And a warm welcome to Oceania Orienteering Championships 2025, hosted in Aoteoroa New Zealand by Orienteering Wellington and the orienteering clubs of the lower North Island. Oceania 2025 is supported and sanctioned by both Orienteering New Zealand and the International Orienteering Federation.
Oceania 2025 is over! It’s perhaps a little sad to return to reality, but it was awesome to see you all having a great time in the forest and we hope you made some good orienteering memories while you were here.
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Thanks to our incredible landowners, sponsors and friends, your support makes this all possible.
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Lost property
We’ve accumulated some lost property from the events and while we’ve identified some owners, the following items are still unclaimed. The list includes towels, clothing, shoes, compasses, control description holders, glasses, gaiters and more.
If you recognise any of those, please drop us a line and let us know, thanks!
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Elite maps
If you’re curious to see what the Oceania 2025 elite courses were like (or if you ran them and want a digital copy for analysis purposes) you can now download the maps.
We’d like to thank Russell Higham from Red Kiwi Orienteers for mapping, tweaking, updating, laying out and managing the printing of a huge quantity of maps and variations. You made this happen with such consummate skill and attention to detail that it’s easy to overlook just how technically difficult and time consuming it was. Thanks so much!
Download the maps as PDF files, note that the Relay maps are just one forking out of many.
And please remember that possession of a map implies neither right of access to the area nor the right to reproduce the map.—
Relay results
Another sunny day today, with the arena providing some much-appreciated shade. The relay courses definitely tested the competitors, with more complex dune terrain and a few controls tucked in areas with lower visibility.
The races were tense but all classes had clear winners. NZ again took the majority of ANZ Challenge class wins and the Brown Memorial Trophy. Australia had a great run across the older age categories though, winning M45, M50, M65, W60, W65, and W70.
Find out how everyone got on. Note that these are the complete results, so they include all teams including teams with international competitors not eligible for Oceania awards.
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Provisional long results
After yesterday’s heat, the change to rain today felt almost pleasant when running, although maybe not so much in the arena. Thanks for putting up with it and sticking around for prize-giving!
Knottingly offered steeper, softer terrain with a fair bit of fallen timber to hop over, but at least it was largely free of blackberry! The tiring, physical courses and subtle contour detail made for challenging races, and planner Yvette Baker set long legs such that it was almost impossible to make use of the forestry track network for a burst of speed.
Lizzie and Zefa continued to dominate the forest today with first places in W21E and M21E. Kaia Jorgensen started a little slow but picked up speed, gradually eroding Lizzie’s lead but not quite able to catch up. She ended up in second by about a minute and a half, and Renee Beveridge was third by roughly the same time. In M21E, Matt Ogden led the first half of the race but was overtaken by Zefa Fa’avae in the second half, ending up second by 90 seconds. Joseph Lynch was under a minute behind that in third.
In the individual ANZ Challenge, the Kiwis made the most of their home turf advantage, winning 49-17 and taking home the Challenge Cup. The fate of the Brown Memorial Trophy will be decided at the Parewanui relay tomorrow. Where Lizzie is most definitely out of contention, as she’s the planner!
Find out how everyone got on. Note that these are the complete results, so they include all competitors including international competitors who are not eligible for Oceania awards.
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Middle results
It was so hot in the forest at Koitiata that quite a few people took the sensible decision to walk their courses. Not in the elite classes though, where our competitors turned in exciting performances regardless. The arena gave a great view of finishers coming in threading their way through a maze of bracken and patches of blackberry, and then a final dash down the chute.
Sprint winner Joseph Lynch and Zefa Fa’avae battled it out for the top spot in M21E, with Zefa coming in just 3 seconds ahead, and South Australia’s Leith Soden in 3rd.
In W21E the order at the top was exactly the same as the sprint, but the times were much closer. Lizzie Ingham kept the top spot with a scant 4 second margin over Hanne Hilo, PAPO’s Kaia Jorgensen was less than a minute behind the top two.
Find out how everyone got on. Note that these are the complete results, so they include all competitors including international competitors who are not eligible for Oceania awards.
Official results for yesterday’s sprint are also available now, as above these are complete results.
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