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Change of heart revitalises top orienteer (Newsroom)
Change of heart revitalises top orienteer (Newsroom)
By Joolz Moore (ONZ Editor) - 20 May 2022 - Blog Post

Cardiac arrest and open heart surgery haven’t slowed down top Kiwi orienteer Lizzie Ingham, who’s on her way to her yet another world championship, Merryn Anderson writes.

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Stuff Article – Faavae leads Nelson Orienteering Clubs winning run at nationals
Stuff Article – Faavae leads Nelson Orienteering Clubs winning run at nationals
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 16 Apr 2021 - Blog Post

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/124797543/faavae-leads-nelson-orienteering-clubs-winning-run-at-nationals

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IOF interview with Tim Robertson – the first Kiwi to win a medal at WOC
By Christo Peters - 3 Mar 2021 - News Item

IOF World Cup Event Director Per Forsberg interviews Tim Robertson on all things orienteering and the influence of Covid. To hear the interview click here

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ONZ Compass Point – May 2019
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 27 May 2019 - News Item

May Update e-Newsletter from ONZ including: Have Your Say – Major Events; Vacancies; View from the Chairs; 2019 AGM & Club Forum; New Council Members; New Life Members; Event Liaison Update; High Performance Update; and other news…

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District Hosts Orienteers Big Event (Otago District Times)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 20 Apr 2019 - Blog Post

New Zealand’s top orienteering event comes to North Otago for the first time over Easter, bringing with it more than 500 competitors.

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Orienteers Converging (Ōamaru Mail) – NZOC2019
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 19 Apr 2019 - News Item

Ōamaru Mail press article on NZ Orienteering Championships 2019 being held in the area.

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Local Focus: Kids loving cunning running (Video – NZ Herald)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 31 Mar 2019 - Blog Post

Video – Orienteering engages youths’ minds and bodies. Made with funding from NZ On Air. At this week’s Hawke’s Bay Schools Sprint Championship there were 267 entries.

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Orienteering Event to Raise Funds for Geraldine High School (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 28 Mar 2019 - Blog Post

Students from Geraldine High School are set to participate in the Geraldine Rogaine Autumn Muster.An event which will see people plotting a route during a race throughout a South Canterbury town will help raise funds for its high school.The Geraldine High School’s PTA has organised another Rogaine Autumn Muster which will take place this Sunday.

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The Australian Orienteer Magazine - September 2018
The Australian Orienteer – September 2018
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 23 Oct 2018 - Blog Post

The Australian Orienteer Magazine – September 2018 issue is published online.

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Clued-up kids get orienteering course back on track (Stuff Marlborough-Express)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 8 Aug 2018 - Blog Post

Tattered markers on an orienteering course have received a much needed makeover thanks to  a team of clued-up kids. Year 6 students at Grovetown School near Blenheim have given a new lease of life to the orienteering course at Mistletoe Bay Eco Village in the Marlborough Sounds.

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Tim Robertson won silver in the World Orienteering Championship sprint in Latvia (NZ Herald)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 6 Aug 2018 - Blog Post

Kiwi orienteering star Tim Robertson claimed New Zealand’s first ever medal at a World Orienteering Championships on Sunday in Latvia. In a historic performance in which the 22-year-old led at every split time, Robertson was ahead by 0.7 seconds at the final pre-warning before being edged out of the gold medal by Switzerland’s Daniel Hubmann by a slim 1.1 seconds to take silver.

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Insight: Sport is a volunteer’s game (Hawkes Bay Today)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 25 Jun 2018 - Blog Post

A Hawke’s Bay Orienteering club member, Amron has been drawing and constructing maps voluntarily for the past 10 years and for him, volunteers were essential for sport in the region.

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Waiuku College leading the way in orienteering (Stuff – Franklin County News)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 22 Jun 2018 - Blog Post

Three year 9 girls are turing heads in the orienteering world, after they came away from the North Island Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships with an award.

Despite limited orienteering experience, Waiuku College’s Millie Thompson, Charlize Aicken and Beanie Rattrie came away with the small school section from the event, where the three girls’ aggregate score topped the leaderboard for the category.

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Kurtis contributes to Kiwi’s win (The Post)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 12 Jun 2018 - Blog Post

On Queen’s Birthday weekend, 2 to 4 June, as the rain hammered much of the North Island and many of us crawled a little deeper under the duvet, Kurtis was traipsing through mud and bush in the depths of West Auckland, as he continued challenging his body in the sport of orienteering.

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Source: Stuff
Cambridge’s multisport athlete Sam Bain thrives on adventure racing (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 25 May 2018 - Blog Post

Adventure racer Sam Bain continues to learn how to push the barriers in his life and play.

The Year 9 Cambridge High School student completed the gruelling Hillary Challenge at Tongariro National Park as a part of an eight-member school team in May.

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Orienteering: Bay siblings more than ready for worlds (NZ Herald – Hawke’s Bay Today)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 18 May 2018 - Blog Post

If Will Tidswell’s dedication is an indicator it’s no surprise he will become the youngest Kiwi to compete at the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Hungary in July.

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Challenge puts the ‘fun’ in fundraising (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 2 May 2018 - Blog Post

Nelson Central School’s orienteering fundraiser is back. Designed for all ages and abilities, the Central Challenge is a unique fundraiser involving teamwork, exercise and cunning, but above all it’s about fun.
Event organiser Janja Heathfield was excited to see it run again for its second year.

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Orienteering Students to Defend North Island Champs Titles (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 23 Apr 2018 - Blog Post

Stuff Article – Pukekohe Intermediate School’s best orienteering students are off to the North Island Secondary School Orienteering Championships in Levin this week.
The 26 students will be defending their 2017 titles for best overall boys and best over all school.
Their success was recently honoured with the Junior Team of the Year prize at the Counties Manukau Sport Franklin Junior Sports Awards and Volunteer Recognition Ceremony.

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Credit - Otago Daily Times PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON
Think fast, move fast (Otago Daily Times)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 20 Apr 2018 - Blog Post

Moving fast and finding your way around an unfamiliar area are two very different skills. But they are pair that go together well for Tom Spencer and Alistair Richardson.
The Dunedin duo will be among the top contenders at this weekend’s South Island orienteering championships, to be held in the Dunedin Botanic Garden and on Signal Hill.
More than 200 people from around New Zealand and Australia are expected at the event, with one competitor coming from as far away as Israel.

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Hundreds of people evacuated from Woodhill Forest after illegal poachers spotted (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 17 Apr 2018 - Blog Post

Hundreds of people were forced to leave a large Auckland forest after illegal poachers fired gunshots.
The incident has sparked a warning from local iwi for poachers to stay away from Woodhill Forest in north-west of Auckland.
Woodhill forest – which was popular for mountain biking, tree climbing, horse riding and paintball – was evacuated when gunshots were heard during Easter weekend.

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Callum Farmer earns U16 Sportsman of the Year prize at junior sports awards
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 17 Apr 2018 - Blog Post

Navigating unknown fields and running distances of up to 12 kilometres has earned a Pukekohe boy an accolade at this year’s Counties Manukau Sport  Franklin Junior Sports Awards and Volunteer Recognition Ceremony. Callum Farmer has been orienteering since he was year 7 and now at year 10, Callum is claiming awards and travelling parts of the world for the sport he loves
He claimed the Pak’n Save Pukekohe U16 Sportsman of the Year at the recent awards, which were held in Pukekohe, and said he was proud of his achievement. 

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Big chunk of competitors in orienteering event schoolkids (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 26 Mar 2018 - Blog Post

Stuff newspaper article: Schoolchildren were well-represented at a Geraldine orienteering event at the weekend, with one third of the 357 competitors aged 11 to 18.
Event controller Mike Harding said his hope for the Geraldine Rogaine Autumn Muster, held near Woodbury on Sunday, was to get young people interested in orienteering, so he was pleased with the turnout.
“Quite a few families too,” he said.

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Orienteering event to send students up the wall (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 23 Mar 2018 - Blog Post

An event which will see people mapping out a route during a race around Geraldine will help raise money for a refurbishment of the Geraldine High School gymnasium.
The school’s PTA has organised the Geraldine Rogaine Autumn Muster (Gram) this Sunday, and proceeds from the event will go towards a climbing wall for the gym.

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Wellington College’s Joseph Lynch navigates his way to victory (Stuff)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 15 Aug 2017 - Blog Post

Wellington College student Joseph Lynch has navigated his way to victory. The 17-year-old won both the senior boys’ sprint and long titles at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships in Masterton last month.

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Taranaki rogaine competition attracts more than 700 high school students (Stuff – Taranaki Daily News)
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 17 Mar 2017 - Blog Post

Not all of the competitors at the rogaine champs were there to win some just wanted to make friends.

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