Photos courtesy Natasza Figiel, WTOC ’22
Summary: 34 athletes from 14 Orienteering USA clubs ventured to Italy in July to compete in the World Masters Orienteering Championships in Puglia. Not too many photos have emerged – most seemed to be locked behind a paywall, but we have compiled results for US athletes below.
The Sprint medalists include Sharon Crawford (RMOC) taking Bronze in W75A and Pavlina Brautigam (WCOC) just missing the podium in W60A by only 6 seconds. Over in the Middle Distance event Pavlina redeemed herself with a Bronze Medal in W60A. And in the Long A Final Sharon Crawford took Silver in W75A, Erin Nielsen (UNO) took Bronze in W40A and Pavlina once again just missed the medals with a 4th place finish. Special mention to Stephanie Ross (OCIN) whose solid 5th place finish in the Middle W50B Final earned her a promotion to the W50A final for the Long event.
The 2022 Annual General Meeting of Orienteering USA will be held online Thursday night, September 29. One of the highlights of the AGM is the naming of the recipient of the Silva Award.
The Silva Award is given annually to an orienteer who has demonstrated outstanding service to orienteering in the United States over the past five years. The essential quality of every winner has been service to promoting and sustaining orienteering, to making the sport work in this country, and in helping to build the organizations needed to make orienteering successful.
The AGM will also include the announcement of the OUSA Golden Service awards recognizing those individuals who have provided exceptional service to the sport of orienteering that extends beyond the local club level.
Nominations for both awards are being solicited between now and August 28th. Full eligibility criteria and lists of past award winners can be found in the attached announcements. Nominations for both awards should be emailed to Susan DeWitt (skdewitt@nullsnet.net) by August 28th.
Full Silva Award Announcement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b6RhQ-bJXHxShxo5Ndu_V3Fga7YWJiO1/view?usp=sharing
Full Golden Service Award Announcement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5WV-7R_GwT9Mbeyl61G8Y17To-D2SZC/view?usp=sharing
Orienteering USA is pleased to announce the team competing in World Trail Orienteering Championships in Jelenia Gora, Poland, July 19th-23rd. The team is a mixture of youth and experience. The most experienced members of the team are David Irving (SDO), Sharon Crawford (RMOC), and Clare Durand (LAOC), whereas the newest team member, junior Jarmo Latva-Kokko (Age 16 from NEOC) is participating in his very first WTOC.
David is likely our biggest hope for strong placement in the paralympic category, but Jarmo is looking to turn some heads especially in the timed Temp-O event. He is already ranked 4th in the US in Temp-O and his performance in the Philadelphia training camp this May was impressive. Clare and Sharon bring lots of WTOC experience to the team and are hoping to improve on their personal best. Bob and Karen have less experience in competing in WTOC, but have done well in recent US ranking events. The team is looking to improve from past WTOC performances. Three of the selected team members were unable to go to Poland this year, but hopefully will participate in future.
Selected team:
Open:
Paralympic:
The 2022 World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships are just one of many international orienteering events going on this month and because OUSA’s Mountain Bike team is rather dormant right now, it might be easy to overlook these championships. But fear not mountain bike fans, TeamUSA will be represented in Falun, Sweden from July 15-20.
Orienteering USA is pleased to announce that Nikolay Nachev from the Cascade Orienteering Club in Seattle will represent TeamUSA at this years WMTBOC. Nikolay has been orienteering since childhood and his favorite orienteering disciplines are night-o, urban sprints and MTBO. Growing up he was on the Junior and University National teams in Bulgaria and has competed for TeamUSA in both Foot Orienteering and Ski Orienteering. Nikolay and his partner Ashley Blake were also the overall winners at the North American Rogaining Championships in Lake Tahoe last August. This will be Nikolay’s first MTBO World Championships though he did race interationally at last fall’s World Cup MTBO races in Abrantes, Portugal.
Bikes have been close to heart for Nikolay since his move from Washington DC to Miami and helped him cope with the lack of orienteering in the Everglades. Since then, he has been part of a competitive road bike racing scene in the Pacific NW racing for Hagens-Berman and Avanti teams of Seattle. He has placed second at STP (the largest cycling event in the Northwest) a 200 mile ride from Seattle to Portland, and has completed multiple Ironman triathlons.
Nikolay keeps his MTBO skills sharp by competing in adventure races and by doing the local Street Scramble score-o series on his bike. We look forward to seeing what Nikolay can do in Sweden in a couple of weeks.
Summary: TeamUSA sent a strong team of 6 women and 4 men to Portugal this year to compete at JWOC ’22. A majority of the team arrived a week early and got in some solid training in the very hot and rocky terrain around Aguilar. Unfortunately, the extreme heat and fire danger would force the country to close all access to forested areas which effectively killed the middle, long and forest relay events for the competitors.
The organizing team pivoted to make the best of the situation and the sprint competition and sprint relays were held with some modifications (extra teams, unofficial teams) so everyone got a chance to run. Additionally a non-championship urban relay (3 person teams, Men’s & Women’s) was put together in a nearby town which included the twist of running through a local nursing home facility.
JWOC ’22 isn’t over yet though – the organizers did not hold a closing ceremony and plan to hold the canceled forest races in early November at the same venues. It will be a huge expense to send our team back to Portugal to round out the competition, but hopefully some of our TeamUSA athletes will be able to make the journey depending upon their school schedules. Stay tuned…
Update: JWOC ’22 Part 2 Team Announcement | JWOC ’22 Part 2 Event Recap
| 1 | Elisa Mattila (FIN) | 14:57 |
| 2 | Lilly Graber (SUI) | 15:10 |
| 3 | Anna Karlova (CZE) | 15:16 |
| 76 | Bridget Hall | 19:01 |
| 123 | Lily Addicott | 21:56 |
| 133 | Zoe Sibthorp | 24:52 |
| 134 | Alexis Merka | 25:51 |
| 135 | Kirsten Mayland | 25:51 |
| 141 | Anna Campbell | 27:13 |
| 1 | Axel Elmblad (SWE) | 13:45 |
| 2 | Tobias Alstad (NOR) | 14:11 |
| 3 | Mikkel Holt (NOR) | 14:13 |
| 108 | Keegan Harkavy | 18:01 |
| 125 | Victor Frolenko | 18:53 |
| 134 | Ben Brady | 19:46 |
| 149 | Holden Sopoti | 26:33 |
Forest Races cancelled due to high heat and fire risk.
| 1 | Norway 1 Oda Scheele Mikkel Holt Tobias Alstad Pia Young Vik | 57:50 15:53 14:05 13:17 14:35 |
| 25 | United States 1 Lily Addicott Keegan Harkavy Benjamin Brady Bridget Hall | 1:10:29 20:08 15:13 16:20 18:48 |
| n/c | United States 2 Zoe Sibthorp Victor Frolenko Holden Sopoti Kirsten Mayland | 1:28:03 22:35 20:26 20:05 24:57 |
| B-Teams 19 | USA/RSA United States & South Africa Alexis Merka Simon Pienaar Luke Schipholt Anna Campbell | 1:35:30 28:23 21:00 20:12 25:55 |
Forest Races cancelled due to high heat and fire risk.
Forest Races cancelled due to high heat and fire risk.
Forest Relay cancelled due to high heat and fire risk. A substitute (non-championship) urban relay was produced on short notice in the town of Dornelas.
| Womens 1 | Hungary 1 Boglarka Czako Viktoria Mag Rita Maramarosi | 57:41 19:47 18:18 19:36 |
| Womens 33 | United States 1 Lily Addicott Bridget Hall Zoe Sibthorp | 1:19:23 26:19 23:35 29:29 |
| Womens 40 | United States 2 Anna Campbell Kirsten Mayland Alexis Merka | 1:36:31 35:31 28:20 32:40 |
| Mens 1 | France 1 Mathias Barros Vallet Basile Basset Guilhem Verove | 49:15 16:59 16:03 16:13 |
| Mens dsq | United States 1 Keegan Harkavy Benjamin Brady Victor Frolenko | mp mp 21:01 22:14 |
| Mens dsq | RSA/USA South Africa & United States Connor Morrison Simon Pienaar Holden Sopoti | mp 23:03 mp 28:18 |
No closing ceremony at this time. Decision was made to hold the forest races in early November. Hopefully some of our TeamUSA athletes can make the trip back to Portugal in the fall to close out JWOC 2022.
| Leg 1 | Tori Borish (24th) | 17:44 (+3:10) |
| Leg 2 | Ricardo Schaniel (25th) | 17:38 (+2:45) |
| Leg 3 | Joseph Barrett (27th) | 18:01 (+4:00) |
| Leg 4 | Evalin Brautigam (25th) | 18:38 (+4:40) |
| Women Qual A | Alison Campbell (27th) | 12:21 (+2:40) |
| Women Qual B | Tori Borish (25th) | 12:02 (+1:59) |
| Women Qual C | Evalin Brautigam (23rd) | 12:17 (+2:08) |
| Men Qual A | Sergei Rhzhkov (25th) | 10:55 (+1:13) |
| Men Qual B | Joe Barrett (29th) | 11:40 (+1:44) |
| Men Qual C | Ricardo Schaniel (26th) | 11:25 (+1:20) |
| Women Qual A | Alison Campbell (27th) | 16:00 (+4:04) |
| Women Qual B | Tori Borish (24th) | 15:09 (+3:03) |
| Women Qual C | Evalin Brautigam (18th) | 14:26 (+1:50) |
| Men Qual A | Ricardo Schaniel (27th) | 13:57 (+2:19) |
| Men Qual B | Sergei Rhyhkov (28th) | 14:37 (+2:09) |
| Men Qual C | Joe Barrett (24th) | 13:51 (+1:49) |
The 2022 Orienteering USA Annual General Meeting will take place online on Thursday, September 29 from 8:00 to 10:00 pm (EDT) via Google Meet.
Your membership in Orienteering USA helps us to bring programs and services to orienteers and clubs throughout the country. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Clare Durand
President, Orienteering USA
Meeting ID: meet.google.com/nbx-yfmh-vbc
Phone Number:
(US)+1 515-518-1964
PIN: 248 892 519#
Delegates should login 30 minutes early to ‘check in’ with the credentialing committee.
Voting members need to be logged in to Google Meet in order to vote. Non-voting members can participate in the meeting online or via call-in.
The proposed agenda can be found in the Orienteering USA Library.
The Badger Orienteering Club is proposing a change to the methodology of OUSA fee structure. Read the proposal here.
Four of the current 12 Board seats are up for (re)election in 2022. If you are interested in running for a seat on the board, please contact Jon Torrance (jon.torrance@nullorienteeringusa.org)
As outlined in the USOF Bylaws, the number of votes your club’s delegates may cast is based on the number of USOF members in good standing, designating your club as their primary club, as of August 31, 2022.
You can find a list of your club members in good standing at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1z_bHXWx8v6E6VVsVufo6AaGYsAUMV_wv?usp=sharing
Please notify the USOF Office of the names of your delegates and alternates. The delegate appointments should be emailed from a club officer to contact@nullorienteeringusa.org or mailed to the address below to be received by the OUSA Office no later than Sept. 27, 2022. Delegates and alternates representing your club must be OUSA members, designating your club as their primary club, as of August 31, 2022. Delegate forms can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MxcSwg9XNQKCeAubOhb28pmjPi7tymRP?usp=sharing
Your club may assign its votes by proxy to another club or to an OUSA member-at-large who plans to attend the AGM. The proxy will only be valid if no OUSA-primary member of your club will be present at the AGM. Proxy statements must be received by the OUSA Office by Sept. 27, 2022. Proxies may not be assigned to a particular member of another club. Give a copy of the proxy form to the club or member-at-large to whom you are giving your proxy and send the original to the address below. Proxies may be scanned and emailed from a club officer’s email address, but you must use the form enclosed and it must be hand signed. Proxy forms can be found at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MxcSwg9XNQKCeAubOhb28pmjPi7tymRP?usp=sharing
Email scanned proxy forms or delegate and alternate names to: contact@nullorienteeringusa.org
OR Mail proxy forms or delegate and alternate appointments to:
Orienteering USA
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