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[Simmo]

Orienteering Australia is hosting the Junior World Orienteering Championships at Dubbo (NSW) from 6th to 13th July. This event will have live internet coverage via the web site
http://www.jwoc2007....ng.asn.au/home/

Australia is hoping to repeat last year's success in Lithuania, where Hanny Allston won the Long Distance JWOC, and was runner-up in the Sprint. She then went on to win the Open Sprint World Orienteering Championships in Denmark, becoming the first Junior, and the first orienteer from outside Europe to win a world championship.

This year, Australia has high hopes of further success, with two South Australian juniors expected to feature in the medals. Vanessa Round and Simon Uppill will be at home in the complex granite terrain around Dubbo, and have been running well in Open class events this season. Both were in selectors' minds for the senior team contesting the Open World Champs in the Ukraine in August, but just missed out. A further bonus for the Australian JWOC team is that they are being coached by Hanny Allston and another former Australian WOC team member Jim Russell.

The live audio coverage of the event will be available on the Results page of the above web site. It will feature expert commentary by Andy Hogg and Jason McRae, together with interviews and progress results from radio controls around the courses. Of particular interest will be the Sprint event held in the grounds of Dubbo Zoo on Sunday 8th July.

[catheoin]

Hey Simmo

Do you know how many countries are coming to the Junior World Orienteering in Dubbo?

Cheers

[Simmo]

I think there are 26 countries and over 200 competitors.Make that 30 nations, as per this table:http://www.jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/pr.../program_clone/

[Simmo]

Check out the Aussie team in their new uniform at http://orienteering.asn.au/home

[Louise]

Some of us ordinary people will be competing in the "grown up" events too. :-)

There's rumours of SNOW...!

[Simmo]

Thanks for reminding me Louise. Yes the NSW, Australian Schools Championships and the Australian Championships for all age classes are being held in Dubbo during the JWOC week. The web site for these events is http://www.westernpl...al.asn.au/home/.

There are a few overseas competitors in the elite classes for the Australian Champs, but I would still expect Julian Dent (NSW) and Dave Shepherd (ACT) to fight out the Men 21E, and Hanny Allston to easily win W21E.

[Simmo]

Here is the link to the live broadcast: http://jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/Result...e_Results_VOTF/

The first race is the Sprint Distance (2.5-3.0kms), which will be held at the Western Plains Zoo tomorrow (Sunday) from 9.30am-12.00 noon EST. Competitors start at one-minute intervals, and the winners will take around 12 minutes. We won't know the winners for sure until a few minutes after the last runner starts, when their first radio time on the course is announced.

The favourites are both from Sweden. Eva Svensson who was 3rd in the Women's Sprint last year, behind a Norwegian and Australia's Hanny Allston (who are both now in the Seniors) should be hard to beat, but another Norwegian, a Russian, and Australia's Vanessa Round will be prominent. In the Men's race, last year's winner Mikael Kristensson from Sweden is still a junior, and running this year, but watch out for the Dane, Soren Bobach, and Australia's Simon Uppill.

Should be an exciting event!

[quackbaa]

The live site is up and running now, as is a text commentary version at the link provided by Simmo. Looking forward to seeing how it all goes. First start will be at 9:30 am up until 11:37 am for the Men's (128 starters) and from 9:30 until 10:59 am for the Women's (90 starters).

Australia has six runners in both events today.

Sounds like it will be a little on the cool side and maybe a bit of rain.

[quackbaa]

and they're racing. Still a long way to go so stay tuned.

[quackbaa]

about half an hour to go before a result is known in the women's but currently it's a tie for first. Sarka SVOBODNA from Czech Republic and Eva SVENSSON from Sweden both finishing in 13:19 for the 2.7 km course. Still over an hour for the Men's and currently Vojtech KRAL from Czech Republic is in the lead in 13:59 for 3.3 km course.

[quackbaa]

Unofficial result in the women's :
Eva SVENSSON from Sweden 13:19
Sarka SVOBODNA from Czech Republic 13:20
Maja ALM from Denmark 13:22

For the Aussie girls :
23rd : Vanessa ROUND in 14:36
equal 52nd : Rachel EFFENEY in 15:28
63rd : Belinda LAWFORD in 16:05
equal 65th : Bridget ANDERSON in 16:13
67th : Heather HARDING in 16:19
73rd : Jessica DAVIS in 17:24


Still a lot of runnig in the Men's but so far Simon Uppill from Australia is in equal 5th. May drop down a bit but hopefully he can hang on for top 15.

[quackbaa]

Looks to be all over in the Men's race, unofficial results :
1. Vojtech KRAL from Czech Republic in 13:59
2. Olav LUNDANES from Norway in 14:05
3. Ivan SIRAKOV from Bulgaria in 14:23

best of the Aussies was Simon Uppill in 10th : 14:38

The rest of our guys:
71. Rhys CHALLEN 16:38
eq 78. Louis ELSON 17:01
83. Nick ANDREWARTHA AUS 17:24
86. Rob FELL 17:43
87. Morten NEVE 17:48

Tomorrow will be the Long Distance event

Edited by quackbaa, 08 July 2007 - 12:03 PM.

[Simmo]

Good onya Quackbaa! Great run by Rhys (the Sandgroper) to be the 2nd best Aussie male.

[Simmo]

The Long distance event is on right now at http://www.ccoriente...tCommentary.php

In the Women's race (7.7km) South Australian Vanessa Round has finished 6th, so will be on the podium. Norway 1st and 2nd, Finland 3rd.

Still in the forest, Simon Uppill from South Australia was leading the 11.1km Men's race at the first radio control.

[Simmo]

Simon Uppill in 3rd place at the 2nd radio control, 2min40sec behind the leader. Another Aussie, Louis Elson, has gone through the 1st radio control in 13th.

[Simmo]

Simon in 2nd at the final radio control, 7 minutes from the Finish.

[Simmo]

Simon has finished in 2nd place currently in 76min43. However there are several runners still in the forest who can come in with faster times. But Simon is 'in the clubhouse', so let's wait and see.

[quackbaa]

Here's hoping Simon can hang in there - still a good chance of at least top 10 finish but hopefully much better. Still some faster runners out in the forest so anything can happen. Though one of them has broken a compass - don't know if he was able to pick up a replacement.

[Simmo]

Simon now in 3rd, but it looks like the other runners in the forest will not be able to beat him for the Bronze!

[Simmo]

Unfortunately for Simon, a Danish runner has run strongly to finish 3rd. Still, two Aussies on the podiums in 4th and 6th for the first time. Well done Simon Uppill and Vanessa Round!

Tomorrow is a rest day, Wednesday is the Middle distance qualification races, with the Final on Thursday. The last JWOC event is the Relay on Friday.

[quackbaa]

Unofficial result sees Simon Uppill from Aus finish in fourth - 1:11 off Bronze but still a top six podium finish to go with Vanessa Round's sixth in the women's. Another great result from Simon to go with his 10th in the Sprint yesterday.

[Simmo]

Final stages of the Middle Distance Final available now at
http://www.jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/Re...e_Results_VOTF/

Only one Aussie male in the A Final - Simon Uppill has finished and currently 15th, but the favourites still to come in.

In the Women, Vanessa Round was in 2nd place at the first radio control.

[Simmo]

Final results: Olav Lundanes (Norway) wins easily to go with his gold in the Long and Silver in the Sprint. Simon Uppill finished 21st - he made a mistake in the early part of the course.

Jenny Lonnkvist (Sweden) won the Women's race by over 1 minute. Of the Australians, Vanessa Round 15th, Heather Harding 38th, Jessica Davis 47th, and Bridget Anderson 54th.

[Simmo]

Tomorrow (Friday 13th July) the Relay races will be run. The Men's race starts at 9.30am (EST), the Women's at 9.40am, and they are expected to finish around 11.30. There are 3 runners in each team, with the men running 8km each, and the women 5km each. As some nations have teams of 6, they will have 2 teams, however only the nominated A team counts. Australia has 2 teams in both men and women, and will be contenders for top 6 places, maybe even a medal in the women.

The hot favourites in the men's race will be Norway, who have dominated all the events so far. However, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Denmark all have strong teams.

The women's race is more open, with probably the strongest teams being Finland, Sweden and Norway. Australia would have to have 3 very good runs to feature in the medals, but in a relay anything can happen.

Catch the live broadcast tomorrow from 9.30 at http://www.jwoc2007.orienteering.asn.au/Re...e_Results_VOTF/

[Simmo]

There are now two videos of JWOC on the web at http://tv.worldofo.com/

While they are not great videos (especially the soundtracks), the long distance race video shows how difficult the rocky terrain was, and the skill of the runners in negotiating it.

You can now also view the maps at http://jwoc2007.orie...ng.asn.au/Maps/ and it is useful to compare the video with the map. The first control you see in the video - a rock high up on the hill is no. 24 on the men's course and no. 13 on the women's. The spectator control (the one on the ramp) is no. 10 on the men's course, and no. 5 on the women's. The next one, on a small cliff is no. 20 for the men and no. 10 for the women, and the last control just before the finish is a small bare rock surface.