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[email protected] Tel: (613) 830-1147 FAX: (613) 830-0456 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION Vol. 34 , No. 1, SPRING 2005, published June 2005 ISSN 0227-6658 2005 WORLD MASTERS ORIENTEERING C O N T E N T S CHAMPIONSHIPS UPDATE 2005 AGM 1 2005 WMOC Update 1 Over 1000 orienteers have registered for the 2005 World Elite News 2-3 Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC) including Orienteering Week in Canada 4-5 several former world champions. World Championships in World Games 5 Barbro Ronnberg 5 World champions 2005 World Cup 6-7 World O Rankings 7 M35. Janne Salmi (Finland) - triple WOC medallist in Orienteers Tops in Swiss XC champs 7 Individual races: gold (1997), silver (1995) and bronze (1999). NCCP Transition Project Update 8 M45 – Jorgen Martensson (Sweden) – five time WOC Too Many World Championships 9 medallist and one of the all-time greats. Gold medals in True Sport Movement 10 1991 & 1995 plus silvers in 1993, 1995 and 1997. 2005 "A" Meet Schedule 10 M60 – Stig Berg (Norway) – WOC champion in 1970 and Publications 11 runner-up in 1968. Member Benefits & Contacts 12 Salmi, Martensson and Berg also won WOC medals as members of their national realy teams 2005 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Other international competitors of note include Svein Jacobsen and Egil Ivarson , (Norway), Dieter Wolf The 2005 AGM will be held in conjunction with the Western (Switzerland), Peo Bengtsson (Sweden), Juhanni Salmenkyla Canadian Championships on Thanksgiving weekend – (Finland).