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Orienteering NZ - Find Your Adventure
ONZ Compass Point – July 2019
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 31 Jul 2019 - News Item

Latest news including – International Team Travel Policy Consultation; View from the Chair; Event Liaison Update; High Performance Update; Other News; GM Starting New Adventure;

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NZ Crew at Cerkno Cup 2018
Cerkno Cup (Gene Beveridge Blog)
By Gene Beveridge - 31 Aug 2018 - Blog Post

Slovenia delivered on all fronts with some tough orienteering and wonderful settings. 5 races in 5 days, 3 middle distances in some of the world famous karst terrain, 1 long distance in the mountains and a sprint in the small town of Cerkno.

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ONZ
Orienteering NZ Compass Point e-Newsletter – December 2016
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 22 Dec 2016 - News Item

View from the Chair; ONZ Vacancies & Council Vacancy – Applications Open; World Masters Games – Marshals Needed;
WANTED: Current or past NZ Defence Force personnel; NZ School Championship Grades for 2017; SuperSeries 2017

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ONZ
Orienteering NZ Compass Point e-Newsletter – November 2016
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 6 Dec 2016 - News Item

View from the Chair; ONZ Appointments & Vacancies – NEW!; Orienteering Australia Scholarship; IOF Commission Vacancies
Tom Reynolds appointed to IOF Medical Commission; High Performance Update & Squads; PAPO Year 5-8 Camp Invitation Reminder; World Masters Games;

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Australia Orienteering Championships 2016
Notice to all NZ orienteers going to Australian Carnival this September 2016
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 1 Sep 2016 - News Item

Details for NZ participants entered in the Australian Relay Champs 2016. Jean Cory-Wright is the relay coordinator for all NZ entries. Please contact her with your email address.

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ONZ
ONZ Orienteering NZ Compass Point e-Newsletter – May 2016
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 2 Jun 2016 - News Item

View from the Chair; Welcome to Tommy Hayes; Controller’s Clinic – Dunedin; ONZ Vacancies & Appointments; Travel Update – NZ Secondary Schools Team to Australia; Update from the Mapping Committee; World Orienteering Day 2016; 2017 World Masters Games & Oceania Updates; Calling Orienteering Volunteers;

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ONZ
Orienteering NZ Policy Review Feedback Invited – G6 International Team Funding
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 26 May 2016 - News Item

In light of the discussion around the policy on International Team Funding at the AGM, the ONZ Council invites feedback on the revised policy. Feedback closes Sunday 11 June 2016.

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SOW2016
Tane Cambridge Blog: An Epic Southern Orienteering Week
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 18 May 2016 - Blog Post

Tane Cambridge has posted a recap about the Southern Orienteering Week 2016 on his personal website blog.

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Lizzie
Athlete Development Interviews: Lizzie, Tim and Matt
By Nick Smith - 23 Jun 2015 - Blog Post

Some of our top athletes, Lizzie Ingham, Tim Robertson and Matt Ogden are asked a few questions about how they have progressed from starting out at orienteering to competing on the world stage.

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Orienteering NZ Compass Point e-Newsletter – May 2015
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 21 May 2015 - News Item

The May edition of the Orienteering NZ e-newsletter Compass Point. Queen’s Birthday Weekend is almost here and looks full of promise. The event has a Pinestars v Bushrangers Senior and Under 23 Test event as well as hosting the trials for the NZ Secondary Schools Teams to compete in the Southern Cross Challenge in Ballarat in late September.

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High Performance News #4 – April 2015
By Malcolm Ingham - 1 May 2015 - News Item

As always April has been a busy month for orienteering. Starting with the Nationals, which now seem ages away, we have also had both the North and South Island Secondary School Champs and, finally, over Anzac Weekend, the Otago Champs. Short reports on all of these are included below. The first and last have also […]

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JWOC 2015 Blog Post 1 – Tim Robertson
By JWOC-2015 - 29 Apr 2015 - Blog Post

Photo Credit:  Foto: Carsten Nøhr Nielsen / Frame The Action After returning home from a four month trip to Europe last year with no plans of what I wanted to do this year, (let alone my future!) I knew I had some serious planning to do. I didn’t want to jump straight into university like […]

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Terrain running
Matt Ogden Blog: CroSlo Utlandsläger
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 23 Mar 2015 - Blog Post

Matt Ogden (NZL) has posted on his personal blog: “It has been a little over a week now since I came back from OK Linné’s annual training camp, which was held in Croatia and Slovenia…”

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Beautiful NZ - (Source: Matt Ogden Blog)
Matt Ogden Blog: Another European Adventure Begins
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 25 Feb 2015 - Blog Post

Matt Ogden (NZL) has blogged ” Another European Adventure Begins” on his personal blog including orienteering, reflections on his past few months in NZ and current travelling.

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Junior Success in Bulgaria
Australian Orienteer Articles – Junior Success in Bulgaria & Wildfire Sports Australian Ultra-Long 2014
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 14 Jan 2015 - News Item

JWOC2014 and Australian Ultra-Long 2014 – Read full articles from the December 2014 issue of “The Australian Orienteer” Magazine.

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Technical Model Event
The Day Before
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 22 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

The teams have arrived, the flags are raised, start lists are up, and you can count the hours until your start. This is the period when nerves start to set in. A morning jwalk around the long model map served well to keep our minds off the competition. The forest floor is very clean for […]

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Rest Day Shenanigans
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 21 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

Sunday was a full rest day here in Borovets for the NZ and Aussie teams, with a rally just down the road to keep the boys occupied for the morning and also keeping us here with the road into the hotel being closed. The girls went for a walk into Borovets town to have a […]

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Middle Distance Control
Orienteering in Greenland
By Anna Robertson - 21 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

Every year in Greenland around the end of June, the Ilulissat Orienteering Club (IOG) holds the Arctic Midnight Orienteering Competition, which comprises a short, middle and ultra long race. I travelled this year via Copenhagen and Kangalussat to this extraordinary destination to see what it was all about – and I wasn’t disappointed. Ilulissat is […]

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JWOC2014Team
Day 1 Middle Distance Training
By Anna Robertson - 15 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

The team arrived in various stages to our accommodation at the Lion Hotel in Borovets: There was an advance party at midday who established base camp and enjoyed checking out the spacious rooms in the quiet, peaceful hotel set in the trees. Some ventured out for a 30 minute run to check the local surroundings, […]

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WOC2014 Relay - Tim
WOC Report #7 – the Relay
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 14 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

Another long, wet day at Campomulo but in the end a guaranteed promotion from Group 3 to Group 2 for the women, who finished 18th, and a 23rd place finish for the men which, as for the women, was an improvement of 3 places on last year in Finland. Once again the courses were  rugged […]

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Ross
WOC Report #6 – the Middle Distance
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 12 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

The Middle Distance at WOC is a bit like the 1500 m at the Olympics – probably considered by men as the blue ribbon event – generally the most technical of the terrains and this year at an altitude of 1500-1700 m in the forest and alpine meadows of Campomulo. What’s more the sun shone […]

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Ross
WOC Report #6 – the Middle Distance
By Catriona McBean - 12 Jul 2014 - News Item

The Middle Distance at WOC is a bit like the 1500 m at the Olympics – probably considered by men as the blue ribbon event – generally the most technical of the terrains and this year at an altitude of 1500-1700 m in the forest and alpine meadows of Campomulo. What’s more the sun shone […]

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Sprint Intervals
Who Let The Dogs Out?
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 10 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

Recently I have been staying in Samokov with Brodie Nankervis, Matt Doyle and Ashley Nankervis. We have a small apartment complete with grandpa slippers and dog-skin carpets (probably from some of the feral dogs on the street). What is great about the place is we have our own kitchen so we can cook our own […]

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à Paris
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 9 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

Alice and I arrived in France looking forward to the European summer, and what did we find? Rain, rain, rain- we seem to have brought the Auckland weather with us! However, we did not let this stop us. While recovering from jet lag after 30 hours of travelling, we have seen so much of the […]

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Snow Kiwi
Italy: A Survival Guide
By ONZ Online Coordinator - Roger Woodroofe - 9 Jul 2014 - Blog Post

After an action packed 32-hour flight with The Shmoose through Singapore and Frankfurt, we went our separate ways at Milan Central Station. He joined up with Becky and Helena for a 2-day giro in Milan, while I hopped on a train to meet up with Host Family Version 1.0 in Trento (the city of the […]

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