1996 Canadian Orienteering Championships Wakefield, Quebec, Official Results Ust
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ORIENTEERING CANADA Published by the Canadian Orienteering Federation Box 62052. Convent Glen P.O. Orleans, Ontario, KIC 7H8 E-MAIL [email protected] Tel: (613) 830-1147 FAX: (613) 830-0456 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION Vol. 24 No. 3 FALL 1996 ISSN 0227-6658 Almost all arrangements were made through the COF CONTENTS office by email. Contents 1 Meet organizers requesting Certificates of Liability National Office News 1 Insurance coverage. COF Drops 2 Orders for Coaching/Officials manuals for clinics/ COF Fundraiser Meet 3 workshops etc. International News Materials for introducing '0'. (school groups, girl guides). COC Report 5-6 COC Classic Results 7-9 3. ORIENTEERING CANADA - FALL ISSUE. As in COC Short Results 10- I 1 previous years the Fall issue contains complete COC results. 1996 World Cup Report 12-13 It takes about one week to type, proof read. edit each issue. National Team News 14 The material is then sent to the MOA office where Sheldon Materials Available from COF 15 COF Member Benefits 16 Friesen arranges for printing and distribution to associations. COFfAssociation Addresses 16 Printing costs in the Manitoba Sport Centre are considerably less than in the National Sport Centre. NATIONAL OFFICE NEWS 4. 1996 COF AGM. Information sent to associations in early September. A major item is: Class/Course Proposal . 1. GENERAL: After 4 months in a new location the COF Information on the proposed new class/course structure was office has settled into a somewhat regular routine. The 'office', published in Spring & Summer issues of 0 Canada. a spare bedroom, is equipped with computer. fax, and telephone. Current files occupy a closet in the office with 5. MEMBER CONTRIBUTIONS: The strength of the COE older files. inventory, records, etc. in a basement area. associations and clubs is the contribution of time and enthusiasm of members. Access to computers, email, internet The National Sport Centre is visited 2 or 3 times a week (10 and fax machines have made it easier for members to volunteer minute drive). We use their photocopying/printing services time and expertise to projects that might not otherwise get and still receive mail there. done . Junior Participation Program - Nancy Craig (Calgary). Loss of government funding. secretarial staff and office prepared an article for 0 Canada to 'kick start' the program. relocation has not resulted in fewer telephone calls, letters. requests for information etc. Class/Course Proposal - Ross Burnett (Whitehorse), liaised with USOF representive to develop a North American Class! 2. E-MAIL: A major change is the increased volume of Course proposal. E-mail memos received offset by decrease in number of fax messages received. We receive almost as many email memos COF Web Page - Adrian Zissos/Jim Webster (Calgary) as telephone calls. Examples of email communications: volunteered to assist the development of a COF Home Page on the World Wide Web, members requesting meet information, addresses of other members. OCAD Resource Centre - Scott Donald (Rossland) volunteered Non-members' seeking information on '0' activities in to research/catalogue/maintain information, tips, problems, their area. Most obtained the COF address/telephone printing, etc. from Internet items and include in OCAD number from the Internet. section of COF Web Page. Ross Burnett/Alan Philip to obtain statistical information in developing new COURSE/CLASS structure. Thanks to Nancy, Ross, Adrian, Jim, and Scott, for their National team athletes competing in World Cup events. contribution to the COF and orienteering. C 0 F DROPS 1. OABC MEMBER 2ND IN WORLD ROGAINE Thanks to Kitty and Adrian for their novel Fund-raiser. CHAMPIONSHIPS The donations greatly exceeded the amount raised from the item at the Auction. Congratulations to Alan Stradeski and Peter Main (Sage OC), on finishing 2nd place in the World Rogaine 3. MANITOBA - 1997 COC DATES CHANGED TO championships, in Australia. The Australian pair, David AVOID WOC CONFLICT Rowlands and James Russell won with 2980 points, Alan and Peter had 2810 points and another Australian team, Flyers distributed at the 96 COC gave dates of August Geoff Lawford and Rod Gray, 3rd with 2770. Lawford 4-11 for the ]997 COC. National Team athletes competed in several WOCs in the 1980's. noted these conflicted with the 1997 WOC dates of August 9-17 and requested MOA consider changing the The 1998 World Rogaine Championships will be in the COC to earlier/later dates. Kamloops area as part of a package that includes the Canadian and North American Orienteering MOA considered the request and have advanced the COC Championships. schedule by one week to July 28-August 3. It was not possible to move the COC to a later August date as the July 25-26 Canadian Championships 1997 Canada Summer Games are in Brandon in mid/ July 27-28 Canadian Relays/Short Championships late August. August 1-2 North American Championships August 4 World Rogaine Championships 4, ONTARIO - BUDGET CUTS AFFECT 001 August 6 Yukon Championships August 8-9 Western Canadian Championships The Ontario Minister of Sport recently announced 26 August 13-14 World Masters Games (Portland, sport organizations will no longer receive government Oregon) financial support. Orienteering is one of the 26. 2. ALBERTA - MOUNT LAURIE 'BOULDER FIELD The sports community are very upset by comments of TOUR' the Deputy Minister that government will no longer support `welfare state' sport organizations. Canada '95 competitors will remember problems locating controls in the Boulder Field. Meet Director, Adrian Orienteering Ontario has had a staffed office for over 20 Zissos, donated a 'Boulder Field Tour' to the 1995 COF years. The 001 Board have not made a decision on the Auction. In a letter to COF, Kitty Jones ( M e et future operation of the 001. Controller) writes: Reasons given for the elimination of the 26 organizations "Adrian Zissos and I led the 'Boulder Tour' (sold to is that only sports included in the Ontario, Canada or Don Scott at the 1995 Silent Auction) on July 5. Olympic Summer Games will receive funding. This is similar to the federal government policy of only funding We opened it up to anyone who wanted to come and we sports in Olympic, Commonwealth or Pan-Am Games. scheduled it for Friday afternoon leading up to the weekend of events surrounding the Alberta 5. NATIONAL TEAM - THE NEXT GENERATION championships, July 7. Congratulations to National Team members, Marketa We asked participants to donate to COF: this was their and Brian Graham, on the birth of a son, Robert Jaroslav, fee for the Tour. October 3rd. A trip to the Czech Republic is planned for next February to introduce the baby to his grandmother Adrian and I covered the cost of a wine and cheese picnic, and other relatives and allow Brian to compete in World so none of the donations were used for supplies. There Cup Ski-0 meets in Austria and Czech Republic. were no other costs, as we used left-over maps from last year. This is the 3rd consecutive year a child has been born to a Canadian champion: 1994 - daughter, Jasmine, to We all decided it was a great fund-raiser and worth doing Magali Robert; 1995 - son, Teddy, to Catherine Hagen; again_ A cheque for $140 which is the total donations 1996 - a son to Marketa and Brian Graham. received is enclosed." 0 COF FUNDRAISER MEET - THE DAY THE RAIN CAME This year the COF organized a Pre-COC Fundraiser Meet instead of a Silent Auction. The meet was held two days before the COC using the Kingsmere area of Gatineau Park. LEMIRQIIiilitgiQUASE2 Irene Jensen, Lyman Jones and Colin Kirk planned courses ItLcVLbilinil?=13910 and vetted control locations. The COF Board would 'run the meet'. The COF Board of Directors extend their thanks for your participation in the August 8th meet In support Jim Lee and Jack Forsyth, (Manitoba) came to Ottawa early of COF's 'Fundraising' =Mies, to help hang controls, prepare master maps, control cards, start lists, etc. After several hours in humid 30+ temperature Unfortunately, the weather aid not cooperate. Jim suggested moving the Start/Finish to reduce a long walk Thunder, lightning, torrential rain resulted In many from the parking and also to shorten some courses. With a abandoning their course. few changes we were able to use most control flags already hung. As a result of the extreme conditions the Board decided the awards would be in the form of a draw On meet day morning numerous water containers were in each category. We appreciate your support and lugged into the woods and Beginner Course controls hung . trust this event was a 'one of a kind' O experience. Start Time was noon. Early arrivals tried to stay cool under trees and drink lots of water. 2g6StittitibERE The forecast called for 'late afternoon' showers. Late Course 1 Katherine Sheck, afternoon arrived at 1.30; the showers, a thunderstorm Matthew Hornsby followed by torrential rain. Occasionally the rain lessened, but only to gather strength for the next onslaught, The rainfall Course 2 Vicky Whalley, Jeff Lee of 75 cm is one of the heaviest on record for the Ottawa area. Course 3 Johanna Carlson, Phyl Snedden, Jim Snedden, The only shelter, other than the trees, was the small canopy Matthew Rance of John Rance's van, - greatly appreciated by all who could squeeze underneath. Fortunately the temperature was quite Course 4 Anne Caviling, Barbara warm. St. Laurent, Jim Lauder, Don Scott Some early starters finished before the storm but most were caught in it's full force. The heavy rain and thick forest Course 5 Pam James. Steve reduced visibility to that of twilight. Those with glasses were Chatwin, Sky Pearson triple whammed: Dark/difficult to read map; Glasses wet and fogged up; Wet map cases compounding the other Course 6 Sue Richards, Damien problems.