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Box 3, Central Park, 3145 Australia Newsletter No. 170 www.rogaining.org June 2011

IRF Team 9th European Rogaining Championships President: Neil Phillips Lithuania will host the European Rogaining Promotions and Development: Alan Mansfield Secretary/Treasurer: Rod Phillips Championships on 5-6 May 2012 near Kaunas. Technical Manager: Lauri Leppik Gediminas Trimakas will co-ordinate 9ERC World Rogaining Championships Manager: vacant with Jalle orienteering club and Grukas sport event organising association. The terrain is Members of IRF mainly pine-tree forest with some marshes, the

Czech Republic (Miroslav Seidl, Jan Tojnar) slopes of the Nemunas river, and sand dunes. New Zealand (Alan Holdaway, Nick Collins) Australia (David Baldwin, Richard Robinson) 8th European Rogaining Championships (Lauri Leppik, Eduard Pukkonen) , 23-24 July 2011, near Rauna USA: (Barb Bryant, Bob Reddick) Report by Lauri Leppik Individual members [to end 2012] 8ERC attracted 282 teams and 603 Murray Foubister - Canada participants from 17 countries. There were over Guntars Mankus - Latvia 100 participants from each of Latvia, Russia Sergey Yashchenko, Evgeny Dombrovskiy - Russia and Estonia; also represented were Ukraine, Efim Shtempler - Ukraine , , Lithuania, , France, Observer status , Belorus, Sweden, Israel, Brazil: José Nilton Silva Vargas Germany, Netherlands, UK and South Africa. Canada: Francis Falardeau, Allan Stradeski Event coordinators Valters Kaminskis Finland: Iiro Kakko and Aivars Zogla combined the forces of two Germany: Marko Rößler Great Britain: Jeff Powell Davies Latvian orienteering clubs, OK Ziemelkurzeme Hong Kong: Patrick Ng and OK Meridians to organize ERC. Aivars is Ireland: Denis Deasy an experienced event coordinator having Israel: Dan Chissick organised rogaines in Latvia for several years. Japan: Kazuhiro Takashima Norway: Ross Wakelin His multiple capacities of map-making, IT, Poland: Magda Czapluk web-site management, communication skills Russia: Syropyatov Valeriy and general coordination during the event South Africa: Lisa De Speville, Ian Bratt resulted in a smoothly organised event. Spain: Felip Gili The course setter, WRC bronze Sweden: Bengt Nilsson Switzerland: Dieter Wolf medalist in XO category, Valters Kaminskis 4th WRC: Pete Squires placed 79 controls, creating several different 6th WRC: Peg Davis route options as evidenced by eventual route th 9 WRC: Grant Hunter choices of teams. The terrain was a mixture of hilly forest, marshes and pasture. Visibility in USA joins IRF the forest was limited requiring some careful USA was admitted as a member of the IRF on th navigation, in particular during the night. As a 14 June 2011, welcome. skillful rogainer himself, Valters very accurately predicted the speed of top teams and the winning score was 95% of the maximum. In men’s open section, Estonian teams New Zealand collected all medals. The overall winners, NZRA http://www.rogaine.org.nz/ brothers Silver and Rain Eensaar, scored 422 points from the maximum of 446. Their lead • Nelson Afterwork Winter Series: A over the silver medal winners was an series of five afterwork rogaines on impressive 46 points. With this victory they Wednesdays beginning 1st June in the made a strong claim towards the upcoming Nelson region. http://www.noc.org.nz/ World Championships in the Czech Republic • Hutt Valley Afterwork Series - and Russia. Their previous achievements have Wellington region: calendar, been 4th place at 8WRC2008 in Estonia and http://www.maptalk.co.nz/events/defau silver medals at 6ERC2009 in Finland. Erik lt.cfm?t=Rogaine . They are usually of Aibast and Andreas Kraas scored 376 points 3hr duration and start at 6pm following and won silver, leaving Karli Lambot, Rait map handout at 5.30pm. Pallo and Tõnu Lillelaid - the bronze medal • Annavale Attack (4hr) and Amble winners from 9WRC2010 New Zealand and (3hr), Canterbury, Sunday 14th 7ERC2010 Ukraine - again with bronze. August: A navigational adventure in Mixed open and women’s open the Springfield region of the categories were dominated by Russian teams. Canterbury foothills in support of Andrey Shvedov and Natalya Abramova scored Darfield HS Rural College. The 4-hour 362 points and won the XO category (5th place rogaine (Attack) is for the competitive overall), and the best WO team Marina Galkina and the 3-hour rogaine (Amble) is and Nina Mikheeva collected 303 points (27th intended to be more recreational. See place overall). Full results with route choices the information on the Darfield High at: http://erc2011.rogaining.lv/ School website. • 25th Winter Classic, Wellington, Finnish Rogaining Championships 2011 Sunday 21st August: The Winter 20-21 August, Raseborg, www.rogaining.fi Classic is an endurance, long distance cross-country event that is both 10WRC Czech Republic, 2012 physically and mentally demanding. Jan Tojnar of 10WRC There is a 3hr Challenge Rogaine run The maximum field size is likely to be in conjunction with the event. See the near 1000 participants. There are no major Classic website for details. environmental or landowners obstacles. • Office Hours, Canterbury, Saturday Landowner permission on the Czech 3rd December: Join NZRA for a pre- side has been achieved, and the final position Christmas blowout. This mid-duration of the check point will be agreed later. We event will suit newcomers and have started negotiations on the German side of trampers as well as regular rogainers. border, and Marko Rößler will help obtain the But, we’ll need help. If you’ve done a German access. few events and are ready to contribute Field work in the race area has started, to planning and organising, here is an with some preliminary check point positions. opportunity. Contact Grant Hunter at The hash house area has been chosen, 351-6369 or [email protected] and we are close to an agreement with the with your offers of assistance. owner of the hash house meadows in Prebuz. Website will be started soon. The 33 rd Australian Rogaining Championships 10WRC organising team feel that they have The 2013 Australian Rogaining Championship most aspects under control: IRF is assisting will be the first in northern Queensland. The with event publicity. event date is 20/21 July 2013 and the location is the Atherton Tableland near the city of Cairns. * 11 th World Rogaining Championships Russia

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