These roles are of huge strategic importance to orienteering as they will not only be responsible for the oversight and running of our High Performance Programme, but also will be instrumental in the creation of a new HP plan. This plan will be produced in September and will have direct impact on everything from athlete […]

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The World Orienteering Championships 2024 are scheduled to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland from 12-16 July 2024. WOC will consist of an individual sprint, a knock-out sprint, and a sprint relay. Selection CriteriaAs per the Orienteering NZ G1 Selection Policy the 2024 WOC team will be selected on the basis of For New Zealand based […]

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Although, domestically, the re-scheduled ONZ Championships in Hawke’s Bay has taken centre stage, and is reported on, there is interesting results, and news, out of Europe. Prime among this is the identification of actual areas for WOC2024 in Edinburgh. Preparations for both the Oceania Sprint Champs and the Under 23 Camp are also underway.                                                                                                                                                Malcolm […]

The World University Orienteering Championships (WUOC) 2024 will be held in Bankso, Bulgaria from 1-5 August 2024. WUOC will consist of individual sprint, middle, and long distance races, a sprint relay and a forest relay. Competitors must satisfy the following conditions: • Athletes must be at least 18 and less than 25 years of age […]

The European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) 2024 will be held in Szcsecin, Poland from 21-24 June 2024. EYOC will consist of individual sprint and long distance races, and a forest relay. Classes are M-18, W-18, M-16 and W-16. New Zealand is allowed up to 4 athletes in each class. Selection Criteria As per the Orienteering […]

The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) 2024 will be held in Pilsen, Czechia from 30 June – 7 July 2024. JWOC will consist of individual sprint, middle, and long distance races, a sprint relay and a forest relay. Selection Criteria As per the Orienteering NZ G1 Selection Policy the 2024 JWOC team will be selected […]

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Toby Scott has finished 75th out of a field of near 130 in the first race of the 2023 IOF World Cup – a long distance held in Ostfold, Norway. The men’s course of 15 k with 660 m of climb featured a classic mix of leg length in rolling forest. Toby had a relatively […]

The first round of the 2023 IOF World Cup starts on Thursday night NZ time in Norway with a long distance race. The races are based around Ostfold where WOC 2019 was held. With Tim Robertson out through injury, Toby Scott will be the sole Kiwi in both the long and middle distance (Saturday). First […]

The first round of the 2023 IOF World Cup will be held in Ostfold, Norway from 26-30 April 2023, and will consist of an middle distance, long distance and relay. New Zealand is entitled to enter up to 4 men and 4 women. Selection will be based on known form . All athletes interested in selection for […]

The intricate tin mining terrain at Hunt Tin Mine presented a very different challenge for today’s Oceania Middle Distance, but yielded the best results of the week for the small NZL contingent. Lizzie Ingham again led the way with a 2 minute win in W21E to gain a personal place in the WOC middle distance […]

NZL had mixed results in the Oceania Long Distance held on Bells Marsh, St Helens – a mixture of steep rock strewn slopes interspersed with very green gullies. Lizzie Ingham again led the way with an impressive 13 minute winning margin in W21E in a time of 84:35 for just over 9k. As Oceania Champion […]

The Oceania Sprint Champs for 2023 was held today at University of Tasmania, Launceston campus, venue for a World Cup sprint in 2015. Lizzie Ingham took the W21E title in a time of 16:26 with a clear margin of 70 seconds ahead of second placed Caitlin Young. Kaia Joergensen was 4th in W21E another 23 […]

Zefa Fa’avae has produced New Zealand’s best result in a JWOC middle distance for 6 years, finishing 17th in the latest edition, run in Portugal overnight. This was the first time that the JWOC middle distance has been run as a straight final without qualification and Zefa’s time of 26:38 was just over 2 and […]

Although October has been relatively quiet on the competitive front, at least between the final round of the World Cup at the beginning of the month and Labour Weekend, it has seen quite a bit of behind-the-scenes activity. There was a long HP Zoom meeting involving 30-40 people at which Florian Schneider talked through his […]

Selection Announcement – Availability ANZ Challenge (Oceania Championships) Tasmania, 6 – 12 January 2023 Saturday 7 January Oceania Sprint Championships Monday 9 January Oceania Long Championships Wednesday 11 January Oceania Middle Championships Thursday 12 January Oceania Relay Championships Australia New Zealand Challenge. For 2023, New Zealand will challenge Australia in the 4 Oceania Championships races, in […]

Tim Robertson has finished in an excellent 10th place overall after the final round of the 2022 IOF World Cup in Switzerland. With finishes of 36th in the middle distance and 45th in the long, Tim added another 5 points to the 160 he gained from his sprint performances in Round 1. Overall winner was […]

The final round of the IOF World Cup takes place at Davos Klosters in Switzerland this weekend. NZL will be represented by Tim Robertson and Toby Scott. Although they may manage to co-opt a third runner for Saturday’s relay, as an unofficial team, their real focus will be on the Middle distance on Sunday and […]

The Under 23 HP Camp is aimed at athletes in the 17-23 age range who have serious ambition to represent New Zealand on the international stage (e.g. JWOC, WUOC, WOC) over the next few years. It is designed to help prepare athletes physically, technically and psychologically and involves both physical and technical training as well […]

Tim Robertson has taken the biggest title yet of his career with a 9 second victory in the World Games sprint, held overnight in Birmingham, Alabama. Following from two JWOC gold medals, a World Universities title, and silver and bronze in the WOC sprint, Tim finally nailed a really big one with a narrow win […]

The WOC sprint held in Vejle really was a series of highs and lows for NZL. The morning qualification saw Tim in his, now, usual place up near the top of his qualifying group. Joseph continues what has been a really good first WOC by comfortable qualifying despite a few minor errors. Sadly, Gene made […]

A long day with many ups and downs ended with Tim, having led for much of the race, taking 4th place in the Men’s KO Final as Matthias Kyburz became the first ever World KO Sprint Champion. In a final which, like both the quarter-finals and semi-finals, had no forking, Tim had the courage to […]

After what for most has been a rest day we are now primed and ready for Tuesday’s first ever WOC Knock-out Sprint in Fredericia. No news yet on Laura, but Lizzie was the only one to do some gentle sprint training today as she travelled in pouring rain to Haderslev to do her first post-Covid […]

After all the preparation Team NZL suffered more bad luck in Sunday’s WOC sprint relay being disqualified for a mis-punch on the first leg. Amid the disappointment it is worth noting that the without this the team would have placed 12th, equaling the previous best performance at a WOC sprint relay. Add in the absence […]

Despite the slight distraction of the first WOC race this evening in Denmark, here are the final leading positions in the NOL following Sunday’s middle distance at Matariki-O. The relatively small field, given the absence of many of the top athletes at WOC, and some having departed, or being in the throes of departure for […]

With the late night Thursday arrival of Tim, Anna and John at their accommodation some 10 minutes drive from Norup, the New Zealand team for WOC is now fully assembled. Even with the absence of Laura, still stranded in the UK still waiting for her residency to come through, without which she cannot leave the […]

After what has thus far been a long but promising build-up to the first ever sprint-only WOC, with less than a week to go Covid has reared its ugly head. After running at Jukola in Finland at the weekend, and feeling a ticklish throat on Monday, Lizzie tested positive on Tuesday morning. While her symptoms […]