OFFICIAL NEWS

Annual Conference

The Annual Conference was held in Canberra over the weekend of 3 - 4 December 2005. This is the policy meeting of Orienteering Australia with representatives of all States present to discuss the future directions of the sport in Australia. Some of the matters discussed at the Conference were: • The OA Constitution was amended to eliminate the (elected) position of Director (Administration) and replace this with an employed Executive Officer effective from the 2006

AGM. • This change to the Constitution and other matters raised in the review of OA last year required a number of changes to Duties of Officers (Operational Manual 1.3) and Role of

Councillor (Operational Manual 1.6). • A number of changes to the selection processes for Foot and MTB World Championship teams were agreed and this necessitated changes to Operational Manual 3.2 and 3.4. • A number of changes to OA Competition Rules were agreed. These included changes to the rules on starting order, complaints/protests and AUS Relays classes/courses.

The winning times for a number of older age classes were lengthened from 45 minutes to 50 minutes (for both men and women) following changes to IOF rules. A new version of the Rules incorporating these changes is available from the Orienteering Australia website www.orienteering.asn.au • The Strategic Plan, High Performance Strategic Plan and the

Operational Plan for 2006-09 were reviewed for adoption at the Annual General Meeting.

Selection Panels

Selection Panels for the 2006-07 period were appointed at the Annual Conference and these are: • Senior Panel – Paul Liggins (chair), Karen Staudte WA, Geoff

Lawford VIC • Junior Panel – Blair Trewin VIC (chair), Fiona Calabro QLD,

Paul Pacque TAS • MTBO Panel – Ann Scown ACT (chair), Anitra Dowling VIC,

David Hatley NSW

Election of Orienteering Australia Officers

Elections for Officers of Orienteering Australia for 2006 will be held at the Annual General Meeting in the afternoon of 16 April 2006 (the Sunday of Easter) in VIC. States are invited to forward nominations to the Director (Administration) by 10 March so that details can be circulated with the AGM agenda. If no advance nomination is received for a position, a nomination may be made from the floor. Voting is by the Councillors and Delegates of the States and the Elite: 15 in total.

IOF World Rankings

The International Orienteering Federation World Ranking Scheme is based on points scored at World Ranking Events, full details of which can be found at http://www.orienteering.org/. The current standings for men and women are given in the following tables:

Men – Foot-O

1 Valentin Novikov RUS 2 Mats Troeng SWE 3 Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 4 Daniel Hubmann SUI 5 Jarkko Huovila FIN 6 Jani Lakanen FIN 7 Andrey Khramov RUS 8 Anders Nordberg NOR 9 Chris Terkelsen DEN 10 Øystein Kvaal Østerbø NOR 11 Mats Haldin FIN 12 Holger Hott Johansen NOR 13 Niclas Jonasson SWE 14 Petteri Muukkonen FIN 15 Jörgen Wickholm FIN 16 Emil Wingstedt SWE 17 Marc Lauenstein SUI 18 David Andersson SWE 19 Tero Föhr FIN 20 Damien Renard FRA

38 David Brickhill-Jones AUS 59 David Shepherd AUS 82 Grant Bluett AUS 83 Troy de Haas AUS Women – Foot-O

1 Simone Niggli-Luder SUI 2 Vroni Koenig-Salmi SUI 3 Jenny Johansson SWE 4 Anne Margrethe Hausken NOR 5 Minna Kauppi FIN 6 Marianne Andersen NOR 7 Heli Jukkola FIN 8 Emma Engstrand SWE 9 Paula Haapakoski FIN 10 Heather Monro GBR 11 Karolina Arewång-Höjsgaard SWE 12 Karin Schmalfeld GER 13 Annika Billstam SWE 14 Martina Fritschy SUI 15 Tatyana Riabkina RUS 16 Lena Eliasson SWE 17 Dana Bro_ková CZE 18 Lina Bäckström SWE 19 Hanna Palm SWE 20 Lea Müller SUI

22 Hanny Allston AUS 56 Jo Allison AUS 80 Tracy Bluett AUS

Men – MTB-O

1 Ruslan Gritsan RUS

2 Adrian Jackson AUS

3 Margus Hallik EST 4 Tönis Erm EST 5 Stefan Surgan SVK 6 Ants Grende LTV

7 Alex Randall AUS

8 Christian Gigon AUT 9 Jussi Mäkilä FIN 10 Beat Schaffner SUI 11 Peter Entenfellner AUT 12 Jaroslav Rygl CZE 13 Dietmar Dörfler AUT 14 Krzysztof Sokalski POL 15 Donatas Celkys LTU 16 Rémy Jabas SUI 17 Ctibor Podrábsky CZE 18 Rene Ottesson EST 19 Matthieu Barthélémy FRA 20 Beat Oklé SUI

124 Anthony Darr AUS Women – MTB-O

1 Michaela Gigon AUT 2 Anke Dannowski GER 3 Ramune Arlauskiene LTU 4 Anna Füzy HUN 5 Hana Bajtosová SVK 6 Anna Wlodarczyk POL 7 Hana La Carbonara CZE

8 Anna Sheldon AUS

9 Päivi Tommola FIN 10 Markéta Jakoubová CZE 11 Stanislava Fajtová SVK 12 Regula Mühlemann SUI 13 Christine Schaffner SUI 14 Dagmara Panas POL 15 Nina Phillips IRL 16 Michaela Lacigová CZE 17 Anna Kraj POL 18 Olga Lep_iková CZE

19 Mary Fien AUS

20 Yvonne Gantenbein SUI

31 Carolyn Jackson AUS 40 Melissa Thomas AUS

BOOKS ON ORIENTEERING

There are a great number of books on all aspects of orienteering. For a list and prices contact: Orienteering Services of Australia