World Masters Orienteering Championships ’24 Event Recap

Event Info

  • Event Site
  • USA athletes: Sharon Crawford (W80), Dennis Wildfogel (M75), Howard Valley (M75), Walter Siegenthaler (M75), Gavin Wyatt Mair (M70), Gary Kraght (M70), Kean Williams (M65), Rick Breseman (M65), Shin Shimizu (M65), Sue Kuestner (W65), Chiori Shimizu (W65), Antonio Jose Barranco Gonzalez (M60), Tapio Karras (M60), Andras Revesz (M60), Sergey Velichko (60), Tom Hollowell (M60), Stefan Slutsky (M60), Eileen Breseman (W60), Csaba Tiszttarto, Olga Kraght (W55), Vladimir Gusiatnikov (M50), Sergei Fedorov (M40), Zmiter Vorobiov (M40),Liam Johnson (M40), Alexander Mazyrka (M40), Nataly Rabikava (W40), Max Syrovatkin (M35)

Media

If anyone has photos to share, please email webmaster@nullorienteeringusa.org

Link to photos on the WMOC website

Sprint Qualification

Sprint Final

Forest Qualification

Middle Distance Final

Long Distance Final

2024 Junior World Orienteering Championships Recap

Event Info

Media Links

Links to photo albums, articles about the event, videos with replays

Sprint Relay 7/1/24

Sprint 7/2/24

Long 7/3/24

Middle 7/5/24

Relay 7/6/24

2024 North American Orienteering Champs Recap

The 2024 North American Championships were held as part of the annual Canadian Orienteering Festival. The first weekend of the festival took place in Mansfield, near Toronto, with the Canadian Middle and Long Champs. The festivities then moved to Kingston for a joint COC/NAOC Sprint, followed by the Sprint Relay and debut NAOC Knockout Sprint. Another rest day before moving up to Calabogie, west of Ottawa, for the epic final Middle and Long distance races. There were several US victories (Ali Crocker took home the gold in the Middle and Long, and Joe Barrett in the Long) but it wasn’t enough to keep the Canadians from winning the Björn Kjellström Cup.

Results and Maps

Organizers results page.

2024 WUOC is Underway!

The 2024 FISU World University Orienteering Championships have begun, in Bansko, Bulgaria. Read about Team USA here. You can follow along at https://wuoc2024.eu/. Live GPS tracking for the Sprint Relay has just started at this link.

Yesterday’s Sprint results have been posted.

Sunday will be the Middle distance, and the Relay will be on Monday.

2024 Pan-American Masters Games Recap

Event Information

General Media Links

July 13: Sprint, Kent State University

July 15: Middle, Cuyahoga Valley National Park – Boston Run

July 16: Long, Cuyahoga Valley National Park – Kendall Lake

OUSA Communications

Clinton Morse had notified the OUSA Board of Directors that he intended to step down as National Communications Manager at year end to pursue other retirement goals. With his sudden loss, the OUSA Board will look to fill his shoes sooner than expected. 
Until OUSA can come up with a permanent solution, Barb Bryant has volunteered to coordinate our communications. She is seeking additional short-term volunteers to help with this task; please contact her at barb.bryant@nullorienteeringusa.org if you can volunteer. You may continue to send any messages related to communications to webmaster@nullorienteeringusa.org or newsletter@nullorienteeringusa.org and be confident they will be received by OUSA.

Clinton Morse

Photo by Nadim Ahmed

Orienteering USA is deeply saddened to announce the sudden passing of Clinton Morse, National Communications Manager, on July 12, 2024. He suffered a fatal heart attack after his morning run. Clinton was 62 years old. His untimely loss leaves a big gap in our hearts, and will be felt throughout the orienteering community. We offer our deepest condolences to his wife Ellen, his children Anna, Hayden, and Jackson, as well as to his extended family and friends.  

He was a wonderful human being who also did a great deal of OUSA publicity, including the monthly newsletter, Year In Review, social media posts, and anything else he was asked. Clinton is most famous as the guy with the camera who was running around like a maniac near the O-meet finish line to take your photo.  You couldn’t breathe, but suddenly you wanted to try to look good in the shot. He had a gift for highlighting our best orienteering selves, whether that was in words or in images.

Clint was a graduate of Cornell, and most of his career was in horticulture.  He was the manager of the greenhouse and botanical collections at the University of Connecticut until his retirement in 2020.  Besides his official OUSA role, Clinton was an enthusiastic orienteer, trail runner, and Rogainer, and was a mapper as well as a frequent course setter. Most recently, he single-handedly produced the Team Trials for the US World Orienteering Championship team at UConn, from maps to courses to results.

Photo by Nadim Ahmed