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TOP EVENTS
Mondial Package
World Masters
services included:
Wiener Neustadt and Prague. • buffetbreakfast. • transfers between the cities. • assistant guide on all transfers. • halfday city tour in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. • 3-course dinner in traditional restaurant in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague.
Moldau Prague
services included:
Vienna and Budapest.
Rates are valid for groups of minimum 15 persons. FITs on request. Flights not included. For further information and booking please contact:
Mr Kenneth Pils tel: + 43|1|58804-139 fax: + 43|1|58804-195 mail: pils@mondial.at web: www.mondial.at
Hofburg Vienna
2006
Sept. 5-11 World MTB-O Championships Banska Bystrica, Slovakia www.orienteering.sk/mtbo2005 Sept 19-24 Region 3 (Asia-Pacific) RadiO Champs, Agano City, Japan www.jarl.or.jp/2005r3ardf/ Sept 24-Oct 2 Tassie East Coast Escape inc Tas Champs, Schools Champs & Aust Champs. Hobart to St. Helens www.tasorienteering.asn.au Nov 19-20 AUS MTB-O Champs, Maryborough & Bendigo, Victoria www.ozmtbo.com Dec 27-31 Snowy Christmas 5 Days, Jindabyne, NSW
April 14-17 Australian 3-Days, Castlemaine, Victoria April 14-17 Australian Middle Dist Champs, Inglewood, Victoria May 7-14 European Championships Otepaa, Estonia www.orienteerumine.ee/EOC2006 July 1-7 WMOC 2006 Wiener Neustadt, Austria www.wmoc06.com/ July 2-7 JWOC 2006, Druskininkai, Lithuania www.losf.lt/jwoc2006 July 8-15 Tour O Swiss www.tour-o-swiss.ch July 9-14 World MTB-O Champs, Joensuu, Finland. mtbwoc2006.orienteering.org July 15-22 Swiss O Week 2006 Zermatt, Switzerland www.sow2006zermatt.ch July 16-21 O-Ringen, Halsingland, Sweden (250 km north of Stockholm) www.oringen.com July 29-Aug 5 WOC 2006 and Danish WOC Tour 6-Days, Aarhus, Denmark www.woc2006.dk/ 29 Sept-12 Oct Australian Championships Carnival York, Western Australia http://wa.orienteering.asn.au/ auschamps 2006 10-12 Oct Australian MTB-O Championships Collie, Western Australia http://wa.orienteering.asn.au/ auschamps 2006 Dec 27-31 Christmas 5 Days, NSW Dec 29-31 APOC 2006, Hong Kong
Orienteering Australia photo archive
PETER CUSWORTH maintains an archive of the digital photo files which have been used in The Australian Orienteer. These photo files can be made available for press releases or special promotional projects. Any material costs will be passed on to users. Contact Peter on 03 5968 5254 or cusworth@netspace.net.au April 6-15 “Burra to Barossa 2007” Aust 3Days & Middle-dist Champs, SA www.oasa.asn.au/2007 July 7-14 WMOC 2007 Kuusamo, Finland www.wmoc2007.fi/ July 7-15 JWOC 2007 Carnival, incl NSW Champs, Aus Champs & Schools Champs, Dubbo, NSW. http:// orienteering.asn.au/events July O-Ringen Sweden July WMTB-O 2007 Milovy, Czech Republic August 16-26 WOC 2007 Kiev, Ukraine e-mail: sopova@i.com.ua October 4 Australian Sprint Championships, Canberra October 6-7 Oceania Championships, Canberra November Australian MTB-O Championships, NSW December Christmas 5 Days, NSW
Danish WOC Tour 2006 –
Test your Orienteering Skills against the Best in the World!
BOOK the dates 29th July to 5th August 2006 in your diaries now! This is the period of the mid-Jutland Orienteering Festival, comprising the 2006 World Championships and the Danish WOC Tour - 6 days of topquality Orienteering in the best of Jutland’s forests. We have arranged the program so that you can experience everything – running in the WOC Tour, supporting your national team in all the WOC competitions and enjoying tourist and social activities to suit all tastes.
Ideal for your 2006 Club Tour
We’re looking forward to welcoming masses of visitors from other countries to the Orienteering Festival. Our aim is to stage one of the bestever World Championships for both competition quality and spectator value. And the WOC Tour will use 4 of the WOC competition forests, with a scoring system which will ensure an exciting final day when the Danish WOC Tour Champions in each class will be found. There are plenty of good campsites, hostels and hotels in this picturesque area of lakes and wooded hills – ideal for next year’s club tour!
The Danish WOC Tour invitation is now published and in circulation, and you can find it in full on the website www.woc2006.dk. We encourage you to enter as a club or group on-line; an entry form can also be downloaded from the website. You can enter for all 6 days or just the last 4. Note that we are giving a 30% discount on entry fees and related services for all entries received by the end of November this year, and there is still 15% off for entries received by the end of March.
Now is the time to make your plans, so that you don’t miss out on those huge discounts!
Clive Allen (on behalf of the WOC 2006 organising team)
Scottish 6-Days 2007
THE web site for the 2007 Scottish 6-Days event is now live. The web address is www.scottish6days.com/ Click on the event logo on the home page to be directed to “Spey 2007”.
THE Australian MTB-O Championships are to be held in central Victoria on the weekend of November 19 and 20th and varied terrain is promised for the two events – the Long-distance and the Middle-distance Championships. This appealing area of Central Victoria with its Gold Rush heritage offers both historic towns and modern wine regions to explore for relaxation post-event.
The Long-distance event will be staged on Wildflower Hill which was the venue for a Selection Trial for the Australian Team in September 2004. David Searle, with fastest time for the day, declared it to be an “awesome area” and “really challenging for MTB-O” – a view echoed by all those competing on the day. Yet this rugged bushland is within 5 km of the CBD of the City of Greater Bendigo!
Presenting a reasonable intensity of track structure, the area is classic spur-gully terrain with varying grades of steepness that will certainly and frequently pose for competitors the question of route choice on the basis of climb vs. distance.
The Middle-distance event will be staged at Mosquito Flat, Maryborough in the area used for the Relays of the World MTB-O Championships in October 2004. It will be the first opportunity since then for riders to sample the intricate track network which was conquered by the Finns, who won Gold in both the Men’s and Women’s event; and also by the Australians, who collected a pair of Bronze medals on the day.
This Championship will be part of a special Commonwealth Games sporting celebration day in Maryborough.
The area is open forest; the terrain is gently undulating and the track surfaces are hard. Riders will have the chance to get up to top speed in many areas, but will need to be especially alert to the many navigational decisions required to successfully reach each control in the fastest possible manner.
A separate Entry Form is available which provides information on Championship Classes, expected Winning Times along with the usual entry and cost details for the two events.
Wildflower Hill, Bendigo –1:15000
David Searle winning the Australian selection trial held at Wildflower Hill, Bendigo in 2004. Photo: Peter Cusworth
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Event advertisements in The Australian Orienteer go direct to the homes of registered orienteers in all states of Australia and give a widespread boost to perception of your event . The special advertising rates are modest and would be covered by just a few extra entries .
