SILVA NATIONAL ORIENTEERING LEAGUE

Orienteering Australia and Fiskars Brands have great pleasure in announcing that SILVA will be awarded naming rights for the national League competition in 2008. The events will be known as the 2008 SILVA

National Orienteering League.

Director of Development for Orienteering Australia, Ben Rattray, said the SILVA sponsorship would be a major boost for the competition. Sponsorship by SILVA will enable organizers to offer improved maps, venues and competition for all participants. Rattray said that with more cash prizes on offer this year’s competition will be bigger and better than ever, and there will be a SILVA Video Report competition for budding video journalists. SILVA has had a long history of association with Orienteering in Australia and navigation sports in general. The very first Australian advertisement for SILVA compasses appeared in a Scouting publication in May 1965 (see right). Under the longterm guidance of Tom Andrews SILVA products have become an essential part of the Australian Orienteering scene. Fiskars Brands, the new owners of SILVA, have taken this association to a new level with their support for the 2008 SILVA National Orienteering League. The National Orienteering League is Australia’s premier Orienteering competition. The League is primarily a State teams competition - each State fields teams of at least three women and three men in four series of races during the year (a total of 14-18 races). In addition, there is a points competition for individual glory in the National Orienteering Series.

Competition Format

There are four divisions of the National Orienteering League: Senior Teams - based on the results in the Senior Men’s and Senior Women’s divisions of the National Orienteering Series and is the premier competition. Junior Teams - based on the results in the Junior Men’s and Junior Women’s divisions of the National Orienteering Series. The seven teams in the competition are: Canberra Cockatoos, NSW Stingers, Queensland Cyclones, Southern Arrows, Tassie Foresters, Victorian Nuggets and Western Nomads. For more information go to: www.orienteering.asn.au/ nationalleague