11th March 2018 – The Coves Hartebeespoort
Urban Event #4 It is well worth coming out to The Coves on March 11th for the 4th of the Urban Series. We held the SA Sprint Champs there last year and it is a nice mix of urban and…
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Orienteering in South Africa
Interesting New Orienteering at The Campus
ROC added a new feature at last Sunday’s event at The Campus. Alex Pope mapped a section of the underground parking. The parking was shown as a separate map next to the main map. Several people were caught out when…
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Urban Series 2 – Wits Main Campus
Join us at Wits University for the second sprint event. The event sheet is HERE. Orienteering is a competitive form of land navigation. It is for all ages and degrees of fitness & skill. It provides the suspense and excitement…
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Urban Series has begun
Urban Series has begun The Urban Series has kicked off with a well attended event at Emmarentia Dam. There were surprise winners in both woman’s and men’s events. Kirsten Chambers beat Michelle Botha while Alex Pope beat Tim Chambers.
Additional members to the 2018 National Squads Announced
It is with great pleasure that the SAOF Selection Committee announces the addition of the following two members to the development squad Khutšišo Matlakala (POC) and Thato Phogole (POC) We congratulate these athletes and wish them all the best…
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2018 National Squads Announced
It is with great pleasure that the SAOF Selection Committee announces the Senior, Junior, Youth and Development National orienteering squads for 2018 as follows (in alphabetical order, with their club for 2017 in brackets): Senior Squad Timothy Chambers (UCTMSC) and…
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World Orienteering Day 2018
WOD 2018 The next World Orienteering Days will take place on May 23rd 2018! We aim to beat the record participation of 288,000 people in 2017.
20th Annual Sprint Cup
The 20th Annual Sprint Cup is at Pretoria Botanical Gardens on Sunday 3 December 2017 This is a fun event with two races. Starting time for the second race is based on your time for the first race. You can also just walk or…
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SAOF 2018 Squad Applications Open
The SAOF selection committee wishes to advise that the 2018 selection documents have been published and are available here https://www.orienteering.co.za/high-performance/hp-policies/ An important extract from those documents is set out below Athletes interested in being members of the National Senior and…
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2018 National Youth Squad Announcement
The selection process for the youth squad ordinarily only occurs in December/ January for the following year Exposure to training in international terrain is a key building block to develop our athletes and therefore in April/ May 2018 there will…
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