ORIENTEERING CANADA Published by the Canadian Orienteering Federation #713-1600 James Naisnaith Dr. Gloucester, Ontario K1B 5N4 Tel: (613) 748-5649 FAX: (613) 7484706 OFFICIAL NEWSLE t.R OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION Vol. 20 No. 2 SUMMER 1992 ISSN 0227-6658 CONTENTS World Cup Teams Named After COC 1 President's Niche 2 Le Mot du Prasident 2 APOC92 3 10F World Cup in Orienteering Scores 4 Technical Topics National Squad News 6 Sport The< Way Ahead 7 Major Funding Cuts in B.C. 8 A Time for Change 8 COF Drops 10 Items Available from COF . 11 Major Events Fixture List . .... 12 COF Addresses 12 WORLD CUP TEAMS NAMED AFTER COC Athletes who will represent Canada in World Cup #7 (October 3-Ontario) and #8 (October 10-New Hampshire) ONTARIO will be named after the COC. CHAMPIONSHIPS October 3, 1992 - October 4, 1992 For the October 3rd competition, we will be permitted to enter the maximum number of 6 men and 6 women. For the October 10th event we are only allowed to enter 3 men Canadian I and 3 women. World Cup rules limit the number of Sponsors: Ahamira entrants to 80 with the host nation guaranteed 6 positions. If the limit of 80 is not reached then the neighbouring International countries have the first choice of entering up to the limit Sponsors: IDEA 111011NEU1 of 6. For more into, contact Orienteering, Ontarto at 1220 Sheppard Av. East, Willowciale, Ontario M2K 2X1 Tel: (416) 495 4160 The entries for the competitions dose 3 months prior to the event date. This means that on July 11th we will know the number allowed in the U.S. event. Four Canadians: Brian Graham, Brian May, Pam James and Philippa McNeil will compete in World Cup 4, 5, 6 in Hungary-August 16, Austria-August 20, Italy-August 23. 1 PRESIDENT'S NICHE by Jack Forsyth By the time you receive this issue of our magazine, the Associations as we await notification on the level of 1992 "0" season will be well underway and many of you Government Funding we will receive and which projects preparing to travel to this year's COC in Hartney, Manitoba. will be supported. The recession has had an impact on sport, as it has on most other things. Governments just As Meet Director for this year's Championship, I have had do not have a lot of funds available. In addition, the a busier than usual spring and summer, compounded by a Federal Government Dept. of Fitness and Amateur Sport knee operation in June which greatly restricted my mobil- have been conducting a very comprehensive study on the ity. However, I am confident that all participants will entire scope of sport and recreation in this country. This depart Manitoba with the same pleasant memories as those study process has helped delay the Government's decision who attended the two previous National Championships in on funding requests. Without funding, many programs get the Manitoba Sandhi11 country in 1982 and 1988 - good delayed or cancelled. Hopefully the situation will improve maps, challenging technical terrain, excellent runnability in future, although British Columbia newspaper articles and visibility, superb weather, and most of all outstanding advise that the Provincial Sport Budget has been cut by hospitality from "Friendly Manitoba.' 13% this year. We had planned to hold a Presidents' Forum in conjunction In such times we must direct our efforts to those projects with this year's COC. Due to a lack of affirmative response, that can be accomplished within the available resources. the Presidents' Forum has had to be cancelled. The National Office has been busy updating several of our programmes and manuals. I have revised our Constitution In recent years the spring and early summer has also been to better reflect the current mode of operation of the COF a time of frustration for both the COF and Provincial and the member associations and assisted in a review and update of the COF Policy Manual. LE MOT DU PRESIDENT par Jack Forsyth Au moment oa vous lirez ces lignes, la saison de course associations provinciales, car c'est la periode de l'annee oa d'orientation 1992 battra deja son plein et plusieurs d'entre nous attendons avec impatience des nouvelles du gouverne- vous se prepareront a participer au championnat canadien ment federal quant au niveau de financement et aux de course d'orientation qui aura lieu cette annee a Hartney, programmes qui recevront un appui financier. La recession au Manitoba. a eu des repercussions nefastes sur le sport, comrne dans tous les secteurs de l'economie canadienne. Les gouveme- Comme directeur du championnat, j'ai eu fort a faire ce ments n'ont tout simplement pas de fonds disponibles. De printemps et pendant fete. De plus, tine operation a un plus, Condition physique et Sport amateur a entrepris une genou au mois de juin a limits mes deplacements. Je suis etude en profondeur sur le sport et le loisir au pays. Ce toutefois confiant que tous les participants quitteront le processus a contribue a retarder l'annonce des octrois par Manitoba avec les memes bons souvenirs que ceux et celles le gouvemement. Sans financement, de nombreux pro- qui ont pris part aux deux championnats nationaux grammes seront remis a plus Lard ou annules. Esperons precedents, soil ceux de 1982 et 1988 a Sandhill, au que la situation s'ameliorera clans I'avenir, bien que des Manitoba - bones cartes geographiques, terrain technique- articles pants dans des quotidiens de la Colombie-Britan- ment invitant, excellentes conditions de course et visibilite, nique rapportent que l'assiette budgetaire du sport a subi temps superbe, accueil chaleureux et hospitalite extraor- une coupure de 13 p. cent cette annee. dinaire des Manitobains. Nous vivons une periode extremement difficile! C'est la Nous desirions tenir un Forum des presidents dans le cadre raison pour laquelle nous devons orienter nos efforts vers du championnat de cette annee, mais nous avons da les projets qui peuvent etre realises avec un minimum de renoncer a ce projet etant donne le nombre relativement ressources financieres. Le personnel du bureau national faible de reponses affirmatives. s'est affairs a mettre a jour plusieurs de nos programmes et manuels. J'ai revise noire constitution afar qu'elle reflete Au cotu-s des demiares annees, le printemps et le debut de mieux le mode de fonctionnement de la Federation et des l'ete sont devenus synonymes de frustration pour la associations membres, et j'ai aide a la revision et la mise a Federation canadienne de course d'orientation et les jour du manuel des politiques de la Federation. 2 APOC92 by Donald Watson During Japan's Golden Week in early May over 1500 people With jazz and haunting Japanese flute music in the could be seen milling about in the pine forests and tea background, the overseas orienteers compared notes on the plantations on the southern flank of Mt. Fuji. They were terrain. The conclusion: the forest was nothing, thank- not, however, fleeing a volcanic eruption - Fuji-san has fully, like the vertical jungles any of us had seen before on been dormant since 1707 - but competing in the 1992 Asia- Japanese maps. Pacific Championships. Early the next morning, we were bused to the centre for APOC, which was last held in Japan 10 years ago, attracted the individual APOC events, a primary school in the 120 overseas competitors, including seven from Canada. foothills of Mt. Fuji. The gymnasium used as the male For Mark McMillan and Jennifer Fenton (Greater Vancouver changing room was soon packed. The Japanese seemed to O.C.), Japan was another stage in an extended trip to ignore the crowding, but to this westerner it was discom- Australasia and Asia; they had already orienteered in Hong forting. The start boxes were compressed together as well, Kong and at the Veteran's Championships in Tasmania. and it felt good to pick up a map and run off into the Also from B.C. came Fred Buchi and Pat Berting (both forest. Valley Navigators). Of the Canadians, Pat travelled the shortest distance to get to APOC. He's now teaching The model event terrain, like the plastic food replicas in English in Tokyo and, he said, learning Japanese in a Japanese restaurant windows, was indeed representative. doughnut shop. The forest was delightful: open, runnable, good contour detail, some trails, even more when you realized many From Ottawa, came Ted de St. Croix, Ariane Burke and erosion gullies were also paths. Mt. Fuji formed a spectac- myself (all Loup Garou O.C.). Ted was one of a lucky ular backdrop, it's graceful snow cone sparkling in the group of elite orienteers from overseas who was invited to sunshine. APOC, expenses paid, thanks to sponsor Perrier Nippon. American Sharon Crawford, New Zealand champion Alistair The New Zealanders dominated the elite classes. Landels Landels and Katie Fettes; Norwegians Ann Kristin Hogsrun won H21E in 70:15, followed by Kornmo, 74:12 and Kashi- and Thore Kornmo were the other invited orienteers. mada Kouji of Japan in 74:22. De St. Croix was 4th in 80:21 and was awarded the bronze medal since Kornmo The competitions began on a steep, deeply eroded hillside was not from an Asia-Pacific nation. in Gotemba, 100 km west of Tokyo. The map was quite green with bamboo but the terrain was not thick by Fettes won D21E in 51:32, followed by Hogsrun, 55:56, Canadian standards. Soft soil made climbing out of some and Australian Louise Fairfax in 58:39. Crawford was a gullies quite hard.