The Australian Orienteer – March 2008

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CONTENTS XMAS 5 DAYS......................................... 4 N AT I O N A L J U N I O R S Q U A D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 S I LVA M E DA L 2 0 0 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 S I LVA N AT I O N A L O R I E N T E E R I N G L E A G U E . . . . . 1 3 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE...................... 14 WHEN TRAINING MORE ISN’T THE ANSWER. 16 N U T R I T I O N .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 O-RINGEN............................................ 20 THE MARK WEBBER CHALLENGE................ 22 VENICE-O............................................ 24 TOP EVENTS......................................... 29 O R I E N T E E R I N G O V E R S E A S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 SPORT PSYCHOLOGY .............................. 31 A N E W C O M E R P A T H W A Y ?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 HIGH PERFORMANCE.............................. 33 NORDIC WALKING ................................. 34 ADVENTURE IN THE DESERT .................... 36 M T B O N E W S .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 R I D I N G I N Q U E E N S L A N D .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 2007 RANKINGS.................................... 46 Front Cover: Rachel Effeney and Aislinn Prendergast discuss their courses at the National Junior Training Camp.

Photo: Rob Preston

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l-r Carolyn Chalmers (NCN) Lance Read (UGQ) Michael Burt (RRA) (Day 5)

X M A S 5 DAY S

Max Neumann EN Q

Nicholas & Isabella Burridge UG Q (day 3).

Nicholas was “shadowing” his sister on the Novice course

Nicolay Sytov (RUS) (Day 5)

Grant Bluett (AO A) & Dave Shepherd(RR A), control 18 (Day 3)

Day 4 StreetO, Stockton Beach. (not orienteers, just someone fishing on the beach) Lyn Malmgron (SH N) & Luke Yager (NC N) (Day 2)

5 Days Results Men A Men B Men C Men D Men E Men F Women A Women B Women C Women D Women E Green Novice

Dave Shepherd (RR A) Nicolay Sytov (Russia) Hugh Moore (RR A) Alex Tarr (YV V) Valentin Schepotkin (Russia) Leigh Hoy (NC N) Jo Allison (RR A) Jenny Enderby (NC N) Lillian Burill (BB Q) Jacquie Rand (UG Q) Lisette Schults-Rand (UG Q) Vincent Donnadieu (IK N) Heather Burridge (UG Q)

Links to results, splits, maps and photos for all 5 days are on the carnival result page http://newcastle.nsw.orienteering. socialfx.net/home/xmas/Results/

Pre-start Day 4, Newcastle Uni

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X M A S 5 DAY S

Newcastle for Christmas Words & Photos: Russell Rigby (Newcastle Orienteers)

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HE Christmas 5 Day carnival rounded out a very busy year for Newcastle orienteers – over 40 events ranging from summer series street events to organising the NSW Championships as the lead in to the JWOC carnival, with which we were also heavily involved. Initially the Xmas 5 Day had not been scheduled because of the emphasis on JWOC 2007, but earlier in the year before JWOC the question was asked by Dick Ogilvie, almost in passing, whether Newcastle could hold the Xmas carnival.

The answer was given as “ ummmmm, .......yeahhh, definitely possibly......”.

So after the dust had cleared from Dubbo the “5 Days of Wine & Waves” was born – slowly. Five maps were chosen – two near the Freeway for Days 1 & 5, two at Kitchener near Cessnock (for the “Wine”), and a long Sprint format at Newcastle University.

The organised social program included a night tour of the old Maitland Gaol, a tournament at the local petanque club, and a late afternoon Street-O run at Stockton Beach (for the “Waves”).

Give them a map and they will come, give them five maps and more will come – and so they did, more than 270, from 6 States & Territories, Russia, Norway, USA & Sweden.

Day 1 – The Quarry - As usual the first afternoon of the carnival started with competitors arriving from all directions, meeting up with friends, comparing Christmas excesses, and wondering why they had decided to go for a run in the bush in the middle of summer. The first arrival was Nicolay Sytov (Russia), who was to become the face of the carnival, at the end of a 4-day bike ride from Brisbane. Day 1 was Middle Distance format, avoiding the denser patches of green on the map, and the light rain which fell late in the afternoon cooled the air. Only one of the of the eventual class winners finished outside the top-2, establishing the pattern for the rest of the competition.

Day 2 – The Poppethead - The area near Kitchener was used for the Australian MTBO Long Distance Championships in November, an event that was memorable for the mud after a severe thunderstorm. There was no mud this time, but one of the talking points was the plentiful spider webs (and spiders) that were strung through the forest. The courses set by club junior Josh Roberts took competitors straight into one of the areas of complex minor water courses which are a feature of this map, and which proved a challenge for many. The closest result was in Men D where Alex Tarr finished only 2secs in front of Dave Lotty, while the 9 minutes between Jo Allison and Allison Jones was the biggest margin.

The trip to Maitland Gaol started with the gates being locked behind the entering visitors, with a promise that they would be opened after the tour. It was an interesting experience for around a dozen orienteers.

Day 3 – Southams Road - Across the main road from Day 2, and still plenty of spiderwebs - and deep erosion gullies. Grant Bluett caught series leader Dave Shepherd by 3 minutes half way round the A course and they finished together, with Dave Shepherd just retaining the overall lead. Josh Blatchford, another of the club’s juniors, took a break from running in Men A to plan the day’s courses.

The social event for the evening was a night on the piste (and other bad puns) at the Valley Petanque Club. Not everyone agrees that petanque is a game of skill, as the boule seem to bounce unpredictably, but Julie Mann and Peter Kreminski have no doubt that to win takes skill, daring and patience. As inaugural winners of the “Community Shield” trophy they should know. Peter reckons he may give up orienteering and take up petanque.

Day 4 – Newcastle University - The courses were set as a change of pace (faster!) around the bushy campus of the university, as a long Sprint format. Hordes of the much feared Uni mosquitoes did not eventuate, for which everyone was grateful.

The Uni map and area was given the “thumbs up” and is likely to appear in the Championship program in the next few years.

More than 50 competitors entered the afternoon Street-O event, as a 45 minute score course, around the beachside suburb of Stockton. The multiple choice answers proved a problem for the overseas competitors, but the sun, surf, sea-breeze and flat terrain made for a very enjoyable event. This event also gave local 5 Day organising people a chance for a run.

Day 5 – O’Donnelltown Rock - This terrain was steeper, thicker and hotter than previous days. Of the 13 classes, Men C, D & E, and Mixed Green were closely contested leading into this last event, although several other classes could change with mispunches or lightning-fast runs. None of those eventuated, and the finishing order on the day decided the close placings.

The advantage of the area as the final day was the proximity to the F3 Freeway (on the edge of the map), and after the wellattended presentation and traditional lucky prize draw the crowd dispersed towards home, holiday or New Year celebrations.

Nicolay got on his bike, as he had every day, and rode off to Newcastle Harbour for the fireworks, then Sydney, with Waitangi in NZ planned for February. The Hagan family (Karen, Sean, Kate and Sam) who represented Western Plains Orienteers, the newest club in Australia, headed back to Dubbo and used photos from the event as the basis for more media coverage and publicity. The Newcastle Club organising team relaxed and contemplated the chance of sleeping in.

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SILVA National Orienteering League Event Calendar 2008 Event number

Date

Event/location

Format

1

8 March

Victorian Relay Championships

Relay

2

9 March

Eureka Challenge, Ballarat, VIC

Long

3

21 March

Australian 3-Days Prologue, Dubbo, NSW

Sprint

4

22 March

Australian 3-Days Day 1, Dubbo, NSW

Middle

5

23 March

Australian 3-Days Day 2, Dubbo, NSW

Long

6

24 March

Australian 3-Days Day 3, Dubbo, NSW

Relay distance

7

29 March

ASC Galaxy Sprint, Canberra, ACT

Sprint

8

29 March

ASC Galaxy Mixed Relay, Canberra, ACT

Mixed Relay

9

30 March

Canberra Cup, ACT

10

17 May

Sun Coast Classic, St Helens, TAS

Sprint

11

17 May

Sun Coast Classic, St Helens, TAS

Middle

12

18 May

Sun Coast Classic, St Helens, TAS

Long

13

20 Sept

Australian Middle Distance Championships, Maryborough, QLD

Middle

14

21 Sept

QLD Championships, Maryborough, QLD

Long

15

23 Sept

NOL Round 14, Maryborough, QLD

Middle

16

26 Sept

Australian Sprint Championships, Maryborough, QLD

Sprint

17

27 Sept

Australian Long Distance Champs, Maryborough, QLD

Long

18

28 Sept

Australian Relay Championships, Maryborough, QLD

Relay

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N AT I O N A L J U N I O R S Q U A D

In January, the nation’s best junior orienteers gathered in Newcastle to take part in a National Junior Training camp organised by Orienteering Australia.

One of the attendees, Josh Blatchford, wrote this report:

2008 National Junior Training Camp Photos: Rob Preston and Ben Rattray

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ATIONAL Junior Coach/Manager team Nick Dent and Hilary Wood, High Performance Manager, Rob Preston, and recently appointed Victorian Schools Coach, Roch Prendergast, put together a demanding, at times gruelling, but also motivating and extremely enjoyable National Junior Training Camp. The 26 strong group was drawn from the National Junior Squad and included some members of the newly formed Junior Development Squad, for talented 15-17 year olds. Many in attendance had already been in the Hunter region competing in the ‘Wine & Waves’ 2007 Xmas 5 Days. Others flew into Newcastle or joined the training schedule during the week.

The actual camp started on the 1st of January, in surprisingly luxurious accommodation in the Anna Bay area (north of Newcastle), with a short group ‘get to know you’ session. This was our rest day and all in attendance made the most of it with some relaxing and easy socialising.

Wednesday the 2nd brought our first day of training and fitness testing, with a tough 3000m track time trial, followed in the afternoon by the ‘beep’ test and timed agility run. Not to be forgotten was the pleasant trip to the beach in between. The Queenslanders seemed to think the water was cold and were a bit reluctant to swim, while the Victorians seemed to love the water.

On Thursday the Squad headed out to the legendary and very tricky sand dunes map of ‘Bob’s Farm’, to improve our technical navigation in the contours. A few legs in the thick and spider infested forest, and we were soon headed back to the resort. We had another fantastic social evening including a round of minigolf and some sandboarding at the Stockton sand dunes.

Friday saw us leave the accommodation at Anna Bay and start heading towards ‘the hut’ for the rest of the camp, much to

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the dislike of the Queensland junior girls after some of the stories they heard about ‘Ivan’. We stopped on the way for some Sprint Orienteering training in Sydney. After arriving at the hut and taking a short rest, we headed out to the forest for relay simulation training. That night the Squad went out for tea at the Mittagong RSL, which was followed by talks from Dave Shepherd on tips for Orienteering in Sweden, and Kris Dunn from ACTAS introducing us to Sports Psychology.

Saturday morning was our Middle Distance event on the map ‘Miners Despair’ in Belanglo State Forest. Some good times were posted on both the men’s and women’s courses, and splits were able to be compared thanks to us having the resources of SportIdent on camp. Saturday afternoon was pretty relaxed with rest, socialising and a few games of cricket. Our evening talk examined the trend of Orienteering in Sweden, with a few maps of JWOC type areas being handed out, and then tips were given by the elites helping at the camp. Rob Walter, Julian Dent, Jo Allison, Kerrin Rattray and Dave Shepherd shared their wealth of experience of competing in Swedish terrain.

On Sunday we had the gruelling Long Distance camp championships at ‘Executioners Drop’, also in Belanglo. The courses were very tough and the bush was very thick, almost unrunnable. Everyone put their best effort in for the courses set, but were certainly exhausted on the way home. Many fell asleep on the bus - even Nick came close and he was driving the bus!!

Very special thanks should go out to Nick, Hilary, Robbie and Roch who made the camp as enjoyable and successful as it was.

It was greatly appreciated by all who attended, and what was learned is certain to be put to good use.

The camp starts with a 3km time trial

QLD’s Simon Mee

Rachel Effeney refuelling

Lilian Burrill (QLD) enjoys Belanglo’s open pine forests

SA’s Lauren Gillis

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The girls completing the gruelling ‘beep test’

Bridget Anderson

Krystal Neumann

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Max Neve

NSW’s Tamara Orr Lillian Burrill and Laurina Neumann receiving last minute instructions from coach Nick Dent.

Morten Neve

Lillian Burrill

Hilary Wood keeping tabs on things

Lachlan Dow

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

Silva Medal 2007 The Silva Medal for 2007 has been won by Maureen Ogilvie (W70 - UR.N) for the third time since 1990. This year the Silva Medal is based on points for participating and placing in the following events: Australian 3-Days (each day considered as a separate event); Australian and Oceania Sprint, Middle Distance, and Long Distance Championships; and State Championships associated with national carnivals. Each orienteer who completes 6 of the above events in M/W16 and above is eligible for the Silva Medal.

Maximum points achievable are 24. There were eight orienteers who achieved 24 points and a count back system based on winning margins has been used to separate those on maximum points. In effect Maureen Ogilvie has performed relatively further ahead of the field in her age class than any of the others who gained the maximum points.

Name

Club

Points Av margin %

1 Maureen Ogilvie

UR.N

24

0.303

2 Jenny Bourne

EU.V

24

0.271

3 Geoff Lawford

EU.V

24

0.156

4 Alex Tarr

YV.V

24

0.144

5 Carolyn Jackson

MF.V

24

0.106

6 Jenny Hawkins

BS.A

24

0.072

7 Dale Ann Gordon

EU.V

24

0.052

8 Julian Dent

CC.N

24

0.041

EV.T

23

= 9 Nigel Davies = 9 Nicola Dalheim

MF.V

23

= 9 Martin Wehner

WE.A

23

= 9 Lachlan Dow

BS.A

23

=13 Clive Pope

UG.Q

22

=13 John Lyon

TT.S

22

15 Joshua Blatchford NC.N

21

=16 Scott Simson

TF.Q

20

=16 Grace Elson

AL.T

20

=16 Hanny Alston

AL.T

20

OA Statistician, Darryl Erbacher, interviews Silva Medal 2007 winner, Maureen Ogilvie.

M: It’s in my jeans.....I mean genes. I’m lucky that way.

However, the old joints are starting to get a bit decrepit and are screaming for more TLC. I’ve been taking golf lessons recently (for the first time in my life) and am keeping that in mind for my “older” old age. But, hopefully, I’ll still be orienteering into my 80’s. This would be cool as the competition wouldn’t be so hot then.

Darryl: Congratulations, Maureen.

D: You have won in a wide variety of terrain this year. Are the techniques the same no matter what the type of terrain is?

Maureen: Ta D: This is your third time you’ve won the Silva Medal, Maureen.

Ian Hassall has won ten times and the only other person to rival your efforts is Alex Tarr who is also on three. You must be pleased to be in such exalted company?

M: Absolutely! I couldn’t think of two more admirable gentlemen to share this honour with. Watch out Alex!

D: To what do you owe your success? Is it (husband) Dick’s coaching?

M: Next question. No, seriously, the old rascal keeps me on my toes and is forever coming up with new challenges and setting future goals, sometimes quite daunting.

D: How is the body standing up to all this competitiveness after years at the top?

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M: Definitely not. The only thing that is always the same is concentration. Once that is lost, you’re gone. You must avoid noticing other competitors and just keep in constant contact with your map. It is absolutely vital to have a plan right from the start. This can be achieved whilst choosing the safest way to the first control. Then adapt that plan to the type of terrain using your skills with reading contours carefully, having definite attack points and notching up features on the way. This way you can be sure where you are on the map at all times. And if you don’t know where you are, relocation technique is the next important one.

D: Anything else to add?

M: Yes, most importantly of all - kiss your good luck charm before heading off to your start!

D: Thanks for the good oil, Maureen, and congratulations once again.

S I LV A N AT I O N A L O R I E N T E E R I N G L E A G U E

Orienteering Australia and Fiskars Brands have great pleasure in announcing that SILVA will be awarded naming rights for the national League competition in 2008. The events will be known as the 2008 SILVA National Orienteering League.

Director of Development for Orienteering Australia, Ben Rattray, said the SILVA sponsorship would be a major boost for the competition. Sponsorship by SILVA will enable organizers to offer improved maps, venues and competition for all participants. Rattray said that with more cash prizes on offer this year’s competition will be bigger and better than ever, and there will be a SILVA Video Report competition for budding video journalists.

SILVA has had a long history of association with Orienteering in Australia and navigation sports in general. The very first Australian advertisement for SILVA compasses appeared in a Scouting publication in May 1965 (see right). Under the longterm guidance of Tom Andrews SILVA products have become an essential part of the Australian Orienteering scene.

Fiskars Brands, the new owners of SILVA, have taken this association to a new level with their support for the 2008 SILVA National Orienteering League.

The National Orienteering League is Australia’s premier Orienteering competition. The League is primarily a State teams competition - each State fields teams of at least three women and three men in four series of races during the year (a total of 14-18 races). In addition, there is a points competition for individual glory in the National Orienteering Series.

Competition Format There are four divisions of the National Orienteering League: Senior Teams - based on the results in the Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s divisions of the National Orienteering Series and is the premier competition.

Junior Teams - based on the results in the Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s divisions of the National Orienteering Series.

The seven teams in the competition are: Canberra Cockatoos, NSW Stingers, Queensland Cyclones, Southern Arrows, Tassie Foresters, Victorian Nuggets and Western Nomads.

For more information go to: www.orienteering.asn.au/ nationalleague

The Victorian Scout, May 1965

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

A President’s Perspective – My Final Words Bob Mouatt

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FTER 11 years of submitting articles to The Australian Orienteer this will be my final contribution to the magazine. Some may say after reading it - thankfully. I leave with considerable regrets about not achieving my goals. The primary impediments were: • The sudden growth in professionalism in many sports in the mid 1990s. This impacted adversely on minor sports (like Orienteering) gaining media coverage and sponsorships.

• The Australian Sports Commission’s unexpected abolition of Orienteering Australia’s Sport Development funding. This halted the momentum we had been developing.

• My inability to bring about sufficient change in the attitude of the Orienteering community towards a wide range of matters that are important to the advancement of the sport.

My background (see Bob’s brief bio) meant that I have a totally different approach on many matters to that of the average orienteer. This meant I had to temper my forthright approach.

Some of the key issues are outlined below.

Leadership, Vision and Management. There are too many people in positions of authority from the same background. Look at the membership of Boards, Councils, Committees, etc. Most are university academics, schoolteachers, scientists, engineers, etc. Few if any are entrepreneurs or have experience as genuine managers, ie managing budgets and making critical choices to achieve objectives. There needs to be a major change in the profile to create more diversity for the sport to progress in a highly competitive environment.

Data Collection, Trend Analysis and Planning. As a person who spent a greater part of his working life committed to long-term plans, and using accurate data to forecast requirements and to analyse trends, I have been frustrated that, notwithstanding the high proportion of orienteers with tertiary qualifications, there is little appreciation of and support for these activities.

Planning and the complementary task of evaluating outcomes are important and need to be given more prominence.

Why did Norway’s Ingunn H. Weltzien need to take a water bottle onto the podium at JWOC 2006? Was she concerned about dehydration while she stood up there for all those long minutes? Or was she, quite rightly, acknowledging the support of a sponsor?

orienteers look like a rag-tag bunch of nondescripts at the presentation of awards and other functions. Many photographs of orienteers do not present an attractive, sporting image that encourages the media to publish photos or sponsors (or new people) to become involved.

Media and Marketing. Another frustration has been the lack of understanding for the need to continually attract new people to the sport to replace those it loses. I don’t know the figures for other States, but OACT has a membership churn rate of 25 per cent, that is around a quarter of members do not renew and have to be replaced by new or former members rejoining to retain the same membership level. Thus media and marketing becomes an important factor. The Australian Orienteer (new version initiated

by Ian Baker) and the new national website including the results database (initiated by Andy Hogg) are two success stories of the past decade, but coverage in the mainstream media has been limited mainly because of the image of the sport. See more below.

National League/National Series. After 11 years I have just about got most people using the term National League (in place of ‘O’ League) or NOL, but have I failed miserably to get orienteers to differentiate between the teams’ competition (the National League), and the individual competition (the National Series). It has been hard enough explaining the National League to the media and others outside of the sport, as no other sport in Australia conducts a League on the same basis as orienteering, and no other sport describes individual competitions as Leagues, it is invariably Series. The National League and the National Series are two separate competitions, but the results of the League are based on the Series. The persistent use of Orienteering idiosyncratic language is one of the sport’s main impediments to be being accepted as a mainstream sport.

Projecting an Image and Creating a Presence. People have been using clothing (and make up) for thousands of years to project an image and create a presence, eg waring tribes, the military, etc. My first senior football coach used to say, “Even if you can’t play well, at least dress like a footballer.”

While the standard of competition uniforms of most orienteers is improving, especially in the National League, quite often

Presentation of Results. Another crusade that has fallen on deaf ears (outside of the ACT, where I have had full control) has been my attempts to have the names of all participants displayed in results and for the results to be separated into men, women and groups. My reasons are we are a gender equity organisation and the results of men and women should be separated, and that for a number of reasons all participants on a course should be

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known. Timeliness is another key factor. We should be aiming to have results on a website and in the media as soon as possible, at least on the day following the event, if not before.

Those are just some topics that come quickly to mind that have frustrated me over the past decade or more.

Community Activities. One way of creating a positive image is to follow the lead of many other sports and participate in community activities. Apart from activities that I have arranged or supported in the ACT, eg Clean Up Australia Day, Group Blood Donation, Treeathlons, Canada Fun Run for Cancer, etc I haven’t seen a lot of evidence (apart from OWA’s participation in Clean Up Australia Day) of orienteers as a group under the name of Orienteering participating in community activities. More needs to be done in this regard.

Bob’s Brief Bio I was born in January 1939. My father joined the RAAF in March 1941 and was killed in action in April 1945. In late 1952 my mother entered into a disastrous relationship, which within 30 months would leave her with three young children, broke, homeless and without an income, save my small wage. During that period my stepfather subjected my mother, brother, young halfbrother and me to considerable physical and mental abuse. From age 10 my ambition had been to study law and enter politics. My stepfather stopped that by not letting me proceed beyond Year 8 and I started work on my 15th birthday.

Photo: Troy Merchant

Volunteerism. Often the response to many of my suggestions is that I have to remember that everyone is a volunteer, as if Orienteering was unique. All sports have volunteers, but the difference with Orienteering is that most if not all of its volunteers are participants, whereas in many other sports the volunteers, especially officials, are not participants. My commitment of time and energy, when I was a Rugby coach and administrator, would have been no less than my current commitment to Orienteering. Over recent years I have suggested that Orienteering needs to consider attracting nonparticipatory volunteer/paid officials but such suggestions have been ignored.

Highlights. During the past decade I was fortunate to witness many highlights including, Troy de Haas’s Bronze medal (1999 JWOC Bulgaria), Grant Bluett’s Gold medal (2001 World Games Japan), Adrian Jackson’s Gold medal (2004 WMTBOC Ballarat), Hanny Allston’s Gold medal (2006 WOC Denmark) and many more.

Thanks. I want to thank three people, who supported and inspired me - Nev Bleakley, Gayle Quantock and Kay Grzadka - for a greater part of the past decade, and two others Blair Trewin for maintaining the National League/National Series tables and Bruce Arthur for developing and maintaining the Elite rankings.

I will stand down as President in March and continue media liaison activities until 30 June 2008 when I will cease all official duties for both Orienteering Australia and Orienteering ACT; however, I will continue to perform voluntary duties as an event official, eg Level 3 Controller, IOF Event Adviser, etc for as long as I am able, and I might assist OACT with the staging of major events. I also hope to regain my competitiveness as an orienteer, if I can get my right leg functioning properly.

Bob photographed at JWOC 2007 in Dubbo, by Erik Borg.

Fairbairn ACT) attending evening classes five nights a week and matriculated with an A in English and four B passes. After 10 years service in the ranks, I was To assist my mother financially, commissioned in 1966. I served in I joined the RAAF soon after my many demanding jobs throughout 17th birthday as a base grade Australia and overseas. I gained airman. I was very disillusioned my tertiary qualifications through and it took me many years to regain my enthusiasm, which I did attending lectures/tutorials during after meeting and marrying Lorna. two lunchtimes and three nights a week over a period of five years I spent 1965 (while based at

New Blood. I am pleased that each new member of the Orienteering Australia Board and the recently appointed paid officers have brought with them a high degree of energy and enthusiasm. At this stage I am not certain who will replace me as President, but I will do as much as I can to assist them to settle into the job. Notwithstanding my misgivings outlined above, I expect the sport to continue to progress towards the objectives that I was trying to achieve.

Sport has been an abiding interest and one of my few memories of my father is of us playing oneon-one rugby tackling when I was about five. I had the ball and went to ground before he could tackle me. He was cross and told me to never take the easy way out. I should always face what was coming at me. I never forgot his words and that led to me fronting most issues head on.

That is why I am often seen to be confrontational.

Major injuries arising from this front-on approach, with the worst being a smashed right leg (both at RMIT, Melbourne. I progressed bones) at age 20 playing Rugby League, led to an early end to my through the ranks to leave after elite sporting career. I enjoyed 30 years as a Group Captain. considerable success as a senior While I was considering my future Rugby Union coach 1967-74.

I was encouraged to apply for The numerous setbacks I a few positions at ASIO. Within overcame imbued me with a short period I was recruited resilient, tenacious qualities and as a director and then promoted an unsympathetic view of nonto senior executive manager. I contributors and under-achievers. stayed with the Organisation for 10 years before leaving to pursue my goals in Orienteering.

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TRAINING

When training more isn’t the answer Steve Bird

In most circumstances, in order to get physically fitter for our sport, we need to train hard and often. That is provided that the training we’re doing is the right type and suitable for our needs. Doing this over a period of weeks, months and years, will achieve a good level of fitness, which if coupled with good navigational skills, good mental skills such as coping with competitive pressure and being able to concentrate throughout an event, will produce good results.

When we’re not competing up to our capabilities, and we analyse the reasons, it’s usually a lack of fitness, navigation, mental skills, or a combination of all three that are letting us down. In all sports everyone has good days and bad days. These fluctuations are to be expected, making sports such as Orienteering unpredictable and to a certain extent more competitive. In some cases a bad day may turn into a string of poor performances, and you may be able to identify the reasons why; such as being too busy to train, or being distracted by something else happening in your life. Knowing the cause means that you can explain the 16 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2008

below par performance and know what needs to be done to rectify it. However sometimes, you or an orienteer you know, may be training hard and working on the different aspects of their Orienteering skills, but are suffering from a prolonged dip in form and just can’t reach the level that they should be capable of. In these circumstances the cause may not be so obvious and the answer may not be more and harder training. This article attempts to outline a few of the possible causes that may explain prolonged under-performance.

Prolonged under-performance You may be able to recall periods when you’ve suffered from a series of poor performances. At the same time you may have found training harder work than usual, and a bit of a slog, and in competition you could not produce the kind of results that you knew you were capable of. The underlying factors behind this prolonged under-performance may be physical and/or psychological, including: 1. Growth or ageing; 2. Overtraining, over-competing and staleness; 3. Nutritional deficiencies; 4. Illness; 5. Sociological pressures.

Growth or Ageing The first factor an individual or coach must consider when confronted with a series of below par performances is whether the orienteer is being affected by a growth spurt or ageing. For juniors it’s not uncommon for them to experience a dip in performance due to growth.

They may have increased their body-mass, and/or become taller. And it may take a while for their body to adjust to this growth, and for their muscles to develop the required additional strength, length, and fitness. The key thing is not to become disheartened, but to continue training at a level that is not going to cause an injury, and over time the fitness will pick up again.

At the other end of the spectrum, ageing will cause a detriment in performance.

A slow decline in muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and deteriorating eyesight will all affect our Orienteering. It’s also the case that some age faster than others, and it’s probably a combination of both lifestyle and genetics.

And we have to accept that what we were capable of as an elite 21, may not be possible 30 years later. But yet again, the key is to train as much as you’re able, trying to attain your full potential fitness for your age.

Over-training, over-competing and staleness If the above do not explain a dip in form, the next thing to consider is the training and racing program. Training acts as a stimulus which causes the body to make the physiological adaptations that result in an improvement in fitness. However, the body needs time to recover from the stresses of training and to make these desired adaptations. If it is not given adequate time in which to do this, its physical condition will start to deteriorate rather than improve. The amount of time needed to recover between hard training sessions (and Orienteering events) depends upon their intensity and duration as well as the individual concerned. It may also vary for the same person at different times.

For example, if someone is busy with work and family life is very demanding, etc. they may not be able to cope with as much training as when they’re experiencing less external demands.

The terms ‘chronic fatigue’ and ‘staleness’ are used by sports scientists to describe the state of prolonged fatigue which results in a decline in performance and is brought about by overtraining.

In addition to affecting the physical condition of the body, overtraining (or over-competing) can also have a significant effect on the psychological state of the performer. In fact, a need to

recover mentally from the stresses of training and competition are as important as the need to recover physically.

One of the physical characteristics of staleness may be a disturbance in some of the hormones of the body, most notably those that are involved in the repair of body tissues and those which are concerned with the breakdown of body tissues. Some of the outward characteristics of staleness include irritability, lethargy, loss of appetite, loss of enthusiasm and spots, as well as the reduction in performance in the sport.

Staleness is a very common, phenomenon among competitors in virtually all sports. Children can be particularly vulnerable to it where, through their own enthusiasms and those of parents or coaches they are over exposed to a sport. As a result they overtrain and over-compete. Their results get worse, so they train harder in order to rectify the problem - causing a vicious circle.

In the end they become fed up and disillusioned with the sport.

This is a common occurrence among top-level juniors and may be identified as ‘psychological burnout’. However, it is also a phenomenon which afflicts adults.

Therefore it is quite likely that any orienteer who has been training and competing hard will benefit from a break, as this will enable them to recover both physically and mentally. In Australia we tend to have this built into our season, with the mid-Summer break from bush Orienteering. However some orienteers will continue with street events, and overseas festivals, so may not get this break. And indeed some appear not to need it, but if you are struggling with your form, consider a reduction or complete break from training and competing. This should then be followed by a gradual increase in the intensity and volume of training back up to a level you can cope with. However, to persuade an orienteer to take a few weeks off if they are starting to under-perform is often harder than it seems; even though a short break almost always results in an improvement in performance.

To minimise the risk of overtraining, you should ensure that appropriate rest is incorporated into your training program.

Include specific rest days within a week, easy weeks within each part of the season and a recovery phase within each year. These recovery days and weeks may be in the form of a complete rest from all sport or, in some cases, a change of activity that will help the body to recover. Swimming is often advocated as a good form of ‘active rest’. Planned recovery days and weeks will allow your mind and body time to recuperate, and are an important part of any training program. So if you start to under-perform you should ask yourself these questions: • When was the last time you had a proper break from training?

• Have you increased your training volume, intensity or frequency over the past few weeks?

Remember that it takes time for the body to adapt to training. It may be that you are exceeding your current capacity for training and will need to ease back. Don’t forget that Orienteering events can be far more strenuous than training and you are likely to require more time to recover from them. All individuals are different and therefore a training program which works for one person may not be right for another who may have to increase their training load more gradually.

• Are you taking adequate rest before an event such as an easy day or rest day? If not then you could be starting an event semifatigued.

• Does your training program incorporate alternate hard and easy days so as to facilitate recovery from the hard training? The easy day may be in the form of a steady run or a complete rest.

All orienteers must respond to the signals their body gives them.

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TRAINING necessary to differentiate between genuine prolonged fatigue and a small amount of apathy when confronted with the prospect of a hard training session. In addition to its direct effects in fatiguing the mind and body, overtraining can also precipitate a number of other states which cause fatigue and underperformance. These include: nutritional inadequacies, overuse injuries and illness.

sports such as Orienteering. A good diet enables an individual to train and compete. With a few possible exceptions dietary supplements should not be relied upon to make up for a poor diet. If an individual’s diet is poor then they will not have the energy or physiological capacity to train hard and compete to their potential.

Nutritional deficiencies

Illness

In long events the muscles’ glycogen stores are depleted, and result in a sense of fatigue in the later stages. Classically this can reach extreme levels in the Marathon, when the muscles become almost completely depleted, commonly reducing the runner to a slow jogging speed. A phenomenon referred to as ‘hitting the wall’. Under normal circumstance the individual will replenish these glycogen stores over the subsequent few days by eating a diet that contains plenty of complex carbohydrate (bread, pasta, potatoes etc). However in training, this depleting effect is often forgotten, and a more gradual form of glycogen depletion can occur with the same fatiguing consequences. For example, if you train hard throughout the week you are likely to be constantly depleting your glycogen stores. These must be replenished, since a failure to do so will result in a gradual depletion which results in a lack of energy and the likelihood of complete depletion very early in an event or training session. Thus you may be attempting to train and compete in a semi-depleted state which will cause a degree of tiredness in the muscles and will certainly affect your performance.

Those involved with sports medicine are becoming increasingly aware that certain illnesses can have a prolonged fatiguing affect upon the body. For example, it will often take a few weeks to fully recover from a bought of the flu or a cold. So don’t expect to be in peak form the first day after the symptoms have gone.

Other more persistent problems can be caused by illnesses such as glandular fever and others that can cause ‘post viral fatigue syndromes’, which for the orienteer can mean a general feeling of fatigue whilst training or competing for weeks after the initial illness. In situations where an illness or post viral fatigue syndrome is suspected expert medical advice is advocated.

So, if you are underperforming, consider your diet to ensure that you are eating the right kinds of food. Any orienteer who is on a calorie restricted diet, for example when attempting to lose weight, will be prone to a shortage of carbohydrate and therefore vulnerable to this form of fatigue. Furthermore, even those who are not attempting to lose weight may still be short of carbohydrate, especially if eating the wrong types of food.

Therefore an emphasis on the inclusion of high carbohydrate foods, such as; bread, pasta and potatoes in the diet is important.

Once again a rest day in a training program could be advocated as it will provide the opportunity for the muscles to replenish their glycogen stores.

One of the adaptations the body makes to training is to increase the number of red blood cells that transport oxygen around the body. However there is some evidence to suggest that running a high mileage on hard surfaces can actually damage the red blood cells, due to the pounding they receive when passing through the soles of the feet. This destruction of red blood cells will obviously be in conflict with the body’s desire to increase their number. Furthermore, if a runner’s diet is deficient in iron (iron is essential in the manufacture of red blood cells) the body will be unable to manufacture the red blood cells it needs. Therefore if an individual is short of iron it will affect their capacity to produce the necessary red blood cells and hence their ability to deliver the required oxygen to the muscles; thus increasing the likelihood of fatigue. Iron deficiencies can occur in both males and females but tend to be more common in female runners who lose iron through the blood loss associated with menstruation.

So an orienteer who is fatigued, lacks energy and is underperforming, could consider taking iron supplements, either separately or as part of a multi-vitamin complex. In either case they should be taken with orange juice, as the vitamin C contained within the juice will help with the assimilation of the iron into the body. In addition to this a blood test may be advocated as a precautionary measure for detecting anaemia and/ or other blood disorders.

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An orienteer should not attempt to train through an illness. It is likely to make your condition worse rather than better. In general terms a short lay off is the usual and most effective prescription.

It is also interesting to note at this point that overtraining with its associated excessive physical and mental stress is believed to cause the suppression of the body’s immune system. This makes a person more vulnerable to illnesses such as viruses. Coaches must therefore watch out for individuals who frequently suffer from illnesses, as this may be an indication of overtraining.

Sociological pressures Sometimes when looking for the underlying causes of fatigue and a reduction in performance you have to look outside your sport and training. All orienteers are subject to other pressures, including exams, family issues, financial, social and personal matters. Each of these can affect your psychological state and hence your performance, due to the additional stresses you must deal with. So think about the other factors in your life which could be affecting your Orienteering and general well-being. And be prepared to lose your competitive edge during these times, try to enjoy your Orienteering with a recreational, less competitive attitude, and then re-inject the competitive element when you’re ready.

Summary There are many potential causes of prolonged fatigue and underperformance. The key to an improved performance is not always more training; indeed often the reverse is true. Rest days can help to prevent staleness, injury, glycogen depletion and illness. There is an important need to be aware of your own training capacities, and not to exceed them. Plan your training to get fit for Orienteering. So train hard but remember to give your body the rest it needs to recover and respond to the training stimulus you give it. And remember that your Orienteering is not completely isolated from the other demands on your personal, mental and physical resources. You only have so much of each, which means that sometimes you have less to put in to coping with the demands of your Orienteering.

Professor Steve Bird is at RMIT University, Melbourne. Steve worked with the Great Britain National Orienteering Squad for over 10 years and is now assisting the Victorian Junior Squad.

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NUTRITION

Recovery Nutrition Gillian Woodward

Lately I have seen several athletes who are fighting fatigue. What is their problem? Poor recovery nutrition practices. Sometimes they are so busy after heavy training or an event that they forget the importance of recovery nutrition. What am I talking about? Read on:

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ood recovery nutritional strategies help you bounce back after a heavy training session or taxing event, so that you can face another, equally challenging one the next day. This is particularly useful for those competing in 3-day competitions or other endurance events. If you don’t treat your body with respect in this important “recovery phase” you will only be rewarded with fatigue, poor performance and possibly even illness.

Most of you will know the importance of replacing lost fluid after exercise. It is vital to restore fluid losses quickly. Consider a sports drink rather than water, because it will help your body retain and absorb the fluid more readily.

Another good reason to use a sports drink, is because it contains some carbohydrate. In the first 15-30 minutes after strenuous exercise, your blood is still flowing well to the working muscles.

The enzymes are waiting anxiously to receive and store glycogen to replace what has just been used in the exercise. Eating or drinking carbohydrate containing fluids or foods immediately after strenuous training sessions or events has been shown to speed up glycogen replacement. Your body is able to restore fuel extremely well in that first hour or two after exercise. So don’t miss this window of opportunity!

If you are training hard each day, it is particularly important that you refuel your muscle glycogen promptly. You only have 24 hours or even less to do it and the first one or two hours is vitally important. So, drink your sports drink on the way to the shower, and make sure that within another 15-30 minutes you are tucking into some carbohydrate-rich foods. If you are home, breakfast cereal and low fat milk topped with fruit and /or yoghurt would be a good start. Wash it down with a fruit juice or milk drink to keep the fluids flowing.

In the 2006 Commonwealth Games marathon, Kate Smythe became severely dehydrated and was nearly overtaken by the faster-finishing orienteer, Lauren Shelley. Smythe spent the next several hours on an intravenous drip. (photo courtesy of R4YL)

Examples of 50gram carbohydrate snacks: • 250ml CHO loader drink •2 50-300 ml liquid meal (Sustagen Sport) or fruit smoothie • 800-1000ml sports drink • 500 ml soft drink • 50g jelly beans • 1 cup of steamed white rice and low fat pasta sauce •J am or honey sandwich (thick white or brown bread and lots of spread) • 2 breakfast bars

How much carbohydrate do you need?

• Bowl of cereal and milk

In the early period after exercise, 1 gram of carbohydrate per kilogram body weight every 2 hours is an ideal intake. For a 60 kg person, that means 60 grams of carbohydrate. For most people the amount is somewhere between 50-100g every 2 hours until the next meal. In the 24-hour period, the total intake should be about 7-10 g per kilogram body weight.

• Mug of thick vegetable soup and a large bread roll

Which type of carbohydrate is best?

They must be very palatable - particularly as many athletes find they are not really hungry immediately after exercise. That is why sports drinks can be useful - even the higher carbohydrate variety.

From the scientific point of view, the more rapidly absorbed (medium or high glycaemic index) types may promote greater glycogen storage. But the main point is simply having enough carbohydrate and not too much fat (because fat slows down carbohydrate absorption).

• 200g tub yoghurt and a banana

So as you can see, organisation is the key to successful recovery.

You need to have your food and drink supplies packed into a cooler/thermos flask before you take off for an event. Sometimes you can rely on the competition catering - their soups, rolls and even soft drinks could be useful. But to be sure your snack is low fat as well as high carbohydrate, preparing it yourself is often the ideal way to go.

Gillian Woodward is a Practising Dietician and has been providing advice in the field for over 25 years. She has been an orienteer since 1984.

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TO P E V E N T

O-Ringen –

The world’s greatest orienteering event Tom Hollowell, Director of O-Ringen

has become more difficult to find clubs willing to take on this huge task, the Swedish Federation has decided to take a new path and centralize certain parts of the planning and execution of the event.

This job entails efforts to simplify and increase productivity for O-Ringen organisers through centralization of tasks and helping find new ways of doing things. But it also includes the development of O-Ringen to maintain its status as the world’s premier Orienteering event. And there are lots of ideas for development! These are some of the things we are working on: •C ontinuing to develop the organisation of the competition itself, particularly using new technology to improve the service to participants and reduce the environmental impact. We are working on things like GPS tracking for all competitors, further use of technology to improve the results service and new materials to reduce non-recyclable waste.

•D eveloping O-Ringen as a platform for recruiting and attracting new groups of participants to O-Ringen. For example, in 2008 we are introducing a new class for adventure racers (O-RingenMulti) with 2-man team’s mountain bike, canoe and foot Orienteering throughout the week.

•D eveloping O-Ringen as a platform for recruiting and development of Orienteering leaders and organisers globally.

That means building upon the experience of O-Ringen Academy but offering open education and knowledge sharing in course setting, meet organising, coaching and Otraining, etc. How about an international junior training camp in connection with O-Ringen?

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HE O-Ringen Swedish 5-Days started as early as 1965 in southern Sweden with 167 participants. The popularity of this summer vacation event quickly grew and after only a few years had as many as 5000 participants. In the early 80s when Orienteering was at a height in popularity a number of record years were noted with the high so far being 1985 when nearly 25000 runners took part. After a few years when participation dropped, O-Ringen is growing in popularity once again and has stabilized at around 15000 participants per year.

Those of you who have been to O-Ringen will, I am sure, agree with me when I say it is an impressive organisational task. Approximately 1,500 volunteers put in more than 100,000 hours of work in making the week of Orienteering happen.

And of course O-Ringen isn’t all about the Orienteering. It has become a vacation event with lots of fun extracurricular activities when the day’s running is over. O-Ringen is as much about socializing with other orienteers as it is about the challenge of completing five days of Orienteering.

O-Ringen has been an international event right from the start. The first year one of the days was actually organised in Denmark. This past year 2006 there were over 2000 international participants from 42 countries. Through cooperation with the IOF O-Ringen annually hosts the ORingen Academy which is focused on developing and promoting Orienteering globally. Last year participants from countries like Taiwan, Georgia and Serbia attended seminars on all aspects of orienteering development.

So what’s in the future for O-Ringen?

O-Ringen has, up until now, been organised completely by groups of local clubs in the organising region of Sweden. 3-4 years prior to the event an organising committee is started for the task of putting on the event that one year. This has worked just fine, but has also been somewhat unproductive as each group more or less starts from scratch leading to extra work and inconsistent quality in certain aspects of the event. As it 20 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2008

•D eveloping the concept of O-Ringen as a vacation EVENT further. In other words expanding visits to the organising region to the week prior to O-Ringen, setting up lower key Orienteering trainings and competitions on the way to and from O-Ringen, and adding activities for everyone in the family.

•A ttracting even more international participants by helping make it easier to find out about, get to/from and live at O-Ringen. For example, assisting in making travel arrangements through an ambassadors program and offering more housing options than tents and campers.

A special year – 2008 In 2008 O-Ringen is special for a number of reasons. First of all it is the first time true indoor accommodations are being offered to all participants. The O-Ringen in Sälen, Dalarna, is being organised at Sweden’s largest ski resort. That means 60,000 beds are readily available in ski-resort cabins and apartments.

Second, being in the mountains also means being able to offer mountain terrain for Orienteering. It is a special feeling running up above the tree-line as we will be this year on two of the days. The Orienteering is very much fun but also quite challenging.

Third, Dalarna is the big skiing region of Sweden and Sälen is the starting point for Vasaloppet, the 90 km cross-country ski race which is the world’s largest. The first two days of ORingen will use the historic Vasaloppet start area as the arena for the competitions.

So I would like to invite as many of you as possible to come visit Sweden and O-Ringen.

If you are interested in information about O-Ringen or O-Ringen 2008, visit www.oringen.se or email tom. hollowell@oringen.se . We are looking for an O-Ringen Ambassador for Australia. If you might be interested in knowing what this entails, contact Tom Hollowell. An English language invitation is available.

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ADVENTURE RACING Sunday November 18 - Day 1, Cradle Mountain Stage

The Mark Webber Challenge Rob Preston

Again I wasn’t racing, but since the weather was fantastic (the first time I’ve seen the top of the mountain) I set off to summit Cradle Mountain and watch the action. Teams started with a 5km kayak in the picturesque Dove Lake followed by a 19km trek to the summit of Cradle Mountain and back. The final 58km MTB leg from Dove Lake to Lake Barrington via Cradle Mountain Chateau was a killer and claimed plenty of scalps.

Jarad and Tatiana had a great start in the kayak, and were early leaders on the trek. Tatiana was still in good spirits at the end of the trek, but knew her limited cycling experience was going to hurt her on the final leg. But she and Jarad showed great teamwork and determination to finish the stage, and Tatiana was very pleased with her accomplishment. For an athlete whose preferred event lasts for 10 seconds, completing the 14hour stage was very impressive.

Monday Nov 19 - Day 2, Mt Roland Stage

The Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge is the brainchild of Australia’s F1 driving motorsport champion Mark Webber.

He set up the Mark Webber Foundation to help community charities. This event is held to raise money for two important charities, The Leukaemia Foundation, and the Save the Tassie Devil Fund.

The Mark Webber Challenge is an Adventure Race that involves running or trekking, mountain biking, kayaking and special stages like abseiling or rafting. Race Director Tim Saul described the event like a PRO-AM golf day, where Professional Golfers are teamed up with Amateur (sometimes celebrity) sportsmen. There were two categories, the Van Diemen’s Cup, for corporate teams of 4, and the 2-person 2theExtreme category.

I was invited to compete in the 2007 event in November in Tasmania. A friend, Jarad Kohler, was teaming up with 2000 Olympics Silver medallist pole-vaulter, Tatiana Grigorieva, in the 2theExtreme category. However Tatiana was unable to complete the entire 7-day event, and would just race the first two days. I would join Jarad in Team TASSAL (a Tasmanian Salmon exporter) for the remaining five days.

Friday November 16 - Welcome I was picked up at Launceston airport and shared a bus to Cradle Mountain village with members of the Virgin Blue and Toll teams.

Competitors registered receiving race uniforms, backpacks and were fitted to new Giant Trance 2 mountain bikes to be used for the week. A formal dinner at the Cradle Mountain Chateau saw plenty of local fine food and wine on offer.

Saturday November 17 - Prologue Since I wasn’t racing the Prologue I went for a morning run around some fantastic trails at Cradle Mountain Village. In the afternoon I took my bike for a test ride and finished at the Lake Barrington camp to watch the teams finish. The course consisted of 15km MTB ride, 4km run and 6km paddle on Lake Barrington.

Team Schweppes consisting of professional Adventure Racing couple Richard and Elina Ussher, from New Zealand, showed their class to take the win.

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Finally my chance came to burn off some energy. With Tatiana cheering us at the start line, we started Day 2 with a 900m ascent of Mt Roland in Sheffield region. Then a spectacular 19km trail run along the tops of the range with views in all directions. The pace was hot and so was the temperature. After nearly 3hrs, Team TASSAL jumped on the bikes for a short but fun MTB ride down to Cethana Bridge. The 10km kayak down the gorge to Lake Barrington camp was a great chance to cool down and enjoy the views. We finished this day in first place with Team Schweppes about 15mins behind.

Tuesday Nov 20 - Day 3, Launceston Gorge Stage Again, another very hot day with even hotter competition. The 55km bunch ride started at a frantic pace as several teams saw this as their opportunity to knock off Team Schweppes. But Richard and Elina Ussher’s quality shone through and it was again Schweppes vs Tassal duelling it out on the bikes. A bit of tricky navigation through the streets of Launceston gave us the lead going into the fun activities at Launceston Gorge. A Tyrolean rope line, cliff jump and flying fox had us weaving our way from side to side. Finally, a brief rest for the teams to regroup before our white water rafting trip. This was great fun, but still saw a few competitors in the drink, including Webber himself. The challenge then moved camps to Coles Bay in Freycinet National Park on Tasmania’s east coast.

Above left: Kayaking on Dove Lake with Cradle Mountain behind.

Rob Preston takes the watery route

The 2007 Pure Tasmania Mark Webber Challenge was a fantastic event to be involved in. The week was like a highlights package of Tasmania and the scenery was stunning. The organisers and volunteers were fantastic. I felt like it was an Adventure Race with all the fun bits but none of the work, like organising your food and fixing your bike. The hugely diverse competitors all gained great personal satisfaction from their achievements and I was impressed by the level of competition amongst first time racers. Thank you to Jarad and Tatiana for a great experience. And, of course, thank you to TASSAL for sponsoring my team, and feeding everyone with incredible salmon for dinner every night!

Wednesday Nov 21 - Day 4, Freycinet in a Day The first 10km paddle started from Coles Bay, and Jarad and I quickly had a gap on the field. But it was short lived and Team Schweppes slowly caught back up. A very fast 12km run along the soft sandy beaches then a climb back over the saddle to the bike transition. A poor transition saw us again chasing Team Schweppes on the bike as we hit the hilly and sandy 28km leg. TASSAL finally broke away near the end of the stage to win by 3mins. The only downside to the day was a very slippery corner of bitumen road that claimed Jarad, swimmer Michael Klim and another five competitors. Fortunately everyone was able to continue the next day.

Abseiling off the cliff on the Freycinet Peninsula – it’s 200m down.

Mark Webber with Team Tassal – Jarad Kohler, Rob Preston and Tatiana Grigorieva

For further information on the event, or to donate to the foundation, please visit www. markwebberchallenge.com

Thursday Nov 22 - Day 5, Freycinet the other way Again starting with a 17km kayak from Coles Bay, we took the easy option and sat on Team Schweppes’ wash for most of the paddle - much to Elina’s displeasure who sledged us in English and her native Finnish tongue! A quick transition onto the bike (we had paddled in our bike shoes) helped us gain a lead that we held on to for the rest of the stage. Another fun 44km MTB leg was split by a spectacular and massive 200m abseil down a granite slab. The leg was un-timed and allowed us to enjoy the view, and also complete the task safely! Day 5 finished with a fun coasteering section, past Freycinet Lodge back to Coles Bay.

Friday Nov 22 - Day 6 and finish, Hobart Urban Challenge Starting on Mt Wellington we ran a furious descent down to Cascade brewery, then onto the bikes for a quick ride through Hobart to Taroona. We had a small lead and paddled hard for 50mins with several teams close behind. To Wrest Point Casino roof via the stairs, then abseiled off. We still had about 2min lead and ran flat out through Battery Point to the finish at Salamanca Place. This was another fun stage and there was plenty of atmosphere and support at the finish line. Congratulations and a great afternoon drinking beers at the Quarry, before another fantastic dinner and presentation at Wrest Point. After winning the last 5 stages Team TASSAL was able to move into 3rd place in our category, with the ever impressive Team Schweppes the overall winners.

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When you picture Venice you imagine the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge, gondolieri, the vaporetto, small side canals with little bridges over them, winding streets and alleyways, gorgeous venetian glass in shop windows, Piazzale San Marco, the cathedral, the Doge’s palace; and the tourists – sipping coffee, window shopping, promenading shoulder-to24 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2008

shoulder, stopping abruptly to look at something unexpected.

You know the scene.

Now picture nearly 3200 orienteers running over those bridges and down the little alleyways, across the squares and through the archways, pushing their way through those throngs of tourists. That was the scene last November 11th

Venice-O 2007 Map of Venice and winner Matthias Merz’ route through the city.

Merz winning the WOC 2007 Long Distance Championship.

when the annual Venice Orienteering (or Orientamento Venezia) event was held.

The event has been held for 28 consecutive years. This time the Men’s 10.25km event was won by Swiss 2007 Long Distance World Orienteering Champion, Matthias Merz (pictured) in 59min 33sec, followed just 6sec later by Oli

Johnson of Great Britain. The Women’s event of 8.47km was won by Celine Dodin of France in 57min 23sec, followed by Michaela Gigon (multiple World MTB-O Champ) of Austria.

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LETTERS The Australian Orienteer welcomes letters.

Preference will be given to letters which are concise and which make positive points. The editor reserves the right to edit letters, particularly ones which are longer than 300 words.

No letters to The Editor have been received for this edition.

NEWS

Aussie Orienteer claims World Record How many courses do you complete in a calendar year?

In 2007 Michael Hubbert of the Bayside Kangaroos club in Melbourne completed 216 Orienteering courses and is claiming an unofficial world record for the achievement. In recent years he has completed a consistently high number of courses each year - 181 courses in 2006, 182 in 2005 and 176 in 2004, but this is the first time he has passed the 200 mark. In achieving this new mark he visited 2919 controls and covered approximately 1500km.

Michael has been orienteering for nearly 40 years, having competed in the first Orienteering event held in Victoria in August 1969. It was this event which started the development of the sport in Australia. He competes mainly in Foot-O events but also takes part in MTB-O and the occasional Ski-O event. In 2008 he has moved to M65 and continues to totter his way around several courses each week; and he’ll be in Europe later in the year competing at WMOC 2008 in Portugal and the WOC Tour in Czech Republic.

Michael Palin In the TV series “Michael Palin’s New Europe” on the Seven Network look out for two boatmen ferrying Palin across the water near the end of one of the episodes. Both boatmen are wearing t-shirts from an Orienteering event called “Azimuth” held near Moscow in 2006.

VICTORINOX AWARD The quarterly Victorinox Award goes to Rob Preston for regularly providing excellent photos for inclusion in The Australian Orienteer.

Rob will receive a Victorinox Voyager with 20 tools and features including a watch/alarm/timer; retail value $109.95.

Dubbo profits from JWOC Carnival It has been estimated that $1.48million was injected into the Dubbo community by orienteers during last year’s JWOC 2007 and Western Plains Carnival. So it was very much a winwin situation. We orienteers were able to run in terrain which many thought was by far the best for Orienteering in the country and the Dubbo community benefited too.

WA membership up Orienteering Western Australia membership reportedly increased by some 20% in 2007. Congratulations.

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ROGAINING

“Gwydir River Rogaine”

2008 Australian Rogaining Championships Friday 15th - Saturday 16th, August 2008 The 2008 Championships will be held at Copeton Waters State Recreation Area. This is located 34 kilometres from Inverell northern NSW, 600 kilometres from Sydney and 500 kilometres from Brisbane. A 24-hour rogaine will be held on a course including the most spectacular reaches of the Gwydir River.

The second running of the Nigel Aylott Intervarsity Trophy will take place in conjunction with Australian Rogaining Championships for qualified intervarsity teams.

The usual Interstate Challenge will take place with all teams who place in a class or sub class contributing to their states’ success in the Interstate Challenge. Will the hosts score well, for a change?

Competition will be held in the Outright Championship Category, Open Female / Male / Mixed, Veteran (+40) Female / Male / Mixed, Super Veteran (+55) Female / Male / Mixed, Youth (U23) Female / Male / Mixed.

The NSWRA, which brought you the 7th World Rogaining Championships in 2006, is your host for this event. We have an experienced planning team on the job working to make this another great Australian Championship Rogaine.

Graeme Cooper - of Northern Tablelands Orienteering Club - who set the 2000 Australian Championships at Gundy, NSW, and who also set the 1990 NSW Championships at

Copeton Waters Recreation Area will set another precise and challenging course within a fine map.

A coach will be provided from Sydney to the event site and return; possibly from Brisbane also.

On line entry by credit card will be available. Further information will be available soon at the NSW Rogaining web site.

For general information about the event contact Michael Watts; phone 02 9568 3016 or email MWatts@fp.fairfax.com. au and for entry, results and related matters contact Andrew & Belinda Pope; 02 9484 1736 email absspope@optusnet.com. au Alan Mansfield for NSWRA; email nswrogaining@optusnet. com.au

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Come to Queensland for a Whale of a Time Australian Championships Orienteering Carnival 20 september - 1 October 2008 maryborough on the fraser Coast

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All events will be within 50 minutes drive from Maryborough with the foot events being in open eucalypt forest in undulating, spur/gully terrain.

Maryborough, gateway to World Heritage listed Fraser Island, and the whale watching haven of Hervey Bay lies 284 km north of Brisbane. Visit the Great Barrier Reef, go bushwalking at Cooloola National Park or visit the surfing beaches of the Sunshine Coast – the holiday possibilities are endless.

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TO P E V E N T S 2008

2009 March 21-24 Australian 3-Days Dubbo, NSW aus3days2008.orienteering.asn.au

June 27 WMOC 2008

-July 5 Marinha Grande, Portugal www.wmoc2008.fpo.pt

January 3-11 Oceania Championships 2009 South Island, New Zealand www.oceania2009.co.nz

April 10-13 Australian 3-Days The Royal Easter O, Launceston, Tasmania www.tasorienteering.asn.au June (long AUS MTBO Championships 2009 weekend) (Sprint; Middle; Long) Sth Australia

June 30- JWOC 2008 July 6 Gothenberg, Sweden www.gmok.nu/jwoc2008

July 13-18 Fin5 Saarijarvi, Finland www.fin5-2008.net

July 5-12 JWOC 2009

Trentino, Italy www.jwoc2009.it

July 13-20 WOC 2008 Olomouc, Czech Republic www.woc2008.cz

July Fin5 Hameenlinna, Finland

July 21-25 O-Ringen 2008 Dalarna, Sweden www.oringen.com/dalarna2008

July 19-24 O-Ringen 2009 Smaland, Sweden www.oringen.com/smaland2009

July 25-30 APOC 2008

South Korea

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July 30- Aug 8

Nordvestgallopen 2008 Voss/Bergen, Norway

Aug 3-9

Creoso 6 Day South East Wales

Aug 3-9

French 6 Days Aveyron, France www.cdco12.org

Aug 24-31 MTB-WOC 2008 and MTB-JWOC 2008 Ostróda, Poland www.mtbo.pl/woc2008/

Sept 20-28 Australian Championships Carnival

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Sept 30 Australian MTB-O Championships

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Aug 2-8 Scottish 6-Days

Tayside, Scotland www.scottish6days.com/2009/

Aug 2-8

Swiss O Week Muotatal, Switzerland www.swiss-o-week.ch

Aug 9-16 MTB-WOC 2009 Ben Shemen (20km from Tel Aviv), Israel

Aug 18-23 WOC 2009 Miskolc, Hungary www.woc2009.hu

Sept 26 AUS Championships Carnival 2009

Oct 4 Victoria www.vicorienteering.asn.au/

Oct 10-17 WMOC 2009

Lithgow NSW www.wmoc2009.orienteering.asn.au tba Xmas 5-Days

Experiences of an older Orienteer – continued from page 30.

• I n Denmark open yellow areas are to be avoided as they are usually waist high with nettles.

• Contacting Lyme’s Disease from a tick bite in Sweden.

•M arshes in Sweden can have trees growing in them. In one case costing me 25mins as I searched for a feature in an extensive marsh I thought was open forest.

• Face planting on an asphalt finishing chute in Finland.

•A black circle is where there once was charcoal burning, so they say, but it can now have a clump of trees growing out of it.

There will be over 15,000 competitors at O-Ringen in Sweden and 4,000 at the World Masters – so be prepared to finish more than 20mins behind the winner in your age class. Expect to revisit the basic orienteering errors list, like: • 180 degree mistakes that go on for a kilometre.

• l eaving out controls, especially drinks and road crossing ones.

•e ven going to the wrong start control where there’s more than one provided, which makes finding the first control very interesting.

Expect to get injured and/or sick, in new and familiar ways. My personal list includes:

• Spearing my leg on a sharp stick in Austria (pretty ordinary).

• Leaving my knee behind between two rocks in Scotland.

•G etting a hideous skin disease from bathing in the River Dee in Scotland. Apart from nearly freezing to death I didn’t realise I was just downstream from a sewer outfall.

• And then there’s the usual batch of flu’s and colds.

Finally, Some Tips for Having an Interesting Trip •T ry to avoid learning the local language. You will have more adventures!!

•A lways travel alone. You will meet more locals, especially drunken ones on trains, boats, etc!!

•A lways try to get the cheapest deals on travel and accommodation; there’s a reason they’re cheap!!

•A ccept that the older you are the longer it will take to get over travelling, just like getting over racing, so factor in a holiday when you get back.

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ORIENTEERING OVERSEAS

Experiences of an older Orienteer Hugh Moore - edited talk to the 2007 Orienteering ACT End-of-Year dinner.

I’ve been asked to give some advice for older competitors travelling overseas so they can avoid some of the things that have happened to me.

What’s different for an older orienteer?

•N o one has selected you. There were no selection races.

You don’t have to impress any selectors, do any special training, or any training at all.

•N o one cares how you perform. It doesn’t matter if you perform badly. And you will perform badly.

•Y ou can compete in any events you like, or not compete if you don’t feel like it.

•N o one is sponsoring you. This is not so good as you have to pay for everything yourself.

What to Expect:

TRAVELLING Expect to lose your bags at some stage (my stories are mild compared with some).

• I n 2007 I lost my bags both going to and leaving Aberdeen.

Luckily they were found and returned to me by SAS the next day on each occasion.

•T wo years ago British Airways lost my bags in London in transit to Aberdeen. After two days they found them in London, but took another three days to get them from London to Aberdeen!

•O thers, like Eric Wainwright & Dagmar, and Alan Sargeant, lost their bags for the duration of their trips this year!!

Other Bag Adventures •N ever travel with more than two bags. I started with three bags in 2001, but one was quickly taken away from me to provide for the poor of Vilnius after I briefly took my eyes off it at an Internet café. The locals probably didn’t find the items very useful, it was all my O gear. And I don’t think they were orienteers.

•N ever leave your bag out of sight on the overnight ferry between Sweden and Finland. As I sat down at the restaurant a kind fellow passenger quickly came to warn me that someone was interfering with my pack. I found a young Scandinavian, blind drunk, with his pants and undies around his ankles, trying to get into my pack. The zips had defeated him so I rescued the pack intact.

Don’t Expect it’s Easy to Follow Directions in Foreign Lands - for starters they’re usually in a foreign language:

•D on’t rely on downloading directions to hotels from the Internet, at least not in Italy. When I eventually found my cheap hotel after wandering around Milan in the middle of the night for hours the owners said of course the instructions on the Internet were wrong!

What to Avoid (this is important) •6 0 bed dormitories in Youth Hostels. Why? A greatly increased risk of getting little or no sleep, from people snoring, from squeaky beds, from drunken partygoers and from amorous couples (note the squeaky bed issue).

•E ven if it looks cheaper than camping at major O events avoid hard floor accommodation in gymnasiums and school classrooms – for the same reasons.

•D on’t accept lifts in Ambulances in Austria; they’re not free!

And absolutely avoid being airlifted by helicopter, that’s even less free (as Graham Fortune can tell you). Expect any outstanding debt to be pursued with Germanic persistence, and the insurance company to find something significant in the fine print •D o not do sprint reps in bare feet at Bangkok airport, no matter how stir crazy you feel after days without exercise on planes. Calf muscles and achilles will take ages to recover!!

•W atch out for time differences. I thought I was going to surprise my wife by meeting her a day early in Scotland, and was confused when I found she was extremely angry.

She demanded to know why I hadn’t turned up that morning. I thought we were due to meet the next day!

COMPETING Don’t Expect to Do Well, because: •T he terrain will be totally different, sometimes unimaginably so.

•M ap symbols won’t necessarily mean the same things as in Australia.

•T he other competitors will all be about twice as fast as you.

And they don’t need to stop to read the map, even in the middle of a marsh.

• There will be ten times as many competitors at every event.

•T hey will all have been orienteering for twice as long as you have.

• You will make at least twice as many mistakes as usual.

•Y our mistakes will be at least twice as bad. And sometimes very, very bad.

• I t will be wet most of the time, and sometimes all of the time, especially in Scotland.

Some other examples: •N othing can prepare you for complex rock in Finland, say no more!!

•R unning across mossy slopes and through thigh deep marshes uses muscles in a way that is unnatural for an Australian. It takes months to adapt and much longer than the time you will be overseas.

• I n Italy, due to poor signage, I ended up travelling back the way I had come, on an express train, which took me longer to get off.

Maps are different – often leading to confusion, because:

• I n Denmark I had to choose which side of the road to catch a bus, as the route went both left and right. I had a 50/50 chance. Of course I got it wrong, so I had to wait another hour for a bus.

• They map bare rock as open yellow in Sweden,

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• They don’t map fences in New Zealand.

• They don’t map minor powerlines in Sweden.

•A reas mapped as semi-open are to be avoided in Europe as they are usually young regrowth or something equally horrid to get through. continued on page 29

SPORT PSYCHOLOGY

Attackpoint – the net effect on training Jason McCrae – Psychologist

A recent phenomenon in Australian orienteering, particularly at the elite level, has been the high rate of uptake of the Attackpoint online training diary.

Attackpoint (www.attackpoint.org) is a cross between a training diary and an online blog and has been christened by various users as a ‘trog’ (short for ‘training log’). Users create for themselves a login using a nickname (mine’s “acejase”) and are able to, with little internet experience, enter into the website what they do for their daily training. The website will then display your training, listing the training done for the day in terms of the type of training (for example, running, orienteering, walking etc.), kilometres covered and time taken. If the individual wishes details can also be added about the level of effort, heart rate, weight, sleep, shoes worn and, if the training session was orienteering, details of number of controls spiked. Additionally, in the fashion of a blog, the writer can write a description of the session or race and other users can leave comments next to each entry.

Why does it help?

times for a week and can calculate your monthly, yearly or whatever date range you like. A recent Attackpoint ‘event’ was when two notoriously slack trainers Grant Bluett (Attackpoint nickname “Grant”) and Dave Meyer (the aptly nicknamed “lazydave”) had a contest to see who could do the most training in a two-week period. They racked up hour after hour of training, each time returning to their Attackpoint trogs to see whether they were ahead of the other. As could probably have been predicted, it ended in injury to “lazydave”, as of course too much training without adequate fitness build-up is not recommended! The point is though that comparing yourself with your competitors can help for motivation when, for example, a rainy day might otherwise keep you inside in front of the TV. • Typing up some comments on your own training is a good way to reflect and consider whether you are doing the right things and how enjoyable you are finding your training.

The commenting facility, which allows other users to write comments on your day’s training, also gives opportunity for suggestion, feedback and encouragement. My successes since I have been on Attackpoint, while not exactly memorable compared to some of our elites, were nonetheless greeted by encouragement and congratulations from various other members of the Attackpoint community. In addition, others can help identify causes of injuries or the good performances, allowing tailoring of training to gain the most benefit.

• It’s a great way to keep up with the life and times of orienteering friends who perhaps you don’t always get to see that often.

Since the advent of Attackpoint I have been able to keep up a lot better with O-friends interstate, both in terms of their training and their lives!

• There is a section of Attackpoint for general discussion and this at times proves most interesting. A recent thread has covered the top-10 favourite maps of Australian orienteers with regular mentions to such terrain-luminaries as Kooyoora State Park, Pittwater Dunes, Cascades, Malmalling and Big Badja.

• Publicly writing your goals in your trog is a great motivator for training and in Attackpoint often leads to encouragement and working together to achieve those goals. Races that individuals are aiming for are publicly listed and other troggers sign up to say they are aiming for those events too.

How do I start my own trog?

Picture: www.attackpoint.org logo

Attackpoint’s motto is “Train-log-review-motivate” and it certainly appears to be achieving those goals for many of the troggers on Attackpoint. Some of the benefits appear to be: • Like any training diary keeping a record of your training allows a person to review what aspects of their training may or may not have worked. Just had your best ever result? Hmmm I wonder what training and pre-race preparation produced that – I’ll check my trog. Developed an injury? What training contributed to that – I’ll check my trog.

• Comparisons with other ‘troggers’ allow orienteers to compete against each other in terms of individual sessions or overall training. Attackpoint automatically calculates your total training

It’s easy enough and fairly intuitive to use. Surf your way to www. attackpoint.org, create a witty (or otherwise) nickname, login and start entering your training. If you want some guidance on what the average online training log looks like or you want some ideas on your own training I suggest you surf your way through some of the diaries online. Some suggestions would include “Simon87” and “007” (Australian JWOC 2007 stars Simon Uppill and Vanessa Round respectively), “blairtrewin” (Victorian elite Blair Trewin), “GraceE” (Australian current No. 2 ranked female orienteer Grace Elson) or “Shep” (Australian representative David Shepherd).

Jason McCrae is a Psychologist in the ACT, currently working for Lifeline Canberra. He has previously worked as a Sport Psychologist at the ACT Academy of Sport which is also Orienteering Australia’s National Training Centre. He can be emailed on jason.mccrae@tpg. com.au

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

Orienteering Development

A Newcomer Pathway?

Ben Rattray, OA Director (Development)

I hear it often, “How can we convert street orienteers to the bush?”

W

e have an advantage in Australia over many countries in that we have been so willing to utilise urban Orienteering events, and in our biggest cities we see large numbers of participants. Our bush events (apart from Championships and carnivals) are typically less well attended, and many of us wonder how we can get some of this large number of participants out to more of our bush events. I don’t know what the answer is, nor do I think it is always possible, nor desirable, but it must be possible to some degree.

I don’t think we do enough to encourage the transition between street and bush Orienteering. I remember only one flyer handed out whilst entering a street event promoting another event, and I remember very few posters or message boards with eye catching promotions. That is in around 10 years of regularly attending (some of) these events in Australia. Whilst there are often helpers at events, and we show friendliness towards the self-proclaimed newcomers, I feel we could do more. I’m not sure what exactly but we do need to ensure a non-threatening environment to beginners (being somewhere they know and easy to get to, having appropriate standard of courses, ensuring the right people are there to assist, coach and instruct the beginners). I am sure that the experience newcomers have at their first or first few events is critical for future participation.

But then what? Why would a street orienteer go bush Orienteering? There are many barriers to overcome, not least the time and travel to a bush event. And if you do not know what to expect, whether you will enjoy it or not, these barriers are largely insurmountable. Another under-estimated barrier is the intimidating nature of Orienteering. There is a high skill component, navigating with a map, usually alone; and for bush events, in a foreign and unforgiving environment. Sure we cater for novices with easier navigation courses - but do they know that? Should they travel a long way for something they are unsure they will enjoy? Is there guidance to improve their skill level?

Unfortunately the answer more often than not is “no”. I suggest there is a missing link, a missing stepping stone or pathway.

School Orienteering programs overcome many of these limitations. Schools often use close areas repetitively to teach Orienteering skills. The school environment also has its own social networks, and the social side is important in any sports success, so Orienteering can be as successful as any other sport in the schools curriculum as it is often dependent on the skills of the educator. CATI (Come and Try It) events are our most common stepping stone for non-school groups. The incorporation of an acronym into the name suggests to me it is already not suitable for newcomers. At least change the name to Novice Orienteering, or something similarly simple and catchy. CATI events are often just normal basic events held on less inspiring areas (because it is not an “important” event like a Badge or State series) with normal courses and somebody in an orange vest. This is then expected to make it easy for a street orienteer to get enthusiastic about and engaged with bush Orienteering. Giving a participant a flyer, and getting them to turn up to a CATI event is certainly an easy way to try to promote bush Orienteering, but it is far from being the most effective way. The problem is that there is no program 32 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER MARCH 2008

which makes it easy for these people to make the step up to becoming properly integrated within the sport. What we need is a thoughtful participant pathway that makes it easy for beginners to get into and enjoy bush Orienteering.

This article was provoked by an email conversation I recently had with Gareth Candy. Gareth (ex-Australian team member, National Coach, Executive Officer) now works for British Orienteering where many of the same issues of development exist. How to fully integrate newcomers into the sport (competing in bush events) is obviously an issue there and Gareth made a number of observations pertinent to the Australian scene.

A potential solution advocated by Gareth is to hold a series of events specifically designed for beginners. Based in the same location every week, a core group of regular coaches impart advice and support, create a social atmosphere and design courses and exercises for beginners, not for regular orienteers. The venue is somewhat important and should be easily accessible, perhaps with additions such as changing rooms and food and drink options, ensuring it is competitive with many other sports in terms of a more constant location. The venue obviously needs to be mapped, and many very good locations spring to my mind in cities such as Ballarat, Bendigo and Canberra. Larger cities have many good options too and I can think of suitable areas in Melbourne and Sydney for instance, but access and friendly usable terrain are important considerations.

Gareth asserts that “The keys to this, I think, are holding bush style events which are easy to get to, have good facilities, have the right instruction and coaching available for beginners and have courses and activities designed for beginners (not just the normal spectrum of courses that has little to inspire inexperienced participants). If you can get people involved and engaged here and sell them on how enjoyable and rewarding this more difficult style of Orienteering can be then there will be a far better conversion of street participants into [bush] orienteers, members and volunteers. The event should be designed with more of a spectrum of training exercises rather than courses with legs designed to allow participants to use basic principles to find the controls effectively.”

The targeting of individuals is also less efficient than targeting groups. Many social groups form at street events and if this group can be convinced to sample a bush event together, there is a higher likelihood a few will stay on.

Whether or not this particular model is the future is not important. The conversion of participants to bush orienteers needs a dedicated effort in order to reach its potential. A well structured and targeted pathway would be more successful than current practice.

Development Tips – Club Development Awards

Give your club the credit it deserves! If your club is actively developing the sport Orienteering Australia would like to hear from you.

The bi-annual Club Development Award seeks to recognise club development initiatives across the Australian Orienteering community.

Successful applications will be recognised through The Australian Orienteer, on the web and also receive up to $1000 for reimbursement towards the development project. Further details can be found at: www. orienteering.asn.au/promotion/ If you have any tips, PLEASE email them to: oa_development@netspeed. com.au. Good tips will be published with acknowledgements in subsequent editions.

Development Resources Orienteering Australia is creating development resources. Everyone can access them through the Orienteering Australia website: www.orienteering. asn.au/promotion/devel/ Please take advantage of them and check regularly for updates.

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

High Performance

team members and to develop a desire to continue to compete nationally as a senior orienteer in our National Orienteering League.

It should be noted that a very successful joint camp of our two junior Squads was conducted in early January of this year under the guidance of the respective Squad coaches in Nick Dent and Rob Preston. Twenty six Squad members attended and benefited from lots of useful advice as to how they can improve their Orienteering. They also gained a greater understanding of the level of commitment required to be competitive on the world stage in a Junior World Championships.

Mike Dowling, OA Director, High Performance

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ecently I was asked by a parent of a young person who is keen on Orienteering what the development pathways in Orienteering were. It is timely to discuss the development pathways open to our talented young orienteers at the junior level initially and then on into senior ranks now that we have a Junior Development Squad in place as the beginning point of our competitive development pathway. The ultimate in competitive aspirations for a junior or senior orienteer is to represent their sport and country at a World Championships. Every year we have a group of people who aspire to represent us at the Junior and Senior World Championships along with the Mountain Bike Orienteering World Championships. In almost all cases these national representatives are members of the national training squads Orienteering Australia operates.

In terms of squads our National Senior Squad is our lead Squad group and within that we have a small High Performance Group.

The National Senior Squad comprises about 20 of our best orienteers who form the basis for our World Championships teams and also for competition with our trans-Tasman friends in the twice yearly test matches. The High Performance Group within the Senior Squad are our international orienteers who have clearly demonstrated the potential to achieve our defined benchmark performances at a World Championships of top-16 in individual events and top-8 in relays.

Continuation in the High Performance Group is dependent on orienteers maintaining the capacity to achieve that benchmark performance through results at World Championships. This group of orienteers attract additional funding support from funds allocated to the Squad as a whole.

The first step in the development pathway for a young orienteer is the National Junior Development Squad. The primary goal of this Squad is to identify talented orienteers in the 15-17 age bracket and provide them with ongoing support and training opportunities & advice. About twelve young orienteers who demonstrate Orienteering ability and in particular the physical attributes to be successful future high performance orienteers are selected for this Squad. It is hoped that many of the Squad will form the core of the Junior World Championships team in two to three years time.

2008: The Coach Development Year

The next step on the ladder of development is our National Junior Squad. This comprises about 16 of our best young orienteers who make up our Junior World Championships team and those juniors who are on the fringes of selection in this team. The goals of this Squad are to provide opportunities for our young orienteers to become internationally competitive at the Junior World Championships, to identify those competitors who have the potential to succeed as future Senior World Championship

Australian Orienteering Elite Development Pathway

Senior Club

Junior Club

The major project for 2008 in terms of high performance activities will be the development of more keen and active coaches to work with our national Squads and teams. As I’ve written before, it is an under-appreciated part of our sport. In my view, a big reason why many people don’t develop as orienteers is because they are not willing to embrace the idea and importance of good coaching as a tool to become a better orienteer, or they cannot access anyone with the time and energy to put into coaching activities.

In a technical sport such as ours the benefits of coaching really do need to be appreciated to get the best out of your Orienteering experience. I suspect one of the challenges in getting enough active coaches is reflected in one of the unique aspects of our sport. That is, it is freely accessible to, and caters for, anyone from the very young to the very old all at the same venue.

National Training Centre Network

High Performance Squad

State/Regional Sports Institute/Academy

National Senior Squad

World Championships World Games World Cup

State Squads

National League

Aust/NZ Matches Oceania Championships

State Competitions

National Competitions

State/Regional Sports Institute/Academy

National Junior Squad

Junior World Championships

State Squads

Australian School Championships

National League Junior Division

State Competitions

National Junior Development Squad

In our first initiative for 2008, Orienteering Australia will be conducting a coach development workshop immediately after the Australian 3-Days in Canberra at Easter. It will have a dual focus.

Firstly, the workshop will be about providing the groundwork for keen Level One coaches to move to Level Two accreditation. Secondly, the workshop will cater for all coaches keen to gain an insight into contemporary coaching trends and techniques to assist them in imparting more informed knowledge and understanding to those orienteers they are actively coaching.

By the time this magazine hits your letter boxes arrangements will be firmly in place thanks to the efforts of our two paid officers in Bert Elson and Rob Preston. It is not too late to be involved, so why not get in touch with Bert at oa_accrediation@netspeed.com.au to find out how you can benefit from attending the 2008 OA Coach Development Workshop?

Mike Dowling, 17 High St., Bellerive 7018. Tel 6244 71773. Email mdowling@tassie.net.au MARCH 2008 THE AUSTRALIAN ORIENTEER 33

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

Executive Matters Kay Grzadka

Annual Conference, Canberra The Orienteering Australia Annual Conference was held in Canberra on the first weekend of December 2007. On the Friday before the Conference the Board of Orienteering Australia met specifically to review and revise the Operational Manual. Amendments requiring Council approval were presented to the Conference or will be presented to the Annual General Meeting in March 2008, after which the a completely revised version of the Operational Manual will be posted at http:// www.orienteering.asn.au/ administration/op_manual/ .

Some of the proposals discussed and agreed by the OA Council at the Annual Conference were: • Revision of the Member Protection Policy in

accordance with the Australian Sports Commission template #; • Revision of the Conflict (Dispute) Resolution policy and transfer from the Constitution to the Operational Manual #; • Inclusion in the Operational Manual of a policy for Appeals for other than misconduct; • Inclusion in the Operational Manual of the paper outlining the distribution of functions between Orienteering Australia and States #; • The due date for State Registration Fees to change from 30 June to 30 April; • Amendments to clauses 13 and 15 of the Orienteering Australia Constitution to facilitate the use of electronic banking and to reflect the move away from a permember levy on States to other forms of OA fees #; • Contribution by OA to the costs incurred by the Vice

President, IOF, and funding of another person to attend International Orienteering Federation Council meetings; • Continued support for OA representation in the International Orienteering Federation; • Simplification of the current rule regarding Start Draws; • Change to the current Embargo rule to allow for events being held in public locations; • Support for Australian representation in the 2010 International Schools Championships; • Staging of two test matches per calendar year between Australia and New Zealand for elite senior teams; • Amendment to the rules for Australian Teams to strengthen wording and accountability; • Endorsement of guidelines for the 2008 National Orienteering League; • Endorsement of the Junior Selection Panel structure as a panel of three but with one of the coaches being a member of the panel; • Amendment to the age guidelines for the Junior

Two workshops were held during the Conference: the first dealing with the rotation of national events and from which a modified calendar of events was produced; and the second looked at increasing the participation of sub-juniors in Orienteering.

The complete minutes of the Annual Conference will be posted at http:// www.orienteering.asn.au/ administration/minutes/ # Effective after the 2008 Annual General Meeting.

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Development Squad to make them clearer and allow for the selection of older juniors; • Change to Junior Selection rules to allow performances in specific overseas events to count for selection purposes; • Support for the inclusion of suitably qualified juniors in the Senior Team for the Mountain Bike World Orienteering Championships; and • Full representation on the Orienteering Australia Council for MTBO #.

OWER WALKING has been the major growth category for Orienteering in the past five years or so.

This summer, after the first 40 events of Melbourne’s four park & street Summer Series programs, some 35% of participation has been in the Power Walking categories.

Power Walking Orienteering attracts people who want to get out and exercise both their minds and their bodies but who would baulk at the thought of having to run. If you have a competitive streak and Orienteering sounds great but you don’t want to run, the Power Walking category is the one for you.

A logical extension to the idea of competitive walking is Nordic Walking Orienteering, particularly in hilly or rough terrain. Nordic Walking poles help to exercise much more of the upper body than just plain

ORIENTEERING IN THE RED CENTRE WALKING walking does. The thermogram illustrations here show that use of Nordic Walking poles greatly increases blood flow in the upper body (the light sections are regions of higher body temperature).

Use of the poles in rough terrain gives greater stability to those recovering from injury (see box) and those with chronic lower body problems.

The disadvantage for orienteers using Nordic Walking poles is in carrying the map. Step forward the instant solution to that problem in the map holders used by Ski Orienteers. At Swiss O Week the use of Nordic Walking poles and the Ski-O map holder was demonstrated each evening at the prize ceremonies in Zermatt (see photo). Closer to home in Victoria, Tuckonie orienteer Jan Thomas uses the poles at park & street events to give her more stability in rough terrain.

Nordic Walking Orienteering could be just the catalyst needed to boost participation in the Bush-O format of our sport.

Participation in Bush-O has been largely static for many years and the format needs something new to attract more non-elite participants. Use of Nordic Walking poles in the bush will give greater stability to people who might be unsure of themselves in rough and steep terrain, allowing those who might otherwise hesitate to try Bush-O to get out and give it a go.

Left: Demonstration of Nordic Walking Orienteering at Swiss O Week in Zermatt.

Right: Tuckonie orienteer Jan Thomas uses Nordic Walking poles in Melbourne’s park & street events. Photos: Mike Hubbert

Pole Attraction conducts regular Nordic Walking classes in Melbourne’s parks. Photo courtesy Pole Attraction

The Lisa Lampe story

Body thermograms show how Nordic Walking increases blood circulation.

(Courtesy Pole Attraction) Nordic Walking poles increase upper body exercise during walking.

Photo courtesy Pole Attraction.

Lisa Lampe (Uringa, NSW) competed at the Swiss O Week in the high Alps under the Matterhorn. Down at Zermatt in the evenings she was impressed by the demonstrations of Nordic Walking Orienteering and bought herself a set of poles. On the very last day of Swiss O Week Lisa put her foot down a marmot hole (see The Australian Orienteer, October’06, p36) severely injuring her ankle. The ankle was placed in a brace and Lisa rested for a week in Zurich.

Then she went to Arhus in Denmark where she was entered in the public races associated with WOC 2006. Being a competitive soul Lisa lamented that she would have to miss all her events. We suggested that with her injured ankle in a very good protective brace, one good leg and two Nordic Walking poles, she had three points of balance. Why not try walking slowly to the start to see how things went. At the very least she could collect her map and walk back. That day she got two easy controls.

The ankle was a bit sore overnight but Lisa decided to try again next day, and the day after that. By the 6th and final day Lisa got all her controls except one that was down across a steep creek crossing which would have been silly to attempt.

Apart from enjoying her time out in the Danish forest, the spin-off for Lisa was that, with her injured ankle securely braced but the rest of her body getting some good exercise, the increased blood flow was repairing her injury faster than if she had just sat in the arena with her foot up watching people coming in from the forest.

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ADVENTURE RACING

Adventure Races in the Desert Greg Tamblyn

For most of us a multi-day Orienteering event is tough enough. How would you like to compete in a 250 kilometre race in some of the most remote areas in the world?

The format of these desert races Each year there are four races - the Atacama Desert in northern Chile (see report in AO-December, 2006, p32), the Gobi Desert in western China, the Sahara Desert in Egypt and one in Antarctica (yes, it’s classed as a desert).

Each race is a 7-day stage event covering a total distance of 250km. Days One to Four are between 30 and 45km. each day, then days 5 - 6 include a night stage up to 90km long. The organisers supply water, plenty of it, excellent medical support and a place in a tent each night.

As a competitor I have to carry my sleeping bag, clothing and all food and emergency gear for the whole race. My pack starts out at 9.8kg without water; of this 4.5kg is food and electrolytes.

On each race there are 80 to 150 competitors from perhaps 20 different countries. Like Orienteering, a trip like this is a great way to make friends.

Greg has done three of the four races.

They have all been very different.

In July 2006 I completed my first race in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the driest in the world with a huge area of horrible salt flats that we had to cross time and time again. But it also has amazing views of the Andes. This was the race I enjoyed the most.

In July 2007 my second race was in the Gobi Desert based near Kashgar in western China. We passed through a number of mountain gorges and river valleys, and then eventually crossed a huge sandy plateau. Every few hours you would come around a corner and find local people farming and herding animals.

Then in November 2007, four months after the Gobi, my third race was in the Sahara Desert north-west of Cairo in Egypt.

The Sahara was the classic sandy desert that you see in the movies - as far as you could see there was no vegetation, just sand all day every day. The race was based in an area named the White Desert about six hours drive by bus northwest of Cairo. It is a huge area with lots of bright white rocky outcrops rearing out of the sandy desert. There were even a few surprises - on our route we came across a small cave with a mummy inside; and later we came to a classic oasis with three palm trees and a small pool of water.

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The last day was probably the most memorable. It started in the desert, then eventually the course took us through a gap in a wire fence and we finished our 250 km. with a run around the base of the Pyramids, the only one of The Seven Wonders of the World which still exists, on the outskirts of Cairo, a monster city.

Unfortunately I got very ill on Day Two and for a number of days I could not keep any solid food down. I eventually completed about 150km but was forced to DNF.

Specific training and preparation I keep practising everything during training. Every training session is a physical test, as well as a test of the most comfortable gear setup for me and a test to determine the right nutrition. The food I chose for the Sahara race was different to the Gobi.

My training program starts about 10 months before the race and has continued to be a mixture of long runs of about 25–35km., and Orienteering, all carrying a 10kg pack.

How do I get through five to six days?

The races are definitely physically hard, but the mental challenge is much harder. You go through a number of mental highs and lows. Some people rely on their MP3 players, some sing out loud, others just go into an internal shell and slog it out all day.

Whatever you do, your mind always has to keep telling your body to go and go and go and then to get up and do it all again the next day.

For most competitors Day One is the hardest, probably because packs are fully loaded and it takes a while to get used to the terrain. After that you start eating your food, the pack weight goes down and you seem to get faster each day.

What’s next?

Over the next couple of years my goal is to complete the Sahara race and then I can qualify to start in the Antarctica race. That would be cool.

If you want to follow any of the races in 2008 on the web, go to www.4deserts.com

GREG TAMBLYN Engineer. Started Orienteering in Victoria in 1972 and joined the Red Kangaroos club. Now M50 and a member of Bayside Kangaroos OC. Former VOA secretary. Now bush-O coordinator for BKV. Highly involved in the organisation for most major events in Victoria over the last few years including World Masters 2002, Australian Championships Carnival 2003.

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PROFILE Think of a country, any country, and it’s very likely that globetrotting Swede Peo Bengtsson has orienteered there. Try this for an impressive list – the years in brackets are the first time Peo competed there (translated from Skogssport 10/2007).

Per-Olof (Peo) Bengtsson – 74 years young

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ANY of us will remember back to the mid-1970s when Peo Bengtsson and Roland Offrell came to Australia with some Swedish friends to teach us how to make good maps, to set good courses and to navigate through the forests. We hoped they would tell us the great secret of how to be a good orienteer, but we soon found that there was no magic secret, just a lot of hard work and training.

Europe: Sweden (1949) Norway (1951) Denmark (1959) Finland (1960) Czechoslovakia; Switzerland; Germany (1961) Austria; France; Belgium (1966) East Germany; Hungary (1968) Romania (1970) Great Britain; Bulgaria (1971) Spain; Luxembourg (1973) Poland (1975) Yugoslavia (1977) Italy (1978) Ireland (1979) Soviet Union (1981) Portugal (1983) Netherlands (1984) Greece (1987) Iceland (1988) Liechtenstein; San Marino (1990) Andorra (1991) Estonia; Russia; Latvia; Slovenia (1992) Lithuania (1993) Czech Republic; Slovakia; Croatia (1994) Ukraine (196) Belarus (1998) Moldova (1999) Turkey; Macedonia (2000) Gibraltar (2001) Albania (2002) Serbia-Montenegro; Bosnia-Herzegovina (2003)

Oceania: Australia; New Zealand (1975) Tahiti (1978) Fiji (1984) Tonga (1993) New Caledonia (2005) Asia Philippines; Singapore (1977) India; Thailand (1981) Hong Kong; Taiwan; Japan (1982) Israel (1983) China; Korea (1986) Malaysia (1987) Indonesia (1992) Macao (1997) Kazakhstan (1999) Georgia; Armenia; Iran; Azerbajdzjan (2007) Americas Argentina (1973) Brazil (1978) USA: Canada (1982) Cuba (1987) Paraguay; Chile; Mexico (1991) Ecuador (1995) Uruguay (1997) Venezuela (1998) Colombia; Costa Rica (1999) Greenland (2002) Africa Kenya; Tanzania (1992) South Africa; Swaziland (1993) Morocco (2001)

That’s certainly an impressive achievement by a true ambassador for the sport of Orienteering. Peo claims 89 countries, but here at The Australian Orienteer Dept for Checking World Records we think you can’t clam a country twice simply because it split up and changed its name. So Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia have to count as just two countries at the most; likewise the Soviet Union should not be claimed, nor Yugoslavia. That brings Peo’s total down to a mere 86 countries.

Peo Bengtsson first took part in an Orienteering event when he was 16 years old. He joined the KFUM Kristianstad club in 1949. The club changed its name to Pan-Kristianstad and Peo is still a member. In 1965 Peo and other elite Swedish orienteers formed a group called the O-Ringen to promote and organize a new Swedish 5-Days competition. In the first year there was just 167 participants but the event’s popularity grew rapidly until entries topped 25,000 and a limit had to be placed on participants from Sweden.

Peo’s thirst for travel and Orienteering led him to organise many tours around the world. His tour groups to Australia helped us get major 5- and 6-Day events established here. It’s always a fascinating sight to see European orienteers coming from cold northern winters hit the bright sunlight of an Australian summer with temperatures approaching 40 degC. Those of us who have joined one of Peo’s European tours will have memories of tight schedules and of Orienteering at any time of the day or night. And it was certainly a great way of getting to events in places you might otherwise never have visited. Peo’s most recent tour in October’07 took 139 orienteers on an odyssey through Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Azerbajdzjan, Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova.

When will Peo stop Orienteering? Certainly not yet.

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Swedes love the sun – none more so than Peo Bengtsson. First sign of sunlight and off comes the top. (Photos courtesy Skogssport)

B I G M I S TA K E S

2007 Nordic Night Championships What a way to start your course – especially a night course. Norwegian champion, Marianne Andersen, had a horror start to her Nordic Night Championships course last year. Control #1 was in a small gully (or re-entrant) with a small but sharpish spur to the right. Marianne pulled up short then, thinking that she had gone too far in the dark, followed a bigger spur too far to the left. Mistakes seem to have compounded after that and she was in and out and round about until she eventually found the track to the NW. She clearly still thought she was too far east because she started to go the wrong way on the track, but quickly realised where she really was, headed along the track, over the knoll and turned right down to the control. The rest of her course appears to have been plain sailing which just goes to show how experienced orienteers can recover well from a terrible mistake.

WOC’07-Sprint Qual-D Hubmann (SUI)

2006WOC-Middle-Andersen finishes (photo M Hubbert)

2007 World Cup Final Stein am Rhein in Switzerland was the venue for the World Cup Final Sprint event. The Mens’ Sprint was won by France’s Thierry Gueorgiou by 2.5sec from Matthias Muller of Switzerland. But the real story from the event was Swiss Daniel Hubmann’s problems with Control #22. The control flag was in a small archway (see photo). Hubmann claimed it was hidden. He got close but then turned back. Then he ran past the small square again, just pausing to look in before running to the main street beyond. Then he ran back and into the small square again before finally finding the control. He lost some 40sec and ended up finishing 3rd in the race. He probably would have won but for that ‘mistake’.

Hubmann claimed the map was wrong and in that he is correct. The control is in an archway which should have been mapped as light grey. It wasn’t. Other Swiss runners were caught by it too. David Schneider lost 17sec and fell from 5th to 13th place, and Angela Wild lost 53sec, falling from 13th to 27th place.

Map & photo courtesy Swiss Orienteering Magazine

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MTBO NEWS 2007 National Elite Rankings (on page 44)

Blake Gordon OA MTBO Coordinator

With the start of the National MTB-O Series in 2008 in the M21E, W21E, M-20E and W-20E classes, new life will be breathed into the interstate competition in youth, elite and masters levels.

2007 World MTB-O Rankings The rankings (below) show how riders compare after 23 international races in 2007 – best 7 count for the final list.

Riders earn points over the year on a “rotating month by month basis” so that the rankings are up-to-date. Most events award 40 points for first, 36 for 2nd, 32 for 3rd and so on, to 1 point for 25th. If two of the top-10 world ranked riders are entered in the WRE then the first 30 riders gain points – with 50 points for 1st, 44 for 2nd, 39 for 3rd and so on. In WOC or EOC events where more than two of the top-10 riders are entered, the first 40 riders score points with 60 points for 1st, 54 for 2nd, 49 for 3rd and so on, to 1 point for 40th. With 4 Australians in the top-20 men (8 Australians ranked in the top-55 in the world) and 2 Australians in the top-20 women (6 Australians in the top-55 in the world) AUS is well placed on the international scene.

World Ranking 2007 – MTBO MEN 1 Beat Oklé SUI 268 2 Matthieu Barthélémy FRA 263 3 Jérémie Gillmann FRA 259 4 Simon Seger SUI 231 5 Margus Hallik EST 227 6 Beat Schaffner SUI 221 7 Alex Randall AUS 218 8 Ruslan Gritsan RUS 217 9 Lubomír Tomec̆ek CZE 215 10 Mika Tervala FIN 210 14= David Simpfendorfer AUS 168 16 Adrian Jackson AUS 160 17 Paul Darvodelsky AUS 158 35= David Clark AUS 79 41= Matt Hope AUS 65 51 David Wood AUS 59 54 Dion Keech AUS 55

World Ranking 2007 – MTBO WOMEN 1 Christine Schaffner SUI 317 2 Michaela Gigon AUT 300 3 Päivi Tommola FIN 265 4 Aurélie Ballot FRA 250 5 Anke Dannowski GER 243 6 Ksenia Chernykh RUS 217 7 Hana Bajtošová SVK 196 8 Madeleine Kammerer FRA 194 9 Karolina Mickevic̆iūtė LTU 190 10 Caroline Finance FRA 189 14 Thorlene Egerton AUS 145 16 Carolyn Jackson AUS 137 32= Julie Quinn AUS 76 43= Kath Copland NZL 54 43= Michelle Forrer AUS 54 43= Ria Johansen AUS 54 54 Kay Haarsma AUS 46

2008 MTBO National Squads ELITE “A” SQUAD David Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SA Anthony Darr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Paul Darvodelsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Matt Hope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAS Adrian Jackson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC Alex Randall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC David Simpfendorfer. . . . . . . . . . . . ACT David Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld Cath Chalmers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WA Susanne Casanova. . . . . . . . . . . . . . SA Thor Egerton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld Jen Graham Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . WA Carolyn Jackson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC Melanie Simpson. . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW

JUNIOR “A” SQUAD Sarah Dunnage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WA Peter Markworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC

ELITE “B” SQUAD Bill Darby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WA Justin Claridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld Kris Clauson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAS Steven Cusworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC Matt Koerber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ACT Hamish MacKie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Matthew Ryder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld Kieren Sullivan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld Steven Todkill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Marcel VanSchie . . . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Damian Welbourne. . . . . . . . . . . . NSW Jeremy Welbourne. . . . . . . . . . . . NSW

Ainsley Cavanagh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qld JUNIOR “B” SQUAD Chris Horne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAS Oscar Phillips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAS Heath Jamieson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VIC

Australian elite men and women are ranked based on WOC, international, and national races. These are given as ranking points in minutes based on a race of 100 minutes for men and 80 minutes for women. A ranking point of 7.5 would indicate that rider would finish 7.5 minutes behind the best-ranked rider. Three qualifying races are used for this list. People who have ridden less than three are indicated with an *.

2007 National MTB-O Rankings (on page 44) Australia has developed strong state-based competitions over the past ten years. In 2007 fourteen races covering all states (4 Sprint, 3 Middle, 7 Long-Distance) served as the basis for the rankings with the best 3 races counted for each rider. The numbers of top ranked individuals were VIC (6), QLD (5), NSW (1), ACT (1), SA (1), WA (1). The Jackson family (Tim, Adrian and Carolyn) all topped their respective age classes. Winners to repeat their top 2006 ranking were Emily and Michelle Cantwell (UG.Q), Ray Sheldon (YV.V), and Eoin Rothery (LO.W).

2008 Australian Ranking Events (Proposed) (3 best events for a rider to count for national ranking) • 19 April: Victorian Long-Distance Champs – Newstead, VIC • 20 April: Victorian Middle-Distance Champs – Ballarat, VIC • 27 July: NSW Long-Distance Champs – NSW • 6 Sept: QLD Middle-Distance Champs – QLD • 7 Sept: QLD Long-Distance Champs - QLD • 30 Sept: AUS Middle-Distance Champs – Gympie, QLD • 1 October: AUS Long-Distance Champs – Gympie, QLD • 5 October: TAS Long-Distance Champs - TAS • 18 October: WA Middle-Distance Champs – WA • 19 October: WA Long-Distance Champs – WA • 19 October: SA Long-Distance Champs – SA • 2 Nov: ACT Long-Distance Champs – Kowen Forest, ACT Due to the short winning times of Sprint Championships these races will not be used in 2008 for ranking purposes.

Small differences in time distort the time-behind-the-winner calculations.

The National MTBO Series starts here…

Victorian MTBO Championships April 19 & 20 Newstead & Ballarat

Long, Middle & Sprint races National MTBO series for M/W21 & 20.

Vic Champs for all age classes

Details and online entry

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K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 K10 K11 K12 K13 K14 K15 K16 K17 K18 finish 2.40/ 6 4.46/ 3 8.16/ 6 10.16/ 5 12.58/ 2 15.23/ 1 17.29/ 1 25.12/ 1 29.06/1 31.35/ 1 34.29/ 1 36.41/ 1 38.16/ 1 41.33/ 1 46.39/ 1 48.39/ 1 49.20/1 49.55/ 1 50.21/ 1 2.40/ 6 2.06/ 4 3.30/ 20 2.00/ 7 2.42/ 2 2.25/ 1 2.06/ 8 7.43/ 4 3.54/10 2.29/ 10 2.54/ 1 2.12/ 1 1.35/ 6 3.17/ 16 5.06/ 4 2.00/ 2 0.41/ 4 0.35/ 7 0.26/ 28

MTB WOC’07 – Men’s Middle Distance Championship – Mika Tervala (FIN) splits:

1. TERVALA Mika 50.21 FIN Finland

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M O U N TA I N B I K E O R I E N T E E R I N G 2007 MTB-O National Rankings

* =winner Best 3 Results

M-14A 1 Timothy Jackson MFV 128.90 2 Morgan Clark BKV 150.00 2 Joe Dowson BOW 150.00 4 Oliver Poland BSA 200.00 4 Bradley Stoneman MDN 200.00 4 Graham Tulich EVT 200.00 4 Oscar McNulty LOW 200.00

VlVmVs* Vl*Vm*Vs Wm*Wl Cl* Am* Tl* Wl*

M-16A 1 Chris Firman 2 Alex Massey 3 Kurt Neumann 4 Joshua Blatchford 5 Oscar Phillips 5 Luke Poland 7 Aaron Shillington 7 Simon Greenhalgh

ENQ NCN ENQ NCN EVT BSA MTQ MTQ

105.27 Ql*AlAs* 106.02 Al*Am*As 150.00 Qs*Ql 157.42 AlAmAs 200.00 Tl* 200.00 Cl* 250.00 QsQl 250.00 QsQl

M-20A 1 Brett Merchant 2 Kieran Sullivan 3 Nick Dellagiacoma 3 Matthew Ryder 5 Oliver Mitchell

TJS BUQ MDN ..Q UGQ

100.00 Al*Am*As* 150.00 Qs*Ql 200.00 Nl* 200.00 Ql* 250.00 QsQl

M40A 1 Graeme Hall 2 Tim Hatley 3 Fabrizio Andreoni 4 Steve Sullivan 5 Simon Nott 6 Paul Leicester 7 Craig Steffens 8 Tim Hay 9 Jonathon Sutcliffe 10 Graeme McLeod

MTQ BKV AWV YAS MDN BKV MTQ MTQ UGQ MDN

100.28 102.90 104.36 108.83 117.10 120.17 121.09 125.78 127.51 130.06

M50A 1 Eoin Rothery 1 Robert Prentice 3 Peter Cusworth 4 Lee Merchant 5 Rick Armstrong 6 James Lithgow 7 Hub Carter 8 Chris Bayliss 9 Richard Robinson 10 Darryl Smith

LOW SHN BKV TJS AWV GON SOQ MDN SOQ WRT

100.00 Ws*Wl*Am* 100.00 Vl*Cl*Nl* 100.47 Vl,Vm*,Vs* 100.48 Al*AmAs* 109.41 Ql*NlAl 110.43 VlVmAs 111.19 QlNlVm 111.21 Cl,Vl,Nl 112.02 Qs*AlAm 114.13 AlAmAs

M60A 1 Ray Sheldon 2 Bill Chalmers 3 Keith Wade 4 Peter Hoban 5 Tim Hackney 6 Leigh Privett 7 Tim Dent 8 Blake Gordon 9 Bill Filson 10 Dick Ogilvie

YVV NCN TKV EVT NCN AWV YVV EUV MDN URN

100.00 Ql*Vm*Nl* 100.81 ClNs*As 100.98 Vl*VmVs* 104.43 Tl*AmAs 109.37 Cl*NsNl 109.57 AlAm*As 110.28 AlAmAs 116.57 VmVsAs 121.35 ClNlNs 123.84 NlNsAm

Qs*Ql*Al Vl*AlAm AlVmVs* Vl,Vm*,Vs NlAlAm Vl,Vm,Vs Al*AmAs AlAmAs AlAmAs NsAlAm

M70+A 1 Graham Cadman YVV 100.00 Vl*Vm*Vs* 2 Kevin Paine BSA 100.22 Al*Cl*Vm 3 Gordon Howitt SOQ 150.00 Am*As*Al 4 Don Bradford POA 300.00 Cl 4 Eino Meuronen BSA 300.00 Cl 6 Gordon Clarke YVV 300.00 Vl W-14A 1 Alysha McNee BSA 150.00 2 Sonya McNee BSA 300.00

As*Cl* As

W-16A 1 Emily Cantwell UGQ 150.00 2 Krystal Neumann ENQ 200.00

Qs*Ql Ql*

W-20A 1 Michelle Cantwell UGQ 150.00

Ql*

W40A 1 Lyn Stichbury 2 Wendy Stevenson 3 Leanne Hart 4 Salme Fuller 4 Anthea Feaver 4 Susan Thomas 4 Christine Brown 4 Kay Haarsma 9 Paula Shingler 10 Joanna Parr 10 Julie Knorpp 10 Dawn Clarke

SOQ NSW MDN PLQ LOW WOW EVT TTS BFN BFN AWV SOQ

100.00 Qs*Vl*Al* 136.13 NlAlAm 150.00 Cl*Nl 200.00 Ql* 200.00 Wl* 200.00 Wm* 200.00 Tl* 200.00 Vm* 205.26 NlAlAm 250.00 AlAs 250.00 Vm 250.00 QsQl

W50A 1 Kate Chown 2 Ann Scown 3 Carol Brownlie 3 Andrea Harris 5 Ronice Goebel 5 Judy Allison 5 Sue Clark 5 Jennifer Binns 9 Sue Little 10 Peta Whitford 10 Jay Mair 10 Kathy Petrie

MDN AOA WOW PLQ AW.V RRA ..Q ..W MDN YVV UGQ BUQ

105.28 VmAm*As 109.27 Vl*VmVs* 150.00 Wm*Wl 150.00 Qs*Ql 200.00 Vm* 200.00 Cl* 200.00 Ql* 200.00 Wl* 213.83 NsNlAm 250.00 VlVm 250.00 QsQl 250.00 QsQl

W60+A 1 Kathy Liley 1 Jackie Sheldon 3 Dale Ann Gordon 4 Maureen Ogilvie 5 Jenny Sheahan 6 Helen Moriarty 7 Valerie Brammall 7 Toni Frank 9 Joyce Rowlands 9 Margaret Moore 11 Dianne Searle

YVV YVV EUV URN BKV MTQ EVT BOW NEV MTQ BGV

100.00 Al*Am*As* 100.00 Qs*Ql*OVm* 103.42 Vl*VmVs* 118.87 Nl*Ns*As 130.76 VmAmAs 193.85 AlAmAs 200.00 Tl* 200.00 Wm* 250.00 VlVm 250.00 QsQl 300.00 Vm

Key to Symbols A = AUS Champs C = ACT Champs N = NSW Champs Q = QLD Champs T = TAS Champs V = Oceania/VIC Champs W = WA Champs l = Long distance m = Middle distance s = Sprint distance * = Winner of a race scores 100 points 2007 Ranking Criteria - Legend 1 A rider who completed 3 races in 2007 - ranking calculated by average of 3 results 2 If a rider won two races they scored 125 if they did not ride in a third race 3 If a rider won one race and rode in a second, they scored 150 4 If a rider won one race, they scored 200 5 If a rider rode only two championship races, they scored 250 regardess of place 6 If a rider rode only one championship race, they scored 300 regardess of place 7 If a rider mispunched in a championship race, they scored 250 for that race.

Riding in Queensland Craig Steffens

Heading to the Australian Championships in September/ October? Looking for an excuse to linger a while longer in sunny Queensland?

Then why not take advantage of the many and varied off-road riding opportunities that exist, while you’re north of the border.

South East Queensland has a variety of choices, from the black soils of the Bicentennial National Trail, the grassy Rail Trail corridors, sandy pine forests and dedicated single track areas. All are within easy reach of Brisbane and you could work your way from one to the other and end up at the Australian Championships venue. Many great camping sites and coastal tourist parks can provide a base to operate from while enjoying the beach and bush. An excellent publication

by Gap Creek Trails Alliance, Where to Ride in South East QLD, lists many rides with details and rough maps. It’s available from most of the larger bike shops locally. Another source of local information is www.mtbdirt.com , which has trail information, forums and maps relating to Brisbane and SE Queensland area.

My top picks are:

2007 MTB-O Elite Rankings

HALF DAY:

ELITE MEN Points 07 1 Adrian Jackson 0.0 2 Alex Randall 5.2 3 Paul Darvodelsky 10.5 4 David Simpfendorfer 15.1 5 David Wood 19.3 6 Jeremy Wellbourne* 20.3 7 David Baldwin* 22.9 8 Tony Clark 23.7 9 Matt Hope 24.0 10 Stu Adams 28.4 11 David Clark 28.6 12 Damian Wellbourne* 29.7 14 Marcel Van Schie 34.6 15 Steven Cusworth* 36.0 16 Anthony Darr* 36.6 17 Hamish Mackie 36.9 19 Dion Keech 43.7 20 Brad Spinelli 44.3

Pts 06 0 6.9 15.9 16.3 15.1 46.9 32.2 20.2 24.2 36

•B unyaville Forest on the northern suburbs of Brisbane with its maintained network of single track, constructed by the local Trail Care group.

ELITE WOMEN 1 Julie Quinn* 2 Carolyn Jackson 3 Thorlene Egerton 4 Anna Sheldon* 5 Melanie Simpson* 6 Kath Copland* 7 Ria Johansen* 8 Cath Chalmers* 9 Michelle Forrer* 10 Margaret Boutell* 11 Gail Young* 12 Sonya Palfreyman* 13 Ainsley Cavanagh* 14 Kay Haarsma* 15 Raynie McNee* 16 Brit Ballard*

Pts 06 4.5 2.7 16.5 0 2.4 56.6 25.5 58.1

TWO DAY TOUR:

Points 07 0.0 0.9 3.0 6.1 9.2 17.1 28.8 29.2 31.8 46.4 46.7 48.3 53.5 55.7 56.1 67.5

* completed less than 3 ranking races

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•D aisy Hill Reserve on the south side of Brisbane; once again single track courtesy of the local Trail Care group.

• Wamuran Rail Trail at Caboolture, north of Brisbane.

•S amford Valley Horse Trails on the northwestern outskirts of Brisbane.

FULL DAY: •C ondamine Gorge Track, on the Scenic Rim near Killarney, for it’s many creek crossings and quiet rural setting.

•B risbane Forest Park, on the western city fringe, for it’s long distance tracks and scenic views.

•N oosa Trail Network on the Sunshine Coast, for its spectacular coastal views.

•B icentennial National Trail, near Esk in the Brisbane Valley, for cross-country exploration.

•S tanthorpe area, for its rocky monoliths and crunchy granite back roads.

These are but a few of the many riding opportunities that exist which will suit all tastes and abilities.

Another commercial event to keep you active is: 21-Sep Coffs Mountain MTB Marathon (www. twowheelpromotions.com.au )

Riding in the Maryborough area The Wongi pine forest, just north of town, has an excellent network of roads and tracks in low undulating terrain, with a fire tower to climb and survey the landscape. There’s a nearby forestry campsite with an inviting billabong to wash off the dust. The area has recently been mapped for future MTBO events.

MTBO training opportunities abound in the Beerburrum Pine plantation just north of Brisbane, with the following maps having similar conditions to the Championship venue.

Jim tours past the volcanic plug of Mt Beerwah, one of the Glasshouse Mountains at Beerwah, in the heart of the Beerburrum Forest.

Black Swamp, Beerburrum (1:7,500; 2007) Woodford (1:10,000; 2007) Snake, Beerburrum (1:15,000; 2007) For suggestions, maps and directions contact the Multi Terrain Bike Orienteers Club - Craig Steffens on 0418871193 or csteffen@bigpond.net.au

Brendan follows some single track at Woodford, north of Brisbane.

Craig and Bruce ride the grassy stock route of the Bicentennial Trail at Esk.

David passes a trail marker on the Recreation Trail at Samford near Brisbane.

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ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

2007 National rankings – non-elite Rankings in non-Elite classes have been determined based on results in the Australian Easter 3-Days (E1, E2, E3), Australian and Oceania Sprint (AS, OS), Medium (AM, OM), Long (AL, OL) Distance Championships, the NSW and ACT Long Distance Championships (SA, SO).

Points are awarded for each event completed on the basis of 100 points for first place and lesser points for other competitors. An orienteer’s best 3 events count towards their ranking. The first 10 orienteers ranked in each class are published here. State Secretaries have lists of all orienteers ranked between 50 and 100 points inclusive.

When more than one orienteer in a class has 100 points, the first ranked orienteer is determined by the average of their three best winning margins.

Some points of interest in the 2007 rankings: • Winner by the largest margin was Herman Wehner (WE.A), winning by 31.44 percentage points.

• There were a number of classes where more than one orienteer earned maximum points (this year they are separated by winning margins): Henry McNulty (LO.W), Matthew Doyle (EN.Q); Joshua Blatchford (NC.N), Lachlan Dow (BS.A); Alex Tarr (YV.V), Tim Dent (YV.V); John Lyon (TT.S), Clive Pope (UG.Q); Ray Kelly (UG.Q), Kevin Paine (BS.A); Katie Doyle (EN.Q), Jacqui Doyle (EN.Q). * 19 clubs had class leaders in the rankings with the most successful clubs being: MF.V, EU.V, NC.N (3); EN.Q, WE.A, UG.Q (2); GO.N, EV.T, YV.V, TT.S, WO.W, UR.N, NE.V, WA.S, TF.Q, LO.W, BB.Q, AL.T, BS.A, (1).

• Families with two or more members placed in the rankings were: Doyle (Matthew M12, Katie W14, Jackie W14, Steve M40); Hill (Daniel M10, Barbara W35); Ingwersen (Ruben M10, Ann W65); McNulty (Henry M12, Oscar M14); Neve (Todd M14, Sue W50); Blatchford (Joshua M16, Nicola W12); McComb (Cathy W35, Jonathan M35); McComb (Rory M16, Andrew M45); Wehner (Martin M40, Herman M80); Vincent (Phoebe W12, Robert M45); Lawford/Bourne (Geoff M50, Jenny W45); Tarr (Janet W65, Alex M65); Lyon (Jeffa W70, John M70); Mount (Sue W70, Tony M75).

• All ranked orienteers in W12 are from NSW and those in W14 are from Queensland.

• Two orienteers were ranked in more than one class: Katie Doyle EN.Q (W14, W16); Nicola Blatchford NC.N (W12, W14).

Darryl Erbacher, OA Statistician Class M10 1 Daniel Hill GO.N 2 Oliver Mill RR.A 3 Ruben Ingwersen PO.A 4 Scott Charlton NC.N 5 Max Dalheim MF.V 6 Nicholas Burridge UG.Q 7 Trent Crebbin YA.S 8 Ben Carberry IK.N 9 Samuel Wilkinson BF.N Class M12 1 Henry McNulty (0.12) LO.W 2 Matthew Doyle (0.04) EN.Q 3 David Tay UG.Q 4 Brodie Dobson-Keefe YA.S 5 Dominic Crosato RR.Q 6 Timothy Jackson MF.V Class M14 1 Todd Neve MF.V 2 Oscar McNulty LO.W 3 Marc Gluskie AL.T 4 Oliver Poland BS.A 5 Kelly Bertei TE.S 6 Paul De Jong BS.A 7 Bill Mann BO.W 8 Bryn McComb OH.S 9 Shane Keely BG.V 10 Luke Hazell TT.S Class M16 1 Lachlan Dow (0.06) BS.A 2 Josh Blatchford (0.04) NC.N 3 Rory McComb OH.S 4 Oliver Crosato RR.Q 5 Kurt Neumann EN.Q

98.80 ALSAE1 96.23 SOE2E1 95.34 E2AME1 93.76 E3E2E1 87.20 OMOLSO 80.37 E1E3OM 66.54 AME3E2 65.54 E1E3E2 52.95 E1E3E2 100.0 ALOSSA 100.0 E2E3OL 99.13 OME3OL 96.34 E1E3E2 81.83 OMSAAL 69.72 AMOSOM 100.0 ALOLSA 97.60 E2OSE1 97.32 E3SAAL 95.87 E1OLE2 85.33 AMALE2 84.12 OMOSSO 75.54 ALE2E3 70.34 AMALSA 66.06 E3E2AL 52.51 E1ALE2 100.0 ALOSOL 100.0 E1E2SO 97.92 E3AMSA 94.74 E3E2OS 93.52 OMALSO

6 Luke Poland 7 Max Neve 8 Oscar Phillips 9 Ian Lawford 10 Dave Mallen Class M35 1 Scott Simson 2 Jonathan McComb 3 Dion Keech 4 Warwick Dougherty 5 John Havranek 6 Rohan Hyslop Class M40 1 Martin Wehner 2 Tim Hatley 3 Steve Doyle 4 Mark Freeman 5 John Whittington 6 Ruhi Afnan 7 Neil Simson 8 Ari Piiroinen 9 Michael Burridge 10 John Shelton-Agar Class M45 1 Robert Vincent 2 Mark Nemeth 3 Andrew McComb 4 Mark Darvodelsky 5 Bjorn Mella 6 Russell Blatchford 7 Michael Dowling 8 Michael Burton 9 Malcolm Roberts 10 David Poland

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BS.A MF.V EV.T EU.V NE.V

91.20 90.46 86.37 80.12 79.63

OSE3SO SOOSAL SAOSOL E2E3OS OSALSO

TF.Q AL.T MF.V WA.S GO.N PO.A

100.0 E1E2SO 98.33 E3E1E2 92.29 E2AME3 88.59 OME1SO 70.46 SOSAOM 52.12 OSSOOL

WE.A BK.V EN.Q BF.N WR.N YA.S TF.Q BS.A UG.Q AO.A

100.0 E1E2E3 96.59 E2E3E1 94.85 OSSOE1 90.73 SAOMSO 90.37 E1E2E3 85.98 E3E1E2 84.42 OMOSSO 76.20 OMSOOL 74.92 AMSOOS 74.37 SOOMOL

NC.N TF.Q OH.S BF.N NC.N NC.N WR.T BF.N NC.N BS.A

100.0 E1E2E3 98.16 ALOSSA 97.46 OMSOAM 93.63 E2ALOL 90.68 AMALE2 85.00 OMSOE2 83.38 E2ALSA 69.64 SAALOL 69.51 SOSAAL 68.97 OMOLE2

Class M50 1 Geoff Lawford EU.V 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Paul Pacque EV.T 94.55 SAALE1 3 Eoin Rothery LO.W 92.71 OSOLE1 4 Ted Van Geldermalsen YV.V 89.60 E1E3E2 5 Chris Norwood EU.V 82.20 E1E2OL 6 Grant McDonald AO.A 79.34 OSE1E2 7 James Lithgow GO.N 79.08 OSOLE3 8 Ross Coyle UR.N 78.26 SOALSA 9 Nick Wilmott UR.N 77.70 E1E2E3 10 Roch Prendergast EU.V 75.29 ALE3SO Class M55 1 Nigel Davies EV.T 100.0 E1ALOS 2 Gordon Wilson BN.N 99.85 OME1SO 3 Hugh Moore RR.A 99.04 E2E3E1 4 Robert Allison RR.A 94.84 AME1E2 5 Robert Preston NC.N 93.16 E1E3AM 6 David Marshall AL.T 93.12 SAE3E2 7 Nick Dent CC.N 90.97 SOOME3 8 Adrian Uppill OH.S 88.14 SAOLAL 9 John Oliver WR.N 87.95 SOSAOL 10 Greg Rowberry WA.S 86.78 E2E3E1 Class M60 1 Tony Simpkins LO.W 100.0 E2E3OS 2 Trevor Sauer EN.Q 97.99 E1AMOL 3 Greg Chatfield UG.Q 97.98 SOE2OM 4 Dave Lotty UR.N 97.14 OMOLE2 5 Robert Tucker YA.S 94.27 E2E1AL 6 Stephen Flick BN.N 92.59 SOSAOL 7 Terry Bluett BN.N 89.63 OLALSA 8 Ron Junghans GO.N 86.57 OMAMSO 9 Ross Barr GO.N 86.17 OMAMAL 10 Jim Merchant GO.N 84.41 ALSAOL Class M65 1 Alex Tarr (0.21) YV.V 100.0 E1AMOM 2 Tim Dent (0.15) YV.V 100.0 E2E3AL 3 Hub Carter SO.Q 92.13 OSOMSO 4 Peter Prime TK.V 83.79 E1ALE3 5 Ted Mulherin WH.N 83.44 E3SOAM 6 Norm Johnston WE.A 74.28 OMOLSO 7 Basil Baldwin GS.N 74.12 E3OLE2 8 Peter Galvin BG.V 72.49 OLAMAL 9 John Brammall EV.T 71.85 OSOLAL 10 John Sheahan BK.V 71.76 OSE3E2 Class M70 1 John Lyon (0.17) TT.S 100.0 E1E3AM 2 Clive Pope (0.12) UG.Q 100.0 E2OSOM 3 Barry Hanlon WH.N 90.91 SAAMOM 4 Terry Liggins AL.T 78.32 OLSOOM 5 George Reeves TT.S 76.93 E3SAE2 6 Mike Isbell GO.N 63.40 OLOMSA 7 Roderick Crockart UG.Q 61.16 E2E3E1 Class M75 1 Kevin Paine (0.15) BS.A 100.0 OLSASO 2 Ray Kelly (0.09) UG.Q 100.0 E1E2E3 3 Tony Mount AL.T 99.05 ALOMAM 4 Ron Larsson TT.S 97.68 AME2E3 5 Bill Catchpoole YA.S 86.72 E2E3E1 6 Jack Palmer BS.A 81.66 OSOMSO 7 Graeme Cadman YV.V 78.55 AME2E1 8 Tom Norwood EU.V 76.05 OLE2E3 9 Malcolm Stewart GO.N 60.40 SAE2SO Class M80 1 Hermann Wehner WE.A 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Neil Schafer GO.N 68.56 ALE1SA Class W10 1 Heather Burridge UG.Q 100.0 E1E2E3 Class W12 1 Nicola Blatchford NC.N 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Rhiana Roberts NC.N 95.07 OMSOAL 3 Phoebe Vincent NC.N 91.25 OLSAE1 4 Anna Dowling WR.T 88.76 ALE2E1 5 Nicola Marshall AL.T 87.64 SAE2E1 6 Rosie Dalheim MF.V 69.61 OLSOAL 7 Rachel Fisk YA.S 68.60 E2E1E3 8 Liana Crebbin YA.S 50.11 E2E3E1 Class W14 1 Katie Doyle (0.2702) EN.Q 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Jacqui Doyle (0.2698) EN.Q 100.0 OSOLSO 3 Kaitlin Radstaak TF.Q 85.30 OMALE2 4 Nicola Blatchford NC.N 67.27 SOOLOS 5 Michele Dawson GO.N 64.46 ALSOSA 6 Lisette Schults-Rand UG.Q 56.97 E2E3E1 Class W16 1 Lilian Burrill BB.Q 99.41 OMSOOS 2 Nadia Velaitis YA.S 98.27 AMALE1 3 Rachel Dunnage WO.W 97.79 E2AME3 4 Melanie Neumann EN.Q 96.99 ALOSOM 5 Tamara Orr CC.N 94.21 E3SAAL 6 Stephanie Mason-Fyfe TT.S 92.36 E1E3SA

7 Georgia Parsons BS.A 89.77 SOE2AL 8 Helen Mason-Fyfe TT.S 82.80 SAE2E1 9 Katie Doyle EN.Q 79.66 OSSOOM 10 Brianne Stewart SH.N 66.87 OMSOSA Class W35 1 Cathy McComb AL.T 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Barbara Hill GO.N 94.45 SAE2E1 3 Michelle Chamalaun OH.S 92.66 SOOSOL 4 Susannah King MF.V 82.16 E1E3E2 5 Margaret Peel NC.N 77.14 OSOMAM 6 Mary Enter BK.V 66.39 AME1E3 7 Pat Miethke PO.A 62.63 OSSOOM Class W40 1 Nicola Dalheim MF.V 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Clare Leung UG.Q 97.85 ALSOSA 3 Christine Marshall AL.T 94.69 E3E1AL 4 Karen Blatchford NC.N 93.38 AME3OM 5 Su Yan Tay UG.Q 92.58 OSALE2 6 Anita Scherrer UR.N 88.38 SOE2E3 7 Sue Garr PO.A 72.74 OLSOOM 8 Kirsten Wehner WE.A 67.07 E3OME1 9 Jo Anne Keely BG.V 55.07 E3E1E2 Class W45 1 Jenny Bourne EU.V 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Liz Abbott PO.A 93.12 ALE3E2 3 Christine Brown EV.T 91.32 ALE2E3 4 Anthea Feaver LO.W 90.48 ALOLSA 5 Carol Harding BS.A 82.91 OSE1SO 6 Gayle Quantock-Simson TF.Q 81.69 OSALOM 7 Felicity Crosato RR.Q 70.53 E1ALE3 8 Toni Brown BS.A 59.76 OLE3E2 9 Lisa Lampe UR.N 54.89 E2OSE1 Class W50 1 Carolyn Jackson MF.V 100.0 E1E3AM 2 Sue Neve MF.V 98.27 SAALOM 3 Lynn Dabbs WH.N 96.88 E2ALSA 4 Robin Uppill OH.S 95.01 ALOSOL 5 Mary McDonald AO.A 89.88 OSSAOM 6 Hilary Wood CC.N 89.59 E2OSOM 7 Debbie Davey WR.N 89.35 E3OSAL 8 Jan Sargood UR.N 82.79 SAE2E1 9 Robyn Pallas CC.N 80.42 E3SOSA 10 Liz Bourne BB.Q 78.21 SAOMAL Class W55 1 Carol Brownlie WO.W 100.0 E2AMAL 2 Valerie Barker BS.A 98.56 OSOMSO 3 Barbara Tassell AL.T 97.32 OLE1SO 4 Meredith Sauer EN.Q 94.20 E1E3E2 5 Jacquie Rand UG.Q 92.25 E3ALE2 6 Allison Radford TT.S 91.33 E3ALE1 7 Judith Hay BN.N 90.86 OLE1OS 8 Val Hodsdon SH.N 90.27 SOE3E2 9 Judy Allison RR.A 89.12 OLOME3 10 Kerryne Jones RR.A 87.50 OLE1SO Class W60 1 Jenny Hawkins BS.A 100.0 E1E3AM 2 Robin Spriggs UG.Q 95.43 OSSOOM 3 Ruth Goddard YV.V 91.75 E2SOE1 4 Penny Dufty BO.W 91.24 AME1E3 5 Kathy Liley YV.V 89.14 E3E1SA 6 Jean Baldwin GS.N 87.96 ALOLE2 7 Angela Murray UR.N 87.33 OMOSAL 8 Jennie Bourne OH.S 86.48 AME3E1 9 Anna Booth BS.A 86.03 SOSAOM 10 Libby Meeking YV.V 84.65 SAE2E3 Class W65 1 Dale Ann Gordon EU.V 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Janet Tarr YV.V 98.96 AMSOE2 3 Ann Ingwersen PO.A 97.93 OLSASO 4 Helen Smith TT.S 92.94 E3AME2 5 Helen Alexander BK.V 83.52 E2SAAM 6 Emily Quantock WE.A 78.21 SOSAAL 7 Christa Schafer GO.N 77.31 AMSAE3 8 Janet Morris WH.N 73.89 SOE2SA 9 Anne Sawkins RR.A 69.01 SOOLOM 10 Margaret Craig GO.N 56.38 E2SAAM Class W70 1 Maureen Ogilvie UR.N 100.0 E1E2E3 2 Jeffa Lyon TT.S 96.72 OSE1E2 3 Sue Mount AL.T 85.53 SOOLAL Class W75 1 Joyce Rowlands NE.V 100.0 E1E2OM 2 Anne Stewart GO.N 99.20 E3SAAL 3 Sue Healy NE.V 96.49 AMALE1 4 Pella Rye 65.56 E1AME3 Class W80 1 Rae Harris WA.S 100.0 E1E2E3

ORIENTEERING AUSTRALIA

National Merit Badge awards The National Merit Badge Awards aim to recognise orienteers who achieve a consistent orienteering standard relative to their age-group peers and to be a fund raising activity for Australian Teams to World Championships.

An orienteer can qualify for a Badge when three Badge credits have been earned within a two-year period. Badge credits can be earned at all Championship and Badge events, including AUS 3-Days.

For further information contact: John Oliver, 68 Amaroo St, Wagga Wagga 2650. Tel: 069 226 208, e-mail: oliver.family@bigpond.com.au Merran Warlters Bruce Dawkins Kathryn Cox John Wilkinson Jan Hardy Melvyn Cox Kathryn Cox John Sutton Nicholas Burridge David Cantwell Aidan Tay David Tay Aaron Breed Thomas McIntyre Julian Taylor James Sheldon Mathieu McGuire Luke Mitchell Oliver Mitchell Heather Burridge Stephanie Cantwell Emily Cantwell Morgan McIntyre Lisette Schults-Rand Michelle Cantwell Rachel Effeney Bridget Anderson Bruce Bowen Kate Bowen Scott Bowen Patricia D’Abrera Richard D’Abrera Sue Garr Tony Garr Kay Grzadka Richard Hyslop Rohan Hyslop Ann Ingwersen Ciaran Lane Greg Lane Pat Miethke Trevor Mobbs Colleen Mock Samuel Monaghan Peter Price Richard Pywell Wal Pywell Geoff Stacey Jill Walker Kristen Walker Phil Walker Geoff Wood Rick Armstrong Wayne Bajenoff Hugh Cameron Ian Herbert Bruce Paterson Rob Simmons Basil Baldwin Fiona Wymer Gregory Smith Jean Baldwin Kerrin Gale Liam Parton Maryanne Smith Matt Parton Richard Carter Rob Bennett Thomas Carter John Brammall Valerie Brammall Ron Briggs

SH.N BN.N BN.N BG.V AL.T BN.N BN.N RR.A UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q UG.Q PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A PO.A AW.V AW.V AW.V AW.V AW.V AW.V GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N GS.N EV.T EV.T EV.T

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Gold Gold Silver Silver Gold Gold Silver Gold Silver Bronze Bronze Gold Silver Silver Gold Bronze Gold Silver Gold Gold Silver Bronze Gold Gold Bronze Gold Gold Gold Silver Gold Bronze Bronze Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Bronze Gold Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Silver Gold Silver Gold Gold Silver Gold Silver Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Silver Bronze Gold Bronze Silver Gold Silver Gold Bronze

Anthony Brown Christine Brown Ian Brown Nigel Davies Miles Ellis Debbie Gale Catherine Hewitt Peter Hoban Christopher Horne Michael Horne Sarah Mitchell Paul Pacque Brea Pearce Jessica Phillips Oscar Phillips Simon Phillips Samuel Webb Melanie Withers Caryl Woof Sebastian Woof Debbie Dodd Ian Dodd Louise Hall Pam King Allan Miller Pat Miller Tina Smith Ilze Yeates Peter Yeates Helen Alexander Ian Baker Steve Bird Prue Dobbin Mary Enter Elizabeth Hatley Tim Hatley Judi Herkes Matthew King David Knight Bob Leicester Stephen Peacock Phil Poulton Adam Scammell Vic Sedunary Jenny Sheahan John Sheahan Charles Zerafa Alexander Orr Colin Price Daniel Orr Emily Prudhoe Hilary Wood Jose Ignacio Zapata Julia Prudhoe Julian Dent Maria Orr Nick Dent Paul Prudhoe Peter Orr Phoebe Dent Robyn Pallas Tamara Orr Peter Annetts Ross Barr Ian Cameron Bryony Cox Tim Cox Margaret Craig Aidan Dawson Barbara Dawson Graeme Dawson Michele Dawson

EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T EV.T DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V DR.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V BK.V CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N CC.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N GO.N

M17 W45 M50 M55 M21 W60 W17 M60 M18 M16 W14 M50 W17 W16 M17 M45 M16 W16 W70 M17 W45 M45 W40 W55 M70 W70 W45 W21 M60 W65 M70 M40 W40 W35 W45 M40 W60 M50 M50 M70 M55 M50 M21 M45 W55 M65 M50 M14 M50 M21 W16 W50 M21 W50 M21 W35 M55 M50 M45 W21 W50 W16 M40 M60 M50 W60 M65 W65 M12 W35 M45 W14

Gold Gold Gold Gold Silver Gold Gold Gold Silver Bronze Gold Gold Gold Silver Gold Gold Silver Bronze Bronze Gold Silver Silver Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Gold Bronze Bronze Bronze Silver Bronze Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Silver Bronze Silver Silver Gold Gold Silver Silver Gold Silver Gold Silver Silver Silver Gold Gold Silver Gold Bronze Silver Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Gold

Mike Hanratty John Havranek Melissa Havranek Karin Hefftner Barbara Hill Daniel Hill Matthew Hill Tony Hill Mike Isbell Carol Jacobson Ken Jacobson Brian Johnson Barbara Junghans Ron Junghans Susan Kurrle James Lithgow Jim Merchant Christa Schafer Neil Schafer Dennis Sparling Anne Stewart Malcolm Stewart Mike Weller Alex Davey Briohny Davey Debbie Davey Janelle McGarva Bob Moore Pauline Moore John Oliver Kath Oliver Rob Fell Dave Mallen Jessica Niven Alice Edmonds Dominic Crosato Felicity Crosato Oliver Crosato Glennie Nottle Stacey Nottle Danette O’Connell Jessica O’Connell Lyn Thomas Nicole Thomas Don Bajenoff Barry Field David Green Dayle Green Ian Hassall Keith Jay Julie Mann Barry Pearce Alex Pettiford Brian Pettiford Peter Shepherd Laura Bell Jennie Bourne Margaret Bourne Michelle Chamalaun Craig Colwell Evelyn Colwell Kris Colwell Talia Colwell Colin Dodd Lance Fairclough Lauren Gillis Mallory Hughes Stuart Lane Heinz Leuenberger Catherine Loye Rachel Loye Vincent Loye Andrew McComb Bryn McComb Rory McComb Teri McComb Ben Rattray Kerrin Rattray Michael Roberts Al Sankauskas Max Sankauskas Zita Sankauskas Darrin Smith Bryn Soden Zara Soden

GO.N M35 GO.N M35 GO.N W35 GO.N W50 GO.N W35 GO.N M10 GO.N M14 GO.N M40 GO.N M70 GO.N W55 GO.N M60 GO.N M75 GO.N W55 GO.N M60 GO.N W55 GO.N M50 GO.N M60 GO.N W65 GO.N M80 GO.N M55 GO.N W75 GO.N M75 GO.N M35 WR.N M50 WR.N W21 WR.N W50 WR.N W55 WR.N M60 WR.N W55 WR.N M55 WR.N W45 NE.V M17 NE.V M16 NE.V W15 NE.V W17 RR.Q M12 RR.Q W45 RR.Q M16 RR.Q W16 RR.Q W45 RR.A W16 RR.A W20 RR.Q W55 RR.Q W21 IK.N M70 IK.N M60 IK.N M40 IK.N W35 IK.N M70 IK.N M55 IK.N W45 IK.N M60 IK.N M21 IK.N M55 IK.N M55 OH.S W20 OH.S W60 OH.S W21 OH.S W35 OH.S M50 OH.S W45 OH.S M17 OH.S W14 OH.S M55 OH.S M80 OH.S W17 OH.S W17 OH.S M65 OH.S M55 OH.S W21 OH.S W14 OH.S M55 OH.S M45 OH.S M14 OH.S M16 OH.S W45 OH.S M21 OH.S M21 OH.S M17 OH.S M55 OH.S M17 OH.S W45 OH.S M21 OH.S M14 OH.S W35

Bronze Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Gold Gold Bronze Silver Silver Silver Silver Silver Gold Bronze Gold Gold Gold Gold Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Gold Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Silver Gold Bronze Gold Gold Bronze Gold Gold Gold Gold Gold Bronze Silver Silver Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Bronze Gold Bronze Silver Bronze Bronze Bronze Gold Gold Gold Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Silver Gold Bronze Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Silver Gold Bronze Gold Gold Gold Gold Silver Gold Gold Silver Silver Gold Silver Bronze Bronze Silver

Carol Such OH.S W45 John Such OH.S M55 Nicole Such OH.S W21 David Tilbrook OH.S M60 Adrian Uppill OH.S M55 Robin Uppill OH.S W50 Simon Uppill OH.S M21 Bruce Campbell SO.Q M55 Claire Campbell SO.Q W17 Gail Campbell SO.Q W45 Hub Carter SO.Q M65 Penny Hearn SO.Q W50 Cath Howitt SO.Q W75 Gordon Howitt SO.Q M75 Lyn Stichbury SO.Q W45 Allen Andersen WA.S M70 Peter Ashforth WA.S M55 Tom Bullock WA.S M55 Jenny Casanova WA.S W21 Susanne Casanova WA.S W21 Lisa Clark WA.S W21 Peter Clark WA.S M50 Peter Cutten WA.S M65 Robyn Cutten WA.S W65 Rae Harris WA.S W80 Edda Keskula WA.S W35 Greta Knarston WA.S W20 Peter Kreminski WA.S M65 Andrew Mogridge WA.S M17 Regina Mogridge WA.S W40 Jim Rathjen WA.S M60 Greg Rowberry WA.S M55 Phil Stoeckel WA.S M55 Frank Tomas WA.S M65 Chris Howitt WO.W W45 Grant McDonald AO.A M45 Heather McDonald AO.A W20 Mary McDonald AO.A W50 Robert McDonald AO.A M18 Craig Mothershead AO.A M21 Ann Scown AO.A W45 John Scown AO.A M50 Murray Scown AO.A M21 John Shelton-Agar AO.A M40 Steve Truscott AO.A M35 Peter Ainscough TF.Q M45 Renee Booij TF.Q W10 Pam Cox TF.Q W65 Russell Creed TF.Q M55 Donnita Dougall TF.Q W45 James Dougall TF.Q M21 Jim Dougall TF.Q M50 Kelsey Dougall TF.Q M18 Tara Dougall TF.Q W21 Gary Flynn TF.Q M17 Rebecca Freese TF.Q W14 Julie Irvine TF.Q W35 Roy Kalecinski TF.Q M55 Julie Leung TF.Q W55 Tom Leung TF.Q M50 Peter May TF.Q M45 Harry Mee TF.Q M14 Simon Mee TF.Q M17 Reid Moran TF.Q M55 Mark Nemeth TF.Q M45 Brooke Pye TF.Q W17 Jenny Pye TF.Q W45 Gayle Quantock-Simson TF.Q W45 Kaitlin Radstaak TF.Q W14 Neil Simson TF.Q M35 Robin Simson TF.Q M70 Scott Simson TF.Q M35 Johanna Tavner-Corner TF.Q W50 Tom Tollbring TF.Q M75 Kelly Bertei TE.S M14 Susi Bertei TE.S W40 Christine Marron TE.S W35 Jon Potter TE.S M60 Peter Slade TE.S M60 Liz Bourne BB.Q W50 Grace Burrill BB.Q W20 Lilian Burrill BB.Q W16 Marion Burrill BB.Q W45 Ruth Burrill BB.Q W20 Simeon Burrill BB.Q M10

Bronze Bronze Gold Bronze Gold Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Silver Gold Bronze Gold Gold Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Gold Silver Gold Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Bronze Silver Silver Gold Gold Silver Gold Silver Silver Gold Silver Silver Silver Bronze Bronze Gold Gold Silver Bronze Silver Silver Silver Gold Gold Gold Bronze Bronze Bronze Silver Silver Gold Silver Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Gold Gold Gold Bronze Gold Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Gold Gold Gold Bronze Silver Bronze

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