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The Canberra Cockatoos represent the ACT in the SILVA National Orienteering League. Pictured above are members of the 2011 Senior and Junior Men's and Women's Teams, with team coach, Grant McDonald in white tee shirt.
SILVA National Orienteering League
The SILVA 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.
Lizzie Ingham Achieves Another Top 10
Monday, 14 January 2013
Canberra Cockatoos Lizzie Ingham (picture by OA) achieved her second top 10 result in the orienteering World Cup races in New Zealand. Ingham backed up on her third in a Sprint Distance race in Wellington with an eighth place behind Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson in the Middle Distance race near Hawkes Bay on Sunday. She was by far the best competitor from Oceania in the three World Cup races. Canberra Cockatoos’ other foreign national Matt Crane was a creditable 27th in the Men’s race, with Julian Dent the best Australian in 36th place.
The full results are here and the key results from an Australian and Canberra Cockatoos perspective were:
World Cup 3 (Final)
MEN 6.1 km
Jerker Lysell SWE 40:33
Olav Lundanes NOR 40:38
Peter Oberg SWE 41:14
Matthew Crane GBR 48:19 27th
Julian Dent 50:31 36th
Simon Uppill 51:23 38th
Rob Preston 59:22 52nd
Oliver Poland 1:00:43 53rd
Christopher Naunton 1:02:16 55th
Ian Lawford 1:04:28 56th
Joshua Blatchford 1:05:22 57th
Lachlan Dow 1:06:04 58th
Bruce Arthur 1:08:25 59th
WOMEN 4.7 km
Tove Alexandersson SWE 37:09
Anne Nordberg NOR 38:32
Minna Kauppi FIN 38:52
Lizzie Ingham NZL 41:43 8th
Grace Crane 46:24 18th
Kathryn Preston 52:42 28th
Felicity Brown 52:59 30th
Aislinn Prendergast 54:43 32nd
Anna Sheldon 56:10 35th
Jasmine Neve 1:01:22 41th
Mace Neve 1:05:10 42nd
Susanne Casanova 1:05:52 43rd
Heather Muir 1:07:48 44th
Bridget Anderson 1:11:20 46th
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