Friday 11 July 2008

Write about your Summer!





Despite the weather, there is lots of orienteering going on this summer. First and foremost is the World Championships,now an annual event, in the Czech Republic. The event starts on 12th July and the Irish team is


Andrew Quin (3ROC)
Neil Dobbs (WATO)
Patrick Higgins (LVO)

Ailbhe Creedon (CorkO)
Niamh O'Boyle (CNOC)
Ciara Largey (QUBOC)

Trail-O: Alan Gartside (LVO) and Wilbert Hollinger (LVO).

You can follow their progress each day on line here.

The programme is

Date
Time WOC 2008 Events
Sat 12 July 2008 afternoon

Model Sprint

Model start procedure, punching system, time keeping, refreshments

Sun 13 July 2008 morning
Sprint distance qualification

afternoon

Opening ceremony

Sprint final

Mon 14 July 2008 all day
Model long distance qualification
Tue 15 July 2008 morning
Long distance qualification
Wed 16 July 2008
all day
Model middle distance

afternoon IOF/VIP/media race
Thu 17 July 2008
morning
Middle distance qualification

afternoon Middle distance final
Fri 18 July 2008 all day

IOF Congress

Model long distance final and relay

Sat 19 July 2008 morning

Long distance final

Model relay

Sun 20 July 2008 morning
Relay

afternoon
Closing ceremony

evening
Banquet





































If you are going orienteering,why not write about is for us? There's a Junior Tour to the Swedish 5-Day, there's the World Masters in Portugal, Junior World Champs, the Setanta Rogaine, the Welsh 6-Day, the World University Champs ...

CorkO's Fiona Barrett 3rd in L'Etape du Tour
John Scannell, Chairman of CorkO, writes "On behalf of CorkO I would like to congratulate club member Fiona Barrett on her super performance in the L'Etape du Tour. This is an event with nearly 7,500 cyclists competing on one of the actual stage routes of the Tour De France. This year's stage was the 165km route from Pau to Hautacam with two infamous category one climbs the - the 23km with 7.5% gradient Col du Tourmalet and the 15km with 7.2% gradient Hautacam. With inclement weather conditions, Fiona finished in 3rd place in the ladies category which is indeed a superb performance.

Our congratulation go out to you Fiona!"

Fiona finished the 165 km course in poor weather conditions in a race time of 7 hours 8 minutes 44 seconds, less than 3 minutes off 2nd place. The 16th Mondovelo Etape du Tour was on Sunday 6th July. For details see here.

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