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Sat 4 May 9:30 am
SOS Term 2 Season Pass

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Sun 5 May 9:30 am
2024 Metro League #2 - Sydney Park, St Peters
Sydney Park, St Peters.

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Sun 5 May 9:30 am
NOY3 - Missing Link [Elrington)
"Missing Link" 1:7,500 for all courses., Elrington (Missing Link)

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Sun 5 May 10:00 am
Goldseekers Bush Series #3 -Ophir South
Ophir South, North East of Orange.

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Tue 7 May 9:00 am
Riverina Schools Day Individual, Willan's Hill
Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.
Tue 7 May 10:00 am
Riverina Schools Relays, Willan's Hill

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Sat 11 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Killara
Swain Gardens, 77 Stanhope Rd, Killara NSW 2071

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Sat 11 May 9:30 am
SOS Hawkesbury - Richmond
Richmond High School (140 Lennox St, Richmond NSW 2753)
Sat 11 May 11:00 am
Launch - Permanent Course- Randwick Sustainability Hub

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Sat 11 May 2:00 pm
Kirrawee South
Kirrawee Oval on Helena St (Corner Forest Rd), Kirrawee South

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.


Minigaine Madness pulls in the crowds

The Minigaine Madness, a joint event between ONSW (as part of the Summer Series) and NSW Rogaining Association, was a huge success pulling in 130 teams and well over 100 individuals to race in the event at Lindfield this weekend.  Using a combination of Bennelong Northside's Lane Cove map and Big Foot's Blue Gum Creek map, competitors had 3000 points to chase down in three hours.  Gill Fowler and Stephen Ryan were the only team who managed the perfect score, but Glen Horrocks, Mark Schafer, Tim Austin and Richard Green, running as individuals, all gathered in full points.  Perhaps this proves that sometimes two heads are not better than one when it comes to rogaining or maybe the issue was with teams having four tired legs rather than two.  Certainly there were plenty of hills on offer and quite a bit of mud too as the course took full advantage of the extensive bush in the area.

Winning teams in the various categories on offer were:

  • Open - Gill Fowler, Stephen Ryan (also won the Mixed category)
  • Men - Chad Armstrong, Ryan Armstrong
  • Veteran and Super Vets - Neil Hawthorne, James Lithgow, Warwick Selby
  • Family - Barbara and Matthew Hill
  • Women - Lisa Grant, Claire Winnick
  • Novice - Ben Gardem, Dale Jackson
  • Under 23 - Alexander Watt, Tristan White, Samuel Wicks
  • Legends - Bryony Cox, Timothy Cox

Provisional results can be found here