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ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED 🐰 Work off your chocol

ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED 🐰 Work off your chocolate consumption this Easter with an explore in some amazing terrain. You can now enter the Easter 4 Days up until this Sunday 26 March. This is also doubling as the Pokapū Central Champs. 🐇

Entries here: https://entries.wellingtonorienteering.org.nz/
Event information: https://www.oevents.nz/easter23/

#Easter #EasterEvents #familyevent #getoutside #orienteering #orienteeringNZ #mapsport #wellington #Redkiwi #upperhutt #pokapū #PokapūChamps

NTH ISLAND SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHAMPS | Looking for

NTH ISLAND SECONDARY SCHOOLS CHAMPS | Looking forward to:
🏃🏃‍♀️ A variety of events in three days: sprint, classic and relay fun
🧭 An explore, and a journey to flex the map skills
⚡ The finale is the electric relay with participants cheering everyone into the finish

Friday 21 April | Sprint event at Whanganui High School - start times from 1pm
Saturday 22 April | Classic event at the Knottingly map within Santoft Forest near Bulls
Sunday 23 April | Relay event at Westerlee Farm near Bulls

Get your entry in before midnight Friday 14th April.
More information:
https://www.orienteering.org.nz/schools/north-island-secondary-school-champs/

#schoolsport #mapsport #bulls #santoft #whanganuiHigh #sprintorienteering #orienteering #orienteeringNZ #lovesport #teamspirit #schoolorienteering #schoolfun
#sportNZ

The European Youth Championships will be held in V

The European Youth Championships will be held in Velingrad, Bulgaria from 22-25 June 2023. Competitions consist of a sprint, a single forest race and a relay and competition classes are M18, W18, M16 and W16. NZL is able to enter up to 4 athletes in each class. EYOC is 2 weeks before JWOC in neighbouring Romania, and may provide suitable training opportunities for those members of the JWOC team in the appropriate age categories.

Team numbers for EYOC have to be submitted by 1 April.

More info:
https://www.orienteering.org.nz/news/european-youth-championships-expressions-of-interest/

#EYOC2023 #jwoc2023 #orienteeringNZ

CANTERBURY JWOC TRIAL ENTRIES DUE | Entries are c

CANTERBURY JWOC TRIAL ENTRIES DUE | Entries are closing this Friday 10 March for the first set of trials for JWOC 2023 Romania. The trials will be held in Canterbury 18th/19th March 2023. So get your entry in quick as PAPO are preparing start lists this weekend. Enter here on this link:
https://entero.co.nz/evento.php?eventName=jwocwe-2023

You are eligible for the JWOC trials if you replied to the selectors by January this year to confirm you are trialling for 2023 JWOC, all the triallists have been emailed entry details and due dates.

Additionally, the following 3 events at Easter are to be used as replacement selection races to those that were planned to be held at the now-postponed National Champs. These races apply to both WOC and JWOC:
Friday 7 April: Sprint Race at Palmerston North Boys High School and Queen Elizabeth College.
Saturday 8 April: Multiday Distance Race at Watchtower, Waiterere.
Monday 10 April: Shorter Multi-day Distance Race at Whirokino

Due to the moderate to high climb advised for the forest races in Romania, selectors will be placing more emphasis on the Canterbury JWOC trial forest races, than the Easter forest races. The 2 Sprint races are expected to be assessed equally.

#selectionnotice #selection #Trials #JWOC2023 #JWOCtrials

EASTER ENTRIES NOW OPEN! 🌲 Age grades only for

EASTER ENTRIES NOW OPEN! 🌲 Age grades only for 20E & 21E, the rest are standard white to red grades to keep the event simple but fun. The three forest events are multi-distance, with the Watchtower forest being the slower to move in, so maybe longer times, and Hydrabad maybe a longer event and the final event being the shortest so people can have a good run but also have plenty of time to travel home. We're looking forward to seeing you here!
These events are collaborative, thanks to: Red Kiwis, OHV, and Orienteering Wellington.
Entry link:
https://entries.wellingtonorienteering.org.nz/enter/742b472e-8fa7-455e-89f1-fb9e0ad99416

#easterorienteering #easterO #orienteeringNZ

Following Cyclone Gabrielle, ONZ and Hawkes Bay Or

Following Cyclone Gabrielle, ONZ and Hawkes Bay Orienteering Club have been in contact to look at the impact of this on club members and the coming Nationals. Thankfully we can confirm that club members are OK, although dealing with the effects of the flooding will be the focus for many in the coming weeks. Amazingly, despite the challenges of this past week, the club remains committed to hosting Nationals. But due to damage to infrastructure, accommodation, and uncertainty around access to maps it will not be possible to undertake this at Easter, so the decision has been made to postpone the Nationals to Labour weekend. PAPO have agreed to move the Canterbury Champs from Labour weekend which was the main conflicting event on our event calendar.

Entries are currently closed for the Nationals, and those who had already entered will have their entries transferred to labour weekend, or be refunded. Please refrain from contacting Hawkes Bay OC about any arrangements or entries just at this stage whilst they are still dealing with some of the flooding implications. More will be communicated in due course, so stay tuned for when entries open again and the club is in a position to share more.

To fill the gap left over Easter there will be a multi-day event run in the Manawatū. Details on this are being worked through with clubs in the region around the final format and we expect to be in a position to share more information within the next 7 days.

On behalf of the ONZ Council and staff, I would like to acknowledge the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on Hawkes Bay and other regions, and hope those of you impacted can get back on your feet quickly. Many thanks to everyone who is part of this tremendous effort to reshape our major event calendar, and at short notice. We have such great people across the orienteering community, and it is fantastic to see this level of collaboration, support, and commitment on display.

Peter Swanson, Chairperson, Orienteering NZ

#cyclonegabrielle #hawkesbay #orienteeringNZ

DEFYING THE ODDS | Lizzie, has been smashing the

DEFYING THE ODDS | Lizzie, has been smashing the Oceania Champs in Tasmania and also topping the podium at the local Waitangi weekend races in Christchurch. Lizzie's placing in the next World Orienteering Champs (WOC) is absolutely well won.
Like many New Zealand athletes, @lizzie.ingham is constantly balancing her training and work to get to the top. Stuff details Lizzie's hard road from heart failure to return as an elite athlete to compete once again on the world stage.

Read:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/.../how-orienteer-lizzie-ingham...
#stuff #Inspiringathlete #athlete #orienteeringNZ #sportNZ #defyingdeath #podiumfinish #orienteering #IOF #PAPO

LEADERBOARD UPDATE | Following last weekend's act

LEADERBOARD UPDATE | Following last weekend's action at the top of the South, Malcolm has now updated the NOL table.
MEN | With the first 6 races complete, of which 3 will count, Matt has maximum points (300) in the Men. Felix holds a narrow second place ahead of Zefa by 0.6 points, with Tane and Aaron representing the older elites in the next two places. Joseph, having missed both LW and last weekend has two wins but no third counting score.
WOMEN | Lizzie has the maximum at this stage. Eight of the next 9 places are held by juniors with Katherine, Kaia and Anna the next three ahead of Sara, the only other genuine 21, apart from Lizzie, in the top 10.
Attention now on the NSL races this weekend in Christchurch.
Points can be found here:
https://www.orienteering.org.nz/nol-nsl-sportclass.../

#leaderboard #leaderboard #competitiontime

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