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EXECUTIVE MATTERS
Kay Grzadka – OA Executive Officer
Government Review of Sport
In August, the Minister for Sport, the Honourable Kate Ellis MP, announced the appointment of the Independent Sport Panel to investigate and report on ways of ensuring that Australia’s sporting system remains prepared for the challenges of the future, at the elite and grassroots levels. Representatives of the Board met with the Sport Panel in October to discuss Orienteering Australia’s views. The Board, with the invaluable assistance of Dennis Trewin and Bob Mouatt, also prepared a submission to the Panel on behalf of Orienteering Australia.
NT Junior Orienteers
Discussions were held between School Sports Northern Territory (SSNT) and the Board regarding the current ineligibility of junior orienteers from the Northern Territory to compete in the School Sports Australia Championships. The Top End Orienteers provide quality Orienteering events in the Darwin region and this year successfully organised their first Schools Orienteering Championships. It is most unfortunate that their juniors cannot compete in the School Sports Australia Championships due to the fact that Orienteering is not part of SSNT’s program. For a sport to be currently on this program and approved by the Department of Education it needs to be a sport that is played in schools in all Clusters across the Northern Territory. SSNT discussed an option to work towards building a competition base of orienteers in some Clusters in the school system. This would require considerable resources. SSNT have indicated their willingness to continue to work with the School Sport Secretary for Orienteering, Ian Dalton, and local Top End orienteer Susi Bertei about further options.
Embargoes:
VICTORIA
The areas covered by the following maps are embargoed until after the 2009 Australian Orienteering Championships Carnival; September 26th - October 4th. • Chewton Diggings (Castlemaine) • Castlemaine Goldfields (Castlemaine) • Crocodile Reservoir (Castlemaine) • Browns Reef (Bendigo) • Warby Range (Wangaratta) • Jubilee Creek (Wangaratta) • Triptera (Wangaratta)
Jim Russell – Carnival Coordinator
QUEENSLAND
The area north of the Biggenden to Maryborough Road, including in the orienteering maps North of Aramara, Aramara State Forest and Hidden Glen, is embargoed from 1 October 2008 to all orienteers and rogainers. This embargo will gradually be lifted between 2010 and 2012. The Board has been working to resolve a dispute between an orienteer and Orienteering Australia. The dispute went to mediation in September at considerable cost to the organisation. Unfortunately the mediation was unsuccessful and the dispute is ongoing. The details of the dispute remain confidential.
Annual Conference
The Orienteering Australia Board and Council meet in Canberra each year on the first weekend of December for the Annual Conference. The minutes of the 2008 Annual Conference will be posted on the Orienteering Australia website when they become available. The Board will formally meet before and after the conference.
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 www.orienteering.org
WORLD RANKING FOR MEN Rank Points Forename Surname Nation
1 5645 Daniel Hubmann SUI 2 5516 Thierry Gueorgiou FRA 3 5481 Andrey Khramov RUS 4 5453 Matthias Merz SUI 5 5450 Anders Nordberg NOR 6 5362 Michal Smola CZE 7 5330 Jamie Stevenson GBR 8 5322 Francois Gonon FRA 9 5316 Martin Johansson SWE 10 5315 Mikhail Mamleev ITA
80 4858 Julian Dent AUS 136 4463 Simon Uppill AUS 138 4445 David Shepherd AUS 191= 4064 Rob Walter AUS 217 3894 William Hawkins AUS 223 3833 Robert Preston AUS 227= 3809 Kerrin Rattray AUS
WORLD RANKING FOR WOMEN
Rank Points Forename Surname Nation
1 5646 Minna Kauppi FIN 2 5631 Heli Jukkola FIN 3 5583 Anne Margrethe Hausken NOR 4 5462 Helena Jansson SWE 5 5382 Marianne Andersen NOR 6 5379 Dana Bro_ková CZE 7 5361 Signe Søes DEN 8 5299 Merja Rantanen FIN 9 5285 Annika Billstam SWE 10 5265 Tatyana Riabkina RUS
