Orienteering Queensland
Welcome to the new Orienteering Queensland website.
Orienteering is a great family sport, catering for young children right through to grandparents, for the super fast and not so fast, for the competitive and not so competitive.
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As predicted the hilly, forested stage 5 saw many people lose major time. Rachel Effeney lost the leaders yellow jersey and the leading 4 men, including 2nd placed Oscar McNulty (WA) plummeted down the order.
In a drama packed last stage Rachel started 8 seconds in arrears of Angela Simpson (NZ). In this last stage the 2 leaders started together but did two initial loops in different orders before coming together with the same controls to the finish. When Rachel punched at the final control and Angela wasn't in view the commentator declared her the victor. Afterwards it was found that Angela had missed the first control and another leading contender, Greta Knudsen had unfortunately taken a men’s course map, resulting in a DNF for both. Lizzie Ingham, the fastest on stage 6, took 2nd place overall.
An outstanding result for Rachel against quality opposition. She won the first 4 stages and then was 6th and 2nd today. Runner-up Lizzie Ingham was 11th in the sprint at WOC 2011. Angela Simpson was 6th in the World Universities sprint in 2010; again 6th in sprint at Jwoc 2011 and won STD last year. Rachel qualified for the final and was 35th in her WOC debut in the sprint last year.
The Cyclones Summer Series has now been completed - check out the results! Congratulations to everyone who competed. The Cyclones are now looking forward to the start of the 'bush' season and the first national league event in Ballarat, Victoria on March 10/11.
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There are a whole series of questions that parents often wonder about the suitability of orienteering for kids. In this article The Gray family, regular Orienteers, were interviewed by "The Sunday Mail". Here are their answers to some of the most common questions. Read more ........
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A merry contingent traveled down to the Newcastle area for five days of competitive but social orienteering between Xmas and New Years. One of the more fun aspects of the Xmas carnival is competitors can enter any of an A (elite) to E (short) class providing an opportunity for older, younger, male and female orienteers to run on the same courses. Also as a refreshing change, formats are varied. This year included a Mass-start on Day 4 and Head to Head racing in a loop style course on Day 5. Read more ........
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