2013 MTB Orienteering Championships Carnival in ACT
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
The links to the official results for all of the events during the 2013 MTBO Championships are listed below:
Australian MTBO Sprint
Championships (incorporating the ACT and QLD Championships)
Splits for
Australian MTBO Sprint Championships (incorporating the ACT and QLD
Championships)
Official results for ACT MTBO Middle Championships
Splits for ACT MTBO
Middle Championships
Official results for ACT MTBO Long Championships
Splits for ACT MTBO
Long Championships
MTBO SERIES CONCLUDES IN ACT with VICTORIA ON TOP.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Medallists at World Masters 2013 - Peter Cushworth, Carolyn Jackson, Thor Egerton
 
Alysha McNee W20 champion David Simpfendorfer M21 Long winner
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The ACT MTBO titles held last weekend produced some
of the best racing of the year on terrain that was well suited for the varying
disciplines. The sprint saw riders negotiating
the maze of single track at Sparrow Hill.
The middle had them merely go on the opposite side of the road into
Kowen East, which gave a mixture of single track and fire roads. On Sunday riders assembled in the middle of
Kowen Forest at the Homestead Campgrounds and mostly had very fast fire tracks
with intriguing route choice options. All courses were master minded by Sean
Sunley and Julie Sunley cheerfully handled the admin.
The men’s elite had quite a lot
of depth and the podium places were shared around as follows:
Sprint: Ricky Thackray, Seb Dunne, David Simpfendorfer
Middle: Todd Novack, Seb Dunne,
David Simpfendorfer
Long: David Simpfendorfer; Todd
Nowack; Ricky Thackray
NSW’s Steven Todkill was just
outside the placings on each ride, as was WA’s Ian Dalton.
Women’s elite saw Carolyn Jackson (who had won 3 gold medals in W50 World
masters the previous weekend) strongly challenged by Danielle Winslow, a former
foot WOC representative and top adventure racer, who was undertaking her first
competition after the arrival of her first child. Carolyn took the honours overall but Danielle
certainly made her work hard. Janet
Street grabbed the third places ahead of Jasmine Sunley.
There was some great potential shown by a whole bunch of juniors who rode
some fast kilometre times. Paul Jongh (“fresh”
from 3rd place in the World solo 24 hr Mtb U23 race) shared the
spoils in M20 with brother Ian. Alysha McNee
rode fast to win W20, as did Gaby Withers in W16. Gaby is quite experienced for her age, even
having ridden a public race in Estonia recently. The M16 class saw close racing between
Ballarat’s Declan Dickson and Canberra’s Steve Melhuish and NSW’s Eddy
Prentice. Declan took the trifecta of wins but was hard pushed by Steve in all
of them. Patrick & Tristan Miller
shared the spoils in M14 while Sonya McNee literally grabbed the choccies in
W12.
The closest finish of the weekend went to Jennifer Strack, who was thrilled
to win the W50 long title by a mere 3 seconds ahead of Heather Leslie. Congratulations to the masters who managed to win all 3 events: Malcolm
Roberts, Keith Wade, and Dale Ann Gordon.
Victoria dominant state in
MTBO in 2013.
Victorian Nugget riders capped off a busy competitive year at the ACT MTBO
titles in Kowen Forest by winning back the Orienteering
Australia Shield (which is contested over all 3 Australian title events) with
Queensland 2 2012 winner
NSW 3. The ACT sprint title also doubled up as the
Australian Sprint Championships.
Victorians were also dominant in the National
MTBO Series which was finalised after these championships.
Point summary for placegetters is:
494 Victoria; 286 Queensland; 280 NSW;
106 ACT.
Overall state age class winning states and individual 1st
& 2nd places were:
State 1st 2nd
M14 ACT Patrick & Tristan Miller (ACT) draw
M16 VIC Declan Dickson (V) Eddy Prentice (NSW)
M20 QLD Karl Withers (Q) Tim Jackson (V)
M21 WA Ricky Thackray (WA) Callum
Fagg (TAS)
M40 QLD Craig Steffens (Q) Bruce Patterson (V)
M50 NSW Malcolm Roberts (NSW) Rob Prentice (NSW)
M60 VIC Peter Cusworth (V) Paul Haynes (NSW)
M70 VIC Keith Wade (V) Blake Gordon (V)
M80 VIC Graeme Cadman (V)
W16 QLD Gaby Withers (Q)
W20 ACT Alysha McNee (ACT)
W21 VIC Carolyn Jackson (V) Danielle Winslow (TAS)
W40 NSW Carolyn Matthews (NSW) Julie Sunley (ACT)
W50 VIC Heather Leslie (V) Norah Skilton (Q)
W60 VIC Kathy Liley (V) Julie Fisher (Q)
W70 VIC Dale Ann Gordon (V) Jenny Sheahan (V)
W80 VIC Joyce Rowlands (V)
2014 will see a lot of travel for keen
mtb orienteers, starting in January when over 30 are travelling to the multi-day
carnival in New Zealand. The national
series has races in 3 states: Queensland
in May -Selection Trials for Junior & Elite World Champs too; Alice Springs
in June for Australian MTBO Champs, and to WA for round 3 of the Series in
early October.
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