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’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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Fantastic action in the broiling sun at Massey today, thanks to everyone who took part or supported those who did! Official results are still being finalised, but the provisional results are available now on Winsplits, with analysis on Livelox. There’s also a great write-up from Jenni Adams on the Orienteering NZ site.
All Oceania events use the SportIdent AIR+ contactless punching system. With this, your SPORTident ActiveCard (SIAC) records a punch when you bring it within about 50cm of the control station rather than having to “dib” it in the hole on top. We thought you might like to know that our sponsor Trailblaze are launching their …
We know you’ve been waiting eagerly to find out your start times – the good news is that start lists are available now. You can find more general information about the start lists on their page. We’d also like to remind you that there have been a few updates to Bulletin 2, so make sure …
Ratapihipihi’s farmland was the setting for Orienteering Taranaki’s warm-up long distance today. With longer courses and steeper terrain, it’s interesting to see that the competition for first place in the elite classes was still pretty close. In M21E, Felix Hunt took the win, not quite a minute ahead of David Stocks. Ryan Stocks was third, …
Orienteering Taranaki held the warm-up middle distance at TOPEC in New Plymouth today in glorious sunshine. Congratulations to Hanne Hilo who won W21E with a convincing 3 minute lead over Zara Stewart, and Felix Hunt who took first place in M21E with a similar lead over Sam Woolford, followed by David Stocks. 3rd place in …