSW) remained as Executive Officer.

The positions of Director, Unspecified Portfolio with particular responsibility for risk management, and Director, Media & Communications remained unfilled in 2019 (post AGM).

Board Meetings The Annual General Meeting was held in April (in Perth). The Annual Conference was again held in December at the AIS in Canberra with the Board holding monthly meetings by Skype and in person throughout 2019 as follows: January, March, April, May, September, October, November and December.

The Board met on 13 occasions. The Board attandance was as follow: Blair Trewin 13 Bruce Bowne 11 Jenny Casanova 13 Stephen Craig 11 Craig Feuerherdt 5 (Retired at 2019 AGM) Bill Jones 13 Michael Dowling 8 Prue Dobbin 11

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Staffing and Contract Work Paid staff (part-time) were Paul Prudhoe (Executive Officer), Jim Russell (Head Coach), Kay Haarsma (National Mountain Bike Orienteering Coordinator), Ian Prosser (High Performance Administrator), Jim Mackay (Sporting Schools National Coordinator and Manager, Coaching and Officiating Administration), Mike Hubbert (Editor, Australian Orienteer).

of the IOF Foot Orienteering Commission and liaising with Orienteering New Zealand on transTasman issues.

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International: Mike Dowling, IOF Vice President, continued as member of the IOF Council.

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Finance: Bruce Bowen, Director (Finance), provided regular reports to the OA Board on annual expenditure to date, the performance of the calendar budget and the forward budget; led Conference, AGM and Board discussion on budget development in an environment of reduced funding from Sport Australia; recommended changes in fees and levies to the AGM and Conference which were endorsed; chaired the Audit and Risk Committee; prepared annual accounts for auditing; provided Sport Australia with audit and acquittal statements and budget figures as requested; and undertook the day to day payment of invoices. Prepared a paper on the State Registration Fee (SRF) calculation and process with the objective of simplifying the SRF process. The OA Event levy structure was reviewed, with a paper prepared for the 2019 Conference.

The paper was discussed and approved at the 2019 Conference.

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High Performance and the Development Pathway: The position of Director, High Performance on the Board was filled in March 2019 by Newcastle Orienteering club’s Stephen Craig. Stephen is an ex-elite orienteer representing Australia in the 90’s in three WOC teams and then moved to Sweden. While in Sweden Steve obtained his Swedish Level 2 coaching accreditation.

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Jim Russell as Head Coach and Ian Prosser as HP Admin Support Officer managed the foot orienteering High Performance and Development Pathway program and submitted recommendations to the Board on appointments, selection criteria, funded activities and other aspects of the program.

Kay Haarsma as manager of the Mountain Bike Orienteering (MTBO) program did likewise for that program. Ian Prosser was also the OA liaison officer with ASADA on anti-doping education and testing.

Shane Jenkins was contracted as website curator, and Linda Burridge (OQ) continued as national monthly enews editor.

Various people and organisations were contracted by OA and state associations to undertake projects funded by the Sport Australia Participation Grant.

Remuneration Range of OA Staff (Includes Superannuation Guarantee Contribution) Range Less than $10K $10K to $20K $20K to $30K

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Major Board undertakings during 2019 Each of the Portfolio areas of the Board was busy during the year, with the detail documented in the respective Portfolio areas within the Annual Report.

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President: Blair Trewin as President took the lead role in governance reform development, development of a proposal for a national membership model, constitution changes and contributed to the annual Sport Australia request for OA’s performance against the Sport Australia’s Mandatory Governance Principles, and chairing meetings of the Board by Skype and in person, in addition to being a member

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Technical: The Chair, Technical Committee stepped down and the position remained vacant in the latter half of2019.

Media and Communications: As noted above, Craig Feuerherdt, Director (Media and Communications), stood down at the 2019 AGM. However, Craig continued to provide IT, Eventor and OMaps support in 2019, including leading the update to the OA website, and supporting the online option for publishing of the Australian Orienteer.

Special Projects: Position not filled in 2019.

Administration

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Other notable items included: • • • • •

The major administrative tasks during the year included: • • • •

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Organisation of the annual general meeting and annual meetings of committees during the Easter carnival in Perth, Western Australia.

Organisation of the Annual Conference at the AIS in Canberra in December.

Administrative support for regular meetings of the OA Board.

Reports and funding submissions to the Sport Australia and contract management with Sport Australia and state associations for Participation and Sporting Schools projects. 2019 saw a major change in funding arrangements by Sport Australia, which required a major review and rethink by the OA Board requiring OA to submit Core Funding proposals to Sport Australia before final funding was issued. An unsuccessful Impact Funding application was also made (to support ongoing development and further changes to Eventor and OMaps).

National management of the Orienteering Sporting Schools Program.

High performance support by the Head Coach, High Performance Administrator, National MTBO Coordinator and other members of the HighPerformance Management Group for the Australian squads and representative teams and for the National Orienteering League program.

Coaching and officiating administration by Jim Mackay of the Sport Australia accreditation schemes for coaches, controllers and training curricula.

The Executive Officer representing Orienteering Australia at Sport Australia meetings and workshops on Participation, Sporting Schools, the Annual

Sports Assessment Review, and CEO Forums.

The Sporting Schools National Coordinator represented Orienteering Australia at the quarterly G33 meetings (held via teleconference).

Recruitment process for a National Manager Coaching Development commenced in late 2019.

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Review of State submissions for Sport Australia participation funding (see Membership and Participation section for further detail) Omaps (Map database) development Orienteering Australia Hall of Fame selections Strategic Plan finalisation and approval at the 2019 AGM Governance matters – development of a new constitution to support transitioning to a Company Limited by Guarantee, Development of a Conflict of Interest Policy Member Protection / Child Protection / Child Safe Sport policies update and attending Child Protection Workshops Australian Schools Orienteering Championships rules review and update, post-School Sport Australia involvement Australian Sport Foundation donations management and administration Sport Australia National Sports Plan / Changes to Future Funding Arrangements Eventor – membership matters, event results and participation statistics OA Reporting website created – automatic reports now generated directly from Eventor membership and participation data (thanks to OT’s Ian Rathbone, who also remained as Chair of the Eventor Working Group) Controllers Curricula – need for updating Major Event Manual development High Performance NOL Survey and subsequent review and update IOF Matters Australian Orienteer MTBO IOF Event Advisor clinic conducted in Maryborough

Paul Prudhoe Executive Officer

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Finance T

he accompanying annual accounts for Orienteering Australia Inc. show a Profit and Loss surplus of $31,475 in 2019. This surplus represents around 7 per cent of 2019 revenue and mainly arose because of one-off factors. On the revenue side these factors were a higher than expected donations via the Sports Foundation of Australia, including an anonymous donation of $10,000; and, additional event levies largely due to the highly successful 2019 Oceania carnival ($5700). In terms of expenditure there were under spends on coaching ($5500) and a delay in the planned website upgrade ($10,000).

The auditor also made a one-off adjustment to the accounts for 2019 to bring the stock of uniforms for sale in line with the value of the end of year physical stock-take. As a result, the Purchases for Resale item in the Profit and Loss needed to be adjusted. This anomaly occurred because over recent years previous sales of uniforms to Australian team members had not been simultaneously deducted from the value of stock recorded in the accounts.

The accounts also show that the main areas of Orienteering Australia gross expenditure in 2019 were: high performance (23%), the Sport Australia participation grant (20%), the Australian Orienteer magazine (10%) and national administration of the sport (17%). The main sources of Orienteering Australia revenue were receipts from State Associations’ (47%) (made up of close to equal share between the State Registration Fee and event levies) and the Sport Australia grants (20%).

The balance sheet shows Orienteering Australia ended 2018 in a strong position with net assets of $247,748.

Cash in hand at 31 December 2019 accounted for $352,743 of which around $143,569 was accounted for by unexpended grants. That is, a sizable portion of cash on hand can only be expended within the conditions set out by the respective grants.

During 2019 it was confirmed that Sport Australia will continue to maintain its recent funding level to Orienteering Australia with a $100,000 grant for 2019/20 financial year. However, the grant has changed from one supporting increased participation to instead a focus on Core Funding projects. Expenditure on these projects is expected to commence in the first half of 2020.

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Finally, at the time of writing this report (late March 2020) it is uncertain as to how long the unprecedented suspension of orienteering events across Australia as a result of COVID-19 will last. However, going forward it is very likely to present a major short to mediumterm financial challenge for all levels of orienteering, including Orienteering Australia Inc. Bruce Bowen Director, Finance

International Relations A

ustralia continues to make a significant contribution to the activities of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) through representation on Council, Commissions and in the conduct of IOF sanctioned activities.

Council and Commission Membership Michael Dowling (TAS) continues to serve as one of the three IOF Vice Presidents after being re-elected at the 2018 IOF General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic for a final 4-year term. Blair Trewin (VIC) continues as a member of Foot Commission, Adrian Uppill (SA) as a member of the Map Commission and Barry McCrae (VIC) as a member of the Rules Commission.

IOF Presidents Conference The IOF Presidents Conference was held in conjunction with the World Orienteering Championships in Sarpsborg, Norway in August Michael Dowling presented an overview report of progress in the implementation of the IOF competition review project that was adopted by the 2016 General Assembly. This project saw a major restructure the IOF competition program. A key outcome of that was seen in the implementation of the 2019 World Championships in Norway that consisted solely of forest-based competition formats; middle, long and relay. The next stage of the implementation will be the first Sprint World Championships in Denmark in July 2020 with a program consisting of sprint, sprint relay and the new knockout sprint format.

Other key presentations were an overview of IOF organisational structures and plans for the IOF organisational review and implementation of the 2018-

2022 Strategic Directions by IOP President Leho Haldna, a review of IOF Governance by IOF CEO Tom Hollowell, an update of IOF Anti-Doping Education by IOF AntiDoping Officer Kirsty McIntyre and an overview of the plans for review of the TrailO discipline by Senior Vice President Astrid Waaler Kaas. A key feature of the IOF Governance presentation that the IOF was most compliant ISF (International Sports Federation) from a detailed survey of good governance standards among 54 ISF organisations by GAISF (the General Assembly of International Sports Federations) conducted in the early part of 2019.

The IOF continues to make significant progress in developing the broadcast quality of major IOF events for television and online delivery. There were record viewing audiences for live TV production at the 2019 World Championships and all rounds of the 2019 World Cup were produced at a live television quality broadcast standard. This included the final of the World Cup being held in China which was the first World Cup round in Asia since 2000. In addition, liveorientereing. com continues to experience significant growth in engagement for online audiences. Liveorineteering.com has now also been embedded within the restructured IOF website to provide a more streamlined and userfriendly audience experience.

The IOF has welcomed the membership of Costa Rica and the return of Thailand and Greece in 2019. There continues to be several new nations that are close to being ready for membership of the IOF. The IOF membership criteria for new nations seeks to ensure there is sustainable and realistic orienteering activities in these emerging locations. The support of IOF Regional Coordinators plays a key role in global development as does the IOF Regional and Youth Development Commission (RYDC).

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There continues to be cooperation with the World Military Sport Council (CISM), the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the International World Games Association (IWGA), the International School Sport Federation (ISF). and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOF is an active member of both ARISF (Association of Recognised International Sports Federations and GAISF (the General Assembly of International Sports Federations). While the partnership with the French Orienteering Federation (FFCO) to seek the inclusion of orienteering into the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic program did not come to fruition, significant progress was made in that for the first time orienteering was able to present a formal bid to a Summer Olympic Organising Committee for inclusion in an Olympic Games.

The IOF has continued to work within the framework of the Strategic Directions of the period 2018- 2022. This was a substantial a substantial change from previous strategic directions in format and structure.

VISION Orienteering is the most attractive adventure-based sport for all ages MISSION Promote the global growth of orienteering and develop competitive and recreational orienteering MAIN GOAL To increase the attractiveness of orienteering: • •

to participants, and to external partners so as to be included in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

These are underpinned by three values: ethical, sustainable and inclusive.

The Activity Plan for the two-year period of 2019 and 2020 is broadly structured into four areas related to the main goal and ambition. These are: • • • •

Increase attractiveness to participants (member federations, current and new participants) Increase attractiveness to external partners To be included in the Olympic and Paralympic games Governance

IOF Council and Office The IOF Council has met four times in 2019. Once in conjunction with the World Championships in Sarpsborg, Norway in August, in Warsaw, Poland in January, in Budapest, Hungary in April and in Foshan, China in October to coincide with the final round of the 2019 IOF World Cup in foot orienteering. Within the budgetary constraints of the IOF, Council is continuing a significant effort to visit as many member federations as possible with its meetings. Michael Dowling has attended all meetings.

Through 2019 all Council members have continued to work in their areas of responsibility and support.

Michael Dowling has a role as member of the President’s Working Group (PWG) that is coordinating an organisational review of IOF structures and Commissions, has lead responsibility within Council for the “Increase the Attractiveness to External Partners” area of the IOF Activity Plan and is a Council contact for the Rules Commission and the Council contact for 8 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

the Oceania region. He is currently leading a project to restructure IOF competition rules into a more modular format to create a rules structure that enables rules to be customised for different levels of events across and within IOF disciplines. This is within a major Council project to review and improve IOF event quality standards.

The IOF has continued to build its financial capacity.

The IOF CEO reported a surplus of 106 054 Euros for the year 2018 at the April meeting of Council. There is strong continuing support from the principle IOF partner Nokian Tyres, there is growing sponsorship in both cash and in-kind for World Orienteering Day (WOD) and there has been increased income from external funding sources. To further build external funding sources, the IOF contracted a Brand Manager/Sales person at their August Council meeting.

The IOF has been recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its action plan to measure and reduce owned greenhouse gas emissions and for joining the United Nations Sports for Climate Action Framework. The IOF Office quantified the physical quantities involved (km travelled, means of transportation, materials used, energy consumed etc.) for the activity of the Office itself, of the President and Council and of Commissions and the IOF Environment and Sustainability Commission calculated the corresponding emissions of CO2. As a result, the IOC awarded the IOF a certificate recognising the value of the analysis carried out and for the action plan for further reduction of emissions. The consequence of this is that Dow Chemicals, the partner in the Sports for Climate Action program, will offset with carbon credits the emissions calculated for the year 2019 of the IOF by investing in projects compliant with the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) code of best practice.

Michael Dowling Director, International Relations Vice President, IOF Council

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Technical and Competition T

he Technical and Competition areas for Orienteering Australia (OA) fall under the portfolio of the OA Director, Technical, and are overseen through the following committees: • • •

Technical (Chair - vacant); Mapping (2019 Chair, Neil Barr); Events (2019 Chair, Greg Hawthorne);

In addtion, other aspects of the Technical and Competition areas are managed by the OA Badge Scheme Secretary John Oliver, and the Manager Coaching and Officiating Development Jim Mackay.

Elite rankings are maintained by Bruce Arthur, nonelite rankings by Darryl Erbacher and NOL points by Ian Prosser. The work of the above people and of the committee chairs in 2019 is acknowledged. The Eventor working group reports to the OA Director, Media & Communications (although this position was vacant during 2019).

Technical The Technical Committee met at the Australian 3-Days in Perth in April 2019.

OA rules and documents referred to below are maintained on the Orienteering Australia web site, either in the Operational Manual or the Technical Pages. Organisers, course planners and controllers are encouraged to seek clarification from state and national technical directors regarding the interpretation of the OA rules and appendices and of the NOL Guidelines, which will be reviewed in 2020.

Rules - Foot Orienteering The 2019 International Orienteering Federation (IOF) rules were not available until after the 2018 OA Conference; changes incorporated into OA rules included that minimum control separation in sprints has been increased to 25 metres, and the start triangle is considered a control for the purpose of that rule.

A trial of 1: 10 000 scale for long race World Ranking Events (WRE) has been permitted by IOF. Older age classes (i.e. World Masters Orienteering Championships, as per IOF rules, are permitted to have 1: 7 500 scale; discussions have begun amongst the OA Technical Committee regarding age classes which should have the larger scale but consensus was not reached for 2019.

Addition of a 3rd dot point to IOF rule 20.5, allowing interrogation of a control where a competitor’s card has not registered a punch, was included in the IOF rules.

Despite extensive discussion, no decision has been taken to add this to the OA rules as yet although it will be applicable to IOF classes in regional championships and WREs; currently this rule is believed to be a trial by IOF for 2019.

OA Rule changes which are relevant to the conduct of Australian races are as follows.

12.5 – Allowing for M/W21E to have 2-minute starts in long WREs (still recommending 3 min, and also suggesting 3 min for M/W20E in long races).

12.6 – Making it clearer that in World Ranking Events, start order is usually according to ranking.

19.4 – Controls shall not be sited within 25m of each other for map scales 1: 4 000 & 1: 5 000 as per IOF rules.

Appendix 1 – Updated course-class combinations and relative run rates .

David Hogg’s work on course-class combinations, based on revised relative speeds, provides tables for sprint, middle and long distance, which have then been adjusted by the OA Director, Technical so that elite classes should always be given the lowest-numbered courses; ideally there would be no other classes on the same course as elites but this may not always be practical.

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This Appendix is an update of previous recommendations originally developed for long races

by Robin & Adrian Uppill and for sprints by Anna Sheldon. The guidelines are advisory only and may be varied by the course planner and controller to reflect terrain differences between courses, likely numbers of competitors in each class, special requirements for National Orienteering League events or team selection trials, and other factors.

The Australian Relays now have a maximum 40-minute winning time (per competitor) set for all age classes including elites. It was not considered practical to recommend a total time per team. Guidelines for courseclass combinations will be developed in future and the demand for M/W75+ relay class will be met.

The table of recommendations for state championships without elites has been deleted and it is suggested that states develop their own, using these guidelines but based on their anticipated attendance.

The IOF’s forest mapping specifications should be read by all mappers and controllers and course planners, and must be used for international events, e.g. regional championships, World Ranking Events. Also it is expected that Group A (national) events in Australia comply with these standards.

Appendix 2 – Principles for course planning.

Some models of SI card cannot record a punch for a leg which is shorter than 6 seconds’ running time, so this situation is best avoided when course planning.

Appendix 8 – Event formats.

Sprint events now reference the need to have a minimum 5 seconds’ running time between controls, hence the IOF’s 25-metre rule.

Appendix 12 - Use of SIAC at major events.

This appendix regarding use of SIAC +/- mixed punching now references the need to have a minimum 5 seconds’ running time between controls, hence the IOF’s 25-metre rule.

International Specifications for Orienteering Maps 2017

States are encouraged to update their existing maps to ISOM 2017 where possible and new maps are being prepared to these specifications. There has been significant debate about the practicalities of implementation of ISOM 2017 in the context of Australia’s granite and gold mining terrain, and a mapping workshop was held during Oceania to19 to discuss some of the issues.

International Orienteering Federation Event Advisers IOF Event Advisers are now registered in IOF Eventor and the process of Federations applying to host World Ranking Events is done online. Australia now has 18 foot-O EAs, 4 of whom are Senior Event Advisers. There is no longer a cap on Federations’ allocations of WREs, and IOF levies are stratified based on attendance. IOF Eventor should ideally be made available for event entry for WREs, but it has not yet been fully determined how process this can become compatible with federations’ own pre-existing entry systems.

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Controlling – Foot Orienteering National Events 2019 The work of the following OA Level 3 controllers for Group A events is acknowledged from 2019: Event NOL 1 Australian Relay Champs MW20/MW21 NOL 2 Long NOL 3 Easter Sprint Relay NOL 4 Easter Day 1 Sprint NOL 5 Easter Day 2 Long NOL 5 Easter Day 3 Middle NOL 7 Aus Sprint Champs (WRE) NOL 8 Aus Middle Champs (WRE) NOL 9 NSW Middle Champs NOL 10 NSW Ultralong NOL 11 Oceania Sprint Champs NOL 12 Aus Long Champs NOL 13 Oceania Relay Champs NOL 14 Oceania Long Champs NOL 15 Oceania Middle Champs

Venue Hill End, NSW Hill End, NSW Perth, WA Perth, WA Perth, WA Perth, WA Narrogin, WA Narrogin, WA Cowra, NSW Cowra, NSW Wagga Wagga, NSW Cootamundra, NSW Cootamundra, NSW Beechworth, VIC Wangaratta, VIC

Date March 30 March 31 April 19 April 20 April 21 April 22 April 26 April 27 May 18 May 19 September 28 September 29 September 30 October 5 October 6

Controller(s) Ron Junghans Andrew Lumsden Richard Matthews and Graham Braid Richard Matthews and Phil Taylor Richard Matthews and Craig Dufty Richard Matthews and Brian Austin Russell Candy Russell Candy Rob Vincent Rob Vincent Nick Dent Bill Jones Bill Jones Tim Hatley Jon Sutcliffe

Controllers’ reports were received following some of these events, but more would be welcomed!

Controller Accreditation

IOF Event Advising

Orienteering Australia intends to formalise the in-house process for revising, approving and uploading our coaching and controlling curricula; a working group was convened to review levels 1, 2, and 3 of the controllers’ curricula and identify commonalities between them.

The Technical Committee meeting at Easter 2019 agreed that it would be appropriate to prepare a Common Handbook for all levels of controlling both foot and MTB orienteering events.

IOF Event Advisers for World Ranking Events in 2019 were: • • • •

Jenny Casanova – Aust Sprint, Middle Jon Sutcliffe – Aust Long Jon Sutcliffe - Oceania Championships Graham Teahan (NZ) - IOF Senior Event Adviser Oceania Championships.

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Accreditations for coaches and controllers are processed by the Manager Coaching and Officiating Development; state technical coordinators are responsible for forwarding Level 1 & 2 applications & renewals, whereas Level 3 controllers’ accreditations are first signed off by the OA Director, Technical. Since the end of 2015, the expiry period for all controllers at all levels has

been 4 years, however the points for reaccreditation can be accumulated from activities undertaken over the preceding 8 years. There is some discussion about extending the accreditation period to 5 years now that it is no longer mandated by an external organisation.

No Level 3 controllers’ workshops were held during 2019. The next L3 workshop was intended to be held in Tasmania early in 2020 with focus on controlling for Australian Championships.

Use of SI Air Technology (SIAC) It is not mandated that SI Air technology be made available to all competitors at Australian carnivals at this point in time; mixed punching systems are permitted provided the opportunity to hire SIAC is available, but given the increasing number of competitors buying their own SI Air Cards this recommendation may change in future.

Results Database Eventor has consistently been used for uploading results from events at all levels; the OA website, and many states’ websites, link directly from the home page to Eventor for current results.

Mapping The following is a summary of 2019 mapping progress, based on contributions from Adrian Uppill, Noel Schoknecht and Neil Barr. Compilation and editing by Neil Barr.

2019 Mapping Meeting A meeting on the new IOF map specification was held at Yackandandah, Victoria. The meeting had around 25 participants and ranged across: • • • • •

•

Information Technology Both the Australian 3-Days and Australian Championships used O-Lynx for live results display; the latter carnival was able to fund this due to the Moira Whiteside bequest through ONSW.

Key changes in ISOM2017 and ISSprOM. Compliance issues and comparison of current and foreshadowed testing tools (OCAD, CheckOMap, OOMapper).

Print Tech test sheets discussed and distributed.

Comparisons of approaches to mapping in field with georeferenced data and tablet.

Issues around mapping very detailed terrain using ISOM 2017 explored as part of a field check of Rowdy Flat terrain using lidar base maps and the existing map. Finished with a discussion about the ability to map these areas legibly and fairly at 1:15,000 as required by ISOM 2017. Diverging opinions presented.

Ludek Krticka from the IOF Mapping Commission was invited to discuss the latest IOFmapping specifications an d to see first-hand issues with mapping complex mining and granite terrain but unfortunately was unable to attend.

Key outcomes: •

Agreed that the annual workshops held for the last 3 years at the Australian Championships are useful and should continue.

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Implementation of ISOM17 - New IOF Map Specification Implementation has been proceeding cautiously, with most new maps for major events being at least partially compliant with the new specification. The degree of compliance depends on whether the approach was a remap or a conversion.

As in the past, all new maps to be used for Group A events should be produced to the currentmapping specifications. Conversion of major event standard maps is often a majorundertaking, comparable with a remap. Conversion is only likely to be a path for spur gullyterrain. Granite and mining terrain will generally be remapped rather than converted. It will not be financially feasible to fund the professional mapping of high quality areas for events other than major carnivals.

Australia can expect a gradual conversion of our map stable from ISOM01 to ISOM17 over the next decade. This may necessitate some compromise for some non-carnival Group A events (for example the choice of a specific terrain for a NOL/WOC selection trial) where the income from the event cannot fund a remap or a conversion of complex terrain.

Compliance is something measured by degree. It is much more than just using the new symbol set. Legibility standards defined by minimum gaps, minimum areas, minimum lengths and minimum widths are much more demanding. There is not a full tool set to assess these standards within the current mapping software suites. The closest thing to a compliance checking tool is an email submission service provided by a private individual, and this also has some issues. Australian mappers have only started to explore these tools this year. Mapping Committee compliance checking has remained partially subjective. Inevitably this means there will be differing opinions about acceptable levels of ISOM17 compliance.

Map printing. Offset printing is now financially prohibitive and difficult to organise, making digital printing the new standard. This shift in technology is the basis of the new ISOM and ISSprOM. There is a wide variation in the quality of digital printing machines, from the high end with sharpness almost indistinguishable from off-set, to machines with output unsuitable for orienteering. Given this variability, there is now a greater onus on event officials to ensure 14 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

acceptable print quality is achieved. The print quality of several maps used for WRE’s and national events during 2019 was disappointing. During 2019 the MC updated the Print Tech ‘test’ sheet to the new specifications and supplied all nations with printed copies at both spot colour / offset (for colour checking) and laser (for print quality, sharpness, etc) prints. Digital versions of the Print Tech test sheet are available from the IOF web site.

Organisers should print these with their printer(s) of choice and compare the output with the IOF-supplied sheets. Copies of these were made available at the 2019 mapping seminar and may also be obtained from Neil Barr.

No WRE maps from the Oceania carnival were officially submitted by Event Advisers to the Mapping Committee for compliance testing (one was submitted unofficially and passed the test with some amendments). We need to do better with this map approval process for future WREs. We expect that this situation will improve as Event Advisers become more familiar with mapping approval processes and mappers implement the new specification.

Implementation of ISSprOM - - New IOF Sprint Map Specification The full implementation of ISSPrOM begins next year. It is too early to comment on progress in Australia.

The IOF Map Commission has published an updated version (23/11/2019) of Appendix 1 that now includes colour definitions for Sprint maps. There are significant changes and all new sprint maps need to comply with these definitions, both colour mixes and colour table order.

There is currently only a limited means to digitally checking compliance of sprint maps. On occasions legibility of map symbols can be a problem for competitors. This may mean there is security in exceeding the minimum width in the specification for symbols on sprint maps.

Events The Events Committee met at the Australian 3-Days in Hobart. The proposed 2020 NOL schedule was presented by the High Performance Management Group.

The Events Committee Chair has provided a proposed schedule of Major Australian Carnivals until 2028, allocating them to states on the rotational basis which has been used previously. IOF Regional Championships are not currently part of this schedule and therefore a host for Oceania 2023 is currently being sought.

Mountain Bike Orienteering No MTBO World Ranking Events were held by Australia in 2019 due to the cost of hosting WREs vs the minimal elite attendance, however, an MTBO IOF Event Adviser workshop was held during the Australian MTBO championships. This resulted in a number of Australian MTBO Event Advisers becoming accredited by the IOF although not all of these people have been through Orienteering Australia’s controller education and accreditation processes.

Jenny Casanova Director, Technical

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Media and Communications T

he Australia Orienteer remains the key communication tool of Orienteering Australia (OA).

An increasing number of members are choosing to receive the Australian Orienteer in digital form. Digital publishing has also highlighted Australian orienteering across the globe, with an Increasing international readership. Back-copies of the Australian Orienteer have also been completed and are available online at https:// issuu.com/orienteeringaustralia Work has continued on utilising the wealth of information available in Eventor for statistical reporting.

Ian Rathbone (Tasmania) spent substantial time in making this information readily available via https:// reporting.orienteering.asn.au/ There are a range of reports available (see opposite) to make managing members and reporting on statistics a whole lot easier.

Orienteering Australia is happy to provide access to this site for state administrators - please email eventor@ orienteering.asn.au for more details.

The value of the reporting web site is only as good as the information available in Eventor. Orienteering Australia wants to be able to generate participation statistics and other reports “at the click of a button” however this is currently not possible because results from many events are not being loaded into Eventor. Eventor will not replace the “complex” scoring systems Implemented by some states for various series, however loading basic results (participant name, class, club, score and/or time) into Eventor will facilitate more accurate reporting, and should be of benefit to all States as and when they are required to gather Information for their own reporting needs or for including with funding submissions.

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Maps are a fundamental element of our sport. A licence for Omaps (https://www.omaps.net/au) has been in place since 2018 however there has been limited uptake outside Queensland, metro Sydney and Bendigo as shown in the overview map opposite.

Once again, OA is requesting states and clubs to upload basic information about existing maps. We acknowledge that some states have an existing map database/repository however, we are requesting some basic information be entered into Omaps to provide a comprehensive picture of our map assets. This will have multiple benefits Including better utilisation of maps and potentially provide the basis for grant applications.

Anyone can log into Omaps with the Eventor user details and similar security access provisions are in place to limit what can be viewed/downloaded.

A revamp of the OA web site begun with the establishment of a Web Working Group (WWG). It is anticipated that the new site will be released prior to the 2020 Australian Championships in Tasmania.

The ongoing help of Shane Jenkins (web site), Jack Dowling (EWG) and Ian Rathbone (EWG) is gratefully acknowledged in helping to keep things on track.

Craig Fuererherdt former Director, Media and Communications

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Participation and Membership Participation Development Funding Arrangements 2019

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n late 2018 the Australian Sports Commission had rebranded their image to become known as Sport Australia. Orienteering Australia’s 2019 participation funding continued at the same level as the previous year of $100,000 covered by a Sport Investment Agreement (SIA) between Sport Australia and Orienteering Australia (OA). The agreement was similar to previous SIA’s and included a number of obligations on Orienteering Australia with the funding again focussing on (State developed) participation and membership projects.

In 2019 Orienteering Australia continued with participation and membership projects developed and managed by the States.

Participation Development Projects in 2019 The budgeted Participation Projects in 2019 are as listed in Table 1 (Orienteering Participation Projects, 2019) on page 24, with a total budget of $55,111.

Whereas in 2017 and in 2018, the single largest funded project was for the MapRun Smartphone orienteering app development by Orienteering Queensland’s Peter Effeney. In 2019 Orienteering Queensland did not apply for participation funding.

In 2019, the number of projects focussing on orienteering in schools was maintained with 4 projects being submitted (2 from Orienteering South Australia, 1 from Orienteering NSW and 1 from Orienteering Tasmania).

The schools-related projects to receive funding were: (1) Orienteering South Australia (OSA) wanted to extend their schools cluster program to more areas of the metropolitan area in 2019.

OSA sought assistance with the purchase of two further equipment kits to run the program plus a small amount of support money for coordinators.

From three areas OSA planned to expand to five or six areas, targeting areas where groups of schools had been active with sporting schools, had previous experience with orienteering or had families or teachers who supported orienteering within the school community.

Schools were to be invited to attend an after-school series of events both prior to the individual schools’ champs in May and the Relays Championships in September. For each of these programs OSA planned to appoint an area coordinator, and use SI kit, which increases the scope and attractiveness of the activity.

Areas for clusters were: • • • • • •

Inner South Outer South Eastern Suburbs Mitcham Hills area Far Hills Possibly North eastern suburbs (pending coordinator)

Cluster activities were to be held after school, with parental involvement. Parents were to be strongly encouraged to take part in the program (not just transport the kids) and there was strong encouragement to flow on in participation from these activities into the general “City to Bush” series of events held by Orienteering SA in May. Promising participants were targeted for inclusion in the SA Darts or Junior Arrows squads (depending on age) with potential for subsequent inclusion in SA’s representative teams in years to come.

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Cluster programs were run by members of Orienteering SA, who looked to build a relationship with newcomers and build a bridge to the general Orienteering programs, supplying a friendly face, welcome and information.

Different areas were to have cluster activities on different afternoons if possible, but these would also be determined by the availability of coordinators and the attractiveness of various days for the potential attendees (avoiding common times for other after school activities).

As the numbers of clusters increased and the choice of afternoons for attendance increased, it was hoped that the potential for attendance at one or other of the clusters for one or more families from targeted schools would also increase. As parents tend to carpool, establishing the practice of bringing along a friend to orienteering and the social aspect of the activity was considered important.

(2) OSA’s second project was to offer an SI kit to schools for use in school orienteering programs run by the schools themselves.

OSA applied for OA assistance with purchase of (initially) one SI and equipment kits which was be hired to schools on a short-term basis.

If the project was successful it was expected that it would lift the number of participations within the school environment, increase the attractiveness of orienteering for those who have the opportunity to try it, and possibly open a stream on income to subsidise work in schools.

(3) Orienteering NSW’s application requested funding to develop orienteering pathways from school programs to inter-school competitions. This was seen as an important step towards school children and their families engaging with local clubs and attending local orienteering events. ONSW planned to initiate 2 interschool competitions at no direct cost to the students in the first term and instruct teachers and local organisers on how to run a financially- sustainable competition for future years. There was to be a competition for both public and private schools.

With a significant number of schools in NSW have been exposed to orienteering through Sporting Schools, gala days, one-day excursions, permanent courses, Level 0 coach workshops, regional school comps. However, there had been little flow-through to club events or club membership. An important missing piece of the overall picture is the lack of visibility of orienteering within the school community through inter-school competition.

(4) Orienteering Tasmania’s Community Outreach program proposed to deliver orienteering activities to people in the community who had not previously tried the sport.

In 2016, Orienteering Tasmania (OT) delivered followup events to schools after Sporting School engagements.

This included weekend events, after school events for parents and school fairs. In 2017 and 2018 the scope of the program was expanded to include other activities in the community where it was felt likely that we could attract people new to orienteering. This included programs in secondary schools, community events such as Hobart City Bush Adventures, Healthy Hobart Program, the Taste of Tasmania, an ACHPER conference and primary schools not involved in the Sporting Schools program. 24 programs were delivered in 2017 and 23 in 2018.

The aim of the initiative was to increase the numbers of beginner orienteers at local events. The beginner events run by Orienteering Tasmania are the Autumn and Spring Twilight Series on Wednesday afternoons.

For 2019 OT proposed to continue this program of outreach and to deliver over 20 activities similar to that delivered in 2018. Members of the OT community were to be paid to organise and run the activities, with an emphasis on mapping as many schools as possible.

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As in previous years the other projects had a number of themes – MTBO, Park and/or Street Series expansion programs. These projects included:

Park and Street Projects (5) Orienteering Victoria’s (OV) Melbourne City Race project looked to establish a long format urban orienteering event in Australia.

This project aimed to establish long format urban orienteering (City Racing) in Australia, as has occurred in recent years in Europe. Australian capital cities and larger regional centres are extremely well suited to this form of orienteering, which draws significant numbers of local and overseas orienteers, and non-orienteers, particularly in the 21-40 demographic – a market which was not captured in previous participation projects in Victoria. OV’s plan was to hold a Melbourne City Race annually or rotate biannually with another State or States.

The inaugural Melbourne City Race Weekend (MCRW) was held on October 11-13, comprising three mass participation urban races – a shorter urban race on Friday evening, a Sprint into Spring race on Saturday afternoon, and the feature Melbourne City Race on Sunday morning. The main race was held in the Docklands/Harbourside/Southbank areas of the Melbourne CBD. The race used a large scale, full colour, ISSOM compliant map, line courses of approx. 3-10 km, and Sportident electronic punching. Promotional articles have appeared in the Australian Orienteer magazine, and a web page was also established (www. melbournecityrace.com.au).

With well targeted marketing, the objective of the format was to be successful in attracting non-orienteering runners in the young adult demographic, providing a different newcomer profile and covering a gap in our existing participation projects, which were aimed more specifically at children and families. Additionally, by scheduling the City Race immediately after a major event (i.e. Oceania in 2019), opportunities existed for attracting overseas orienteers, adding further participants.

(6) OV’s second project was the Ballarat Urban Navigation Series Promotion and “Scoutreach” Project.

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accessible and local. Participants complete a score orienteering course within suburban parkland, visiting as many controls as possible within the 45-minute time limit.

This series had been running for two seasons and events were averaging approximately 30 participations per event. The 2018 season included 5 events.

The 2019 project objective was to increase participation in the series through 3 key innovations: • • •

Targeted Social Media Advertising Outreach and engagement with local scout groups Implementing retention strategies (coaching program, season and club information printed on each map)

MTBO Related Projects (7) Orienteering ACT’s project focussed on the development and promotion of MTBO in the ACT. The primary objective of the project was to facilitate and to drive an active, dynamic and sustainable development of MTBO in ACT. The primary goal was to increase participating numbers from 25-30 participants at local MTBO events in the Canberra area to 60 participants; up to 100+ participants at ACT MTBO Championships; and up to 150-200 for the Australian MTBO Championship that is scheduled for 2021 in ACT.

Another critically important dimension of the project was to diversify the demographics of the sport and to bring it closer to young people, who will lead the sport in the ACT over the next 20-30 years. Additionally, this meant to attract and retain primary and high school children to the sport along with the contemplated benefit of family involvement.

Another important focus was to bring potential participants to MTBO from neighbouring sports – from foot orienteering, mountain biking, road biking, adventure racing, multisport, rogaining, trail running, bushwalking, skiing. There is a need to encourage prominent foot orienteers and prominent leaders of the mountain biking community to MTBO. After some quiet time, in 2017 a strong dynamic, innovative and capable team of skilled people passionate about MTBO had assembled in the ACT together under the goal to actively and dynamically develop MTBO. In 2018, 5 quality events had been successfully organised, and with the 2019 project the ACT MTBO needed the financial support to fund and support the promotion of the MTBO as this affected the survival and development of the MTBO.

Permanent Courses (8) Orienteering Western Australia’s (OWA) Anytime Orienteering project was an extension of their previous Anytime Orienteering project, with the inclusion of two additional maps for 2019.

At the time of submission of the original project OWA had three permanent course areas mapped with a range of courses offered. The maps are available as downloadable PDF documents from the OWA Website. As the associated information package was considered out of date and clumsy to use an opportunity thus existed to repackage the map and associated information to be more appealing to a broader range of users.

Having updated the user administration aspects of the permanent course package delivery, the tracking of downloads was integrated into the OWA Website and showed a strong demand for the maps. The download figures indicated that 20% of all downloads on the site and has been achieved with no promotional effort.

Anecdotally, OWA were aware that many school groups regularly used the available maps and that there was demand for more maps and courses. A process of recording downloads was planned for implementation under the original project. The combination of these factors lead OWA to believe that there was a strong market with the opportunity to promote a revitalised permanent course package.

OWA also developed a Photo Map of Fremantle as a different style of Permanent Course where the users of the map match pictures to the locations around the city of Fremantle. OWA had support from the Fremantle Dockers AFL team and Fremantle council / tourist office. The Freo Photo Map was originally developed for a novelty event using the idea developed in ACT for the Capital City Photo Map.

For the original project OWA looked to repackage its Permanent Courses as “Anytime Orienteering”, while at the same time develop new Permanent Courses in both Perth and in regional areas.

With funding in place OWA have developed new bush and park Permanent Courses and additional Photo Maps.

As part of the original project OWA developed an online system for registration and delivery of the maps, similar to the South Australian system to track usage. It was expected that those arrangements would deliver a product with broader appeal and hence higher usage.

The 2019 funding became known as Core Funding, and in March 2019 in addition to Core Funding, Sport Australia advised National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) of an ‘Impact Funding’ opportunity. Impact Funding was discretionary and to be applied for by NSOs, and while OA submitted an Impact Funding application (for IT related improvements and development) it was not successful.

OWA has for many years offered a number of Permanent Courses in the Perth Hills. Originally, they were paper based maps and kits that were provided via National Park offices, tourist offices and direct to interested parties.

Funding Arrangements for 2019/20 and Beyond

At the same time as receiving the Impact Funding opportunity advise Sport Australia advised of a twelvemonth transition to a new Sport Investment Framework for Sport Business.

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This enabled OA to maintain its’ existing 2018/19 level of funding for 2019/20 at $100,000. This (Core) funding was formerly referred to as participation funding. Confirmation of the on-going Core Funding arrangements were received in June, and to support organisations undertaking its participation planning, Sport Australia co-designed a set of Drivers (More information on the Drivers can be found at www. sportaus.gov.au/participation_drivers, which were the factors identified as the most significant influences on driving positive participation outcomes. Utilising the Drivers as a foundation, an example list of priorities and Key Performance Indicators was provided by Sport Australia to assist OA with its planning for 2019/20 and Sport Australia compliance measures.

While the level of funding was maintained at previous levels, it became apparent that ongoing funding (2019/20) needed to focus on national strategies which necessitated a re-think by Orienteering Australia as to the nature of any projects to be submitted (to Sport Australia), and which would support a national investment program.

One additional change in the funding arrangements is that NSOs are now required to submit Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with their detailed project plans prior to final funding being made available to NSOs by Sport Australia.

The following are examples provided by Sport Australia to NSOs when considering their Core Funding

Expenditure projects: Participation Driver

Example Priorities

Market Insights

Develop partnerships with other NSOs Develop partnerships with Universities

Product Design

Re-develop an existing product Develop a new product

Workforce

Support coaches to deliver the sport at community level Support officials to deliver the sport at community level Support volunteers to deliver the sport at community level

Government, Infrastructure and Equipment

Investigate ways to make the sport more accessible Reduce the cost of participating in sport Develop proposals to maximise government investment in the community level of sport

Commercial

Review the business model of all community sport products

Marketing and Communications

Promote the opportunity to participate in the sport in new and innovative ways Deliver an effective communications plan to increase awareness of opportunities to participate

Governance

Undertake a review of overall internal investment into Participation Establish a Board sub-committee for participation

Management

Conduct an annual review into the participation performance of the entire sport Provide development opportunities for key participation leaders

Unified Behaviours

Unify the State/Territory participation teams Develop an all of Sport participation strategy Undertake a national roadshow with key participation stakeholders Align participation policies and procedures across the sport Align child safe practices across all levels of the sport

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After reviewing the examples provided by Sport Australia, Orienteering Australia submitted the following list of projects for 2020 which will be undertaken through 2020: Participation Driver

Priority

Sport Aust Measure(s) Funding

Product Design

Develop a new High School product

All States implement national product delivery with delivery of same product and same costs

Management

Provide development opportunities for key participation leaders

Every State represented at lead coach workshops

Marketing & Communications

Promote the opportunity to participate in the sport in new and innovative ways

Promotion through every State ACHPER and NSW SSU (and other State equivalents) results in minimum 15 High School Sporting School enquiries in first year

Marketing & Communications

Deliver an effective communications plan to increase awareness of opportunities to participate

6 High School Sporting programs delivered in the first year

#1 (National High School Product)

Develop a new High School product

Product Design

Re-develop an existing product (OKGO kit)

Increase the number of participants by 20%

Management

Provide development opportunities for key participation leaders

Every State represented at Lead Coach workshops

Marketing & Communications

Promote opportunity to participate in the sport in new and innovative ways

Promotion through every State ACHPER and NSW SSU (and other State equivalents) results in a 20% increase in enquiries in the first year

Marketing & Communications

Deliver an effective communications plan to increase awareness of opportunities to participate

Primary School Sporting schools’ programs delivered in first year increases by 20%

#2 (National Primary School Product)

Re-develop an existing product

Market Insights (3a)

Registrations, membership and levy administration enhancements (Eventor)

Increase membership renewal to 85% per year, and to unify administration processes across the States such that all States adopt same process.

(3b)

Sync Eventor membership data with RevSport (enews)

Increase awareness of opportunities to participate

(3c)

Improvements to Omaps database.

(3d)

Revolutionise Sport Consultancy

Enhance connectivity between Eventor and RevSport to align workforce accreditation processes across the sport

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Participation Driver

Priority

Sport Aust Measure(s) Funding

#3 (IT Systems Enhancement)

Sub-Total (IT Enhancements)

Workforce

Support officials to deliver the sport at community level by Updating MTBO, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 Foot O curricula, to include provision of updating and new resource materials

#4 (Controller Curricula Update)

Sub-Total (Controller Curricula)

Product Design

Re-develop an existing product

All 3 syllabuses accepted and signed off by all states.

Product Design

Develop a new product

e-Learning modules used in 25% of accreditation submissions in 12 months after release

Increase number of controllers by 3% by end of 2019 financial year, and Number of accredited controllers re-accrediting greater than 75% by end of 2019 financial year

#5 (Coaching Syllabi Update) $100,000

Grand Total

Table 1: Orienteering Participation Projects, 2019 Project

$

Orienteering Australia

Project

$

South Australia

No National projects undertaken by OA in 2019

$0

Schools Cluster Extension Equipment

$13,600

OA Sub-total

$0

SI kit for hire

$5,900

OSA Sub-total

$19,500

New South Wales Inter-School Competition

$9,7360

Western Australia

ONSW Sub-total

$9,7360

Anytime Orienteering program (continuation)

$3,000

OWA Sub-total

$3,000

Victoria Ballarat Urban Navigation Series Promotion, and “Scoutreach� Project

$1,909

Melbourne City Race (2019 and 2020)

$ 6,000

OV Sub-total

$7,909

Queensland

Tasmania Community Outreach Program (continuation)

$9,972

OT Sub-total

$9,972

ACT

No projects undertaken by OQ in 2019

$0

Development and Promotion of MTBO (2019 and 2020)

$5,000

OQ Sub-total

$0

OACT Sub-total

$5,000

TOTAL

$55,111

24 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

Table 2: Registered Orienteers, 2017 to 2019 2017 Membership Category

NSW

VIC

QLD

WA

SA/NT

TAS

ACT

TOTAL

Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc) School club members Non-members in club events Non-Members in Corporate/ Scout/School events Permanent Course Users

1,455 100 704

876 2,190 1,818

601 25 472

300 268

413 82

331 539

485 80 907

4,461 2,395 4,790

5,994

2,043

-

-

-

-

-

8,037

-

765

-

-

-

-

2,918

3,683

8,243

7,692

1,098

568

495

870

4,390

23,466

VIC

QLD

WA

SA/NT

TAS

ACT

TOTAL

639 20

516 357

266 -

517 94

290 856

526 155 1,023

3,180

313

789

1,167

1568

1,215 5,054

251 1,437

200 1,255

4,922 11,757 5,057

TOTAL

2018 NSW Membership Category Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc) 1,276 School Club members 10 Non-Members in Club Events 905 Non-Members in Corporate/ 10,793 Scout/School events Permanent course users 444 TOTAL 13,428 School members

4,030 165 3,255

LST YR 4,461 2,395 4,790

CHNGE -10.7% -93.2% -32.1%

55

17,865

8,037

222.2%

110 2,824

2,868 4,627

10,010 40,382

3,683 23,466

271.8% 172.1%

2019 Membership Category

NSW

VIC

QLD

WA

SA/NT

TAS

ACT

TOTAL

LST YR

CHNGE

Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc)

1,386

668

496

253

383

315

557

4,058

4,030

0.74%

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

0

165

-100.0%

Non-Members in Club Events

1,822

1,185

806

339

113

731

1,018

6,014

3,255

84.76%

Non-Members in Corporate/ Scout/School events

7,586

-

3,787

0

7,600

2,200

1,284

22,457

17,865

25.70%

Permanent course users

266

-

-

0

557

295

5,985

7,517

10,010

-24.91%

11,060

1,853

5,503

592

8,653

3,541

8,844

40,046

40,382

-0.84%

School Club members

TOTAL School members

4,084

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Table 3a: Events and Participations 2017 to 2019 2017 NSW VIC QLD SA/NT WA TAS ACT Total

Events Participations 448 33,778 351 25,860 203 8,737 105 6,517 106 7,157 92 6,811 108 10,662 1,413 99,522

Av. per Event 75.4 73.7 43.0 62.1 67.5 74.0 98.7 70.4

% 35.5 25.4 8.6 6.4 7.0 6.7 10.5 100.0

2018 NSW VIC QLD SA/NT WA TAS ACT Total

Events Participations 268 21,497 304 22,171 184 7,876 94 10,012 61 3,598 87 8,923 110 11,690 1,108 85,767

Av. per Event 80.2 72.9 42.8 106.5 59.0 102.6 106.3 77.4

% 25.1 25.9 9.2 11.7 4.2 10.4 13.6 100.0

2019 Events Participations Av. per Event NSW 288 27,047 93.9 VIC 340 24,254 71.3 QLD 214 9,494 44.4 SA/NT 75 5,327 71.0 WA 67 6,852 102.3 TAS 93 7,258 78.0 ACT 118 15,484 131.2 Total 1,195 95,716 80.1 Notes: i Excludes Sporting Schools events in 2015 and Active After Schools in earlier years. ii Excludes persons paying to use permanent courses

% 28.3 25.3 9.9 5.6 7.2 7.6 16.2 100

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Map Run In 2016 Orienteering Australia commenced funding of the MapRun smartphone app, developed by Orienteering Queensland’s Peter Effeney. After its initial funding in 2016 the project was again supported in 2017, and in both years was OA’s single largest funded project.

Since its inception the app has been used by some, but not all States, with some State Associations using it for Permanent Courses. The app has a large usage overseas and continues to be used by a number of orienteering clubs in Great Britain and in the rest of Europe.

In 2018 a further grant was awarded to support the consolidation of MapRun as a standard technology for club-based Street-O, Park-O and Urban MTBO, and to mature the support and administration arrangements to a sustainable ongoing model. MapRun was demonstrated to the attendees of the 2018 annual OA conference in Canberra with an event conducted at Lotus Bay. Statistics on the usage of the product in Australia can be seen in the tables and graphs below.

Table 3b: Events and Participantions by Age Category and Gender - 2019 Events NSW ACT QLD SA/NT TAS VIC WA Totals

288 118 214 75 93 340 67 1195

Females U21 1257 1475 846 541 929 581 490 6119

Males U21 1824 2241 1098 688 1260 781 795 8687

Females 21 353 157 73 77 137 313 140 1250

Males 21 511 269 168 102 75 320 169 1614

Females >35 3787 2061 849 742 1334 3973 1483 14229

Males >35 7016 3369 988 1120 1838 8013 2019 24363

Females Males All All 5397 9351 3693 5879 1768 2254 1360 1910 2400 3173 4867 9114 2113 2983 21598 34664

Others

Total

12299 5912 5472 2057 1685 10273 1756 39454

27047 15484 9494 5327 7258 24254 6852 95716

NOTE: Others indicates particpants where gender data is not available

Table 4a: Maprun Participations by State/Gender/Year, 2016 - 2019 State

Female

2016 Male

ACT NSW QLD TAS VIC Totals

66 66

1 108 4 113

Total 1 174 4 179

Female

2017 Male

Total

1 32 221 19 139 412

6 43 382 27 136 594

7 75 603 46 275 1006

Female

2018 Male

Total

6 23 808 66 769 1672

15 32 1168 65 604 1884

21 55 1976 131 1373 3556

Female

2019 Male

Total

4 83 1703 8 1547 3345

13 88 2280 11 1812 4204

17 171 3983 19 3359 7549

Grand Total 45 302 6736 196 5011 12290

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Table 4b: Maprun Combined Female/ Male Age Participations, 2016 - 2019 Age <21 21 to 34 >34

2016 12 20 147

2017 159 186 655

2018 545 484 2520

Note: Excludes records where Year of Birth is unknown

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2019 1882 955 4621

Total 2598 1645 7943

Table 5a: Recruitment and Retention by Year, 2015 to 2019 Year 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

Total Members 4,272 4,612 4,261 4,021 4,128

Renewals 2,983 3,485 3,313 3,265 3,154

Renewal % 78.0 81.6 71.8 76.6 78.4

New Members 1,289 1,812 948 756 974

New % 33.7 42.4 20.6 17.7 24.2

Lapsed 842 787 1,299 996 867

Lapsed % 22.0 18.4 28.2 23.4 21.6

Source: Eventor club membership database Note: These figures have been compiled from summing figures for each orienteering club in Australia. They should be treated with caution as some orienteers will non-renew with their club and take out membership with another club, either within their state or in another state or in another country.

Table 5b: Recruitment and Retention by State, 2019 State ACT NSW QLD SA TAS VIC WA OA

Members 2018 526 1,267 516 517 290 639 266 4,021

Renewals 2019 422 1,046 359 340 242 529 216 3,154

% Renewal 80.2 82.6 69.6 65.8 83.4 82.8 81.2 78.4

Lapsed 2019 104 221 157 177 48 110 50 867

% Lapsed 19.8 17.4 30.4 34.2 16.6 17.2 18.8 21.6

New 2019 131 336 137 149 77 107 37 974

% New 24.9 26.5 26.6 28.8 26.6 16.7 13.9 24.2

Total 2019 553 1,382 496 489 319 636 253 4,128

Source: Eventor club membership database Note: These figures have been compiled from summing figures for each orienteering club in Australia. They should be treated with caution as some orienteers will non-renew with their club and take out membership with another club, either within their state or in another state or in another country.

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Sporting Schools

Sporting Schools Orienteering Participation

The end of 2019 saw a record number of schools funded in one term, with more than 4,000 in Term 4.

The Sport Australia data for programs and participations continued to be inconsistent with OAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reported stats, but only for Term 1 in 2020. From Term 2 through Term 4, the data on program numbers was the same for number of programs, and slight variations on the participant numbers.

Applications in previous terms had been over-subscribed as high as 40%, so additional funds for programs reduced this to 9%. The number of orienteering programs had been decreasing slowly through 2019, so the release of more funds helped increase orienteeringâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share.

Table 5a: Programs and Particpation by State and Term Term 1

SA

Programs Delivered

OA SA

Participants

OA Term 2

SA

Programs Delivered

OA SA

Participants

OA Term 3

SA

Programs Delivered

OA SA

Participants

OA Term 4

SA

Programs Delivered

OA SA

Participants

OA TOTALS

SA

Programs Delivered

OA SA

Participants

OA

ACT

NSW

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

REQ.

0

9

11

2

15

4

3

44

53

0

6

7

2

4

4

3

26

0

291

290

60

351

94

90

1,176

0

553

290

60

351

94

90

1,418

2

9

6

5

1

5

4

32

2

9

6

5

1

5

4

32

250

728

482

793

63

536

315

3,167

250

824

482

793

63

536

315

3,263

3

5

7

2

1

4

6

28

3

5

7

2

1

4

6

28

341

655

671

200

96

682

433

3,078

341

672

671

200

96

682

433

3,095

1

13

5

5

5

6

5

40

1

13

5

5

5

6

5

40

80

1,249

605

534

497

487

436

3,888

80

1,133

715

534

497

487

436

3,882

6

36

29

14

22

19

18

144

6

33

25

14

11

19

18

126

671

2,923

2,048

1,587

1,007

1,799

1,274

11,309

671

3,162

2,158

1,587

1,007

1,799

1,274

11,658

46

36

50

185

The number of participants in 2019 has remained constant compared to 2018, but with less programs. This indicates schools are registering more students than previously.

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Table 5b: Orienteering Australia Reported 2015 to 2019 Programs

Participants

2015

38

1760

2016

149

10,898

2017

167

9,682

2018

137

11,526

2019

126

11,658

Table 5c: Sport Australia Reported 2015 to 2019 Programs

Participants

2015

69

2,275

2016

192

6,778

2017

183

5965

2018

354

9,570

2019

144

11,309

Note: 2015 stats for term 4 only

Sport Australia in 2019

Other sports continue to roll out new products for Sporting Schools which have been developed with the school literacy framework in mind. Some of these sports have used this development as a catalyst for change in their participant pathways for all age groups.

Website booking system allows for packages that give schools direct access to equipment suppliers.

Orienteering have yet to make use of this feature.

High Schools Programs For OA to be considered for high school programs by Sport Australia, a national orienteering product has always been important from a marketing and packaging perspective. In 2019, the OA Board approved the National High School Kit proposal, with an intended start date in September 2019, and completion in June 2020. The start date has been pushed back to 2020.

Primary Schools Programs In 2019, the OA Board approved the National Primary School Kit proposal, with an intended start date in September 2019, and completion in June 2020. The start date has been pushed back to 2020.

The Australian Physical Literacy Framework was launched in July 2019 and is at the core of the Sport Australia approach to getting children active.

Position Statement on Physical Literacy agreed with all 35 sports.

Playing for Life Activity Cards developed since 2017, now widely available.

PL Program Alignment Guidelines released, as well as a Workforce Development Strategy for coaches and officials, and a Pictorial self-assessment tool for primary school children.

The Exemplary Program has been an important evaluation process to test the PL Framework, run extensively with educators and schools in 2019.

Deloitte independent review of the Sporting Schools program in 2019 has been favourable, with the final Dept of Health published report due in early 2020. This will contribute to the May 2020 budget case for future funding into 2021.

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Orienteering Workforce, 2019

Level 0 coaches continue to rise, up 11% on the year with Western Australia, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory all improving (Table 6b).

Coaching The plan to move all accredited coach data to the RevolutioniseSport database was completed and tested in early 2019.

The next phase is to grant the States/Territories the ability to administer the accredited coach database (for their State/Territory) in 2020.

Nationally Level 1 ~ Level 3 Male coach numbers fell by almost 20% in 2019, while for Females, the reduction was 17.5%.

The combined coaching levels from 0 to 3 for all Australia, 2009 to 2019, rising for the last 4 years, mainly due to the increase in Level 0 coaches. Nationally combined coaching levels 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3 were down by 18.7% (Table 6c).

After the L1 - L3 female coaches numbers increased for 3 years, there was a 17% decline in 2019, with male coaches also down 20% (Table 6a).

Western Australia L1 - L3 coach numbers were up by 10% in 2019, Queensland were down by 48%, and South Australia (-23%).

Table 6a: Coach Accreditation by Gender from 2009 to 2019 Females Dec Dec Mar Mar Mar Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Dec 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 Level 1 34 42 41 44 28 40 51 56 64 55 53 Level 2 11 11 9 5 3 4 5 12 9 12 12 Level 3 2 4 4 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 TOTAL 47 57 54 52 34 46 59 71 76 69 68

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL

Males Dec Dec Mar Mar Mar Feb Feb Feb Feb Feb Dec 2019 2018 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 40 53 55 45 33 67 67 77 85 73 73 8 5 53

7 6 66

9 6 70

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8 5 58

7 4 44

6 4 77

10 6 83

24 4 105

26 3 114

23 3 99

30 3 106

Table 6b: Accredited Coaches by State, December 2019/2018 ACT ‘19 ‘18

NSW ‘19 ‘18

NT ‘18

QLD ‘19 ‘18

‘19

Level 0

18

11

267

227

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL 1 -3 TOTAL 0-3

7 0 1 8 26

6 0 1 7 18

15 4 1 20 287

16 5 1 22 249

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

‘19

‘18

‘19

‘18

‘19

‘18

‘19

‘18

Total ‘19 ‘18

0

0

125

144

18

21

5

5

64

84

86

30

583 522

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

10 3 2 15 140

27 3 3 33 177

15 2 0 17 35

19 2 1 22 43

5 1 1 7 12

4 1 2 7 12

6 3 2 11 75

9 1 2 12 96

16 6 0 22 108

14 6 0 20 50

74 95 19 18 7 10 100 123 683 645

Table 6c: Accredited Coach Totals, 2009 ~ 2019 Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL 1 -3 TOTAL 0-3

Dec 2019 583 74 19 7 100 683

Dec 2018 522 95 18 10 123 645

Mar 2018 500 96 18 10 124 624

Mar 2017 402 89 13 8 110 512

Mar 2016 215 61 10 7 78 293

Feb 2015 36 107 10 6 123 156

Feb 2014 31 118 15 9 142 173

Feb 2013 17 133 36 7 176 103

Feb 2012 12 149 35 6 190 202

Feb 2011 128 35 5 168 -

Dec 2009 125 42 6 174 -

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Controlling The plan to move all accredited controller data to the RevolutioniseSport database was completed and tested in early 2019. The next phase to give State/Territory associations the ability to administer their accredited controller database will take place in 2020.

Table 7a: Accredited Controllers by Gender, 2009 ~ 2019 Females Dec 2019 Level 1 11 Level 2 10 Level 3 13 L1 to L3 34 IOF EA 6 TOTAL 40

Dec 2019 Level 1 44 Level 2 42 Level 3 40 L1 to L3 126 IOF EA 12 TOTAL 138

Dec 2018 12 18 9 39 7 46

Dec 2018 40 60 40 140 11 151

Mar 2018 12 18 7 37 5 42

Mar 2018 30 68 39 137 13 150

Mar 2017 13 19 8 40 4 44

Mar 2016 13 14 8 35 5 40

Feb 2015 16 16 8 40 4 44

Mar 2017 40 72 38 150 13 163

Males Mar Feb 2016 2015 29 40 62 62 30 48 121 150 13 13 134 163

Feb 2014 26 20 10 56 4 60

Feb 2013 25 22 10 57 2 59

Feb 2012 18 18 9 45 2 47

Feb 2011 19 25 8 52 2 55

Dec 2009 20 23 8 51 2 53

Feb 2014 60 77 48 185 13 198

Feb 2013 55 84 48 187 10 197

Feb 2012 41 53 49 143 12 155

Feb 2011 59 96 43 198 11 209

Dec 2009 49 81 34 164 7 171

NOTE: IOF EA are IOF accredited Event Advisers

Table 7b: Accredited Controllers by State L1 to 3, 2019/2018 ACT Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL

‘19 9 10 6 25

NSW ‘18 7 10 6 23

‘19 20 17 7 44

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‘18 23 21 7 51

NT ‘19 0 0 0 0

QLD ‘18 0 2 0 2

‘19 7 3 6 16

‘18 8 2 6 16

SA

TAS

VIC

‘19 1

‘18 0

‘19

‘18

14

0

6

8

6

6

13

14

10 7 31

13 6 29

‘19 4 3 14 21

WA ‘18 5 6 14 25

‘19 0 6 4 10

TOTAL ‘18 9 16 4 29

‘19 55 55 50 160

‘18 52 78 49 179

Table 7c: Accredited Controller Totals, 2009 to 2019 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 L1 to L3 IOF EA

Dec Dec Mar 2019 2018 2018 55 52 42 55 78 86 50 49 46 160 179 174 18 18 18

Mar 2017 53 91 46 190 18

Mar Feb Feb Feb 2016 2015 2014 2013 42 56 86 80 76 78 97 106 38 56 58 58 156 190 241 244 18 17 17 12

Feb 2012 59 71 58 188 14

Feb Dec 2011 2009 78 69 122 104 51 42 251 215 13 9

NOTE: IOF EA are IOF accredited Event Advisers

The number of female controllers in 2019 reduced by 13% on 2018, and male controllers by 10% over the same period.

Tasmania had the greatest increase in controllers with 63%, with NSW (-13%), Vic (-16%) and WA (-65%) going the other way.

The total number of accredited controllers is down by over 10.6% on the 2018 totals.

Paul Prudhoe Executive Officer with assistance from Jim Mackay Manager, Coaching & Officiating

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High Performance T

he aim of the High Performance Program is for every junior and senior elite orienteer to realise their potential. The program mainly contributes to the OA Strategic Plan aims of: “to perform at our best” and “make it more attractive to participate”. Quoting from the Strategic Plan: “having a credible pathway to representation at state and national level is critical in the recruitment and retention of young orienteers, as well as increasing the pool of committed orienteers who will form the next generation of leaders in the sport, and act as role models for the orienteers of the future.”

Elite orienteers usually show long term dedication to the sport. Many continue to be active in the sport, raise families that are active in the sport, and contribute significantly to leading and managing the sport in their later years. Indeed, several of our current elite athletes are already active in coaching and team management at state and national levels. The High Performance Program provides an essential bridge between school age orienteers (often part of an orienteering family) to masters age competitors who may be parents of the next generation.

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Major activities of the High Performance Program are: • • • •

Coordinate and promote the National Orienteering League.

Select, organise and support national teams that represent Australia at major international races.

Provide elite athlete support and communication through national squads.

Promote coaching of elite orienteers and development of their abilities as athletes.

The High Performance program relies upon cooperation with state associations and clubs in many ways to help deliver the aims of the program. These include: • • • •

Provision of local coaching and training, especially through the highly successful Coach in Residence program.

Coordinating and supporting state NOL teams.

Organising NOL events.

Providing assistance to members of national teams.

National Orienteering League The NOL continues to be the foundation of national elite competition. It results in high quality competitive events that are also enjoyed by other orienteers, including additional interstate competitors. With a view to improving NOL further there was a review this year of participation rates and extensive consultation about how NOL could be improved. It was found that many athletes compete in only one or two NOL rounds each year, and that the conclusion to the competition at the Australian Championships Carnival is lost among the other competitions occurring in that week. There was interest in more exciting races, a shorter focussed season and greater emphasis on the team and social side of the competition. As a result, starting in 2020 OA will trial a NOL competition that is conducted over the first half

of the year concluding with a final weekend focussed mainly on the NOL competition. Along with this change, new and exciting race formats will be emphasised and a social event will be organised as part of each round.

In 2019 there were 14 NOL races held over five rounds, across three states. A feature of the program was two relays conducted in addition to the separate Oceania Relays in September.

196 athletes competed in 2019 NOL, slightly less than last year. There were 68 competitors in senior men, 48 in senior women, 41 in junior men and 39 in junior women. Looking at the spread of points in the teams’ competitions, the senior women had the greatest depth with four other teams scoring over 50% of the points of the winner, while in senior men only one other team was within 50% of the winner.

Team winners were: Senior Men: Senior Women: Junior Men: Junior Women:

Canberra Cockatoos Victoria Canberra Cockatoos Canberra Cockatoos

Individual winners were: Senior Men: Senior Women: Junior Men: Junior Women:

Simon Uppill, SA Bridget Anderson, SA Patrick Miller, ACT Tara Melhuish, ACT

2019 World Orienteering Championships WOC 2019 was held in Norway and was the first new forest WOC format. Jim Russell was team manager and assistant coach and Lars Klyve (Norway) was team coach.

The local orienteering and logistical knowledge that Lars brought was a great asset and was much appreciated by the team. It would be wonderful to get a local of such calibre in future WOCs but finding a suitable person is the challenge.

Five men and five women were selected. The team was:

Women Middle: Bridget Anderson, Belinda Lawford, Krystal Neumann Long: Krystal Neumann, Aislinn Prendergast Relay: Bridget Anderson, Krystal Neumann, Mary Fleming

Men Middle: Simon Uppill, Matt Doyle, Patrick Jaffe Long: Henry McNulty, Brodie Nankervis Relay: Henry McNulty, Simon Uppill, Matt Doyle

This was Patrick Jaffe’s and Mary Fleming’s first WOC.

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Australia placed 15th and 19th in the men’s and women’s relay respectively. A highlight was Henry McNulty returning in 1st place on the 1st leg. Our best individual results were Simon Uppill, 30th in the middle final (at his 10th WOC); Henry McNulty 39th in the long, Krystal Neumann 42nd in the middle, and Aislinn Prendergast 45th in the long. Both men and women maintained their position as second division nations, which is our current target achievement criteria recognising the challenges posed by the size, resources and geographical isolation of Australian orienteering.

2019 Junior World Orienteering Championships Aston Key won Australia’s second JWOC gold medal (in the sprint), won bronze in the long and was fifth in the middle to produce the most outstanding set of results at the world level. The results show again what can be achieved by an Australian orienteer from a combination of talent, several years of hard work and several years of opportunity to compete internationally, provided mainly by his family. Aston is eligible for JWOC again in 2020.

The best other individual results were Angus Haines 39th in the sprint; Ella Cuthbert 57th in the sprint; and Tara Melhuish 55th in the middle. In the relay the men were 13th and the women were 21st. Australia was the 13th best nation at JWOC, a result as strong as we could expect with mainly the much larger European orienteering nations in front of us.

Brodie Nankervis was team coach and Krystal Neumann was team manager and assistant coach.

The team was:

Women Mikayla Cooper TAS Ella Cuthbert ACT Joanna George SA Tara Melhuish ACT Caroline Pigerre QLD Caitlin Young ACT

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Men Dante Afnan Duncan Currie Alastair George Angus Haines Aston Key Noah Poland

SA NSW NSW SA VIC ACT

World Cup and Park World Tour Australia was represented at all four World Cup rounds in 2019, one of which was the World Orienteering Championships in Norway (covered above) and another was the final round in China in October where Australia sent a full team. Otherwise, in Finland in May and Switzerland in September representation was by a few athletes who were in Europe at the time, and was largely at their own expense.

Our best results were 13th nation in the sprint relay in Finland and Aston Key’s results of 19th at the knockout sprint in Switzerland, 21st in the sprint in China and 34th in the middle in Switzerland. A top 30 result in the World Cup is a benchmark performance given the greater number of athletes representing each country. It is a result we rarely achieve.

For the final round in China, Australia sent a full team of six men and six women with OA paying the on-ground costs for the team and providing a team manager. Two thirds of the team were WOC representatives making it the biggest and strongest team we have had for a WC outside of Oceania. Australia, through Blair Trewin, also provided the senior event advisor. Most Europeans countries sent full and strong teams to China. It is important for us to support the development of orienteering in the Asian region and help broaden the European focus of elite orienteering. China put a huge effort into the World Cup and they are interested in bringing athletes on trips to Australia. They also have some of the most technical sprint orienteering terrain in the world.

The Park World Tour is an important annual series of events that brings international elite orienteering to China and helps develop the sport there. Australia was represented this year by Aston Key, Brodie Nankervis, Krystal Neumann and Mary Fleming. On ground costs are covered by PWT.

Australia vs New Zealand Elite Test Matches

High Performance and Coaching Committee

As has become usual, two test matches were contested in 2019, in New Zealand in June and at the Oceania Championships Carnival in September. This year all four classes were contested in each match which was an improvement on last year. An annual point score across the two matches was used this year rather than individual match scores which invariably go to the home team. This produced a very tight competition with Australia winning by <1%. These test matches can be an important opportunity for those just outside the world level teams.

The OA Board constituted a new committee in 2019 with representatives from each state and OA to develop and coordinate high performance and coaching across Australia. The committee has met twice with much positive input from most states.

National Squads There are 73 athletes in national squads, with 33 senior athletes and 40 junior athletes. They represent all states and territories except NT. Each squad has a coach and they receive regular emails about the High Performance Program. Squad coaches are High Performance Squad: Jim Russell; National Development Squad: Natasha Key; National Junior Squad: Brodie Nankervis; Talented targeted Athletes: Krystal Neumann.

Training Camps A highly successful national junior camp was held in December 2018 in Ballarat led by Brodie Nankervis assisted by state coaches. There were over 90 attendees and this has become an important annual event on the High Performance calendar. The next camp will be held near Newcastle in January 2020, led by Jim Russell with help from local orienteers.

A high altitude physical training camp was held at Falls Creek in January and later that month the High Performance Program organised Sprint Adelaide to raise funds for the program and gather together for additional camp activities.

Changes for 2020 Jim Russell and Ian Prosser intend to resign from their positions in 2020, following four years leading the program. Krystal Neumann and Brodie Nankervis have indicated that after successfully leading the last two JWOC teams they will not be available in 2020. Thus OA will be looking for new people to lead and contribute to the program. On the plus side, in 2019 Stephen Craig took up the position of OA Board member responsible for High Performance and Coaching, filling a position that had been vacant for over two years, providing crucial additional leadership to the program, and he will provide continuity between the resigning and new program managers.

2020 will see Australia send a team to the World University Orienteering Championships in Russia in addition to JWOC and WOC. Other areas for attention will be to implement improvements to the NOL; and the first sprint WOC, including the new knockout sprint.

Stephen Craig Director, High Performance with assistance from Ian Prosser High Performance Administrator Jim Russell Head Coach

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Mountain Bike Orienteering International World Championships

T

he 2019 World Championships in MTBO were held in Viborg, Denmark. Team Members were:

Athletes:

Tim Doman (NSW) Ricky Thackray (WA)

and Joel Young (QLD) Manager: Andrea Harris (QLD) Asst. Manager: Peter Young (QLD)

During the Championship week combined pre-event meetings were held with the New Zealand squad under the leadership of their coach Marquita Gelderman.

Tim

Relative newcomer Tim Doman impressed in the selection trial weekend, in winning several events.

However, as these were held on his home trails at Newcastle Tim was asked to complete a further race in Victoria, which he also won easily.

Ricky

Ricky Thackray was the veteran of the team, while Joel Young was at his 2nd WOC and Tim Doman at his first.

Joel

Preparation Ricky Thackray & Joel Young went to Europe early and competed in several other major MTBO events. Tim Doman arrived just for the 7-day pre-championship training camp.

As there was no accredited coach available to accompany the team this year, alternative arrangements were made. Andrea Harris (Manager) was a reasonably experienced MTB orienteer and also a high level netball coach and manager, so Kay Haarsma mentored her prior to departure and arranged other coaches to assist in Denmark.

No official training was conducted by the organisers but Kay Haarsma liaised with them to attain high quality digital map copies of training areas some months earlier. She then planned training exercises on them and Andrea Harris printed maps off in Australia and then supervised the training once overseas. This prior preparation was very useful as some other countries turned up with no access to maps. Kay Haarsma had also pre-arranged for our small team to train on some days with the main Russian squad and their national coach. This interaction was very useful both technically & socially.

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Relay M21

TEAM PERFORMANCES Event Place Time Sprint MP Middle MP Long 65 142:34 Mass Start MP Sprint 56 28:39 Middle 52 69:06 Long 52 136:45 Mass Start 62 75:49 Sprint 53 28:32 Middle 60 78:40 Long 76 161:42 Mass Start 70 83:05 Tim 21

Ricky 23

Joel 21

Mins Behind +31:45 +6:12 +15:07 +25:56 +15:40 +6:05 +24:41 +50:53 +22:56 Overall 21

Masters MTBO World Championships The 2019 championhips were held at Rabenberg, Germany in early October.

The area had torrential rain meaning that riding conditions were atrocious for most events. Australia was represented by 5 riders with 2 achieving high results.

Carolyn Jackson (W55) was 1st in the long & 3rd in sprint & mass start.

Tamsin Barnes (W50) was 4th in the long & 5th in sprint & mass start..

Masters MTBO World Series This involves 15 races spread over many countries with the best 7 to count. It is not an offcial IOF series but one which is held within the global MTBO comuunity.

Best Australian results: 2nd - W70 Kathy Liley; W75 Ann Ingwersen; M80 Eino Meuronen 4th – W50 Tamsin Barnes; W70 Peta Whitfield.

National Scene MTBO National Series Three well organised National Series rounds were held: • • •

Round 1 – 6-7th April – Newcastle, NSW – NSW Champs & Selection Trials for Aust.Team Round 2 – 31st Aug – 1 Sep – Killarney, QLD – QLD State Champs Round 3 – 25-27th Oct Maryborough, VIC – Aust.

Champs and VIC State Champs

The middle & long races in VIC also included the initial 2 rounds of the 2020 World Masters Series, and their founder, Great Britain’s Keith Dawson attended.

National MTBO Series Individual winners were: M-14 M-20 M21 M40 M50 M60 M70

Anakin Trotter Will Whittington Ricky Thackray Michael Ridley-Smith Greg Barbour Darryl Smith Rick Armstrong

(NSW) (TAS) (WA) (NSW) (NSW) (TAS) (VIC)

W-14 W16 W20 W21 W40 W50 W60 W70 W80

Erika Enderby Mikayla Enderby Rhiannon Prentice Carolyn Jackson Cathy Hogg Carolyn Matthews Heather Leslie Kathy Liley Helen Alexander

(NSW) (NSW) (NSW) (VIC) (ACT) (NSW) (VIC) (VIC) (VIC)

OA Shield – based on Australian Championships only 1st VIC 141 2nd NSW 139 3rd ACT 65 4th QLD 31 5th TAS 26 6th WA 19 7th SA 17

NATIONAL SERIES – State Team Results: W20 W21 M20 M21

NSW 1st VIC 1st TAS 1st WA 1st

TAS 2nd WA 2nd VIC 2nd QLD 2nd

ACT 3rd VIC 3rd

Overall Best State in National Series Elites & 17-20 Classes 1st NSW 153 2nd VIC 137 3rd WA 106 4th ACT 51 5th QLD 47 6th TAS 36 7th SA 11 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019 41

Masters Classes 1st NSW 464 2nd VIC 411 3rd QLD 360 4th SA 82 5th ACT 66 6th TAS 62 7th WA 47

Australia / New Zealand Challenge The Australia v New Zealand Challenge was held at Maryborough, Victoria, in conjunction with the 4 event Australian Championships Carnival. This was tightly contested over 8 classes with Australia finally being victorious 18 -14 points.

Andrew Power (NSW) was Team Manager.

Many of the New Zealand competitors made a 2 weekend trip which enabled the ACT Championships to have over 100 entrants in each event & the Australian Championships in Victoria had over 150 participants.

Meetings 1. A 90-minute development meeting, held in Canberra during the ACT Championships in October was attended by 10 people, covering 6 states & New Zealand. Ideas were shared and disseminated.

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2. A 75-minute meeting was held in Maryborough during the Australian Championships to hear from Sandor Talas (Hungary) about what would be the requirements for Australia to host a World Championship in either Elite, Junior or Masters.

There were 14 attendees, including two from New Zealander.

3. Subsequently Hamish Mackie (NSW) followed up by email with attendees and asked whether they would like to help run a World Championships and if so, what roles they could offer. Although there were some volunteers there were probably not enough to take on key roles and there were few based in the states with the best terrain. So, while there was no immediate interest to apply for a World Championships, subject to ratification by Orientereing Australia, the situation will be revisited in a year or two.

IOF Event Advisor Clinic This was held in late October 2019 in Maryborough, Victoria following on from the Australian Championships Carnival. This was the first IOF MTBO Event Advisor clinic held in the Southern Hemisphere and was generously funded by the IOF. Given that Australia has a scarcity of qualified international Event Advisors this was very needed.

Sandor Talas, from Hungary, a renowned expert in event organising, skilfully led the 26 attendees through the intricacies of advising / controlling major events.

This group comprised 21 Australians, 3 New Zealanders and 2 from Great Britain. Besides information giving

and discussions indoor there was also a terrain walk examining mapping interpretations and the fairness of close controls.

Main Positives •

The overall organizational standard of the National series rounds and other major events such as the ACT Champs provided great events in a variety of terrain.

This saw the inaugural mass start championship races, with events held in both ACT & Victoria. The Australian Championship carnival at Maryborough was the biggest ever, involving 4 races and a practice event utilizing maprun technology.

•

Following a successful trial in 2018 of allowing pedal assist E-bikes on courses these were officially endorsed into mtbo in 2019. This culminated with two E-bike classes at the Australian Championships.

•

The running of the IOF Event Advisor clinic has enabled many of our key personnel to be upskilled.

Key Issues •

There is an ongoing problem of attracting juniors and younger elites into the sport. This is exacerbated by the fact that few Australian foot orienteers take up mtbo even though this is a common occurrence in overseas countries.

•

The need for more MTBO mappers and access to new areas.

•

Greater promotion and publicity would be advantageous.

Kay Haarsma MTBO Coordinator

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Orienteering Australia Awards Athlete Of The Year Aston Key - VIC

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Silva Medal Stephen Craig - NSW

SILVA Award for Services to Orienteering: Richard Matthews - WA

R

ichard Matthews joined the Austrlian orienteering community in 1981 when he moved to Australia from Great Britain in 1981. Since that time Richard has been an outstanding contributor to orienteering in both his home state of Western Australia and also on the national scene. Richard has, over more than thirty five years, been a very active member of Orienteering Western Australia (OWA), setting events, controlling, mapping, organising and leading.

Richard is a Level 3 Controller and IOF Event Advisor.

He is highly regarded controller and course planner who has set and controlled events at local, state and national levels. He has always strived to make his events enjoyable, fair and well managed. As a regular attender of International events, Richard has transferred his experiences to the betterment of at least three of Western Australia’s national Easter Carnivals and is currently advising New Zealand with the organising of the 2021 Oceania Regional Orienteering Championships.

problem solver in times of crisis. Richard lead from the front, when the WA Water Corporation withdrewaccess to much of the Helena Valley and put the holding of the 2019 Easter Carnival in jeopardy. Richard has also represented OWA at a national level ensuring that our remote state’s voice was heard.

Richard Matthew is an outstanding recipient of the 2019 SILVA Award for Services to Orienteering for both his all round services to his club and State as an administrator, course planner, controller and mapper and aslo his contribution to the governance of Orienteering Australia as a OWA representative and his work as an IOF Event Advisor.

Richard has taken on numerous committee positions on OWA’s Council, including Mapping Convener (1987– 1989), Education/Promotion Convener (2007­–2009), Technical Convenor (2010–2013) and President (2017– 2019). He has always been progressive in his approach to moving OWA forward and can be a patient yet tenacious Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019 45

David Hogg Medal for Services to Event Management: Margi Freemantle and Ted Van Geldermalsen - VIC

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argi Freemantle and Ted van Geldermalsen were awarded the David Hogg Medal for Services to Event Management, specifically for the innovative Melbourne Sprint Weekend, featuring six races of complex sprint orienteering in three days in March 2016 and 2018 and the Sprint into Spring Series (SIS) now approaching its 5th season in Melbourne. The weekend offered over 1500 participations, with more than 300 visitors from all states of Australia, making it the largest and most successful orienteering event in Australia outside of the traditional Easter and Australian Championships Carnivals. The SIS series has been among the most innovative we have ever had and has put sprint on the map and created an accessiable urban series for existing and new orienteers.

For some time Margi and Ted had thoughts of holding a multi-day sprint event similar to Sprint the Bay, a 6-race series held in New Zealand. Following a reconnaissance mission to the 2014 Sprint the Bay event, planning started to take shape for what became the inaugural Melbourne Sprint Weekend in 2016. Building on the success of 2016, a high quality event including 4 National Orienteering League (NOL) races, a Sprint Relay, a World Ranking Event (WRE) and the Australian University Championships were arranged for 2018.

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Margi Freemantle took on the lead organising role which included gaining permission into venues and confirming planners and advisors for each event. Ted van Geldermalsen was the overall technical advisor and IOF Event Adviser for the WRE, ensuring that a consistent approach was applied across the weekend.

This is a big task for any national event, but to do it all for 6 events in a 3 day period was an enormous task.

Both 2016 and 2018 events have shown that it is not only possible, but also extremely popular with both elite orienteers and recreational age group competitors.

The intention is for the Melbourne Sprint Weekend to be a regular fixture on the OA and NOL event calendar every 2 years over the March long weekend. This will be especially important preparation for our high performance athletes with Sprint World Championships occurring every 2 years from 2020.

The Sprint into Spring Series was Margi and Tedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creation with our urban sub committee. However they have played the key roles throughout the four years of the series. Margi has coordinated the planning of events with clubs. Her innovations have included hand picking courses planners and often approaching new course planners to give then their first opportunity. One series was planned mainly by leading juniors such as

Aston Key, Patrick Jaffe and Todd Neve and gave them their first taste of course planning for official events.

This would not have been possible without Ted acting as overall technical controller and mentor to these novice course planners. This meant that Ted rarely got to compete over the six race series for the first two years – a great sacrifice for a World Masters medallist at this distance.

Other innovations that Margi and Ted instigated included: a. A Tour de France style jersey model for each of the three courses including a common sprint and hill leg across all courses. The jerseys are incredibly popular and give sprinters and hill climbers something to focus on. b. A separate web site and promo material that gave this series it’s own brand. c. A low effort event organisation model where on the day man power for clubs is limited to 3-4 key roles. d. Season ticket entry to save effort. e. A “finals” weekend that integrates with the Vic Sprint champs. f. Finding new locations. g. Planning the series to cover all key areas of Melbourne. h. Events on Saturday afternoons not Sunday mornings. i. Integrated roles for our coaches in residence who have taken over some of the technical coordination. j. Branding of the courses and simplification into three (Mo Farah, Usain Bolt , Sally Pearson).

The series has grown year on year and now averages 130-150 participants per event. It has been a successful growth driver in Victoria and could be easily replicated in any state.

On top of this huge effort, Margi also contributes as Vice President of Orienteering Victoria, Co-Chair of the Urban Orienteering committee and Ted is also overall technical advisor for the Sprint into Spring series, mapper and IOF Event Adviser.

We can not think of any Australian residents who made more of a contribution to event management and administration in Australia.

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SILVA Award for Services to Coaching Bridget Uppill - SA

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ridget Uppill nee Anderson is a most worthy recipient the Orienteering Australia Silva Award for Services to Coaching. Bridget is a former Orienteering Queensland junior who now resides in South Australia has contributed much to coaching while at the same time being an Australian World Championships representative and a successful high level Elite competitor on the Australian domestic orienteering calendar.

Bridget has been highly impressive by her continued dedication to orienteering and her successes at the elite level while being also committed to coaching.

Bridgetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contributions to coaching have been most evident through her involvement with the Orienteering South Australia Schools Orienteering Team. At the Australian Championships carnival, Bridget is always seen enthusiastically motivating her team members who clearly enjoy and thrive on the challenges she puts forward. The impact of her involvement is clearly seen in the recent successes of the Orienteering South Australia Schools team, including a second place overall at the 2018 Australian Championships Carnival. In addtion, she has organised many coaching activities to support the growth and engagement of junior orienteers in South Australia.

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In recognition of her efforts in coaching, in particular coaching at the junior level, Bridget is an outstanding recipient of the 2019 of Orienteering Australia Silva Award for Services to Coaching.

Appendix 1: National Results 2019 OA Shield

National Series (Senior)

Interstate competition based on the results of the Australian Long Distance Championships.

Interstate competition based on the individual results of senior events in the National League.

Australian Capital Territory

Women: Bridget Anderson SA Men: Simon Uppill SA

Xanthorrhoea Trophy Interstate competition based on the results of the Australian Relay Championships.

New South Wales

National Series (Junior) Interstate competition based on the individual results of junior events in the National League.

Champion Club Trophy

Women: Zoe Melhuish ACT Men: Patrick Miller ACT

Inter-club competition based on the placings at the end of day two of the Australian 3-Days.

Australian MTBO Championship Plaque

Australopers - Tasmania

Australian MTBO Championship Plaque Interstate competition based on the results of the Australian MTBO Sprint, Middle and Long Distance Championships.

National League (Senior) Interstate competition based on the team results of all senior events in the National League.

Women: Men:

Victoria

Victorian Nuggets Canberra Cockatoos

National League (Junior) Interstate competition based on the team results of junior events in the National League.

Women: Men:

Canberra Cockatoos Canberra Cockatoos

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Australian 3 Days: Perth & Beverley, WA Australian Long Distance Championships: Cootamundra, NSW W21E Natasha Key VIC M21E Henry McNulty WA W17-20E Mikayla Cooper TAS M17-20E Patrick Miller ACT W-12 Aoife Rothery NSW W-14 Erika Enderby NSW W-16 Justine Hobson NSW W35 Nikolett Halmai WA W40 Rachel West WA W45 Clare Hawthorne TAS W50 Cath Chalmers NSW W55 Sue Hancock TAS W60 Carolyn Jackson VIC W65 Robin Uppill SA W70 Kathy Liley VIC W75 Penny Dufty WA W80 Helen Alexander VIC

M-10 Alton Freeman NSW M-12 Eckart Bosman WA M-14 Oliver Freeman NSW M-16 Oskar Mella NSW M35 Istvan Kertesz NSW M40 Craig Feuerherdt VIC M45 Bruce Arthur VIC M50 Stephen Craig NSW M55 Warren Key VIC M60 Eoin Rothery NSW M65 Paul Pacque TAS M70 Paul Hoopmann SA M75 Darryl Erbacher ACT M80 Basil Baldwin NSW

W21E Natasha Key VIC M21E Simon Uppill SA W17-20E Zoe Melhuish ACT M17-20E Patrick Miller ACT W-10 Ariadna Iskhakova ACT W-12 Aoife Rothery

NSW W-14 Erika Enderby NSW W-16 Mikaela Gray QLD W-18 Nina Gannon QLD W35 Mace Neve ACT W40 Jo Allison ACT W45 Clare Hawthorne TAS W50 Barbara Hill

NSW W55 Ana Herceg ACT W60 Jenny Bourne VIC W65 Robin Uppill

SA W70 Jenny Hawkins NSW W75 Judi Herkes VIC W80 Helen Alexander VIC W85 Maureen Ogilvie NSW M-10 Alton Freeman NSW M-12 Euan Best TAS M-14 Tom Weihart SA M-16 David Stocks

ACT M-18 Grant Reinbott QLD M35 Stephen Craig NSW M40 Ben Rattray ACT M45 Bruce Arthur VIC M50 Jock Davis NSW M55 Greg Barbour NSW M60 Warren Key VIC M65 Ted van Geldermalsen VIC M70 Leigh Privett VIC M75 Darryl Erbacher ACT M80 John Hodsdon NSW M85 Eino Meuronen ACT M95 Hermann Wehner ACT SILVA Trophy - M21E Teams Australian Capital Territory Swedish Ambassadorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Trophy - W21E Teams Victoria Howden Trophy M21E - Simon Uppill (SA) Howden Trophy W21E - Natasha Key (VIC)

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Australian Middle Distance Championships: Narrogin, WA

Australian Sprint Distance Championships: Narrogin, WA

W21E Krystal Neumann QLD M21E Matt Doyle ACT W17-20E Tara Melhuish ACT M17-20E Alastair George NSW

W-12 Luca Hogg ACT W-14 Sara Garbellini QLD W-16 Mikayla Enderby NSW W35 Nikolett Halmai WA W40 Ceri Pass WA W45 Martina Craig NSW W50 Karen Staudte WA W55 Ana Herceg ACT W60 Carolyn Jackson VIC W65 Robin Uppill SA W70 Libby Meeking VIC W75 Judi Herkes VIC W80 Helen Alexander VIC

M-10 Alton Freeman NSW M-12 Luke Feuerherdt VIC M-14 Oliver Freeman NSW M-16 David Stocks ACT M35 Tyson Hillyard SA M40 Craig Feuerherdt VIC M45 Bruce Arthur VIC M50 Stephen Craig NSW M55 Warren Key VIC M60 Tim Hatley VIC M65 Adrian Uppill SA M70 Robert Rapkins QLD M75 Alex Tarr VIC M80 Peter Hamilton WA

W21E Natasha Key VIC M21E Henry McNulty WA W17-20E Tara Melhuish ACT M17-20E Angus Haines SA W-12 Aoife Rothery NSW W-14 Erika Enderby NSW W-16 Ana Penck SA W35 Nikolett Halmai WA W40 Ceri Pass WA W45 Martina Craig NSW W50 Jennifer Enderby NSW W55 Toni Brown ACT W60 Carolyn Jackson VIC W65 Robin Uppill SA W70 Kathy Liley VIC W75 Judi Herkes VIC W80 Helen Alexander VIC M-10 Edmund Toomey WA M-12 Luke Feuerherdt VIC M-14 Oliver Freeman NSW M-16 David Stocks ACT M35 Istvan Kertesz NSW M40 Craig Feuerherdt VIC M45 Bruce Arthur VIC M50 Stephen Craig NSW M55 Ken McLean TAS M60 Tim Hatley VIC M65 Tim Ashman SA M70 Paul Hoopmann SA M75 Alex Tarr TAS M80 John Hodsdon NSW M85 Don Young WA

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Australian Relay Championships: Cootamundra, NSW W21E M21E W17-20E M17-20E

South Australia Australian Capital Territory Queensland Australian Capital Territory

W/M-12 W-14 W-16 W35 W45 W55 W65

M-14 M-16 M-18 M35 M45 M55 M65

Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Australian Capital Territory Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Tasmania Tasmania New South Wales Tasmania Tasmania Victoria New South Wales New South Wales Victoria

Australian Schools Championships: Wagga Wagga, NSW Individual - Sprint Junior Girls Senior Girls Junior Boys Senior Boys

Nea Shingler

Zoe Melhuish Alvin Craig Grant Reinbott

NSW ACT NSW QLD

Individual Teams - Sprint Junior Girls Senior Girls Junior Boys Senior Boys

New South Wales Australian Capital Territory New South Wales & South Australia (Tie) Queensland

Individual - Classic Junior Girls Senior Girls Junior Boys Senior Boys

Iida Lehtonen

Ella Cuthbert Alvin Craig Dante Afnan

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NSW ACT NSW SA

Individual Teams - Classic Junior Girls Senior Girls Junior Boys Senior Boys

New South Wales Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Queensland

Relay Junior Girls Senior Girls Junior Boys Senior Boys

New South Wales Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Australian Capital Territory

Australian Schools Championships Teams 1st New South Wales 2nd South Australia 3rd Australian Capital Territory 4th Victoria 5th Queensland 6th Tasmania 7th Western Australia

Oceania Long Distance Championships: Oceania Middle Distance Championships: Beechworth, VIC El Dorado, VIC W21E Lizzie Ingham AUS M21E Brodie Nankervis AUS W-20E Katie Cory-Wright NZL M-20E Patrick Miller AUS W-10 Anna Wright

NZL W-12 Lilja Lehtonen

AUS W-14 Milla Key AUS W-16 Mikaela Gray AUS W-18 Amy Culham NZL W35 Mace Neve AUS W40 Sara Prince NZL W45 Clare Hawthorne AUS W50 Jennifer Enderby AUS W55 Gayle Quantock AUS W60 Carey Martin NZL W65 Carol Brownlie NZL W70 Libby Meeking AUS W75 Kate Fortune NZL W80 Helen Alexander AUS W85 Maureen Ogilvie AUS M-10 Hayden Dent AUS M-12 Eckart Bosman AUS M-14 Tom Weihart AUS M-16 Zefa Faâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;avae

NZL M-18 Jensen Key AUS M35 Matthew Schepisi AUS M40 Aaron Prince NZL M45 Bruce Arthur AUS M50 Alistair Cory-Wright NZL M55 Tony Woolford AUS M60 Robert Vincent AUS M65 Ted van Geldermalsen NZL M70 Rob Garden NZL M75 Darryl Erbacher AUS M80 John Robinson NZL M85 Eino Meuronen AUS

W21E Krystal Neumann QLD M21E Matt Doyle ACT W-20E Tara Melhuish ACT M-20E Alastair George NSW

W-12 Luca Hogg ACT W-14 Sara Garbellini QLD W-16 Mikayla Enderby NSW W35 Nikolett Halmai WA W40 Ceri Pass WA W45 Martina Craig NSW W50 Karen Staudte WA W55 Ana Herceg ACT W60 Carolyn Jackson VIC W65 Robin Uppill SA W70 Libby Meeking VIC W75 Judi Herkes VIC W80 Helen Alexander VIC

M-10 Alton Freeman NSW M-12 Luke Feuerherdt VIC M-14 Oliver Freeman NSW M-16 David Stocks ACT M35 Tyson Hillyard SA M40 Craig Feuerherdt VIC M45 Bruce Arthur VIC M50 Stephen Craig NSW M55 Warren Key VIC M60 Tim Hatley VIC M65 Adrian Uppill SA M70 Robert Rapkins QLD M75 Alex Tarr VIC M80 Peter Hamilton WA

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Oceania Sprint Distance Championships: Wagga Wagga, NSW

Oceania Relay Championships: Cootamundra, NSW

W21E Lizzie Ingham NZL M21E Brodie Nankervis AUS W-20E Ella Cuthbert AUS M-20E Ryan Stocks AUS

W-10 Anna Wright NZL W-12 Aoife Rothery AUS W-14 Nea Shingler AUS W-16 Juliet Frater NZL W-18 Nina Gannon AUS W35 Mace Neve AUS W40 Allison Jones AUS W45 Martina Craig AUS W50 Barbara Hill AUS W55 Paula Shingler AUS W60 Jenny Bourne AUS W65 Robin Uppill AUS W70 Carol Jacobson AUS W75 Jean Baldwin AUS W80 Helen Alexander AUS W85 Maureen Ogilvie AUS

M-10 Hayden Dent AUS M-12 Euan Best AUS M-14 James McGuire NZL M-16 Luke Clements NZL M-18 Ayrton Shadbolt NZL M35 Simon Louis AUS M40 Aaron Prince NZL M45 Bruce Arthur AUS M50 Bill Edwards NZL M55 Greg Barbour NZL M60 Tim Hatley AUS M65 Nick Collins NZL M70 Paul Hoopmann AUS M75 Darryl Erbacher AUS M80 John Robinson NZL M85 Eino Meuronen AUS M95 Hermann Wehner AUS

W21E M21E W-20E M-20E

New Zealand Australia Australia Australia

W-16 W-18 W45 W55

New Zealand New Zealand Australia Australia

M-16 M-18 M45 M55

Australia Australia Australia New Zealand

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Australian MTBO Long Distance Australian MTBO Sprint Distance Championships: Beerburrum West, QLD Championships: Bald Hills, QLD W21E Carolyn Jackson VIC M21E Hamish Mackie NSW W17-20 Rhiannon Prentice NSW

W21E Carolyn Jackson VIC M21E Ricky Thackray WA W17-20 Rhiannon Prentice NSW

W-14 Kate McKenna QLD W40 Clare Lonergan ACT W50 Carolyn Matthews NSW W60 Kay Haarsma SA W70 Ann Ingwersen ACT

M-14 Dylan Bryant

QLD M40 Sam Paterson

QLD M50 Andrew Power

NSW M60 Peter Cusworth VIC M70 Leigh Privett VIC

W-14 Kate McKenna QLD W40 Clare Lonergan ACT W50 Carolyn Matthews NSW W60 Heather Leslie VIC W70 Kathy Liley VIC M-14 Dylan Bryant

QLD M40 Kieran MacDonell ACT M50 Craig Steffens

QLD M60 Malcolm Roberts NSW M70 Rick Armstrong VIC

Australian MTBO Middle Distance Championships: Kurwongbah, QLD W21E Carolyn Jackson VIC M21E Glen Charlton NSW W17-20 Rhiannon Prentice VIC W-14 Kate McKenna NSW W40 Tamsin Barnes QLD W50 Carolyn Matthews NSW W60 Jo Wilson

QLD W70 Ann Ingwersen ACT M-14 Dylan Bryant

QLD M40 Andrew Pinsent QLD M50 Craig Steffens

QLD M60 Robert Vincent NSW M70 Leigh Privett VIC

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Appendix 2: Key Officials National Events 2019 Australian Three Days Perth and Beverley- Western Australia Event Director & OA Controller Richard Matthews

Sprint Relay Controller Graham Braid Course Planners Paul Dowling and Ceri Pass Mapper Paul Dowling

Day One Controller Phil Taylor Course Planner Anthea Feaver Mappers Ricky Thackray and Noel Schoknecht

Day Two Controller Craig Dufty Course Planners Peter Komyshan Mappers Alex Tarr, Noel Schoknecht and Peter Komyshan

Day Three Controller Course Planner Mappers

Brian Austin Dan Greig Alex Tarr and Noel Schoknecht

Australian Sprint Distance Championships and World Ranking Event (WRE) Narrogin - Western Australia IOF Event Adviser Jenny Casanova Controller Russell Candy Course Planner Tony Simpkins Mapper Tony Simpkins

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Australian Middle Distance Championships and World Ranking Event (WRE) Narrogin - Western Australia IOF Event Adviser Jenny Casanova Controllers Russell Candy and John Major Course Planner Noel Schoknecht Mapper Noel Schoknecht

Australian Long Distance Championships and World Ranking Event (WRE) Cootamundra - New South Wales Event Directors IOF Event Adviser OA Controllers Course Planner Mappers

Alison Inglis and Peter Miller Graham Teahan (NZL) Paul Prudhoe and Jon Sutcliffe Ross Stewart Rob Plowright and Rob Vincent

Australian Relay Championships Hill End - New South Wales Event Director Johnny Petersen Controllers Andrew Lumsden Course Planner Jim Forbes Mapper Alex Tarr

Oceania Sprint Distance Championships Wagga Wagga - New South Wales Event Director IOF Event Adviser OA Controller Event Controller

Stephen Goggs Graham Teahan (NZL) Jon Sutcliffe Nick Dent

Course Planner Dave Meyer Mapper Alex Davey

Oceania Middle Distance Championships Beechworth - Victoria Event Director Stephen Goggs Event Manager Greg Tamblyn IOF Event Adviser Graham Teahan (NZL) OA Controller Jon Sutcliffe Event Controller Jon Sutcliffe Course Planner Leigh Privett Mapper Fredrik Johansson

Oceania Long Distance Championships El Dorado - Victoria Event Director Stephen Goggs Event Manager David Jaffe IOF Event Adviser Graham Teahan (NZL) OA Controller Jon Sutcliffe Event Controller Tim Hatley Course Planner Warren Key Mappers Steve Key, Bruce MacDonald and Alex Tarr

Mapper Alex Tarr

National Orienteering League Wyangala - New South Wales Event Director James McQuillan Controller Rob Vincent Course Planner Rob Bradley Mappers Gareth Prosser, Chris Wilmott and Rob Vincent

National Orienteering League Willagalong - New South Wales Event Director James McQuillan Controller Rob Vincent Course Planners Steve Dunlop Mappers Bruce Cooper, Chris Wilmott and Rob Vincent

Australian MTBO Championships Maryborough and Dunolly - Victoria Australian MTBO Sprint Distance Championships

Oceania Relay Championships Cootamundra - New South Wales

Event Director Peter Cusworth OA Controller Geoff Adams Course Planner Carolyn Jackson Mapper Andrew Slattery

Event Director Event Managers IOF Event Adviser OA Controllers Event Controller Course Planner Mappers

Australian MTBO Middle Distance Championships

Stephen Goggs Alison Inglis and Peter Miller Graham Teahan (NZL) Jon Sutcliffe and Paul Prudhoe Bill Jones David Shepherd Rob Plowright and Rob Vincent

National Orienteering League Hill End - New South Wales Event Director Controller Course Planners

Warwick Selby Andrew Lumsden Peter Fozo and Aniko Fozo-Kertes

Event Director Kathy Liley OA Controller Robert Edmonds Course Planner Kathy Liley Mapper Andrew Slattery

Australian MTBO Long Distance Championships Event Director Blake Gordon OA Controller Warwick Williams Course Planner Keith Wade Mapper Andrew Slattery

Australian MTBO Mass Start Championships Event Director OA Controller Course Planner

Peter Cusworth Tim Hatley Peter Cusworth Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019 57

Appendix 3: National Teams/Squads 2019 World Championships: Sarpsborg - Norway

World Cup: Helsinki - Finland

Women

Women

Natasha Key VIC Belinda Lawford ACT Krystal Neumann QLD Vanessa Round SA

Mary Fleming VIC Natasha Key VIC Tara Melhuish ACT

Men Matthew Crane ACT Matt Doyle VIC Bryan Russell-Keely VIC Aston Key VIC Henry McNulty WA Brodie Nankervis TAS

VIC NOR

Junior World Championships: Aarhus - Denmark 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

Officials Brodie Nankervis - Coach Krystal Neumann - Manager 58 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

Andrew Barnett ACT Robert Bennett NSW Aston Key VIC Henry McNulty WA

Laufen - Switzerland Women

Officials Jim Russell - Manager ???? - Coach

Men

TAS QLD

Mary Fleming VIC

Men Andrew Barnett ACT Aston Key VIC Patrick Jaffe VIC

Foshan - China Women Mary Fleming

VIC Natasha Key VIC Belinda Lawford ACT Krystal Neumann QLD Anna Sheldon QLD Bridget Uppill SA

Men Jarrah Day ACT Martin Dent ACT Matt Doyle ACT Aston Key VIC Henry McNulty WA Brodie Nankervis TAS

Bushrangers: Aus - NZ Test Matches Women Elite

World MTBO Championships: Viborg - Denmark

Bridget Anderson SA Grace Crane Natasha Key VIC Belinda Lawford ACT Krystal Neumann QLD Aislinn Prendergast VIC

Men

Women Junior Elite

Officials

Mikayla Cooper TAS Ella Cuthbert ACT Abigail George SA Joanna George SA Tara Melhuish ACT Zoe Melhuish SA Arabella Phillips TAS Caitlin Young ACT

Andrea Harris- Manager

Men Elite Matt Crane ACT Martin Dent ACT Matt Doyle ACT Aston Key VIC Brodie Nankervis TAS Simon Uppill SA Toby Wilson NSW

Men Junior Elite

Tim Doman NSW Ricky Thackray WA Joel Young QLD

???

Australian Schools Championships All-Australian Honour Team 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

Dante Afnan SA Alvin Craig NSW Duncan Currie NSW Thomas Garbellini QLD Alastair George NSW Daniel Gray QLD Angus Haines SA Patrick Miller ACT

Senior Girls

Officials

Dante Afnan SA Jensen Key VIC Grant Reinbott QLD David Stocks ACT

Brodie Nankervis - Manager/Coach (TAS) Jim Russell - Asst Manager/Coach (VIC)

Mikayla Cooper Ella Cuthbert Zoe Melhuish Caitlin Young

TAS ACT ACT ACT

Senior Boys

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High Performance Squad (HPS) Men Henry McNulty

WA

High Performance Squad (HPS) Women Natasha Key Belinda Lawford Krystal Neumann Aislinn Prendergast Vanessa Round Lanita Steer Bridget Uppill

VIC ACT QLD VIC SA VIC SA

Men Andrew Barnett ACT Matthew Crane ACT Julian Dent NSW Martin Dent ACT Matt Doyle ACT Patrick Jaffe VIC Brodie Nankervis TAS Simon Uppill SA

National Development Squad (NDS) Women Nicola Blatchford NSW Clare Brownridge VIC Michele Dawson ACT Anna Dowling TAS Zoe Dowling TAS Mary Fleming VIC Jasmine Neve VIC Anna Sheldon QLD Olivia Sprod SA Asha Steer VIC

Men Robert Bennett NSW Aidan Dawson NSW Jarrah Day TAS Joseph Dickinson TAS Kerrin Rattray SA Matthew Schepisi VIC Toby Wilson NSW 60 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

Australian Junior Development Squad (AJDS) Women Rachel Allen TAS Mikayla Cooper TAS Ella Cuthbert ACT Abigail George SA Joanna George SA Tara Melhuish ACT Zoe Melhuish ACT Caroline Pigerre QLD Emily Sorensen SA Caitlin Young ACT

Men Dante Afnan SA Duncan Currie NSW Jed Fleming TAS Thomas Garbellini QLD Alistair George NSW Daniel Gray QLD Angus Haines SA Aston Key VIC Patrick Miller

ACT Noah Poland NSW

Targeted Talented Athlete Squad (TTAS) Women Rani Brennan QLD Niamh Cassar NSW Amy Enkelaar TAS Julia Gannon QLD Mikaela Gray QLD Sarah Lim SA Jo Anna Maynard WA Meredith Norman SA Arabella Phillips TAS Jess Rogers QLD

Men Alvin Craig NSW Ryan Gray QLD Brody McCarthy VIC Tristan Miller ACT Ethan Penck SA Blake Reinbott QLD Grant Reinbott QLD Ewan Shingler NSW David Stocks ACT Ryan Stocks ACT

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Appendix 3: Office Bearers 2019 Board President Blair Trewin VIC Director (Finance) Bruce Bowen ACT Director (Technical) Jenny Casanova SA Director (High Performance) Stephen Craig NSW Director Bill Jones ACT Director (International Relations) Michael Dowling TAS Director Prue Dobbin VIC

Paid Officers Executive Officer Paul Prudhoe NSW Head Coach Jim Russell VIC High Performance Administrator Ian Prosser ACT Manager, Coaching & Officiating Accreditation: Jim Mackay NSW Manager, Coaching Development: Vacant

Contracted Officers Editor, The Australian Orienteer Editors, Orienteering Australia E-News

Mike Hubbert Linda Burridge

VIC QLD

Committee Chairpersons Coaching Vacant Events Greg Hawthorne TAS Mapping Neil Barr VIC MTB Orienteering Craig Steffens QLD Selection - Junior Ian Prosser ACT Selection - Senior Bruce Arthur VIC Selection - MTBO Craig Steffens QLD Technical Anna Sheldon QLD

Coaching & Management National Senior Coach Jim Russell VIC National Junior Coach Brodie Nankervis TAS National Junior Manager Krystal Neumann QLD National MTBO Coach Kay Haarsma SA Bushrangers Coach Jim Russell VIC

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Appendix 4: Financial Report 2019

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. ABN 77 406 995 497 FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019

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Contents Committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Report Certificate by Member of the Committee Income and Expenditure Statement Detailed Balance Sheet Statement of Cash Flows Independent Auditorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Report to the Members

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. COMMITTEEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 Your committee members submit the financial accounts of the Orienteering Australia Inc for the financial year ended 31 December 2019.

Committee Members The names of committee members at the date of this report are: Blair Trewin Jenny Casanova

Bruce Bowen Michael Dowling

Stephen Craig Bill Jones

Prue Dobbin

Principal Activities The principal activities of the association during the financial year were: Operating as the national body responsible for the organisation and promotion of Orientering throughout Australia.

Significant Changes No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year.

Operating Result The profit from ordinary activities after providing for income tax amounted to Year Ended

Year Ended

31 December 2019

31 December 2018

$

$

31,475.78

10,949.27

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Members of the Committee on:

____________________________________ Blair Trewin ___________________________________ Bruce Bowen

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. CERTIFICATE BY MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 I, Blair Trewin and I, Bruce Bowen certify that: 1.

2.

3.

4.

We are members of the Committee of Orienteering Australia Inc. We attended the annual general meeting of the association .

We are authorised by the attached resolution of the Committee to sign this certificate.

The financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019 were submitted to the members of the association at its annual general meeting.

____________________________________ Blair Trewin

____________________________________ Bruce Bowen

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 INCOME Interest received Receipts from States Reimbursement from States Uniform and Badge Sales

2019

2018

$

$

2,941.07

4,595.65

196,379.45

185,686.59

31,118.94

24,447.94

7,118.50

6,223.18

Australian Orienteer

33,210.52

35,704.53

Grants Received

82,486.38

75,000.00

High Perfomance Items

45,363.75

41,852.72

IOF Meeting Sponsorship

4,864.50

2,709.16

Sundry Income

5,781.44

10.69

TOTAL INCOME

409,264.55

376,230.46

19,792.23

1,170.37

EXPENDITURE Purchases for Resale Audit Fees

3,782.00

2,200.00

38,694.19

50,262.88

3,455.51

6,058.92

343.43

786.47

Eventor Software

35,433.90

33,593.95

Development

76,950.74

64,415.82

Promotion

3,203.29

5,023.75

Australian Orienteer Office Bank Fees And Charges

Filing Fees

79.00

-

High Performance

89,472.78

96,477.37

Insurance

12,748.50

13,346.63

IOF Levies

12,314.84

9,908.84

OA Conference & IOF Council Meetings

20,243.87

17,428.08

5,533.68

10,581.79

Sporting Schools Employee Costs TOTAL EXPENSES

55,740.81

54,026.32

377,788.77

365,281.19

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 cont.

PROFIT (LOSS) FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES BEFORE INCOME TAX

31,475.78

10,949.27

NET PROFIT (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE ASSOCIATION

31,475.78

10,949.27

TOTAL CHANGES IN EQUITY OF THE ASSOCIATION

31,475.78

10,949.27

Opening retained profits

216,273.06

205,323.79

lncome tax revenue relating to ordinary activities

Net profit (loss) attributable to the association CLOSING RETAINED PROFITS

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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31,475.78

10,949.27

247,748.84

216,273.06

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. DETAILED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2019 2019

2018

$

$

86,253.36

58,706.64

CURRENT ASSETS Cash Assets Cash At Bank Cheque account - AO Savings Account - at call [ING]

3,598.00

2,964.64

179,689.05

152,868.21

Term Deposit

83,193.92

82,073.69

352,734.33

296,613.18

Receivables Trade debtors

36,465.99 36,465.99

Inventories Uniform Stock on Hand

9,937.08

22,584.96

9,937.08

22,584.96

Other Prepayments

14,679.88

12,748.51

14,679.88

12,748.51

Total Current Assets

413,817.28

331,946.65

TOTAL ASSETS

413,817.28

331,946.65

29,189.03

6,118.65

(10,677.40)

(3,320.51)

3,446.50

3,145.50

21,958.13

5,943.64

540.66

536.96

540.66

536.96

CURRENT LIABILITIES Current Tax Liabilities GST payable control account Input tax credit control account Amounts withheld from salary and wages

Provisions Employee entitlements - Superannuation

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. DETAILED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2019 CONT. Other Unexpended Grants

143,569.65

109,192.99

143,569.65

109,192.99

Total Current Liabilities

166,068.44

115,673.59

TOTAL LIABILITIES

166,068.44

115,673.59

NET ASSETS

247,748.84

216,273.06

247,748.84

216,273.06

247,748.84

216,273.06

MEMBERS’ FUNDS Accumulated surplus (deficit) Total Members’Funds

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 2019

2018

$

$

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Receipts from customers

369,857.49

371,634.81

Payment to suppliers & employees

(316,677.41)

(406,662.78)

2,941.07

4,595.65

Net Cash Provided by / (Used in) Operating Activities (note 2)

56,121.15

(30,432.32)

Net increase (decrease) in cash held

56,121.15

(30,432.32)

Cash at the beginning of the year

296,613.18

327,045.50

Cash at the end of the year (note 1)

352,734.33

296,613.18

Interest received

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FORTHE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2019 2019

2018

$

$

86,253.36

58,706.64

3,598.00

2,964.64

179,689.05

152,868.21

NOTE 1. RECONCILIATION OF CASH For the purposes of the statement of cash flows, cash includes cash on hand and in banks and investments in money market instruments, net of outstanding bank overdrafts.

Cash at the end of the year as shown in the statement of cash flows is reconciled to the related items in the balance sheet as follows: Cash At Bank Cheque account - AO Savings Account - at call [ING] Term Deposit

83,193.92

82,073.69

352,734.33

296,613.18

NOTE 2. RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH PROVIDED BY/USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO OPERATING PROFIT AFTER INCOME TAX Operating profit after income tax

31,475.78

10,949.27

(36,465.99)

-

(Increase) decrease in finished goods

12,647.88

(5,257.38)

(Increase) decrease in prepayments

(1,931.37)

-

Increase (decrease) in other creditors

34,376.66

(19,759.79)

Changes in assets and liabilities net of effects of purchases and disposals of controlled entities: (Increase) decrease in trade and term debtors

Increase (decrease) in employee entitlements

3.70

536.96

Increase (decrease) in sundry provisions

16,014.49

(16,901.38)

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

56,121.15

(30,432.32)

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. Orienteering Australia Inc ABN 77 406 995 497 Independent Auditor's ReportTO to the INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT THEMembers MEMBERS Report on the Audit of the Financial Report Opinion We have audited the financial report of Orienteering Australia Inc (the association), which comprises the Statement by Members of the Committee, the Income and Expenditure Statement, Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2019, a summary of significant accounting policies and the certification by members of the committee on the annual statements giving a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of the association.

In our opinion, the accompanying financial report presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the association as at 31 December 2019 and [of] its financial performance for the year then ended in accordance with the accounting policies described in Note 1 to the financial statements and the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act 1991.

Basis for Opinion We conducted our audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Report section of our report. We are independent of the association in accordance with the ethical requirements of the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (the Code) that are relevant to our audit of the financial report in Australia. We have also fulfilled our ethical responsibilities in accordance with the Code.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Emphasis of Matter – Basis of Accounting We draw attention to Note 1 to the financial report, which describes the basis of accounting. The financial report has been prepared to assist the association to meet the requirements of Associations Incorporation Act 1991. As a result, the financial report may not be suitable for another purpose. Our opinion is not modified in respect of this matter.

Responsibilities of the Committee for the Financial Report The committee is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial report in accordance with the financial reporting requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act 1991 and for such internal control as the committee determines is necessary to enable the preparation and fair presentation of a financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial report, the committee is responsible for assessing the association’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the committee either intends to liquidate the association or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. Orienteering Australia Inc ABN 77REPORT 406 995 TO 497 THE MEMBERS INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S Independent Auditor's Report to the Members Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Report Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial report as a whole is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with the Australian Auditing Standards will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of this financial report.

As part of an audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards, we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also: - Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial report, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.

- Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the association’s internal control.

- Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the committee.

- Conclude on the appropriateness of the committee’s use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the association’s ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor’s report to the related disclosures in the financial report or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor’s report. However, future events or conditions may cause the association to cease to continue as a going concern.

- Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial report, including the disclosures, and whether the financial report represents the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.

We communicate with the committee regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.

Signed on : ___________________________________________________ Christine Reid, FIPA Christine Reid and Nikki George Pty Limited 20A Beltana Road Pialligo ACT 2609 74 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2019

Co-ordination: Paul Prudhoe, Orienteering Australia Design & Production: Mike Dowling.

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