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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.
Senior Men Canberra Cockatoos Best Results in AUS 3-Days Prologue
Friday, 3 April 2015
 Photos from left: Tara
Melhuish, Belinda Lawford, Lachlan Dow The Canberra
Cockatoos senior men’s team filled three of the top five placings in the 2015 Australian
3-Days Prologue at Jamestown in South Australia. They would have easily won the maximum points
in the men’s senior division of the National League event 3. The top
three placings and significant Cockatoos placings were:
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Course 1: Men: 4,200 metres: M21E: 1 Oscar McNulty, LO W, 15.11, 2 Ian Lawford, AO A, 15.42, 3 Lachlan Dow, BS A, Simon Uppill, OH S, 15.48: 5th Matthew Crane, AO A, 15.49; M17-20E: 1 Patrick Jaffe, MF V, 16.35, 2 Ashley Nankervis, EV T, 17.30, 3 Aidan Dawson, GO N, 17.31; 9th Stephen Melhuish, PO A, 18.41.
- Course 2: Women: 3,600 metres: W21E:1 Hanny Allston, WR T, 14.41, 2 Rachel Effeney, UG Q, 16.10, 3 Aislinn Prendergast, EU V, 16.23: 10th Belinda Lawford, AO A, 17.55; W17-20E: 1 Winnie Oakhill, UG Q, 18.04, 2 Nicola Blatchford, NC N, 18.07, 3 Alison Burrill, BB Q, 18.24; 4th Tara Melhuish, PO A, 18.25.
The full results are
here, the results of the public prologue are here and photos from the events
are here.
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