Orienteering Achievement of 2013: Vote Now!

Route to Christmas: Day 4 2013

Route to Christmas: Day 5 2013

Go Hard Or Go Home - The Hubmann Brothers Orienteering V...

Route to Christmas: Day 1 2013

Route to Christmas: Day 3 2013

Course of the Year 2013: Monsanto evening sprint!

Go Hard Or Go Home - Film ab!

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Rally from Taita Hills to the Independence Day Reception

Route to Christmas: Day 2 2013

Orienteering Achievement of 2013

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Training starts

Course of the Year 2013: Finland …

Tårene kom til slutt

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10mila TC in Eksjö

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HIGH PERFORMANCE NEWS DECEMBER 2013

Talent Development Squads Squad Coach Positions HP Training Camps 2014 Selection Trials 2014
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Details of 2014 Selection Trials and High Performance Squads.

List of High Performance squads & details of selection trials for 2014 WOC, WUOC, JWOC, Bushranger teams, and 2015 World Cup.
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Orienteering Australia Annual Conference highlights

The annual Orienteering Australia Conference was held over the weekend of 30 November and 1 December at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
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ACT Primary School Champs -

15 schools compete for the 2013 ACT Primary Champs
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MTBO TEAM for NEW ZEALAND CHALLENGE in JANUARY ANNOUNCED.

The Australian team for the Australian v New Zealand Challenge in the North Island of NZ in January 2014 has been announced.
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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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Long final!

Today was the long distance final at grand jurat, north of lausanne. It was a very fast, technical course and both Aislinn and Julian ran very well to place a very respectable 35th and 30th. After we ...
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Middle Qual and final

Hello everyone. Sorry for the long delay in posts. Yesterday we had the middle final up in the beautiful mountains north west of Lausanne. Vanessa was the only aussie to qual for the finals after the ...
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Sprint and Long qual days

So yesterday we had the sprint qual and sprint final. Unfortunatley none of the girls made it through but we were super excited when BJ and Julz qualified. The final in the afternoon was super excitin ...
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Team profiles

AislinnPlace of Birth: BallaratHometown: BallaratNicknames: AisAttackpoint name: kidoCoke or Pepsi? Coke Zero!Drive or Ride? Ride. Unless the hills are really big.Nike or Asics? AsicsMountains or Beac ...
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More team profiles

SusannePlace of Birth: Glenelg, saHometown: Darwin Nicknames: SusAttackpoint name: SusCCoke or Pepsi? YuckDrive or Ride? RideNike or Asics? AsicsMountains or Beach? MountqinsCoffee or Tea? CoffeeToast ...
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Middle Qualification Day

The Middle Qualification Day offered some relief to us all with a slightly cooler day than the previous week and a half. Still a little muggy buch much better conditions.Ian was the star of the day qu ...
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All you need to know...for AUS WOC 2012

With WOC 2012 fast approaching it is time to give all our fans (you) a run-down of the week ahead. All the information you need to follow the Australian team at WOC 2012.First of all who is running th ...
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Profile Time!

Weve noticed that the boys have been updating the blog, and as much as we love Olles, um, interesting descriptions and Ians photos, we thought it was time the girls take over for a bit! Since the boys ...
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The I of the Storm - And Top 20 for I-an Lawford

JWOC SPRINT - Twas Good!After an exciting opening ceremony the team was ready to race the first JWOC race, The Sprint!Like an open bus to a man with empty pockets, anything was possible in the sprint ...
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The Australian team has arrived to Switzerland!

Hello everyone! most of the team has arrived at our training camp in the very small town of Dizy, outside of Lausanne. Ouraccommodationis very laid back and we are enjoying the country atmosphere. So ...
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JWOC 2012 Training Week

JWOC 2012 has arrived and so excitement is at the usual yearly high. Kas and I arrived in Slovakia on Tuesday the 19th fresh and energised off the boat after a tough weekend racing at Jukola, and sail ...
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Tips for making the most of your Easter Experience- from Boom...

Tips for making the most of your Easter Experience – from a few of the locals…After many years of drought, SEQ has now had two very wet summers, and plenty of rain in the seasons in between. We ha ...
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Patience

Over the past month I have learnt that patience is an important attribute to have,  but it hasn’t always been my strongest trait… if one at all. Training has been going well for t ...
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A new start!

The last 12 months has brought a lot of change. Moving across the globe and all that entails like leaving training groups, leaving jobs, leaving friends and selling all your belonging is a challenge b ...
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Australian Rachel Effeney wins Sprint the Bay in New Zealand

A record number of competitors contested the Sprint the Bay orienteering series in Hawkes Bay New Zealand last weekend with Australians Rachel Effeney and Matthew Parton taking out 1stand 3rd respecti ...
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Beechworth 2012 elite training camp

The first elite training camp for 2012 was held around Beechworth in Victoria last week. Sessions were attended by up to 18 people which was a great turn out. The Beechworth region is famous for gold- ...
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The Next Few Days

Wednesday began with that dreaded part of the camp that is never loooked forward to by the Squad. The 3Km time trial.On a rough grassy oval in Dixon, with an uphill, into the wind back straight it pr ...
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National Junior Squad Begins 2012 - Canberra Camp

Hanny has their attentionNineteen juniors from around Australia began the 2012 orienteering year with the first day of camp in Canberra. After the gathering was complete and lunches consumed the squa ...
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