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The Canberra Cockatoos represent the ACT in the National Orienteering League. Pictured above are members of the 2016 Senior and Junior Men's and Women's Teams, after the Australian Championships in Stanthorpe Queensland.
National Orienteering League
The National Orienteering League is
Australia's premier orienteering competition. The League is primarily a teams’
competition: each State fields teams of at least three men and three women in a number of stages (a total of 14-18 per season). In addition, there is a
points competition, the National Series, for individual glory.
The
competitions are similar to the Tour de France in that the teams’ competition
is based on the placings of team members in stages. However, rather than all
the stages being conducted consecutively, the stages are spread throughout the
year in rounds of events (4 to 5 rounds per year).
Competition
Format
There
are four divisions of the National
League and of the National
Orienteering Series:
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Senior Men
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Senior Women
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Junior Men
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Junior Women
Except for Relays, National League points are awarded on the basis of the fastest times for the first three competitors from each team in each division of each stage of the National Series. Relay points are awarded on the basis of first team to finish for each State team.
The seven teams in the competition are: Canberra
Cockatoos, NSW Stingers, Queensland
Cyclones, Southern Arrows, Tassie
Foresters, Victorian Nuggets and the Western Nomads.
Canberra Cockatoos Win Men’s National League on Mixed Day for ACT Orienteers
Monday, 6 October 2014
On
Sunday the Canberra Cockatoos men’s team clinched the 2014
National League competition, but other
teams had mixed success in the Australian Relay Championships, the finale of
the 2014 Australian Championships
Carnival.
The
provisional National League and National Series results were:
Australian
Relay Championships: MEN: Victorian Nuggets 2hr260min15sec, Western
Nomads 2hr27min07sec, NSW Stingers 2hr33min27sec; WOMEN: Queensland Cyclones 2hr46min20sec, Victorian Nuggets
2hr48min18sec, Western Nomads 3hr06min18sec.
Final points: Men: Canberra Cockatoos 117, Victorian
Nuggets 109, NSW Stingers 89; Women:
Victorian Nuggets 106, Queensland Cyclones 102, Canberra Cockatoos 101.
Australian
Long Distance Championships: Men:
15.7 km: T Norskov (Den) 1hr27min00sec I
Lawford (ACT) 1hr31min24sec, Tim Robertson 1hr31min43sec. Women: 10.7 km: L Ingham (ACT) 1hr10min34sec, L Robertson (NZL) 1hr18min55sec, A
Prendergast (Vic) 1hr25min23sec.
Final points: Men: S Uppill (SA) 220,
I Lawford (ACT) 201, D Shepherd (ACT) 193; Women: H Allston (Tas) 228, L Ingham (ACT) 195, J Neve (Vic) 194.
Other
ACT placings in the Australian Long Distance Championships
were:
Bushflyers: 2nd: Toni
Brown (W50A), 3rd: Ian de Jongh (M20A), Ari Piiroinen (M50A), Ella Cuthbert
(W12A) Parawanga: 1st: Liz
Abbott (W55A), Lucy Barton (WJuniorB) Weston Emus: 1st:
Hermann Wehner (M90A)
Full
results are here and splits here
Results
for other ACT teams which finished the Australian Relay Championships were:
MOpenB: 1st: Mark
Glanville, Ryan Stocks, Christian Piiroinen W21AS: 1st: Heather Lane, Pat Miethke, Kelly Young W16A: 2nd & 1st
AUS team: Zoe Melhuish, Caitlin Young, Tara Melhuish M21AS: 2nd: Ian de
Jongh, Jesse Piiroinen, John Scown M55A: 3rd: Bruce
Bowen, Hugh Moore, David Poland M20E: 5th: Ciaran
Lane, Oliver Mill, Stephen Melhuish M16A: 7th: Noah
Poland, Tristan Miller, Patrick Miller
Unfortunately
four teams did not finish because of mispunches. Full results are here.
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