Ultimax Stingers 5 Days
3rd - 7th January 2007, Orange, Australia.
The Ultimax Stingers
and Goldseekers OC, invite you to come and enjoy five days of high
quality and enjoyable orienteering in some of the best Granite Terrain
Australia has to offer. The courses will be set by the JWOC 2007 course
planners and will provide an excellent opportunity to prepare for the
Junior World Champs. All orienteers, be they Australian or from abroad,
will love the orienteering we have to offer.
Ultimax Stingers 5 days- Final report
Tuesday, 9 January 2007
 The Ultimax 5-days
culminated with a reverse order (best last) start based on competitors best 3
results of the first 4 days. The local “Goldseekers” Orienteering club organized
the final day, taking the reigns from the Ultimax Stingers team. The tough
granite terrain of the last 4 days was also replaced by Spur/gully terrain with
predominate pine tree forest. Heavy rain during the morning would have put a
smile on the faces of local farmers, but made conditions difficult in the steep
and slippery terrain.
In the Men’s A class,
Mats Troeng (SWE) was leading Julian Dent (NSW), Olav Lundanes (NOR) and
Carsten Joergenson (DEN) in a very competitive international field. Lundanes
caught Joergensen at #7 after a mistake, and a different route to #10 allowed
Dent catch them both. This pack pushed each other very hard to the end of the
course, with Lundanes (40.27) showing great speed to open up a small gap at the
finish over Joergensen(41.34). Dent (39.41) impressively hung on to two of the
fastest athletes in the sport to take the win. Troeng (41.37) raced alone to
finish 4th.
In the Ultimax 5-days overall pointscore,
Dent moved into 1st place after his Day 5 win, but was ineligible for
first prize as he was part of there NSW Stingers organising team. Troeng was 2nd,
Lundanes 3rd and Joergensen 4th. Australia’s top
hope for 2007 JWOC in Dubbo, Simon Uphill, had a great week to finish 5th.
 In Women’s A, New Zealand
had their first success, with promising junior Amber Morrison (41.53) leading
the race from the 2nd control. Morrison was part of a large contingent
of kiwi juniors in Australia
for the 5-days and pre-JWOC training camp. Norway’s Mali
Fjogstad Nilsen (43.49) overcame a slow start to finish 2nd. Grace
Elson (44.24) in 2nd place until losing time at #9, then fought back
to take 3rd place. In the Ultimax 5-days overall pointscore, Elson
held onto her lead, with Nilsen 2nd, and Victoria’s Jasmine Neve
finishing 3rd.
A great array of prizes were provided to placegetters, including Berghaus backpacks for the winners. Many
other lucky draw prizes were available for our other sponsors including Ultimax socks, The Robin Hood Hotel , Run for
Your Life – running magazine, AROCSPORT and Basil & Jean Baldwin’s
vineyard, Fourjay Farms. 
Day 5 results
Winsplits
Overall results
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