National 3Day over Easter

The National 3-Day comprised a Sprint, a Middle distance and a Long Distance event over 3 days.  Add up the times and the fastest in the class wins.  Congratulations to our place-getters, and especially to partners Nikki Halmai and Istvan Kertesz who each came first in their class - the Master of Ceremonies lost count when he got close to all the fingers on one hand for how many couples had taken out both 1st in their M and W classes.

OVERALL 3-Day

W35A.  1^st Nikolett Halmai; W65AS. 1^st Barbara Junghans; M35A. 1^st Istvan Kertesz; M70A. 2^nd Ross Barr

SPRINT Distance

W35A.  1^st Nikolett Halmai, W65AS. 1^st Barbara Junghans, M35A. 1^st Istvan Kertesz, M75A 1^st Ron Junghans, M70A. 2^nd Ross Barr, M55AS. 2^nd Michael Hanratty, M60A. 3^rd James Lithgow

MIDDLE Distance

W35A  1^stNikolett Halmai, M35A. 1^st Istvan Kertesz, M70A 3^rd Ross Barr, W65AS  3^rd Barbara Junghans, M55AS  3^rd Michael Hanratty

LONG Distance

W35A 1^st Nikolett Halmai, M35A 1^st Istvan Kertesz, W65AS. 1^st Barbara Junghans, W20E. 3^rd Iida Lehtonen

Junior World O Champs selections - congrats to Duncan Currie!

First disappointment when the teams of 6 young men and 6 young women for the Junior Australian Team to JWOC were announced after Easter as the only NSW rep would be Alistair George from Big Foot.  But then came the news that Duncan Currie was, unbeknowns to us, on the Reserve list and will replace Patrick Miller from ACT who cannot attend.  So, congratulations Duncan!  You can follow the progress of the Aus Junior Team at https://www.jwoc2019.dk/  

Hill End - GO's BIG DAYS OUT

March 30th/31st saw 59 Garingal members amongst the 400+ participating in the State League 1 and 2 or the National Orienteering League competitions being conducted that weekend.  For Garingal it was a mammoth exercise in logistics.  Jim Forbes was course setter on the Saturday and Aniko and Peter Fozo setters on the Sunday (guided by Controllers Ron Junghans from GO and Andrew Lumsden from BF).  After a year of planning, all went beautifully! We are so indebted to them and to Johnny Petersen and Warwick Selby who were the Organisers, and to the Start team led by Graeme Dawson and the Finish team led by Colin Burnett. A foggy start on the Saturday came after much rain overnight.  But things only got better.  Thirty-five for dinner at the Lodge Motel on Saturday night for a bit more conviviality.  Orienteering runs so well because of the amazing goodwill of the volunteers.  We thank them all - and there were many!