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

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Sun 12 May 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Rawlings Park plus LTO training session.
Wagga Wagga.

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Mon 13 May 7:30 pm
Orienteering NSW May General Meeting
Zoom.

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Sat 18 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Collaroy
22 Homestead Ave, Collaroy NSW

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Sat 18 May 9:30 am
SOS Hawkesbury - North Richmond
Colo High School, 218 Bells Line of Rd, North Richmond NSW

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Sat 18 May 7:30 pm
NOL Presentation Dinner
Ainslie Football Club, ACT.

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Sun 19 May 10:00 am
Kooringle
Armidale.

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Sun 19 May 11:00 am
Crestwood Orienteering
Port Macquarie.

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Wed 22 May 5:30 pm
Moonlight Madness #2 Kirribilli (World Orienteering Week)
Milson Park, McDougall Street, Kirribilli

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Sat 25 May 9:30 am
SOS Northside - Pymble
Robert Pymble Park, Park Crescent, Pymble

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.


Active Kids vouchers $50 now

A reminder that the Service NSW program Active Kids is continuing but vouchers for 2nd half of 2023 are $50. 

Orienteering NSW remains a provider for the NSW Active Kids program. 

Redeem for Saturday Orienteering Series, Local events or NSW State League.

Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ASAP to redeem and the child needs to be a member of a club and Orienteering NSW - FREE or $5 (10 to 20 year olds).

See link for more information here

 

Garingal Ultrasprint

Ultrasprint orienteering returned to Beauchamp Park in Sydney last Sunday, 16th July 2023 

Ultrasprint is a short, sharp, furious & loads of fun. Participants have a two-and-a-half-hour window to complete 3 courses each approximately 1km. While the format sounds simple enough complexity lies in the fact that there were more than 60 controls in an area. There is a further twist that there is a maze with 3 controls per maze per course. No control descriptions, the position of the control on the ground is shown by a pink dot in the control circle on the map. Mispunch means a 30 second penalty.

Results are here in Eventor / Thanks to course setters and Garingal.

 

2023 Sports Foyer NSW Community Sports Award for Distinguished Long Service

Terry Bluett to Be Presented with the 2023 Sports Foyer NSW Community Sports Award for Distinguished Long Service

Terry Bluett (Bennelong Northside) will be presented with the 2023 Sports Foyer NSW Community Sports Award for Distinguished Long Service for orienteering at a ceremony on June 29. ONSW congratulates Terry on this public recognition. See link for more info: News - Sport NSW

Over 37+ years of orienteering Terry Bluett has actively supported both newcomers and experienced orienteers in their enjoyment, athletic success, and connection to the orienteering community at club level and beyond.

Terry was key to Bennelong Northside Orienteers growing from the tiny club he and his young family joined when they started orienteering in 1986 to the thriving club it is today.

Terry strives to ensure orienteering competition runs smoothly at every level where he contributes. He has twice been recognised at NSW level as Course Setter of the Year. It is his behind-the-scenes work, however, which is his most substantial contribution in this area.  Since 1986, Terry has made over fifty of the maps orienteers run on in Sydney or NSW - from school maps to technical championship maps used at Australian 3-day competitions (in 1996 and 2021). He has taught other championship mappers the skills of computer-based mapping.

Despite being a competitive orienteer, Terry usually sacrifices the opportunity to race at events run by his club, to instead run the computer result system.

 

Kings Birthday 3-Days

Join us for the Inaugural “Kings Birthday 3-Days” to be contested in the Central Coast and Newcastle areas on the June long weekend.

Sat 10 June - Middle - Dooralong 
Sun 11 June - Long - Richmond Vale 
Mon 12 June - Sprint - Newcastle Uni (Callaghan)   

Overall results will be based on all three events but you can enter individual days.

Full Results are online in Eventor - “Results”.

 

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