Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2021

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Contents page

Chair’s Report Management and Administration Finance International Relations Technical and Competition Media and Communications Participation Development and Funding Membership and Participation Controller and Coach Accreditation High Performance and Coaching Mountain Bike Orienteering Orienteering Australia Awards 2021 Appendix 1 - National Results 2021 Appendix 2 - Key Officials National Events 2021 Appendix 3 - National Teams/Squads 2021 Appendix 4 - Officers Bearers 2021 Appendix 5 - Audited Financial Report 2021

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Chair’s Report A

fter the disruption of our orienteering activities through 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to challenge us through 2021. While we managed to conduct a very successful Easter 3 Days in New South Wales and hold all rounds of our National League, the impact of the Delta variant in the latter half of the year saw the unfortunate cancellation of the Australian Championships carnival week in Tasmania for the second consecutive year. In addition, several our member states dealt with the periodic impact of lockdowns on their regular orienteering activities.

For the second consecutive year our athletes, both at the elite level and our aspiring juniors, had a full year without access to international competition if they were resident in Australia. In addition, we had the cancellation of the Oceania Championships which were to have been held in January of 2022. This twoyear gap of access to international competition is a significant period in an athlete’s career, especially for those who missed a chance at a major national title, the opportunity to attend a Junior World Championships or an Australian Schools Championships. We hope that as many as possible of our Junior and Elite orienteers can bounce back through 2022, now that vaccination rates are high across Australia and our international border has reopened. The signs are positive from the opening races of 2022 of our National League, the Easter 3 Days planned for Queensland, the Australian Championships planned for Victoria and that Tasmania will conduct an Oceania Championships in January of 2023. In addition, planning is proceeding well for us to send teams in 2022 to the World Championships, the Junior World Championships, the World MTBO Championships and the World University Championships.

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2021 also saw significant changes to the OA Board and administration, with long serving President, Blair Trewin, and Finance Director, Bruce Bowen, standing down, along with the retirement of our Executive Officer, Paul Prudhoe. In addtion, High Performance Director, Stephen Craig, also stepped down. On behalf of the Australian orienteering community, we owe a great deal of thanks to Blair, Bruce, Stephen and Paul for their service to our sport. The loss of major corporate knowledge of OA activities as a result saw the new Board take time to get up to speed with understanding the full complexities of leading a National Sports Organisation. The ongoing pandemic also challenged us in this area. We appointed a new General Manager in Matthew Dunstan in May in a slightly different role to that occupied by the previous Executive Officer and Hanny Allston also joined the Board in May. However, due to the challenges posed by COVID-19, both Matthew and Hanny had to resign from their roles in August. Fortunately, Brett Weihart joined the Board in September to take on the role of Director, Coaching and High Performance. However, we were unable to find a replacement General Manager for the remainder of 2022 despite numerous attempts which placed a greater workload on the Board to continue to effectively function. I would particularly express a profound appreciation and thanks to our Board Secretary Andrew Lumsden who effectively took on much of the workload that a General Manager would undertake to ensure the Board continued to effectively function.

At the 2022 Annual General Meeting of OA we will see our long serving Technical Director Jenny Casanova and former OA President Bill Jones step down from the Board. Both Jenny and Bill have contributed so much to our sport over so many years with Jenny also being the

Chair of the OA Technical Committee prior to assuming a Board role. On behalf of the Australian orienteering community, thank you Jenny and Bill. We are so grateful for your contributions to our sport.

Through 2021, the Board consulted with our member states to reach agreement for an updated four year strategic vision for Orienteering in Australia (Figure 1) for the period 2022 to 2025 which is underpinned by annual Activity Plans.

Major activities achieved by the Board through 2021 have included an updated Board Code of Conduct, adoption of Terms of Reference for the OA MTBO Commission, a restructure of our OA High Performance squads, creation a National Integrity Unit to implement the Sport Australia National Integrity Framework with Andrew Shipton (ACT) and Stephen Goggs (ACT) appointed to the National Integrity Unit, adoption of a new Coaching Framework that was led by Brodie Nankervis, the OA Coach Development Manager, appointed David Hogg to

act as the OA Awards Manager in order to better manage and track to numerous OA awards, conducted a series of online workshops for member states in lieu of the previous Annuak Conference and engaged with states through online meetings about mutual operational matters.

Looking ahead to 2022, the Board will have a number of tasks to undertake among which include the finalisation of the transition to a company limited by guarantee to follow on from the adoption of a new constitution in February 2021, to work with member states and Sport Australia to develop a Participation Plan for orienteering in Australia, to develop a Communications Plan that includes promotion and marketing strategy to promote engagement with our sport, to finalise the updating of our Controller Accreditation framework, to complete and implement the OA website update, to finalise a framework for the next iteration of the Moira Whiteside Bequest, to reach consensus with members for a unified national membership model, to improve the acquittal of project

STRATEGIC PLAN 2022-2025 OUR PURPOSE: To provide enriching opportunities for fun, adventure, and fitness through orienteering in Australia’s diverse landscapes.

OUR AMIBITION: To be an attractive and inspirational sport of choice for participants of all ages and aspirations.

OUR ETHOS: Our community brings our sport alive through inclusiveness, integrity, and sustainability.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

GREAT EVENTS

GREAT PERFORMANCES

GREAT RELATIONSHIPS

GREAT OPPORTUNITIES

GREAT ORGANISATION

Support a quality orienteering experience through the delivery of competitive and participationfocused events, and by encouraging and developing our volunteers, paid officials and those who innovate to improve our sport.

Achieve results on the international stage with a high performance program connected to our community via a commitment to juniors and development squads at state and national levels, as well as providing opportunities for every orienteer to grow their enjoyment of the sport, regardless of their age or ability.

Collaborate and communicate across and beyond our orienteering community to promote and support the long-term growth and success of our sport.

Nurture opportunities to promote and increase participation in orienteering, and for every orienteer to grow and contribute to our community – whether as a recreational participant, competitor, volunteer, coach, or administrator.

Enhance our organisational capability through responsible sport management practices, good governance, and effective administration, and by welcoming and recognising the contribution of willing volunteers and those with specialist skills alike.

OUR STRATEGIC OUTCOMES More Australians enjoying orienteering more often in our landscapes.

A diverse and active community proud of the experiences orienteering provides.

A sustainable sporting organisation skilled in creating opportunities for its members

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funding provided by Sport Australia, further improve the usability of Eventor, updating OA’s risk register and to continue to enhance our operational procedures to both align with Sport Australia governance requirements and improve our operational efficiency.

I have a vision for our orienteering organisation and structures across Australia through 2022 that we continue to work together achieve an agreed common understanding across our ways of working in the conduct and administration of our sport. That is, to work to further identify common approaches to reduce duplication and simplify as best we can for the benefit of all of us to further enjoy orienteering at whatever level we choose to do so.

In closing, I would like to sincerely thank everyone, at all levels of our sport, who have contributed to the success of orienteering in Australia through 2021. It was a challenging year in many respects and I am confident that we remain on a positive trajectory for our wonderful sport of orienteering through 2022.

Michael Dowling Chair of the Board

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Management and Administration Meetings with States

The Board

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Board members in 2021 were:

A Special General Meeting in February unanimously approved a constitution that can be used by Orienteering Australia (OA) when it converts to a company limited by guarantee. The General Meeting also raised some issues for discussion with the States going forward: committee structures, a national membership structure, the future of the Australian Orienteer and how to define an event.

Easter saw a face-to-face Annual General Meeting and Committee meetings – held in Molong NSW. After this, partly due to COVID-19 lockdowns, OA moved to virtual meetings. May and July saw two meetings with State Presidents to discuss specific issues.

The High Performance and Coaching team held a raft of meetings with State representatives on the coaching framework. It introduced elite get togethers to discuss upcoming events and other perfoamce related matters.

The traditional December Annual Conference in Canberra was replaced with four virtual workshops on consecutive Mondays in November and December. These covered: High Performance and Coaching Projects; Marketing and Communication; Events, Mapping and Technical; and Strategy and Governance, including the National Integrity Framework.

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Entire year - Mike Dowling, Director International and from April, Chair; Jenny Casanova, Director Technical; and Bill Jones, Director.

• Until the AGM in April; Blair Trewin - President; Bruce Bowen - Director Finance; and Steven Craig Director High Performance.

• From the Annual General Meeting; Andrew Lumsden - Secretary; Clare Hawthorne Director High Performance; Richard Mountstephens - Director Finance and Craig Steffens - Director Operations and MTBO were elected. Clare stepped down soon after due to her clash with her role as Director Performance on the Board of Orienteering Tasmania.

• Hanny Allston was Director Coaching from June to September, when she resigned due to family & business challenges.

• Brett Weihart was appointed as Director Coaching and High Performance in October.

The Board held virtual monthly meetings as indicated in Table 1.

Table 1: Board Member Attendance 2021 Meeting Date

SGM Jan

Feb

Feb

AGM Mar

Mar

W’shops

Apr

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Nov/Dec

Dec

Total

Hanny Allston

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

-

-

-

-

-

1

Bruce Bowen

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

Jenny Casanova

Y

Y

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

15

Steve Craig

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

Michael Dowling

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

15

Matthew Dunstan

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

4

Bill Jones

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

16

Andrew Lumsden

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

10

Richard Mountstephens

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

9

Paul Prudhoe

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

Craig Steffens

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

10

Blair Trewin

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

6

Brett Weihart

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Y

Y

Y

-

3

-

Note: Julia Prudhoe (NSW) acted as Minutes Secretary until the AGM. Bruce Bowen, Stephen Craig, Paul Prudhoe and Blair Trewin stood down from the Board at the AGM. Andrew Lumsden, Richard Mountstephens and Craig Steffens were elected to the Board at the AGM. Matthew Dunstan joined the Board as General Manager in June and left in September. Hanny Allston joined the Board in June and left in September. Brett Weihart joined the Board in October.

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Staff Changes Paul Prudhoe stepped down from the Executive Officer role in May. No applications were received from orienteers when the position was advertised in March. The position was advertised to professional sports administrators and Matthew Dunstan started as General Manager in June. He resigned at the end of September. The General Manager position was subsequently advertised and offers were made to several of people, who declined the offer.

Andrew Lumsden filled the gaps where OA was without a GM/EO during the year.

In January, Fredrik Johansson was appointed as Manager, High Performance Administration in January. He replaced Ian Prosser.

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In February: •

Natasha Key replaced Jim Russell as Head Coach. Jim stayed on as Assistant Head Coach to help with the transition.

• Brodie Nankervis replaced Russell Blatchford as Manager, Coaching Development.

At end-May, Kay Haarsma resigned as OA MTBO Coordinator.

A full list of staff and volunteer officers is indicated in Appendix 4.

Remuneration range of OA staff (includes superannuation guarantee contribution)

Range

No. of Staff

Less than $10K $10K to $20K

4 3

$20K to $30K

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Significant Happenings during 2021 •

•

Valerie Barker stepped down, after many years, from the National Schools Coordinator. This position chairs the Australian Schools Championships Committee.

In the absence of any volunteers willing to take on the role in an ongoing capacity, the Board agreed to rolling position where the Organiser of each year’s Championships would provide transitional/advisory support to the following year’s organiser.

Creating a Projects Officer, filled by Jim Mackay, to keep track of project administration.

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•

Andrew Shipton and Stephen Goggs were appointed to the National Integrity Unit in December. The Unit will be responsible for implementing Sport Integrity Australia’s National Integrity Framework. This encompasses anti-doping, safeguarding adults and children, sports betting and match fixing.

OA and ONZ agreed that the Oceania Championships in 2022 should include a Knock-Out Sprint Competition. They also agreed on a fallback position if cross-Tasman travel restrictions prevented the Championships scheduled for January 2022 in the South Island of New Zealand. NOTE: The Championships did not proceed in January nor, as a fallback, in April on the Gold Coast due to COVID-19 challenges.

The Australian 3-Days and National Orienteering League events were held, despite COVID-19 making organisation more difficult. The Australian Championships Carnival was cancelled as COVID-19 related travel restrictions meant most interstate orienteers could not attend. Orienteering Tasmania organised an alternative six event “Carnival That Never Will Be” for nearly 200 Tasmanian, Western Australian and other interstate orienteers.

The Technical Director issued a rule deviation for the Australian 3-Days in 2022. The deviation means the results of the Prologue will not count towards the overall results of the Australian 3-Days in the 18A, 20E and 21E classes.

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•

•

•

• •

Victoria won both the senior and junior men’s National Orienteering League titles. The ACT won the women’s senior title and South Australia the junior women.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic (primarily travel restrictions), no Australians participated in World Championships in 2021. WOC and JWOC Merit Teams were named. Some of the funds budgeted for international teams were reallocated to assist organise a Junior Development Training Camp in Stanthorpe in July.

A new temporary two squad structure was formed.

A High Performance Squad: designed to meet the needs of athletes aiming to excel at the World Orienteering Championships in 2022 and 2023, and a National Development Squad designed to meet the needs of those who are aiming for senior representation at World Championships or World Cups from 2022-2024.

A Junior World Orienteering Championships Training Group was created in December for athletes considering selection for the Junior World Championships.

In December, the Board approved the publication of a new Coaching Framework and accompanying syllabus.

A new National Sporting Schools Orienteering Curriculum was launched for Term 2, 2021. The two new and exciting programs, for Primary School (Years 3-6) and Secondary School (Years 7-8) students, were released in February.

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•

The 200th Anniversary edition of the Australian Orienteer magazine was published in February.

OA’s Twitter account was closed. The account stopped working in January 2020, was time intensive to manage and there is doubt about Twitter’s effectiveness in marketing sport.

In May, the Board decided to publish the Minutes of its meetings.

In August, the Board approved a revised Director’s Code of Conduct. All Directors signed off on the Code.

In July, OA was notified that it would receive a significant amount as a second tranche of a bequest from the estate of Moira Whiteside.

Sport Australia awarded OA a $100,000 participation grant. Two other grant applications by OA were unsuccessful.

OA was awarded a $10,000 COVID related grant from the NSW Government.

The States agreed in principle at a 19 July meeting to proceed with the Orienteering Victoria (OV) approach to family memberships. That is to have family friendly individual membership fees: OV has Adults $35, Juniors $6.

Public Liability Insurance timing was adjusted to improve the OA service delivery to event organisers, OA has paid for 13 months cover, so the policy will now renew in December, but expire in January.

The High Performance (HP) and Coaching committee, including 2 representatives from each state, met quarterly in 2021. Additionally a number of meetings were held in regards to the new Coaching Framework. The HP management team put on an open invite webinar series throughout 2021, with attendees from both Australia and New Zealand.

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Significant Matters to be Resolved by the Board January Creating a paid IT support role “(covering OMaps, Eventor, RevSport, OA reporting site etc)”.

Peter Effeney, the devloper of MapRun reminded the Board of a 2018 proposal to OA regarding OA’s perpetual use of the product. It would be appropriate to review and formalise this if acceptable, along with a proposal of how to fund back-end infrastructure costs and overseas usage. The latter is offered on a donations basis – which would then used to help with costs.”

Eventor where a formal support and service agreement with the owner Swedish orienteering Federation (SOFT) is required,

February The Executive Officer suggested Eventor should be updated to show Northern Territory events separate from South Australian events in the calendar to assist identification of events held there.

March SportAustralia Grants – Orienteering NSW (ONSW) approached OA to redirect its allocated projects funds.

ONSW was asked for an update prior to OA approving this.

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August Implemention of a Volunteer Framework. A task for the General Manager and a state representative working group.

The devlopment of a donation strategy.

October Volunteer groups within OA and how to divide up OA work. The previous Board looked at similar issues earlier in 2021.

Sport Australia supported Projects and how to get them started again.

December A proposal from Orienteering ACT for a grant application to encourage more young people and women to become course setters and controllers.

Andrew Lumsden Board Secretary

Finance 2021 Financial Statements Overview – Balance Sheet Assets Liabilities Net Assets

Callouts •

2021

2020

Variance %

•

$638,790 $255,038 $383,752

$509,992 $182,546 $327,444

+25% +40% +18%

•

$52K spent of $100K Sport Australia grant; (Reduces both income and expense by $48K). $65K underspend on High Performance due to COVID-19. $10K underspend on employee costs due to unfilled roles

Responses •

Callouts •

COVID Impacts – Orienteering Australia (OA) has fared better than many National Sports Organisations (NSO). Reduced expenses was greater than the impact to levy income.

• The Sport Australia review of OA’s financial statements (NSO Financial Snapshot) in August 2021 provided a risk rating of “Lower Risk”.

• A key issue is a growing unspent grant liability.

We need to improve our project execution capability to address the issue of unspent grant funds from Sport Australia.

Revised budget for General Manager role to attract talent.

• Re-baselining of grant project financials and uplift of project execution capability prioritised for 2022.

• Allocate a provision of 2021 profit to address anticipated reduction in event levies due in 2022 due to COVID-19 cancellation of events in the second half 2021.

An audited full financial report for the 2021 calendar year may be found in Appendix 5 of this Annual Report.

2021 Financial Statements Overview – Profit & Loss 2021

2021 Budget

Variance $

2020

Income

$302,538

$326,100

-$23,562

$343,852

Expense

246,232

$360,935

-$114,703

$264,155

Net Profit

$56,306

-$34.835

$91,141

$79,697

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2022 Budget Overview Updates for 2022 since approval of 2021-2025 Budget in December 2020 • •

Increased budget for OA staff by $33K aligned to market movements.

Reforecast event levies to allow for COVID-19 cancellations in the second half of 2021 the material driver to an increased deficit forecast of $58K.

• • •

Increase in the 2022 overall deficit offset by 2021 surplus above expectations due to COVID-19 cancellation of international events.

Increased National League (NOL) budget from $1K to $5K Added provision of $2K to support David Hogg’s work as OA Awards Manager.

Expenses

2020

2021

2022

2022 Update

Change

Management and Administration

$91,534

$105,900

$105,900

$101,100

-$4,800

International Orientering Federation

$22,500

$18,500

$18,500

$15,000

-$3,500

Technical

$500

$500

$500

$500

$0

Communications

$17,200

$14,500

$4,500

$21,252

$16,752

Media and Sponsorship

$2,000

$1,000

$1,000

$1,000

$0

Development and Participation

$126,000

$100,000

$100,000

$105,500

$5,500

Schools and Juniors

$6,985

$6,985

$6,985

$6,985

$0

Coaching

$21,100

$16,600

$16,600

$27,223

$10,623

FootO High Performance

$77,500

$78,000

$78,000

$94,424

$15,824

MTBO

$18,350

$18,350

$18,350

$16,000

-$2,350

Total Expediture

$383,669

$360,935

$350,935

$388,984

$38,049

State Registration Fee

$92,350

$92,350

$92,350

$92,350

$0

Event Levies

$84,300

$84,300

$90,000

$70,000

-$20,000

Reimbursement Eventor Licence

$32,000

$28,000

$28,000

$32,000

$4,000

Sport Australia Core Funding

$100,000

$100,000

$100,000

$100,000

$0

Interest

$2,000

$850

$850

$850

$0

Badge Scheme

$1,000

$1,600

$1,600

$1,600

$0

State Member Insurance Reimbursements

$15,000

$15,000

$15,000

$15,000

$0

Sponsorship/Donations

$4,000

$4,000

$4,000

$14,000

$10,000

WRE Levies

$2,000

$0

$0

$0

$0

Cash Reserves

$0

$0

$0

$0

$0

HP Fundraising Via Events

$5,000

$0

$5,000

$5,000

$0

Total Income

$337,650

$326,100

$336,800

#330,800

Total Surplus/Deficit

-$40,019

-$34,835

-$14,135

-$58,184

Income

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National Sports Organisation Finance Snapshot A review of OA’s financial statements was performed by Sport Australia against benchmarks in August 2021. The review indcated that OA’s financial risk was in the “Lower Range”

Richard Mountstephens Director, Finance

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International Relations A

ustralia has continued 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.

COVID-19 Impact The COVIC-19 pandemic had less of a major impact on IOF activities through 2021. Most major IOF international championships and events across disciplines, bar some World Ranking Events and the World TrailO Championships, were able to be held. The IOF World Ranking System was restarted from July 2021, World Orienteering Day was able to be held in limited format with two activity periods in May and September. The IOF Office staff have been returning to their normal working hours in the latter period on 2021. Support for the IOF office has continued to be provided through the Swedish national government and through the regional government where the IOF office is located at Karlstad, Sweden in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and was due to cease at the end of 2021. The IOF achieved a surplus of approximately 91,000 Euros in 2021 through better than expected income from IOF events and a strong focus on cost control. This meant that the financial situation of the IOF is now back to close to what it was before the onset of the pandemic after a loss of 93,000 Euros in 2020.

Council and Commission Membership Michael Dowling (TAS) has continued as one of the three IOF Vice Presidents. He will step down from the IOF at the 2022 General Assembly upon reaching the statutory limit of Council membership. Australia and New Zealand are working together to put forward a suitable Council candidate for the 2022 General Assembly. Blair Trewin (VIC) continued as a member of Foot Commission, Adrian Uppill (SA) continued as a member of the Map Commission and Barry McCrae (VIC) continued as a member of the Rules Commission.

IOF Activities Work to increase the attractiveness of the sport to external parties, i.e., the media, partners and sponsors, orienteering fans and the general public continues. 2021 was the first year of the Orienteering World Cup with a new brand concept. It has been successful in terms of the quality of completed competitions and in visibility, and the number of participating nations was very good despite pandemic restrictions. It was a successful year regarding the development and visibility of Orienteering as a TV product including successful broadcasts from the World Championships and the World Cup, and this has benefited sponsors and organizers. This in turn has helped secure organisers in the future. It was a record year for IOF regarding commercial partnerships.

Major work has been conducted by the IOF regarding fair play in orienteering. Working Groups were established to develop education tools for fair play, review the principles of fair play and improving rules and guidelines.

The Council at its July 2021 meeting endorsed a range

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of improvements to the IOF rules and the updating of numerous guidelines to support greater clarity in the conduct of orienteering events. The updated competition rules were adopted in early December 2021 and the implementation of updated guidelines for organisers and event stakeholders is ongoing. In addition, the IOF has agreed to establish a Disciplinary Panel to handle fair play rules issues outside of events and any appeals lodged because of a decision by an event organiser or event jury. The remit for the Panel is expected to be finalised in early 2022.

The IOF’s working methods have continued to develop for improved sustainability and transparency. The organisation has fully applied the use of digital meetings, and this has provided for broader participation, more frequent communication and follow-up, and more efficient work. During the year, two digital information meetings, one of which was the President’s Conference, were held with the IOF’s members, with very good participation. The number of doping tests conducted by the IOF in 2021 increased after a lower number of tests in 2020 due to lower event activity. Income for carrying out anti-doping testing exceeded the costs of testing during 2021 and the surplus is to be carried forward to conduct additional testing in 2022. In 2020, the IOF was a participant in the UNFCCC / Sports for Climate Change initiative with a focus on minimizing the climate impact of IOF operations. Relative to the base year 2019, IOF’s carbon emissions have decreased by more than 90% at the end of 2021.

The IOF has begun the process of reviewing the Strategic Directions and Activity Plan for the next General Assembly period. A part of this process is consultation with members prior to the General Assembly.

IOF Council and Office The IOF Council met six times during 2021. All meetings were held online using the Microsoft Teams platform.

In addition, the President’s Working Group, of which Michael Dowling is a member, have met on nine occasions via Microsoft Teams. Michael Dowling has attended all meetings. Two Athletes Commission representatives have attended Council meetings in the latter part of 2021 and will become formal members of the Council at the 2022 General Assembly The IOF Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General, Tom Hollowell, announced that he would retire early in 2022.

Due to the increasing demands of both roles, the IOF has split this into two roles for 2022 and beyond and expect to announce a new Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General early in 2022 Through 2021, all Council members have continued to work in their areas of responsibility and support. Michael Dowling continued to have lead responsibility within the Council for Sports Development, Events and TV, social media/ Live‐ Orienteering, Webstreaming areas within the 2021-2022 Activity Plan. He had a support role in the Governance area with responsibility for the IOF Statutes.

In addition, he continued to be the Council contact for the Rules Commission and the Council contact for the Oceania region up until the General Assembly.

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:

Orienteering Australia Rules

• Technical (Chair - vacant); • Mapping (2021 Chair, Neil Barr); • Events (2021 Chair, Greg Hawthorne); also through the OA Badge Scheme Secretary John Oliver, and the Manager Coaching and Officiating Development Jim Mackay. Elite rankings were maintained by Bruce Arthur, non-elite rankings by Darryl Erbacher and National Orienteering League points by Ian Prosser. The work of the above people and of the Committee chairs in 2021 is acknowledged. The Eventor Working Group reports to the OA Director, Media & Communications (although this position was vacant during 2021). The Information Technology Committee was disbanded some years ago.

“Where annual Orienteering Australia rule updates become applicable to an event for which the planning is already advanced, event organisers, planners and controllers should consider whether these changes can be implemented at that stage of the planning or whether a rule variation needs to be sought from the OA Director, Technical/IOF EA.”

Technical The Technical Committee met in person at the Australian 3-Days in Orange (Molong). Email correspondence continued throughout the year and the OA Technical workshop via Zoom at the start of December was well attended.

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 their appendices and of the National League (NOL )Guidelines, which are primarily overseen by the High Performance Management Group with input from the OA Technical Committee.

Foot Orienteering M/W 18 Class This was implemented during 2021 at the request of the High Performance Management Group, with variable success, partly due to confusion about whether or not it was intended to be an Elite class and part of the NOL competition. The agreement is to retain it for future years but M/W20E is the NOL class.

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This document includes the statement 2.12, which has been updated for 2022:

The OA Rules document update is always done in conjunction with the availability of the following year’s IOF rules; it is worth noting that the minimum distance of 60m for controls on similar features is now a rule (19.4), no longer merely a guideline.

The IOF implemented a number of fair play rules and recommendations in their 2022 rules document following the Working Group’s review, and where possible, OA’s Technical Committee has agreed to adopt these.

Note that where OA rules may differ from IOF rules, IOF rules take precedence for elite classes in World Ranking Events (WREs), and M/W 16, 18, 20 in regional championships. An example of this is IOF’s rule 19.5 which states in part “If, during the race, the organiser is made aware of a problem with a control or a course (such as a failed punching unit, incorrect positioning of the control unit or a blocked passageway) the organiser should make every effort to correct the problem as quickly as possible.”

The OA Technical Committee did not agree to fully implement this as a rule, citing concerns about how onerous this may be on volunteer event organisers, however the wording of 26.13 about voiding a course makes it clear that correcting the problem partway through the event is preferable to leaving it unresolved.

A review of OA rule numbering against IOF Rule numbering will be undertaken in future.

OA rule changes which were agreed during 2021 and are to be implemented during 2022 are itemised in the following table:

Rule/Item

Change “shall” > “must” throughout document (where appropriate) to align with IOF wording

1.5

Knockout sprint format added to Types of Orienteering Competition

1.7

Including the Australian 3-Days under Australian Championships

1.8

Addition of sentence on subclassification of event groupings

1.10

Addition of A2 events to those requiring a Level 2 OA controller

2.13

Amended to 2022 specific for managing rule deviations

3.3

Including the Australian 3-Days under Australian Championships

5.7

Addition of M/W20AS classes for Long Distance races

5.7, 5.8

Re-wording about offering open classes, removal of Enter on the Day (EOD) from rules

5.10

Deletion of the Elite Prologue from the Australian 3-Days’ cumulative times competition for elite classes

12.16

Knock-out Sprint details to be provided by HPMG/in NOL Guidelines

16.7

Mention of Knock-out Sprint as an example of when not all competitors run the same course

16.10

Reinsertion of winning times table which was missing from 2021 version; includes M/W18A

16.17

New 16.17 with winning times for Knock-out Sprint; pushes all subsequent rules in this section one number further along

17.2

Updates to Forbidden areas to align with current ISOM and ISprOM

17.3

“shall” > “must” about marking compulsory routes/crossings

19.4

Update to minimum control spacing for similar features – bringing this into the rules in line with IOF’s change for 2022

Section 20

Deletion of rules relating to manual control cards, and re-numbering of this section to more closely align with IOF rules

20.2, 20.3

New numbering, wording updated to match IOF rules

20.6

Was previously numbered as 20.10

20.8

Inserted IOF rule 20.8 (which was actually implemented in 2020) regarding back-up punching methods

21.6

Updated wording from IOF rule 21.4 about communication devices

22.14

New rule about quarantine zones, taken from IOF rule 22.16

24.10

New rule about competitors who fail to complete the course -taken from IOF rule 24.1 – remaining rules in this section are moved along in numbering

26.1

“spirit of friendship” replaces “sporting attitude”

26.10

Updated to mention sanctions as well as disqualification

26.13

Acknowledgement that problems on a course should ideally be rectified ASAP

Appendix 1

Updates to course class groupings – including M/W18A for sprint, middle, long – need to work out what their relative running speed would be

Appendix 2 3.5.5 References minimum straight line distances as per rule 19.4 and minimum running distance 25m Appendix 3

Removal of mention of manual control cards and updating information about requirement for back-up punch

Appendix 5

Re-wording of table of points for accreditation to make it clearer that some tasks are either/or, for initial accreditation (noting that the forms to be submitted for initial/subsequent accreditations are in the process of being reworked to become writeable PDFs)

Appendix 8

Event Format – addition of knockout sprint to list of formats, and to table

Appendix 10

Addition of paragraph about fixing problems on a course

Appendix 11

Removal of M/W18 from Elite Prologue at Easter 3 Days

Appendix 12

Updated document regarding use of SI Air (primarily using Greg Hawthorne’s suggested wording)

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Controlling – Foot & Mountain Bike Orienteering The work of the following OA Level 3 controllers for Group A Foot events in 2021 is acknowledged:

March 13/14 Eureka Challenge NOLs in Central Victoria Sprint – Barry McCrae, also IOF Event Adviser (EA) for WRE. Middle & Hagaby - Warwick Williams

April 2-5 Australian 3-Days NSW Level 3 Controller overseeing the carnival: Nick Dent Day Controllers: Terry Bluett, Paul Prudhoe, Hilary Wood IOF EA for Sprint and Long Distance WREs: Nick Dent

April 24-25 Renmark NOLs (ANZAC Weekend) Middle & Long Distance: Phil Hazell & Jenny Casanova respectively IOF EA for middle distance WRE: Robin Uppill

May 15-16 South Coast NSW NOLs (hosted by ACT) Middle Distance, Relay – Bill Jones

Australian Championships Sept 25 – Oct 2, Tasmania Technical Director - Greg Hawthorne Sprint Distance – Paul Pacque Middle Distance – Lindsay Pender Long Distance – Clare Hawthorne Relay – David Marshall IOF EA for Sprint, Middle, Long WRES - Cathy McComb This carnival was unable to go ahead as intended but a great deal of work was undertaken by the above controllers and the entire carnival committee, in advance of its late cancellation due to COVID.

Australian MTBO Championships 2021 NSW, September 18/19 – unfortunately another casualty of COVID, eventually postponed until 2022.

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Controller Accreditation – Foot Orienteering Two Level 3 controllers’ workshops were held during 2021: the first in Tasmania in January with focus on controlling for the upcoming 2021 Australian Championships (this workshop had been postponed from 2020) and the second following the Australian 3-Days in Orange in April; the latter was attended by a number of controllers from Queensland with the goal of accrediting them at Level 3 in advance of the 2023 Australian 3-Days.

Controllers’ Curricula Update Project Craig Steffens is contracted by Orienteering Australia to oversee this project; the working group also consists of Kathy Liley, Robin Uppill, Jenny Casanova. A draft common framework for controller education and accreditation was presented to the Technical Committee meeting in Molong. Subsequently, foot-O curricula for Levels 2 and 3 are being developed with some discussion about the best way to educate, accredit and utilise Level 1 controllers. MTBO controller curricula at levels 1 & 2 are to follow in due course once the curriculum format has been agreed amongst the working group.

Events Committee Greg Hawthorne chaired the 2021 Events Committee meeting in Molong NSW, during the Australian 3-Days, which was attended by representatives from all States apart from WA, and members of the High Performance Management Group. Primary topics of discussion were 2022 NOL schedule as put forward to states by the HPMG, and forward arrangements for the Oceania Championships which are now to be held in even years, as approved by IOF. With Oceania 2021 in NZ having been postponed to January 2022, it was anticipated that the next time Oceania is held in Australia would be 2024, this being based on the expectation of IOF Regional Championships in Sprint, Middle, Long and Relay all taking place at the same time. Subsequently it became clear that Orienteering NZ would not be able to host the January 2022 carnival, due to COVID, and therefore Orienteering Tasmania offered to host Oceania Championships in Sprint, Middle, Long and Relay in January 2023; this was approved by OA and ONZ.

COVID Impact on Mapping • •

•

The planned sponsored visit by IOF Map Commission member(s) has been postponed twice due to various quarantine and travel issues.

New mapping for the 2022 Australian Championships carnival in Victoria only just started in late 2021; hoped for LIDAR flights by the State Government having been on hold for months now. This was an unavoidable outcome of the State holding the world record for the longest period of lock down. The timeline is now very tight.

Australian Championships 2024 mapping - Specific flight for obtaining LiDAR of the event area occured in Nov 2021 after which mapping will commence; being coordinated by Maurice Anker.

Jenny Casanova Director, Technical

Now that World Championships races are alternating forest and urban formats, the future of Oceania Regional Championships is under discussion both in terms of races and scheduling, needing to take into account IOF classes for Regional Championships and also the broader Australia-New Zealand Challenge. A working group will be convened in due course.

An updated schedule of Major Event allocations to states was presented to the December OA Technical Workshop.

Map Committee •

•

OA provided comments on the final draft of revised ISMTBOM specification to the IOF Mapping Commission. No major comments other than a request to add 1:20,000 scale as an option for Long Distance events. Official release of the new version of the specification is expected in early 2022.

The last IOF Mapping Commission meeting in October discussed minor changes to ISSprOM with regards to multi-level running symbols. Most importantly it was decided that “a maximum of 2 running levels shall be mapped.” There are some tweaks to symbols.

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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 (TAS) spent substantial time in making this information readily available via https://reporting. orienteering.asn.au/ There are a range of reports available to make managing members and reporting on statistics a whole lot easier. OA 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 website is only as good as the information available in Eventor. OA 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.

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 website has begun with the establishment of a Web Working Group (WWG). It is anticipated that the new site will be released prior to the 2022 Australian Championships in Victoria.

The ongoing help of Shane Jenkins (website), Jack Dowling (Eventor Working Group) and Ian Rathbone (Eventor Working Grop) is gratefully acknowledged in helping to keep things on track.

OA continues to use Facebook and monthly E-News bulletins to communicate with the broader Austalian orienteeirng comunity.

Craig Fuererherdt former Director, Media and Communications

Participation Development and Funding Funding Arrangements 2021 As outlined in its 2020 Annual Report, Orienteering Australia continued with participation and membership projects developed and managed by the States. Core Funding Projects started in 2021.

The level of funding received from Sport Australia was maintained at previous levels ($100k), but under the Core Funding arrangements future projects needed to focus on national strategies.

Orienteering Australia submitted the following list of projects for 2021 (January to June): Project

Description

Value

Staus

Update Eventor (IT System) member support material

Update Eventor (IT System) support material to maintain the rate of new registrations to >20%.

$8,400

Carried over into the next year

Provision of updated resource material Updated resource material to complement Coaching to complement recently updated Syllabi to be available by April 2021 Coaching Syllabi

$10,500

Partial completion, still in progress

Develop a national system for Permanent Orienteering Course marketing and usage data collection.

Anecdotal evidence suggests usage has increased significantly as a result of COVID - need to get better data to build a better marketing approach to build on this increased interest in outdoor sporting activities like orienteering

Implementation of national system and database for Permanent Orienteering Course marketing and usage by July 2021 (to include promotion, participant follow up and reporting)

$15,750

Stopped, funds carried over

OA Reporting Site enhancements

Update Orienteering Reporting Site to increase the number of reports available to the States, formalise request and feedback process by July 2021.

$10,350

Completed

Employ Project Officer to implement and manage current and future Core Funding Projects

Employ Project Officer to implement and manage current and future Core Funding Projects by July 2021

$5,000

Completed

Total

$50,000

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Orienteering Australia submitted the following list of projects for 2021 (July to December): Project Employ Project Officer to implement and manage current and future Core Funding Projects

National Schools Project Coaching Curricula National Coaching curricula syllabus update Sportident - Modernise event equipment MapRun Website update RevSport license

Description Employ Project Officer to implement and manage current and future Core Funding Projects by July 2021

Value $5,000

Staus Completed

National Schools Project - Coaching Curricula

$13,000

Completed

National Coaching curricula syllabus update

$3,000

Completed

Sportident - Modernise event equipment

$1,000

Completed

MapRun Redevelopment of OA’s digital experience Accreditation Management

$10,000 $10,000 $8,000

Completed

Total

$50,000

Delayed, carried over Continuation from previous 6 months

2021 Core Funding Projects Progress

Project to Provide Updated Resource Material to Complement Recently Updated Coaching Syllabi

Project to Update Eventor (IT System) Member Support Material

Background

Background Eventor is the online registration system used by OA since 2010. It has been developed and owned by the Swedish Orienteering Federation and it has a yearly fee of ~AUD35k.

Purpose of Eventor: to market orienteering, be efficient for organisers to use and to provide participation, performance and financial information to manage the sport.

Status Carried over into 2022. Continuous maintenance of the system was carried out by the system managers,however, in the absence of a Project Manager the project did not advance as planned.

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The 2020 Coaching Syllabi project identified that the updated syllabi did not include the provision of new coaching materials and that once that project was endorsed, a new project for the delivery of new coaching materials should be started in 2021.

Status The project was commenced late in the financial year of 2020-2021 and carried over into 2021-2022 financial year. A final adjustment to the update syllabus documents was made first and these documents made publicly available in 2022. Therefore at the end of 2021 the resource materials required had been identified, the objectives of each resource material documented (in the way of performance standards for the coaching courses) but the creation of the resource materials was yet to commence. The project was then carried over into 2022.

Project to Develop a National System for Permanent Orienteering Course Marketing and Usage Data Collection Background Develop a national system for Permanent Orienteering Course marketing and usage data collection. Permanent courses offer the opportunity to enjoy orienteering any time as the markers are permanently installed with landowner permission and the maps are available for download and print from state orienteering websites.

The need for the Permanent Orienteering Course project arose as a result of increased participation during COVID and there was a need to gather better data to improve future decision making.

Status Implementation of a national system and database for Permanent Orienteering Course marketing and usage was planned for July 2021 but the project was stopped due to COVID and lack of manpower.

IT Systems Enhancements Background The various items identified in each of the four projects were identified as bottlenecks in the objective of the use of national databases in various areas, with most States using systems developed within their own association, but not integrated with a national database, nor with an interface to the national database (i.e., Eventor, Omaps).

1. Difficulty had also been experienced with the Eventor registration/membership process, especially by those participants who were initially only interested in participating, but not joining.

The impact of COVID on orienteering was such that Eventor was extensively used for event pre-entry, requiring both non-members to be registered (on Eventor) before being able to pre-enter an event.

2. RevSPORT had previously been adopted as the resource for managing OA’s coach and controller accreditation process. But since its adoption, management and administration were limited to the OA National Office. For each state to manage their level 0, 1 and 2 coaches and controllers required involvement of the National Office.

By providing an initial first year subscription to

the States, this would allow each state to not only manage its workforce, but to also have access to additional sports-related functionality.

3. By providing access to the RevSPORT, it was expected that State Associations would also have the ability of a more flexible membership administration process once members had joined through Eventor (but not to replace Eventor as the membership portal).

Status The Eventor non-member (aka casual) registration process was improved making it easier for non-members to register to use Eventor for event pre-entry. This also allowed both the States and National Office to better record and understand their casual non-member numbers and details.

Due to database differences between Eventor and RevSPORT, progress on rolling out RevSPORT was slow. The impact of COVID on Revolutionise SPORT, the company responsible for the product, was such that they were required to focus their attention on significant changes to the product to meet the requirements elsewhere by other sports already using the product.

Similarly, it took OA time to resolve the Eventor database problems that would allow transfer of data between the two systems.

A working interface between the two products was made available within 2021.

Employ Project Officer Background and Status The growing number of projects to be managed by OA called for an increase in personnel. After advertising the position a suitable candidate was selected and appointed for the position for both terms.

Website Update The project was put on hold due to COVID and will be restarted at a more convenient time, mots likely in 2022..

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Funding Arrangements 2021/22 (Ongoing) Early in 2021 Sport Australia invited Orienteering to submit projects for the July 2021 to June 2022 period.

In doing so, Sport Australia provided an increased flexibility in the use of Core Participation Funding to ensure that NSOs could invest in priority activities that will help to maintain their workforce and organisational capability Project Develop more efficient administration and event management processes to free up volunteer time.

Description Develop more efficient administration and event management processes to free up volunteer time. A project plan in place and being delivered by all States and Territories by 30 June 2022. Increase in the number of event participants by 3% Findings conveyed to clubs & States and 100 new participants in pilots by 30 June 2022

Engage website & social media consultant & two pilot schemes to market orienteering to wheelchair and small-town regional communities.

Employment of a Project A review and update on the status and Administration Officer to opportunities for key OA projects to the OA by 30 June support current and future 2022.

OA Participation Projects.

TOTAL Arpad Kocsik General Manager

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Value $76,000

Status Commenced in the second half of 2021 and continued in 2022.

$19,000

Commenced in 2021

$5,000

Commenced in 2021 and to be continued in 2022

$100,000

Membership and Participation Membership Full membership has continued a slight upward trend in 2021 with a 2.8% increase over 2020 and a three year upward trend. A potential factor in the growth of orienteering membership may have been the continued impact of the COVD pandemic. Orienteering, being an outdoor sport where participants do not take part in close proximity to each other, may well have been an attactive option for people looking for an alternative sporting and recreation actvity.

Another pleasing aspect shown in the three year trend data is that renewals have stayed above 80%. It was pleasing to see a decline in non-renewals in 2021 compared to 2020.

State membership data showed some wildly different trends in both membership and renewal. Queensland had just a 0.2% non-renewal rate, whereas South Australia had a 24.7% non-renewal rate.

Table 1a: Membership by Year, 2019 to 2021 Year

Previous

Renewals

Renewals %

2019 2020 2021

3,955 4053 4,112

3,245 3,357 3,433

82.0 82.8 84.3

Non Renewals 783 763 675

Non Renewals % 19.8 18.8 16.6

New Members 881 824 848

New Members % 22.3 20.3 20.8

Total Members 4,053 4,112 4,229

Source: Eventor club membership database

Table 1b: Membership by State, 2021 State

Members 2020

Renewals 2021

Renewals %

ACT NSW QLD SA/NT TAS VIC WA OA

533 1,476 474 429 326 628 246 4112

428 1,177 472 323 292 529 212 3433

86.6 79.8 99.8 75.3 89.8 84.2 86.2 84.3

Non Renewals 2021 68 308 1 106 34 124 34 675

Non Renewals % 13.8 20.9 0.2 24.7 10.5 19.7 13.8 16.6

New Members 2021 93 273 155 122 81 73 51 848

New Members % 18.8 18.5 32.8 28.4 24.9 11.6 20.7 20.8

Total Members 2021 519 1,439 627 445 373 563 263 4,229

Multi Members 1 7 0 0 1 14 0 23

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Table 2: Registered Orienteers, 2019 to 2021

2019 Membership Category Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc) School Club members Non-Members in Club Events Non-Members in Corporate/ Scout/School events Permanent course users TOTAL

ACT

NSW

QLD

SA/NT

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

LST YR

CHNGE

557

1,386

496

383

315

668

253

4,058

4,030

+0.74%

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

0

165

-100%

1,018

1,822

806

113

731

1,185

339

6,014

3,255

+84.7%

1,284

7,586

3,787

7,600

2,200

-

-

22,457

17,865

+25.7%

5,985

266

-

557

295

-

-

7,517

10,010

-24.9%

8,844

11,060

5,503

8,653

3,541

1,853

592

40,046

40,382

-0.84%

ACT

NSW

QLD

SA/NT

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

LST YR

CHNGE

533

1,476

474

429

326

628

246

4,112

4,058

+1.33%

831

1,956

1,566

747

374

832

473

6,779

6,014

+12.7%

1,797

5,496

1,928

3,045

2,058

2,934

797

18,055

22,457

-19.6%

3,790

655

221

878

681

-

7.818

14,043

7,517

+86.8%

6,951

12,752

4,198

5,099

3,439

4,394

9,334

42,989

40,046

+7.35%

ACT

NSW

QLD

SA/NT

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

LST YR

CHNGE

534

1.439

627

445

373

563

263

4,245

4,112

+3.23%

760

331

1,664

156

428

309

447

4,095

6,779

-39.6%

1,345

8730

1,850

816

2,503

650

548

16,442

18,055

-8.9%

500

2252

180

3,765

757

-

10,122

17,576

14,043

+25.2%

3,139

12,752

4,322

5,182

797

1,522

11,380

42,358

42,989

-1.5%

2020 Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc) Non-Members in Club Events Non-Members in Corporate/ Scout/School events Permanent course users TOTAL

2021 Full Financial (inc. Club & Assoc) Non-Members in Club Events Non-Members in Corporate/ Scout/School events Permanent course users TOTAL

NOTE: Data from Eventor and Memeber States/Territories. Some Member States/Territories data is a best guesstimate..

The effect of COVID continued to impact on the number of regsitered orienteers who are not full members of clubs across Australia in club events and corporate/scout/ school events in 2021. This was particularly so in Victoria with just 1,522 registered orinteers in 2021 compared to 4,394 in 2020. It was pleasing to see that nationally this was offset by a much bigger uptake of permanent courses where people can go orienteering at anytime, rather than rely on an organised activty. Many states use their onw web-based ssytems to attempt to track the number of permanent course users. Theer is a project on hold to attempt to imprve the accuracy of Permanent Course take up and engagement 24 Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2021

While some states had significant differences in the number of registered orieneers in 2021, compared to 202, nationally the decline was 1.5% in the total number of registered orienteers.

Leaving aside permannet course users, there has been a steady dceline of registered orienteers over the three year period from 2019. Howver, looking back at historical data the number of registered orinteers has approximately doubled from 2015 to 2021.

Initiatives such as sporting schools, an increase in urban style events nationally and improving data capture reflect this increase.

Events and Participation The overall number of events and resulting participation in orientering events across Australia continued to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is about a one third decline in total particpation nationally in 2021 compared to 2019. While the total event numbers increased in 2021 compared to 2020, particpation declined across Australia. Victoria was the most impacted State due to the nature of lockdowns mandated by the Victorian Governmnet.

The cancellation of the 2021 Australian Championships had an approximate 5,000 to 6,000 impact on total national particpation.

Tasmania and Western Australia both had increases in total percentage of particpations in 2021 compared to 2020 due to these states largely being unaffected by lockdowns as a result of their respective State Government COVID mandated border closures.

Table 3a: Events and Participations - 2019 to 2021 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

% 28.3 25.3 9.9 5.6 7.2 7.6 16.2 100

2020 Events Participations Av. per Event NSW 206 20,337 98.7 VIC 308 21,976 71.4 QLD 234 14,665 62.7 SA/NT 82 5,753 70.2 WA 52 2,638 50.7 TAS 74 7,310 98.8 ACT 112 11,789 105.3 Total 1,068 84,468 79.1

% 24.1 26.0 17.4 6.8 3.1 8.7 14.0 100

2021 Events Participations Av. per Event % NSW 207 24,701 119.3 32.3% VIC 213 12,599 59.2 16.4% QLD 277 11,057 39.9 14.4% SA/NT 75 5,499 73.3 7.2% WA 63 4,143 65.8 5.4% TAS 84 7,800 74.2 11.6% ACT 113 10,792 95.5 14.1% Total 1,032 76,591 74.2 100 NOTE: Data from Eventor and Member States. Not all events or partcpation is fully recorded.

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Table 3b: Events and Participations by Age Category and Gender - 2021 Events

VIC

113 207 277 75 74 213

WA Totals

63 1,032

ACT NSW QLD SA/NT TAS

Females U21 674

Males U21 1,254

Females 21 176

Males 21 258

Females >35 1,851

Males >35 3,048

Females All 2,701

Males All 4,560

Others

Total

3,531

10,792

1,273

1,962

434

638

4,871

8,041

6,583

10,641

7,477

24,701

596

1,161

128

187

1,269

1,543

1,993

2,891

6,173

10,057

508

797

190

228

1,051

1,325

1,749

2,350

1,400

5,499

1,260

1,712

141

144

1,828

2,176

3,229

4,032

539

7,800

210

207

105

140

807

1,465

1,122

1,812

9,665

12,599

191 4,712

387 7,480

87 1,261

63 1,658

1,007 12,689

1,410 19,008

1,285 18,662

1,860 28,146

998 29,783

4,143 76,591

NOTE: Others indicates particpants where gender data is not available. Data from Eventor. Some event data may be missing..

MapRun MapRun particpation has continued to see a significant increase in 2021 from 17,238 (as reported in the 2020 Annual Report) to 26,613 which is a 54.4% increase.

All states and territories are using MapRun as a way of attracting participants to orienteering, either as a single day activity or on a fexible basis.

The use of MapRun grew most significantly in Victoria, no doubt due to it being a recreation option for people in response to the COVID restrictions in that state through a large part of 2021. Queensland, as the home state of the developer Peter Effeney, are an active user of the product across a variety of events.

The data shows that MapRun is a great tool for enabling participants to experience orienteering on an anytime basis, and states are encouraged to futher develop growth in this form of orienteering.

Many thanks to Peter Effeney for assisting in providing the 2021 data.

Arpad Kocsik General Manager

Table 4a: MapRun Participations by State/Gender/Year, 2017 - 2021 State ACT NT NSW QLD SA TAS VIC WA Totals

F 1 32 221 19 139 412

2017 M 6 43 382 27 136 594

Total 7 75 603 46 275 1,006

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F 6 23 808 66 769 1,672

2018 M 15 32 1,168 65 604 1,884

2019 Total F M Total 21 4 13 17 55 83 88 171 1,976 1,703 2,280 3,983 131 8 11 19 1,373 1,547 1,812 3,359 3,556 3,345 4,204 7,549

F 553 493 798 3,117 115 78 2,261 10 7,425

2020 M Total F 706 1,259 927 373 866 323 1,305 2,103 808 3,476 6,593 3,582 158 273 88 97 175 34 3,679 5,940 4,811 19 29 31 9,813 17,238 10,604

2021 M 1,135 221 1,212 4.196 133 37 8,597 28 15,559

Total 2,062 544 2.020 7,778 221 71 13,408 59 26,163

Sporting Schools Sporting Schools Program Despite the ongoing COVID pandemic disrupting school programs in all states, the number of Sporting Schools programs has increased markedly in 2021, and the number of participants has increased to more than 16,000, surpassing all previous figures.

The historical under-reporting in the Sporting Schools booking system has now reduced with the official stats from Sport Australia getting closer to the actual stats reported by Orienteering Australia.

Table 5a: Programs and Participation by State and Term - 2021 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

TOTALS

ACT

NSW

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

REQ.

2

7

1

4

2

7

4

27

35

2

6

1

7

2

7

4

29

443

929

300

429

185

755

125

3,166

443

587

300

1,114

185

755

125

3,539

1

16

10

10

7

15

4

63

1

16

10

8

6

15

4

60

50

1,332

535

1,007

812

1,339

460

5,535

50

1,332

535

431

772

1,339

460

4,919

3

12

3

9

3

3

5

38

3

10

3

8

3

3

5

35

326

1,510

94

729

247

284

377

3,567

86

1,460

94

634

287

284

377

3,222

4

16

14

7

5

6

3

55

4

16

14

6

5

6

3

54 5,230

7,139 260

SA

Participants

226

1,871

1,144

487

449

642

411

OA

236

1,791

1,144

479

397

642

411

5,100

SA

Programs Delivered

10

51

28

30

17

31

16

183

10

48

28

29

16

31

16

178

1,045

5,642

2,073

2,652

1,693

3,020

1,373

17,498

815

5,170

2,073

2,658

1,641

3,020

1,373

16,750

OA SA OA

Participants

4,098 83 7,268 71 6,673 71

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Table 5b: Programs and Participation by Year

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Orienteering Australia Reported Programs Participants 38 1,760 149 10898, 167 9,682 137 11,526 126 11,658 124 12,959 178 16,750

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Sport Australia Reported Programs Participants 69 2,275 192 6,778 183 5,965 354 9,570 144 1,1309 111 11,326 183 17,498

Note: 2015 stats for term 4 only

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High Schools Programs Term 2 of 2021 saw the introduction of High School programs with 24 of the 63 programs occurring in secondary schools, and by Term 4 half of all program deliveries were for secondary schools.

More than 60% orienteering packages in the Sporting Schools booking system in 2021 were for coach-led programs compared to 75% in 2019. The rise in the proportion of teacher-led programs from 25% to 40% over that period is a combination of the new delivery guides created with teachers in mind, as well as COVID restrictions where coaches could not travel to schools.

Jim Mackay OA Sporting Schools Coordinator

Controller and Coach Accreditation Accreditation of Controllers The numbers of accredited controllers on 31st December 2021 is listed below with equivalent figures from previous years.

There has been a decrease of 4% on 2020, with female numbers increasing for the 2nd year in a row, and Level 3 showing the largest drop of 10% with half of those in NSW.

Table 6a: Accredited Controllers by Gender, 2011 - 2021 Females

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 L1 to L3 IOF EA

Dec 2021 16 15 9 40 6

Dec 2020 15 12 11 38 6

Dec 2019 11 10 13 34 6

Dec 2018 12 18 9 39 7

Mar 2018 12 18 7 37 5

Mar 2017 13 19 8 40 4

Mar 2016 13 14 8 35 5

Feb 2015 16 16 8 40 4

Feb 2014 26 20 10 56 4

Feb 2013 25 22 10 57 2

Feb 2012 18 18 9 45 2

Feb 2011 19 25 8 52 2

TOTAL

46

44

40

46

42

44

40

44

60

59

47

55

Males

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 L1 to L3 IOF EA

Dec 2021 48 44 30 122 9

Dec 2020 50 46 39 135 9

Dec 2019 44 42 40 126 12

Dec 2018 40 60 40 140 11

Mar 2018 30 68 39 137 13

Mar 2017 40 72 38 150 13

Mar 2016 29 62 30 121 13

Feb 2015 40 62 48 150 13

Feb 2014 60 77 48 185 13

Feb 2013 55 84 48 187 10

Feb 2012 41 53 49 143 12

Feb 2011 59 96 43 198 11

TOTAL

131

144

138

151

150

163

134

163

198

197

155

209

NOTE: IOF EA are IOF accredited Event Advisers

Table 6b: Accredited Controllers by State Level 1 to Level 3, 2019-2021 ACT

NSW

QLD

SA/NT

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

Level 1

10

9

9

28

31

20

7

6

7

0

1

1

12

12

14

3

4

4

4

2

0

64

65

55

Level 2

8

9

10

16

19

17

4

7

3

6

5

6

6

8

10

4

4

3

13

6

6

57

58

55

Level 3

5

6

6

4

7

7

7

6

6

5

6

6

10

8

7

10

14

14

3

3

4

44

50

50

TOTAL

23

24

25

48

57

44

18

19

16

11

12

13

28

28

31

17

22

21

20

11

10

155 173 160

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Table 6c: Accredited Controller Totals, 2011 to 2021 Dec Dec Dec 2021 2020 2019

Dec 2018

Mar 2018

Mar 2017

Mar 2016

Feb 2015

Feb 2014

Feb 2013

Feb 2012

Feb 2011

64 57 44 155 15 170

52 78 49 179 18 197

42 86 46 174 18 192

53 91 46 190 18 208

42 76 38 156 18 176

56 78 56 190 17 207

86 97 58 241 17 258

80 106 58 244 12 256

59 71 58 188 14 202

78 122 51 251 13 264

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 L1 to L3 IOF EA TOTAL

65 58 50 173 15 188

55 55 50 160 18 178

NOTE: IOF EA are IOF accredited Event Advisers

Accreditation of Coaches The numbers of accredited coaches at 31st December 2021 is listed below with equivalent figures from previous years.

The total number of accredited coaches at Levels 1-3 has decreased by 5% compared to a year earlier at 95, with female coach numbers stable, and male coaches decreasing by 10% for the 4th consecutive annual decrease.

When Level 0 accreditations are included, the overall totals for Levels 0-3 have decreased by 8% over the past

year, after 6 years of increases. Most states had less Level 0 coaches with only WA bucking the trend with a 28% increase.

Coaching Projects The Coaching Framework project being led by Brodie Nankervis in 2021/2022 will lead to a re-writing of the coaching accreditation levels in early 2022.

A School Kits Update project was started towards the end of 2021 with Stephen Goggs scheduled to complete the minor changes in early 2022 for Term 1.

Table 7a: Coach Accreditation by Gender from 2011 - 2021 Females

Level 1

Dec Dec Dec 2021 2020 2019 36 35 34

Dec 2018 42

Mar 2018 41

Mar 2017 44

Mar 2016 28

Feb 2015 40

Feb 2014 51

Feb 2013 56

Feb 2012 64

Feb 2011 55

Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL

13 3 52

11 4 57

9 4 54

5 3 52

3 3 34

4 2 46

5 3 59

12 3 71

9 3 76

12 2 69

14 3 52

11 2 47

Males

Level 1

Dec Dec Dec 2021 2020 2019 32 36 40

Dec 2018 53

Mar 2018 55

Mar 2017 45

Mar 2016 33

Feb 2015 67

Feb 2014 67

Feb 2013 77

Feb 2012 85

Feb 2011 73

Level 2 Level 3 TOTAL

10 1 43

7 6 66

9 6 70

8 5 58

7 4 44

6 4 77

10 6 83

24 4 105

26 3 114

23 3 99

9 3 48

8 5 53

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Table 7b: Accredited Coaches by State, 2019 - 2021 ACT

NSW ‘20

QLD

WA

Total

‘21

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

‘21

‘20

‘19

Level 0

9

19

18

198 235 267 154 136 125

6

18

18

3

10

5

39

100

64

111

94

86 520 612 583

Level 1

6

6

7

10

10

12

14

15

1

1

5

7

5

6

14

17

16

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

1 0 7 17

1 1 8 27

0 5 6 4 3 3 3 1 0 1 1 1 1 2 8 15 20 20 22 19 15 26 213 255 287 176 155 140

2 1 15 21

2 1 17 35

2 0 17 35

2 0 3 6

2 0 3 13

1 1 7 12

4 2 13 52

3 2 10 74

3 2 11 75

6 0 20 131

6 6 23 23 19 0 0 4 6 7 23 22 85 100 100 117 108 615 712 683

18

‘20

VIC

‘19

15

‘21

TAS

‘20

13

‘19

SA/NT

‘21

15

‘21 68

‘20 71

‘19 74

Table 7c: Accredited Coach Totals, 2011 - 2021

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

Dec Dec Dec 2021 2020 2019

Dec 2018

Mar 2018

Mar 2017

Mar 2016

Feb 2015

Feb 2014

Feb 2013

Feb 2012

Feb 2011

520 68 23 4 85 615

522 95 18 10 123 645

500 96 18 10 124 624

402 89 13 8 110 512

215 61 10 7 78 293

36 107 10 6 123 156

31 118 15 9 142 173

17 133 36 7 176 103

12 149 35 6 190 202

128 35 5 168 -

612 71 23 6 100 712

583 74 19 7 100 683

Jim Mackay Manager, Coaching & Officiating Administration

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High Performance and Coaching T

he 2021 calendar year was once again dominated by extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic with bans on travel internationally. We were lucky to have a somewhat normal domestic National League (NOL) season during an autumn window of no restrictions but after that unfortunately the latter part of the year resulted in reintroduction of bans on travel interstate and also locally. Health restrictions also prohibited community sport and associated events all of which resulted in cancellation of all usual High Performance activities after June.

The High Performance team consists of: Brett Weihart, Director - High Performance & Coaching Fredrik Johansson, High Performance Administrator Natasha Key, Head Coach Jim Russell, Assistant Head Coach Brodie Nankervis, Manager of Coaching Development Jim Mackay, Manager of Coaching Administration

National Orienteering League The National Orienteering League (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. In 2021 OA introduced a revised NOL competition to be conducted over the first half of the year concluding with a final weekend focussed on the NOL competition itself. Along with this change, new and exciting race formats are emphasised, such as chasing start to finalise the individual competition, and social events as part of each round.

In 2021 there were 11 NOL races held over four rounds, organised by four different states (VIC, NSW, SA, ACT).

A highlight of the program was the exciting chasing start and relays conducted as the season finale at Broulee Dunes.

162 athletes competed in the 2021 NOL. A bit less compared to 2019 when there were 196 participants (2019 included Aus Champs in NOL) . There were 66 competitors in senior men, 39 in senior women, 34 in junior men and 23 in junior women.

Team Winners Senior Men Senior Women Junior Men Junior Women

Victoria Vikings Canberra Cockatoos Victoria Vikings South Australia Arrows

Individual Winners Senior Men Senior Women Junior Men Junior Women

Aston Key, Victoria Vikings Grace Crane, Canberra Cockatoos David Stocks, Canberra Cockatoos Nea Shingler, NSW Stingers

A NOL survey was conducted after the end of the season..

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NOL 2022 Plans

2021 JWOC Honour Team

The NOL will have 4 rounds in 2022, with a sprint focus leading into the 2022 World Champs. A preview of the NOL can be read in the March edition of the Australian Orienteer. Off the back of the NOL survey results and extensive consultation with athletes, coaches, parents and NOL support staff, a trial of a “Sport” class will be held at the 2nd round in the ACT. This will involve the previous A class being brought into the NOL competition as the Sport class, where runners will score points for NOL.

Junior Women

2021 World Orienteering Championships, Junior World Orienteering Championships and World Cups The World Championships in Orienteering in 2021 were held in The Czech Republic. No Australian athletes were able to compete. JWOC was postponed from its original date in July to September but international travel restrictions prevented any Australian athletes from participating. Henry McNulty participated in round 3 of the World Cup in Sweden.

Mikayla Cooper Abigail George Joanna George Arabella Phillips Nea Shingler Emily Sorensen

TAS SA SA TAS NSW SA

Junior Men Dante Afnan Jensen Key Grant Reinbott Blake Reinbott Ewan Shingler David Stocks

SA VIC QLD QLD NSW ACT

Australia vs New Zealand Elite Test Matches No test matches were held in 2021 because of travel restrictions.

A 2021 WOC honour team and a 2021 JWOC team were selected.

2021 WOC Honour Team Women Grace Crane Tara Melhuish Krystal Neumann Olivia Sprod

ACT ACT QLD SA

Men Matt Doyle Patrick Jaffe Aston Key Henry McNulty Brodie Nankervis

ACT VIC VIC WA TAS

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National Squads

Squads Zoom calls

The High Performance Management Group (HPMG) has established a modified High Performance (HP) squad structure which will be trialled in 2022. OA hopes to return to a normal international season in 2022. The squad restructure aligns with OA’s goal to send strong teams to junior and senior world championships in 2022 and into the future.

Travel restrictions have limited our ability to meet, race and train together as often as liked and as a strategy to counter this during the pandemic the HPMG has run a dozen or so Zoom meetings during the year (NOL, Easter, WOC, JWOC etc). These Zoom sessions have proved very popular with more than 50 participants on some of the sessions and we have therefore implemented the sessions as a permanent part of our activity plan going forward. Many of our former elite orienteers have spoken at these sessions and we are very thankful for their support during the year. Zoom meetings/sessions will be a regular feature during 2022.

The restructure will reduce the number of OA squads to 2, whilst supporting states to provide a squad structure to athletes who are not in the OA squads. The two squads in 2022 will be: •

High Performance Squad: Designed to meet the needs of athletes aiming to excel at the world orienteering championships in 2022 and 2023.

• National Development Squad: Designed to meet the needs who are aiming for senior representation at world championships or world cups from 20222024.

State/territories will be encouraged and supported to provide a squad structure to athletes who are hoping to excel at national level events, in junior, senior or masters’ categories. There is scope for athletes in the two OA squads to be mentors/coaches for these state level squads.

Training Camps

New appointed squad leaders for 2022:

Individual training days were also run by ONSW at the Xmas 5 days - OA HPMG was involved with advertising this in the months leading up to event. Our plan is that the large Junior Development camp will return to its December slot in 2022.

• •

National Development Squad - Tracy Bluett (NSW), Paula Shingler(NSW) and Jock Davis (NSW) High Performance Squad - Grant Bluett (ACT), Matt Crane (ACT) and Jo Allison (ACT)

Junior Training Squad A Junior training squad has been assembled through an EOI process. This squad is aimed at those who are training towards JWOC and are not in the other squads. Warren Key (VIC) is leading this squad as JWOC coach. There is an “Orienteering Academy” Facebook group with over 80 active members established for the primary goal of communicating with our junior orienteers. By increasing the number of junior orienteers involved in activities our goal is to retain these junior athletes as they move into the upper junior classes as well as softening the transition to senior elite classes.

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The Senior QLD training camp that was planned for 2021 was unfortunately cancelled. The Junior training camp held the weekend after was attending by Queenslanders and some NSW juniors.

A HP training camp was held in early Jan 2022, primarily aimed at members of the 3 Squads. It was well supported by a mixture of Squad members, parents and a few other interested orienteers and held over 3 days, 24th-26th january, in the Beechworth area. We would like to thank those leaders that helped during the camp.

High Performance Management Group The leaders of the High Performance Program form part of the so-called High Performance Management Group (HPMG) that is chaired by the OA Director High Performance & Coaching. This group also includes the Head Coach, Manager High Performance Administration, Manager of Coaching Development, Administrator of Coaching Development, and OA Executive Officer. It acts as a bridge between the OA Board and national high performance and coaching operations. Meetings were held regularly during 2021.

High Performance and Coaching Committee: This committee includes the HPMG and two representatives from each state/territory organisation to develop and coordinate high performance and coaching across Australia. It met 3 times in 2022 (April, Aug, Nov).

Junior & Senior Selection Panels: Our two selection panels had somewhat of an unusual role during the 2021 due to COVID travel restrictions resulting in the inability of our athletes to compete at international events during 2021. However, honour teams were selected as well as adjustments made to squads during the year. Both Selection Panels were chaired by Fredrik Johansson (non-voting). The junior selection panel comprised of Cathy McComb (selector), Jim Russell (Ass.Head Coach), Tash Key (Head Coach) and Fredrik Johansson. The senior selection panel comprised of Tash Key (Head Coach), Bruce Arthur (selector), Tracy Marsh (selector), Brett Weihart (WOC Coach) and Fredrik Johansson.

New Coaching Framework The second half of 2021 saw Brodie Nankervis lead a working group to finalise the new coaching framework and syllabi documents. With further consultation with Sport Australia and Sport Integrity Australia, the final documents were set to be published in January 2022.

The new framework will be rolled out across Australia through 2022. The following tasks are underway:

1. Dissemination of information about the new framework - OA news story, OA website, Australian orienteer, OA E-news 2. Transition of current accredited coaches to the new framework 3. Curation and creation of delivery materials for the new courses 4. Making the delivery materials available to learners online 5. Piloting/assisting delivery of first courses (May-Sep 2022)

Learn to Orienteer Grant Proposal Brodie Nankervis and Daniel Stott (VIC) put together a Sport Australia grant in October 2021 with buy-in from most states. The proposal was to develop a program to teach orienteering skills to beginners outside of an event to give them the confidence and skills to be successful and enjoy their orienteering.

Unfortunately the grant was unsuccessful, however, we will be looking for opportunities to develop this area in the future.

Disordered Eating in Sport Guideline Brodie Nankervis had planned to put the OA guideline together (template provided by Sport Aus in late 2022).

Has been held up whilst focus has been on Coaching Framework and Syllabi documents - aim to address by end of 2022.

Jim Russell After an incredible number of years in service supporting and leading our high performance athletes in a number of roles Jim Russell will finish up in his current role as Assistant Head Coach at the OA AGM in April 2022. Jim will also finish up in his role as part of the Junior Selection Panel once the JWOC22 team has been announced. We would like to thank Jim for his fantastic contribution to high performance orienteering over the years at the national level and hope that we continue to see Jim whether in official or other support roles for our athletes going forward. Thanks Jim! Brett Weihart Director, High Performance and Coaching Orienteering Australia Annual Report 2021 35

Mountain Bike Orienteering Australian Events With the continuation of COVID related travel restrictions between states, competitor travel has been difficult to say the least. A number of states managed to resurrect their local events and state series roster, even managing the odd State Championship. The National Championships was again delayed, as was the National MTBO Series with no results being tallied for the second year running.

Innovation Following on from the purchase by Orienteering Australia of a set of long range BS11 SPORTIdent AIR units, 4 other states have now purchased similar equipment for their own regular use. This now provides a pool of equipment for staging State, National and International level events.

Future Plans With travel restrictions still present and travel prices remaining high, a return to international travel for competition will be an evolving scenario as we attempt to form a team for the World Championships and negotiate with New Zealand for Oceania competitions.

Roles and Responsibilities After a significant stint in numerous high performance, coaching and managing roles, to name a few, Kay Haarsma stepped down from her role with MTBO High Performance to enjoy some well earned travel, biking of course! Andrew Power has taken on the lead in the newly formed MTBO Commission and Craig Steffens joined the Board as a Director, focussing on MTBO amongst other things.

Craig Steffens Director, MTBO and Operations

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Orienteering Australia Awards 2021 Athlete of the Year: Aston Key - VIC

SILVA Medal: Marina Iskhakova - NSW

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SILVA Award for Services to Orienteering: Mike Hubbert - VIC work on the first OFA Development Plan.

It was Mike’s initiative earlier in 1976 that started action on the bid to host the 1985 World Orienteering Championships in Australia. He worked with Tom Andrews, Ted Wester and Alex Tarr to develop the bid documentation and, in July 1980, attended the IOF Congress in Germany to promote the bid which was accepted. The hosting of WOC85 proved to be one of the most important events in the development of Australian orienteering.

Mike’s third period of significant contribution began in mid-2004 when he took over the role of Editor of The Australian Orienteer from Ian Baker. Continuing to work with Peter Cusworth, Mike maintained the high quality of the magazine in a role which has continued to the present time.

T

he longstanding editor of The Australian Orienteer, Mike has made significant contributions to Australian orienteering at the national level over three periods. The first period was in 1969-70 when Orienteering began its path towards becoming a national sport in Australia.

Mike was the event secretary for the Upper Beaconsfield event in August 1969 that began this path, and competed in the event, finishing eighth out of 33 starters. In early 1970, he was involved with Tom Andrews, David Hogg and Ron Frederick in establishing the Victorian Orienteering Association and the Orienteering Federation of Australia.

Had he not been heading overseas shortly after the inaugural meeting of those bodies, he would have been the logical choice for Secretary.

Returning to Australia around the end of 1972, Mike resumed an active role in Victorian orienteering. His second period of involvement at the national level began in June 1975 when he was elected Secretary of the Orienteering Federation of Australia, holding that position until 1981. That period covered the later years when State Associations were being established throughout Australia and were affiliating with the OFA. One off Mike’s challenges, on behalf of the OFA Executive, was coordinating liaison with all of the State Associations, which was managed largely through a series of OFA Council Bulletins. During that period, he worked with the OFA President, David Hogg, in starting

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Throughout Mike’s orienteering career, spanning more than 50 years, he has also been an important contributor at the State Association and club level. As a member of Victoria’s first specialist Orienteering club, Red Kangaroos, in December 1974 he organised an evening event at Blackburn Lake in the east of Melbourne that was to set the pattern for Melbourne’s series of Park-Street orienteering events. He was the cartographer for the first coloured map used for an Australian Championships in Victoria (Tallarook State Forest in 1975). These are just a couple of further examples of Mike’s ongoing commitment to Orienteering in Australia at all levels.

SILVA Award for Services to Coaching: Rachel West - WA

R

achel is an elite orienteer in her own right, having represented the Western Australia Nomads in the National Orienteering League, the Bushrangers in Elite compettion against New Zealand and Australia (in W35 and W40).

In 2019, Rachel was the top-ranked female orienteer in her age class, yet she has given time and put considerable thought into providing quality coaching in WA since she became an accredited coach in 1994.

Her efforts have been designed to improve skills in, and enjoyment of, orienteering for Orienteering Western Australia members in general and elite and junior athletes in particular. More recently she has developed and run courses for beginners as a way of introducing a wider range of people to our sport. Rachel has undoubtedly been the most active coach in WA in recent years and she is thoroughly deserving of the Silva Award for Services to Coaching.

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Hall of Fame: Athlete Division Christine Marshall - TAS * At the time these results were the best ever female Australian results (based on percentage time behind the winner).

In 1987 Christine had to withdraw from the squad prior to the selection trials due to financial constraints.

International - Oceania and Australia/New Zealand Challenge performances • • • •

Asia-Pacific Championships 1980 W17 Asia-Pacific Championships 1988 W21 Oceania Championships 2003 W40 Aus/NZ Team Captain 1989, 1991

1st 4th 1st

International – World Masters

C

hristine represented Australia on many occasions, including at WOC on five occasions (when this was a biennial event). She was Australian Team Captain (combined men and women’s team) at two WOCs. She won many national and international events as both a junior and at senior and at masters level.

Christine has contributed to all facets of orienteering.

She was Technical Director for the Veteran World Cup in 1992 and has been controller for national relays, NOL and Australian Three Day competitions. She has coached the Tasmanian Talent Search squad and the Hobart Juniors squad.

• World Masters 2002 W35 3rd National - National Championships and Australian Three Days First Placings Long Distance • 1980, 1981 W17 • 1989 W21 • 2003, 2004, 2005 W40 Easter-3-Day • 1984, 1988, 1989 W21 • 2013 W50 Middle Distance • 2009 W45 Other Honours

A summary of her achievements follows:

•

International - World Orienteering Championships Representative (only held every two years)

•

•

•

• • • •

1981 – Switzerland. Australian team member Individual Classic, 52nd; Relay, 6th 1983 – Hungary. Australian team member Individual Classic, 38th; Relay, 10th 1985 – Australia. Australian team member R e l a y only, Team DSQ 1989 – Sweden. Australian Team Captain Individual Classic, 31st; Relay, 11th 991 – Czechoslovakia. Aus Team Captain Individual Classic, *27th; Relay, *10th

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• •

Tasmanian Sportswoman of the Year, 1989 & 1991 (Sportswomen’s Assoc. of Tasmania).

Tasmanian Institute of Sport Scholarship holder, Dec. 1989- Dec.91.

Tasmanian Women’s Orienteer of the Year, 10 times (1979-88, 1991).

Star of Sport Award (Caltex/The Mercury) - 1989 finalist, 1991 qualifying award.

Australian Sports Medal - 2000

Hall of Fame: Athlete Division Warren Key - VIC

W

arren is a 4 time World Masters Champion, with 6 medals in total.

•

2017 World Masters - Champion Long

Distance M55 • 2017 World Masters – Champion Sprint

Distance M55 • 2009 World Masters - Champion Long

Distance M50 • 2009 World Masters - Champion Sprint

Distance M50 • 2008 World Masters - Bronze Long Distance

M45 • 2005 World Masters - Bronze Long Distance

M45 Warren has also represented Australia 11 times at Elite level at the World Orienteering Championships in: • • • • • •

1997 1995 1993 1983 1981 1979

Norway (11th Relay, 37th Middle) Germany (13th Relay, 51st Long) USA (11th Relay, 45th Long) Hungary (Relay DSQ) Switzerland (23rd Long, 6th Relay) Finland (8th Relay, 39th Long)

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Hall of Fame: General Division Jim Russell - VIC With Senior Australian Women’s WOC Team • •

2004 (Sweden) 2005 (Japan) - where Hanny Allston broke through for a podium finish in the long distance race.

With Orienteering Victoria National Orienteering League team •

2007 winning the Senior Men, Senior Women and Junior Men divisions and came second in the Junior Women division.

• 2021 has commenced position as Orienteering Victoria High Performance coach & Victoria’s NOL team manager Orienteering Australia Head Coach • •

J

im is one of orienteering’s accredited Level 3 Coaches and he has had an enormously successful coaching record, over many years of coaching orienteers.

With the Australian JWOC teams • • • • •

1996 (Romania), 1997 (Belgium), 1998 (France) and 1999 (Bulgaria).

Highlights of this period were top results for Jo Allison and a bronze medal for Troy de Haas, and later • 2007 joint coach of the Australian JWOC team in Dubbo, coaching Simon Uppill and Vanessa Round to outstanding results.

With the Australian WOC teams • •

Australian WOC team coach 2017 & 2018 Australian WOC team Assistant Coach / Manager 2019 With the Australian Bushrangers test match team • Team Manager / Coach 2016, 2017 & 2019 With the Victorian Schools Team •

In 2000 and 2002

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2016 – 2020 During his time as Head Coach has organized multiple National Training Camps Long Term State Coordinator of Coaching.

Developing and implementing the accreditation of orienteering coaches.

process

for

Jim has also coached the New Zealand JWOC team in 2001 in Hungary and then Spain in 2002.

Achievements as an Organiser Jim has been involved in orienteering for about 40 years and apart from the first 5 when he was heavily involved in competition he has been involved on the organisation side consistently. Jim has been organiser and controller for countless events in Victoria and has supported many Australian events.

Jim served on the VOA (Committee of Management) BOARD for many years, and as VOA Vice President from 1995 to 1998. Similarly Jim has consistently participated on the Bendigo Orienteers committee (including 3 years as president). Jim is currently Vice President of Bendigo Orienteers, a position he commenced in 2020.

As the then President of Bendigo Orienteers, Peter Creely, noted “Jim barely ran a race, because he liked to make sure everyone was welcomed and looked after”. “Plus there was making sure the technology was all good. Then there was the effort to provide consistent information on the club website. He knew that it was good to make the club ‘look’ active to the outside eyes”. This continues to hold true and not just at club level.

Jim has been involved in the running of countless events at national, state and local scale. There are even events known as Jim’s. Particularly the Bendigo ToDay event at the start of each season. 2019 marked 13 years of the Bendigo ToDay events. Jim has organised every single one. (Note: 2020 Bendigo ToDay event could not proceed as planned due to the strict rules introduced. The 2021 event is planned to proceed).

One particularly large organisational feat was his role as Carnival Director for the Bushrangers 09 Australian Orienteering Champs.

Jim has always wanted to put on the best event possible for the competitors and spectators. From his super straight finish chute at the 2003 Vic long champs on Sedgwick to personally buying o-lynx radio controls for Easter 2013 because no one else would.

Jim has helped to develop orienteering in Victoria and Australia with the sport’s use of technology, promoting the use of Sportident and o-lynx touch, having screens displaying real time results at the Melbourne Sprint & Autumn Bush series, plus every MSW carnival that has been run. Jim has played a significant role in the introduction of the technology behind commentary at major events.

In 2006, Jim took on a role to be the VicHealth Project Officer for a 4 year project to increase participation.

Through this position Jim’s learnt how to handle the bureaucracy and he’s shown a wonderful ability to work with school aged students to inspire them, their teachers and parents.

The outcome has been the increased participation of people in Central Victoria to Orienteering through the development of Space Racing and the success of ‘his’ schools and students at the Victorian Primary Schools Championship - it is a great credit to him.

And Everyone’s Helper High profile contributions get their own recognition but the behind the scenes things often do not.

And this is what everyone remarks on when they’re asked about Jim. It is all the unsung organising, mentoring, and stepping into gaps, often without needing to be asked, that make him worthy of induction.

Warwick Williams gives an example. “What comes to mind for me is when he has helped me (usually without being asked, and I mean that in a good way): Handling all the entries and setting up the events in OE for the 2008 Christmas 5-Days; Setting up and printing all the maps for the 2012 Christmas 5-Days; and Printing maps, and setting up and running the finish for the Warm-Up for Tassie events at the end of 2014”.

Jim is often the invisible hand behind the things that get done. Without being asked to, and without other people being aware of what he is doing. The things that need to get done, will be done, ready for an event.

In 2020 Jim played a major role in setting up events in a “Covid Safe” manner that met the Victorian Government requirements, including establishing an online live results system.

Then there is Pretex paper - yes it’s his business now, but there may have been no Pretex paper in Australia if Jim didn’t do something about what he saw was happening in Europe.

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Hall of Fame: Athlete Division Dave Lotty - NSW

D

ave Lotty was the most influential person in the establishment orienteering in New South Wales commencing in late 1971. After competing in an event staged in the Blue Mountains for a visiting New Zealand orienteering team, he was involved a few weeks later in restaging that event, followed by the first event in the Sydney area. He helped form and was Secretary of Sydney’s first orienteering club, Bennelong Occasional Orienteers, and later formed Kareelah Orienteers and Uringa Orienteers as orienteering expanded in Sydney.

He helped to form the Orienteering Association of NSW in March 1972 and was initially a Committee member, then Secretary from 1973, the position that he held for many years before becoming the full time OANSW professional officer. As a professional draftsman, he prepared most of the early NSW orienteering maps, initially in black and white and later in colour, as well as field working many of these maps.

He was responsible for the concept of the Easter Threedays, organising the first of these events with Bjorn Blomstedt and Ian Hassall in 1974, as well as several subsequent Easter Three-days events. He also organised the first QBIII event in NSW.

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At the national level, he participated in the OFA Council as a delegate or NSW Councillor from 1973, becoming Secretary in 1981. He remained as Secretary until 2002, when the OFA completed a major review of its governance to become Orienteering Australia. He then held the position of Director (Administration) until 2006, making him the longest serving officer for OFA/ Orienteering Australia. In his early years with OFA, he chaired its Mapping Committee and later became Fixture Coordinator. He received the OFA Silva Award for Services to Orienteering in 1991.

Coming from a background in athletics, Dave has always been a successful competitor, being a member of the Australian team to the World Championships in Denmark in 1974 and a team member in several Australia – New Zealand Challenges. He has won several Australian Championships in his age class and numerous State Championships.

Appendix 1: National Results 2021 OA Shield

National Series (Junior)

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

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

Not Awarded

Women: Men:

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

Nea Shingler David Stocks

NSW ACT

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

Not Awarded

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

Not Awarded

Australopers - Tasmania

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

Women: Men:

Canberra Cockatoos Victorian Nuggets

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

Women: Men:

South Australian Arrows Victorian Nuggets

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

Women: Men:

Grace Crane Aston Key

ACT VIC

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Australian 3 Days: Orange & Molong, NSW W21E Grace Crane ACT M21E Matt Doyle ACT W20E Emily Sorensen SA M20E Ewan Shingler NSW W18E Justine Hobson ACT M18E Toby Cazzolato SA W-10 Layla Dent ACT W-12 Katy Hogg ACT W-14 Aoife Rothery ACT W-16 Milla Key VIC W35 Briohny Seaman NSW W40 Marina Iskhakova ACT W45 Belinda Allison ACT W50 Jennifer Enderby NSW W55 Sue Hancock TAS W60 Chris Brown TAS W65 Sue Key VIC W70 Alison Radford VIC W75 Jenny Hawkins ACT W80 Helen Alexander VIC W85 Maureen Ogilvie NSW M-10 Zaf Bluett-Jones ACT M-12 Hayden Dent ACT M-14 Alex Woolford NSW M-16 Owen Radajewski ACT M35 Wayne Eliot NSW M40 Gareth Candy ACT M45 Grant Bluett ACT M50 Jock Davis NSW M55 Greg Barbour NSW M60 Warren Key VIC M65 Ted van Geldermalsen VIC M70 Steve Flick NSW M75 Alex Tarr VIC M80 Basil Baldwin NSW M85 Barry Hanlon NSW

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Appendix 2: Key Officials National Events 2021 Australian Three Days Orange and Molong - New South Wales Event Director Ron Pallas

IOF Event Adviser Prologue Terry Bluett Jean Baldwin Atte Lahtinen and Grace Molloy

Event Director Tate Needham Controller Keith Fifield Course Planner Rob Walter Mapper Hugh Moore

Paul Prudhoe Rod Parkin Terry Bluett and Rob Vincent

National Orienteering League Broulee Beach - New South Wales

Day One Controller Course Planner Mappers

Event Director Jenny Bourne Controller Warwick Williams Course Planners Ian Lawford Mappers Rob Plowright, Roch Prendergast and Rod Gray

National Orienteering League Broulee Beach - New South Wales

Nick Dent Controller Course Planner Mappers

National Orienteering League Creswick - Victoria

Day Two Controller Nick Dent Course Planner Eric Morris Mappers Eric Andrews, Hugh Moore and Rob Vincent

Event Director Tate Needham Controller Andy Hogg Course Planner John Shelton Agar Mapper Hugh Moore

Day Three Controller Hilary Wood Course Planner Anna Fitzgerald Mappers Eric Andrews, Hugh Moore and Rob Vincent

National Orienteering League Gisborne - Victoria Event Director Wendy Taverna Controller Barry McCrae Course Planner Ted van Geldermalsen Mappers Sophie Taverna

National Orienteering League Mount Alexander - Victoria Event Director Alison and Tony Radford Controllers Warwick Williams and Craig Feuerherdt Course Planner Jim Russell Mappers Steve Key and Alex Tarr

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Appendix 3: National Teams/Squads 2021 High Performance Squad (HPS) Women Grace Crane ACT Tara Melhuish ACT Krystal Neumann QLD Olivia Sprod SA Bridget Uppill SA Belinda Lawford ACT

Men Matthew Crane ACT Matt Doyle ACT Alastair George NSW Patrick Jaffe VIC Aston Key VIC Henry McNulty WA Brodie Nankervis VIC Simon Uppill SA

Development Squad (DS) Women Michele Dawson NSW Ellie de Jong QLD Mary Fleming VIC Arabella Phillips TAS Caroline Pigerre QLD Aislinn Prendergast VIC Anna Sheldon QLD Emily Sorensen SA Asha Steer VIC Lanita Steer VIC Caitlin Young ACT

Men Dante Afnan SA Andrew Barnett ACT Duncan Currie NSW Jarrah Day ACT Martin Dent ACT Daniel Gray QLD Angus Haines SA Tomas Krajca Patrick Miller ACT Ryan Stocks ACT Toby Wilson NSW

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Australian Junior Development Squad (AJDS) Women Mikayla Cooper TAS Ella Cuthbert ACT Ellie de Jong QLD Abigail George SA Joanna George SA Mikayla Gray QLD Zoe Melhuish ACT Arabella Phillips TAS Emily Sorensen SA Caitlin Young ACT

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

ACT Tristan Miller

ACT Noah Poland NSW

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Appendix 4: Office Bearers 2021 Board Chair and Director (International Relations) Michael Dowling TAS Company Secretary Andrew Lumsden NSW Director (Finance) Richard Mountstephens NSW Director (Technical) Jenny Casanova SA Director (Projects) Craig Steffens QLD Director Bill Jones ACT Director (High Performance) Brett Weihart SA (from Sep 2021) Director Hanny Allston VIC (from May 2021 to Sep 2021)

Paid Officers Executive Officer Paul Prudhoe NSW (to Apr 2021) General Manager Matthew Dunstan NSW (from May 2021 to Spe 2021) Head Coach Natasha Key VIC Assistant Head Coach Jim Russell VIC High Performance Administrator Fredrik Johansson VIC Manager, Coaching & Officiating Accreditation: Jim Mackay NSW Administrator, National Sporting Schools Jim Mackay NSW Manager, Coaching Development: Brodie Nankervis VIC Manager, Website Shane Jenkins NSW

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

Mike Hubbert Peter Cusworth Linda Burridge

VIC VIC QLD

Volunteer Officers Public Officer Bob Allison ACT Anti Doping Medical Officer Mark Freeman NSW Ranking Officer – General Darryl Erbacher ACT Ranking Officer – Elite Bruce Arthur VIC Badge Scheme Secretary John Oliver NSW Coordinator, Facebook John Harding ACT OA HP Instagram Brodie Nankervis VIC

Committee/Commission Chairpersons Coaching Russell Blatchford NSW (to ????)

Technical Anna Sheldon QLD Events Greg Hawthorne TAS Mapping Neil Barr VIC MTB Orienteering Commission Andrew Power NSW Selection - Junior Fredrik Johansson VIC Selection - Senior Fredrik Johansson VIC Selection - MTBO Craig Steffens QLD

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Coaching HP Squad Coaches Jo Allison ACT Grant Bluett ACT Matthew Crane ACT Development Squad Coaches Tracy Bluett NSW Paula Shingler NSW Jock Davis NSW

Selection Panels Junior Fredrik Johansson, Chair of Selectors (non-voting) VIC Cathy McComb, Selector TAS Natasha Key, Head Coach VIC Jim Russell, Assistant Head Coach VIC Senior Fredrik Johansson, Chair of Selectors (non-voting) VIC Bruce Arthur, Selector VIC Tracy Marsh, Selector NSW Natasha Key, Head Coach VIC Brett Weihart, WOC Coach SA MTBO Craig Steffens, Chair QLD Kay Haarsma, Selector SA Carolyn Jackson, Selector VIC

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Appendix 5: Audited Financial Report 2021

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. ABN 77 406 995 497 FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

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Contents Independent Auditor’s Report Auditor’s Independence Declaration Trading Statement Profit & Loss Statement Balance Sheet Notes to the Financial Statements Committee’s Report Certificate by Members of the Committee

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. ABN 77 406 995 497 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF Orienteering Australia Inc Independent Auditor's Report ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC to the Members of Orienteering Australia Inc

I have audited the accompanying financial report, being a special purpose financial report, of Orienteering Australia Inc (the Association), which comprises the Committee's Report, the Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2021, the Profit and Loss Statement for the Year then ended, notes comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information, and the Statement by Members of the Committee.

Committee's Responsibility for the Financial Report The Committee of Orienteering Australia Inc is responsible for the preparation of the financial report, and has determined that the basis of preparation described in the Notes to the Financial Statements is appropriate to meet the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act (Australian Capital Territory) and is appropriate to meet the needs of the Members. The committee's responsibility also includes such internal control as the committee determines is necessary to enable the preparation of a financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s Responsibility My responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial report based on our audit. I have conducted my audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. Those standards require that I comply with relevant ethical requirements relating to audit engagements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial report is free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial report. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial report, whether due to fraud or error.

In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Association's preparation of the financial report that gives a true and fair view, 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.

An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the Committee, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial report.

I believe that the audit evidence I have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for my audit opinion.

Opinion In my opinion, the financial report of Orienteering Australia Inc presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Orienteering Australia Inc as at 31 December 2021 and its financial performance for the Year then ended in accordance with the accounting policies described in the Notes to the Financial Statements, and the Associations Incorporation Act (Australian Capital Territory).

Basis of Accounting and Restriction on Distribution Without modifying my opinion, we draw attention to the Notes to the Financial Statements, which describe the basis of accounting. The financial report has been prepared to assist Orienteering Australia Inc to meet the requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act (Australian Capital Territory). As a result, the financial report may not be suitable for another purpose.

Nikki George National Capital Accounting Pty Limited

Dated 7 April 2022

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. ABN 77 406 995 497 AUDITOR’S INDEPENDENCE DECLARATION Auditor's Independence Declaration UNDER SECTION 307C OF THE CORPORATIONS ACT 2001 Under Section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 To the Members of Orienteering Australia Inc I declare that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, in relation to the audit of Orienteering Australia Inc for the year ended 31 December 2021 there have been: (a)No contraventions of the auditor independence requirements as set out in the Corporations Act 2001 in relation to the audit; and (b)No contraventions of any applicable code of professional conduct in relation to the audit.

Nikki George National Capital Accounting Pty Limited PO Box 4237 KINGSTON ACT 2604

Dated 7 April 2022

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. TRADING STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

2020

2019

$

$

1,444

1,585

INCOME Uniform and Badge Sales LESS COST OF SALES Opening Stock Purchases Closing Stock

Gross Profit

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16,357

9,937

-

6,962

(15,522)

(16,357)

835

542

609

1,043

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 2021

2020

$

$

INCOME Australian Orienteer

36,998

37,821

ATO Cash Flow Boost

-

20,000

JobKeeper

-

56,250

Grants Received

62,686

67,450

Receipts from States

196,540

131,474

High Perfomance Items

5,489

28,950

Interest Received

216

864

Gross Profit from Trading

609

1,043

302,538

343,852

Accountancy and Audit Fees

4,351

4,705

Australian Orienteer Expense

36,216

44,118

216

252

TOTAL INCOME EXPENDITURE

Bank Charges Development

52,262

56,012

Employee Costs

64,923

90,979

Eventor Software

28,966

2,685

High Performance

18,492

28,485

Insurance

15,183

13,465

IOF Levies

10,116

9,778

Office Expenses

4,179

2,026

OA Conference & IOF Council meetings

-

3,130

Promotion

5,481

4,965

Sporting Schools

5,847

3,555

TOTAL EXPENDITURE

246,232

264,155

PROFIT

56,306

79,697

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2021

2021

2020

$

$

Retained Profits

383,752

327,446

TOTAL EQUITY

383,752

327,446

265,151

218,238

EQUITY

Represented by: CURRENT ASSETS CBA Cheque Account #6687 CBA The Australian Orienteer #8098

1,665

613

ING Savings Account #3543

83,443

83,422

Accounts Receivable

55,296

16,677

Prepaid Expenses

17,193

14,360

Team Uniforms for Sale

15,522

16,357

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS

638,790

509,992

TOTAL ASSETS

638,790

509,992

Unexpended Grants

217,070

169,256

Superannuation Payable

1,444

541

GST Payable

19,736

8,166

PAYG Witholding Payable

3,151

4,583

Income in Advance

13,637

-

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES

255,038

182,546

TOTAL LIABILITIES

255,038

182,546

NET ASSETS

383,752

327,446

CURRENT LIABILITIES

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FORTHE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021 Significant Accounting Policies The financial statements are special purpose financial statements prepared in order to satisfy the financial reporting requirements of the Associations Incorporation Act (Australian Capital Territory). The committee has determined that the association is not a reporting entity.

The following material accounting policies, which are consistent with the previous period unless otherwise stated, have been adopted in the preparation of the financial statements.

Basis of Preparation The financial statements have been prepared on an accruals basis and are based on historical costs unless otherwise stated in the notes. The accounting policies that have been adopted in the preparation of the statements are as follows: (a) Income Tax No provision for income tax has been raised as the association/company (as the case may be) is exempt from income tax under Division 50 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. (b) Revenue and Other Income A one-off adjustment has been made in the 2021 Accounts to match the Insurance Income (reimbursed from the States) to the financial year in which it relates.

All revenue is stated net of the amount of goods and services tax (GST). (c) Goods and Services Tax (GST) Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST, except where the amount of GST incurred is not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). In these circumstances, the GST is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of an item of the expense.

Receivables and payables in the balance sheet are shown inclusive of GST.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. COMMITTEE’S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

Your committee members submit the financial report of the Orienteering Australia Inc, for th year ended 31 Dec 2021.

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

Richard Mountstephens Bill Jones

Andrew Lumsden Brett Weihart

Craig

Steffens

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 after providing for income tax for the year ended 31 December 2021 amounted to $56,306.

Auditor’s Independence Declaration Section 307C of the Corporations Act 2001 requires the company’s auditors, National Capital Accounting Pty Limited, to provide the directors with an Independence Declaration in relation to the review of the financial statements. The Independence Declaration forms part of the financial statements.

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

____________________________________ Michael Dowling

___________________________________ Richard Mounstephens

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA INC. CERTIFICATE BY MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2021

I, Michael Dowling, and I, Richard Mountstephens, certify that; We attended the annual general meeting of the association held on 11 April 2022.

The annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 were submitted to the members of the association at the annual general meeting.

____________________________________ Michael Dowling

____________________________________ Richard Mountstephens

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

Photos: Tom de Jong (Photos by Tom), Mike Hubbert, Mike Dowling, Tony Hill. IOF/William Hollowell, The Australian Orienteer

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