JWOC 2014: Maps, Results and Medal Overview

O-Ringen: we need help and thats OK

Swiss O Week Zermatt

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Swiss-O-Week - Stage 5 Orienteering Video by Puresive Fi...

Post European Depression

O-Ringen 2014 - The Big Final Orienteering Video by orin...

SOW...fantastic!

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Freude herrscht

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Swiss O-Week

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Fra historieboka: O-Landsleiren

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Scotland Training Camp- "Heather" and "Bracken"

Final Event - The Relay, (not counting the nightclub of cours...

Well the bad weather was predicted to avoid us until early afternoon however with about half an hour before the start of the womens relay, it bucketed down. Thunder, lightning and heavy rain meant bra ...
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TEAM MEMBER PROFILES (cont)

Apologies for the delay in getting the remainder of the team member profiles up on the blog, but they werent all complete prior to competition and then things got quite hectic reporting on results.Nam ...
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The Middle Qualification and Final

Well a 40-60 min drive (depending which bus you were on) took the athletes from Borovets to Zheleznica, a hilly map with lots of contour detail. Mixed forest with some tracks although recent summer gr ...
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UPDATE: Sprint, Long and Rest Day

Thought it was about time we gave you all an update on the success of the 2014 Aussie JWOC team.The week started with a sprint in Samokov. Summer in Bulgaria has proven to be a touch temperamental wit ...
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JWOC 2014 Sprint-Great Aussie results and Mens victory to NZ

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Team Member Profiles

With competition week upon us its a good time for you to get to know your Australian team. Here are a few personal details for half of the team members.OLLE POLAND Nickname: The Bearded ...
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Wrap up of JWOC training week

Karen Blatchford wraps up the Australian teams JWOC training week.
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MasterOrienteer Pressure test - Sprint essence and a dash of ...

Todays dish requires not only a large amount of preparation but also, dedication, expectation and lunch time communication! You will not only encounter some of Bulgarias most technically challenging t ...
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That's all folks!

Hi everyone,Well, thats it for another year at the World Champs. Time always flies at these events, and theres no doubt thats because they are a heap of fun, in large part to all the awesome people in ...
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Training, Training, Training!

The training camp began in stella fashion; buffet breakfast at the hotel. Following a relaxing morning, we headed out for session number one, a map walk at Shiroki Dol. Team members headed off in grou ...
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"OTHER SIDE, BRODIE!!!"

Fortunately, our travels around Bulgaria didnt require us passengers to yell this particular phrase out too many times, but driving in Bulgaria was an eye-opener in more ways than one. As a driver it ...
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First Taste of Bulgaria... Delicous

Matt, Ashley and I arrived in Sofia early Monday morning to be confronted by a shifty looking character who offered us a taxi. We had be warned about these dodgy characters so opted for the legit taxi ...
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The Middle.

Well the week is coming to a close shortly, but before the week finishes we still have 2 more exciting races to go, and in my humble biased opinion the 2 best ones 2 run (really just the 2 that if I w ...
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The Long Distance....

Well the long distance is just about to start. First womens start is at 12.21 I believe.The rain has currently gone away so it should be a nice day to spectate. Hanny is the first Australian off at 12 ...
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Follow World Championships live via IOF LiveCenter

The IOF would like to remind everyone of the LiveCenter service that the IOF has set up. You can follow live GPS tracking, web streaming and arena speaker voice from the World Orienteering Championshi ...
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Thursday Arvo Picnic

To all our supporters currently in Italy, please join us, this Thursday at 3pm, on the southern shores of Lago di Lavarone for afternoon tea. Normally we the team provide the food and drink, but I am ...
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Mixing it up

Well that was a exciting evening! The mixed sprint relay produced a exciting jam packed hour of racing. If your back home in Australia but were too concerned about tiredness to stay up to watch it - y ...
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What you need to know about the mixed sprint relay.

So the WOC week is well and truly under way. A very scenic sprint happened in Venice on Saturday. Today saw the opening ceremony in the mountain town of Asiago and tomorrow all eyes will turn to the f ...
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The day is here

Well I would have given you a little bit more of a race preview yesterday if the internet at our hotel was able to handle the amount people that were trying to use the internet... I think the Russians ...
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A Day in the Life of an Aussie Training Camp

While Toph and I are chilling in our beautiful hotel in the mountains, we thought wed share with you a typical day of an orienteering training camp. Its days like these that make me want to quit my jo ...
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Pre WOC Training

Well we are now just 3 days before WOC 2014 starts, so you might be wondering how the preparation is going? Well this week not much is happening. The whole aim of this week is to relax as much as poss ...
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Alpe Adria Cup 2014

Over the past few days I have been competing in the Alpe Adria Cup, held in Cansiglio, Italy. The competition consisted of four races; long, relay, sprint and middle, held over three days.Day 1-Long:A ...
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Alpe Adria

The weekend that has just passed saw all of the WOC team head to Cansiglio for a 3 day event, Alpe Adria. The weekend provided some interesting competitions in tough terrain, which was quite idealprep ...
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JWOC Middle – What to expect

The Course SetterKiril Nikolov is a current Bulgarian Elite orienteer. He has run WOC several times with top 15 placing’s on several occasions. He won silver in the 2012 European champs Sprint. ...
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WOC 2014!

Gday everyone, and welcome to the Australian WOC team blog for another year.Our athletes and coaches are in preparation and soon will be making their way to Italy. For some, this is just a short fligh ...
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Across the Ditch

At the beginning of June I packed my bags and flew across the ditch to Wellington, New Zealand to compete in their Queens Birthday weekend races. Obviously competing in some high quality races was a b ...
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Eat, Sleep, Train, Repeat (Part 3)

Chapter 6: There is no route choice, only weakness (by Matt Doyle)I had a really great Easter, putting together some of my best races in recent memory, and this has put me on a bit of a motivational h ...
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Eat, Sleep, Train, Repeat (Part 2)

Chapter 4 - Smooth Sailing (By Ashley Nankervis)The last 5 weeks have been some of the best training I have been able to put together. Other than 1 week where the intensity had to drop down a lot due ...
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Eat, Sleep, Train, Repeat (Part 1)

Our JWOC team has been very busy over the last 5 weeks. The following is part 1 of the story I am calling, eat, sleep, train, repeat.Chapter 1 - Strength and Speed (By Michele Dawson):One of my goals ...
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The Road to JWOC

The last 5 weeks have been very busy for all of the JWOC team, trying to balance training with the increasing pressure of school, work and uni. The following blog posts include reflections of the team ...
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The Relay....the end of now.

WOC 2013 came to an end today with the Relay.However it wouldnt be fair if we didnt mention out great runs from yesterday from Simon and Hanny both in 33rd position in the middle final! Vanessa came 4 ...
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The tipping competition...

In honor of the the new Orienteering Australia match-fixing policy which specifically bans all betting by Boomerang team members on orienteering we thought we would change the boundaries and invite so ...
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The technical test!

Today was the technical test of orienteering the middle distance. The final test will come tomorrow but there are many that didnt pass todays. For the Boomerangs four of our six runners made it throug ...
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WOC in Finland...Then and Now

Grant Bluett, Troy de Haas, Rob Walt, Tommy Q...ring a bell?Back in 2001, WOC was every two years, teams were larger, there was no live GPS tracking and there were four runners in the relay....yes it ...
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The Classic!

Today was the day for the classic. The traditional distance in orienteering which is being slowly whittled away from the orienteering program due to the dominance of sprint and middle races. Hanny was ...
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Two Sprints in One Day

Hi all, Lachy Dow reporting to you from Vuokatti, at the end of a hectic day of both the sprint qualification and sprint final.The qualification was held in a holiday park consisting of many nearly id ...
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Long Qualification done...

The first race for WOC 2013 has been run. The team got one qualifier, Hanny, through to the final out of four runners today. Hanny returned to international competition after a four year hiatus and pl ...
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Long Qualification is on!

Today it is time for the Long Qualification. Conditions are fine, warm and sunny with not a cloud in sight. Perfect long conditions. Susanne, Aislinn, Lachlan and Hanny were all in good shape heading ...
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The coming week...

It is about to begin!The Aussies have been resting up and fine tuning their skills for the coming week. It all begins with the Long Qualification tomorrow morning. The terrain is best described as sup ...
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WOC 2013 - Vuokatti

Welcome back for another year of action with the Australian Boomerangs. The World Orienteering Championships 2013 in the northern Finnish town of Vuokatti will be a tough and exciting championships wi ...
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The Final Countdown

The Final CountdownThe past week has flew by and it is now just 1.5 days until the first race of JWOC 2013. The team is confident and prepared. Not only have we trained smartly on each different terra ...
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T-RAINING TIME!

Rain Rain Go Away - The Aussies Are Here, And Ready to Play. It is believed that Brodies bad bus dancing may have been interpreted wrongly by the Czech rain Gods, as there is no other plausible explan ...
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Getting to HK

The eight remaining team members to arrive were super excited to get to HoteL Cernigov to meet up with Olle, Ian, Mary and Heather as we missed them soooooooo much. However, a compulsory Maccas stop o ...
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Long Distance - Slaying The Mountains

Yesterday (Saturday) Olle, Heather, Mary, and I enjoyed a lazy day in the Penzion mainly involving trying to get the charger into the computer by throwing from a distance.. The festivities we short li ...
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18 Days out from JWOC2013

With 18 days to go to JWOC 2013 in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic the Australian Junior Team is getting very excited. Since selection at the Easter 3 Day competition in late March the team has been tr ...
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Australian JWOC Team for 2013

The Boys TeamOscar McNulty absentThe Girls TeamMichele Dawson absent
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WOC the F##k!

WTF is going on with the World Orienteering Championship (WOC) events? The latest round of news from the International Orienteering Federation (IOF) indicates that the IOF and their plans fo ...
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Waiting…

Waiting for the snow to go. That is what it feels like I’ve been doing for too long now. It’s April and the spring season is meant to be in full swing. Due to the unusually cold we ...
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Two Seasons

It has almost been a month since I returned from the trip to Australia and New Zealand for the first round of the Orienteering World Cup. The change back to darkness and running in the snow as opposed ...
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To the land down under…

Orienteering season 2012 may be over in the northern hemisphere but in the land down under it will be drawn to a close next week  with the Christmas 5 Days competition in Beechworth, Victoria. 20 ...
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