Junior success in Bulgaria – By Karen Blatchford

“What a pleasure it is firstly to have the opportunity to act as [Australian Team] Manager and accompany the JWOC team to Bulgaria and secondly to report to the Orienteering community about our enjoyable and successful time together.”

“All training was done together, [New Zealand] and Australia athletes meeting together each evening and training together each day and even spending our rest days together …. until competition week …. then we became friendly opponents.”

Read the full article from “The Australian Orienteer” magazine online now:  AustralianOrienteerMag-Dec2014-JWOC and Ultra-Long items (PDF 1MB)

Wildfire Sports Australian Ultra-Long 2014 – By Geoff Lawford

“This year the Ultra-Long field – in a race for a major $2500 prize of a return trip to Europe (plus race entry) – was boosted by some of New Zealand’s best talent – Lizzie Ingham (13th WOC Sprint 2014, 20th WOC Middle 2014) and Nick Hann (5th JWOC Middle 2014, 22nd JWOC Long 2014, 21st JWOC Sprint 2014) – both in top form from successful campaigns in Europe. Nick, in particular, seemed to have his eye firmly fixed on the main prize, having travelled across the Tasman for the sole purpose of racing.”

Read the full article from “The Australian Orienteer” magazine online now:  AustralianOrienteerMag-Dec2014-JWOC and Ultra-Long items (PDF 1MB) 

Thanks to “The Australian Orienteer” magazine for providing these article extracts. Subscriptions details for “The Australian Orienteer” magazine published 4 times a year are on the Australian Orienteering website: The Australian Orienteer