With one event in the Sprint series to go, a spy in the Ministry for Sporting Statistics has leaked us a copy of the score table. Some grades are sewn up already, but
Tim Robertson was fastest in M21E over several short-format races near Christchurch over Waitangi weekend. He cleaned up a knockout sprint, a chasing-start forest middle distance, and he anchored his relay team to the win in a sprint relay.
Bernard Campion and Hamish Laing are provisional winners of today's 6-hour Big Trig rogaine, run in perfect conditions from Tunnel Gully. Sarah Gray, Will Vale, Simon Robinson and Lachlan McKenzie appear to have the 3-hour win by a mere 10 points.
Fresh from recent college orienteering successes, Jake McLellan put away the "long" course at Wainui Trail Park tonight. He was 4min ahead of seasoned veteran Bill Edwards.
NZ juniors posted some outstanding results in the all-Australia Sprint and Long over the weekend, culminating in Relay wins today in both the W and M14, the W and M16, and second in the W and M20E.
For the inter-state contest, our NZSS Team has been divided into "NZ Karahiwi" (OHV's three members) and "NZ Harua". After Monday's Sprint, Karahiwi was in the lead ahead of "NZ Harua" and then NSW.
Mixed teams dominated the 90-minute rogaine on Rangituhi last Wednesday, filling the top 14 placings. And mixed also took the top three placings in the 3-hour category, with only 10 points separating them.