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CONTENTS

Contents 1999 WOC Team 1 1998 Annual Meeting Report 2-3 COF Ombudsman 3 Sanctioned 'A' Meets 3 International News 4 1998 Junior World Championships 5-6 Good Ideas 6 1998 Canadian and North American Championships 7 Canadian Championships - Classic 8-9 Classic Distance Results 10-12 COC Short Distance 13 Short Distance Results 14-15 North American Championhips 16-17 North American Results 18-20 COC/NAOC Snippets 21 Canadians at Various 1998 World Championships 22-23 COF Drops 24 Safety and Search Questionnaire 25-26 COF Items For Sale 27 Contact Names & Addresse 28

ORIENTEERING CANADA Published by the Canadian Orienteering Federation

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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTEERING FEDERATION Vol. 27 No. 3 FALL 1998

ISSN 0227-6658

SPECIAL EXPENDED EDITION

Due to the many major events held in July and August -COC, NAOC, Junior World Championships, World Masters Games, World Masters Orienteering Championships, World Rogaine Championships, COF Annual General Meeting, etc. it was decided to increase this issue to 28 pages.

This allowed inclusion of material while current rather than holding until the Winter issue (January). While the main focus is on the COC and NAOC report and results, (15 pages), other items are also important and not to be put aside.

My thanks to the many contributors who provided information, results and articles for this issue.

Six Selected to 1999 WOC Team

The COC Classic and Short events were used to Pre-Select 3 women and 3 men to our 1999 WOC team. Athletes were ranked on the combined times of the Classic 2 days and the Short and the top ranked 3 men and 3 women named to the WOC team. A condition of selection was that the total time of athletes must be within 35% of the top ranked athlete.

MEN (Eight within the 35% criteria) I Mike Waddington 183.33 0.0% - Selected 2 Mike Smith 192.18 04.8% - Selected 3 Wil Smith 194.21 05.0% - Selected 4 Peter MacKenzie 216.04 17.8% 5 Francis Falardeau 222.54 21.3% 6 Ross Burnett 223.17 21.7% 7 Brian Graham 248.13 35.0%

WOMEN (Three within the 35% criteria) 1 Pam James 176.57 0.0% - Selected 2 Sandy Smith 180.27 102.0% - Selected 3 Marie Cath Bruno 232.05 131.4% - Selected

The 1999 COC Classic and Short will be used for final selection of an additional 2 men and 2 women. The same 35% within the top ranked time criteria will be used.

Ross Burnett Named 1999 WOC Team Leader

Ross Burnett will be Team Leader of our team to the 1999 WOC in Scotland and well qualified for the position. He has been a member of our team at five WOC's - four as a competitor:1983, 85, 87 , 89 and one as coach, 1993. As the above COC ranking shows he is still one of our top M20 competitors. Ross is an excellent communicator, a very important quality of a team leader, and also has the respect of national squad members.

Naming the Team Leader well in advance of the WOC is very important. There is a great deal of communication required to obtain information about: accommodations, prices, meals, training possibilities, transportation, event schedules, registration, payment of fees, soliciting team equipment, relaying information to team members, and a myriad other items. Having Ross in position a year prior to the WOC is a very positive step along the road to WOC 1999.

Congratulations to Ross and the six athletes selected.

1998 ANNUAL MEETING REPORT The 1998 COF AGM was held on Tuesday, July 28, in the Kamloops Kinsmen Hall. The meeting was scheduled for mid-afternoon to allow delegates to participate in the National Team Fundraiser Relay.

The following report summarizes some of the items discussed and decisions taken.

1. BOARD OF DIRECTOR ELECTIONS

Two Directors, Ross Burnett (Yukon) and Oivind Naess (Alberta) did not seek re-election. The positions of President and four Directors were open for election.

The following were elected to the Board:

President Colin Kirk (Que)

re-elected for 2-year term Director Richard James (NS)

re-elected for 2-year term Director Geraint Edmunds (AB) elected for 2-year term Director Catherine Hagen (BC) elected for 2-year term

Two other Directors have one more year to serve in their current 2-year terms: Treasurer, Sheldon Friesen (Manitoba), Director, Ray St Laurent (NB).

Note: The COF Constitution stipulates the Board of Directors consist of seven (7). In recent years the Board has operated with 6 members and in some cases 5. The Constitution permits that a quorum of Directors can appoint a person to fill a vacancy on the Board.

Following the AGM the Directors agreed that it would be beneficial to have an Ontario member on the Board. The 001 President, Annette Van Tyghem, was solicited and agreed to serve. This brings the number of Directors to the maximum seven .

The COF Board represent seven of the eight member associations - the Yukon is the only association not represented. The additions of Catherine, Annette and Geraint plus Sheldon having just having completed his first year gives the Board a decidedly different look from two years ago.

2. CONSTITUTION

Proposed revisions to the Constitution were distributed to member associations 60 days prior to the AGM. A motion to accept the revised Constitution was approved.

3. ELIGIBILITY - COF COMPETITION RULES 11.2.1

In recent years there have been discrepancies in Eligibility clauses for COC's and NAOC's held in Canada. In

particular clauses pertaining to Landed Immigrants, Dual Citizens and residency conditions.

A motion from the COF Board to align COC and NAOC Eligibility for COF members with those used by the Canadian Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration was approved

The COF Competition Rule 11.2.1- Eligibility was revised to:

a) "Winners of Canadian Orienteering Championships shall be members of the provincial/territorial associations" .

b) Canadian citizens or b) Persons with landed immigrant status

This is effective immediately and be used by organizers of Canadian Championships and North American Championships held in Canada. USOF Eligibility rules will apply for USOF members competing in NAOC 's held in Canada.

4. ALBERTA TO HOST 2002 COC AND NAOC

The Alberta Association submitted an application to host COC & NAOC 2002. AOA have submitted a bid to host APOC 2002 (Asia Pacific 0 Championships) and want to offer a COC, NAOC, APOC package. The AOA application to host COC & NAOC 2002 was approved.

5. 2001 COC ORGANIZER SOUGHT

No applications to host COC 2001 were received. COF will solicit associations to identify an organizer.

6. LEVEL 2 COACHING COURSE CONDUCTOR COURSE AT 1999 COC

The shortage of qualified Course Conductors is a major problem in offering NCCP Certification Courses. Orienteering New Brunswick presented the motion; " Whereas there is an identified need for an NCCP Level 2 clinic and Course Conductors workshop, the COF shall organize such a clinic in conjunction with the 1999 Canadian Orienteering Championships". Motion approved.

7. APPLICATIONS TO HOST COC - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Motion: "Whereas there are no clear rules for what events should be included in an application for a Canadian Orienteering Championship it is moved that the application shall, as a minimum, include a two day individual classical event, and a short distance event". Motion approved.

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8. SHORT DISTANCE STANDARDS TO BE DEVELOPED

Motion: Whereas the COF does not have rules for short distance events, it is moved that a committee be established by COF to establish standards by December 31, 1998. Motion approved.

9. JUNIOR TRAINING CAMPS TO BE HELD AT COC's

Motion: Whereas junior orienteers need access to elite coaching, it is moved that the COF support the Sass Peepre (Junior Training Camp) Committee in providing a junior training camp in conjunction with the COC's yearly if possible. Motion approved.

10. COC AND NAOC LEVY CHANGE

Motion: That COF levies on COC and NAOC be 25% of registration fees, including late fees. Motion approved

11. COC & NAOC RELATED EVENT LEVIES

Motion: That events held within one week prior to or following the COC, NAOC or other major events sanctioned by COF and within such distance as to benefit from the major events are subject to a COF levy of 25% of the event registration fee. Motion approved.

12. RELATED EVENTS - LEVY EXEMPTION

Motion: Organizers of COC/NAOC related events may request exemption of the 25% levy. Rationale for such exemption must be submitted to COF by January 1 of the event year. COF Board will advise of their decision within 15 days. Motion approved.

13. ASSOCIATION ANNUAL REPORT

Motion: "Where there is inconsistency in the method of filling in the association annual report, it is moved that the COF board prepare guidelines for filling out the form, and specify the consequences of not submitting the information or submitting correct information". Motion approved.

C O F OMBUDSMAN SERVICE

RAI' ST-LAURENT

Occasionally grievances may occur between COF and an individual or an organization. The ombudsman, who sits on the COF Board, provides an added, direct channel to help resolve these issues.

If you have a grievance, it is expected that it would be resolved by the normal channels. If for whatever reason, you feel that the situation is not being treated appropriately, please involve the ombudsman. Do not wait until molehills become the size of Manitoban mountains.

There are several outcomes possible after you bring it to the attention of the ombudsman.

1. It was a misunderstanding. Everyone ends up happy.

2. The problem was identified and resolved. Everyone ends up happy.

3. The problem was identified and will be prevented from re-occurring. You have done service to the community. Maybe you can be happy for that. Everyone else in future will be happy.

4. The problem cannot be resolved. Oh well, at least we will know what to avoid to prevent these unhappy situations again.

So when in doubt, contact the ombudsman. I am pleased to be your present ombudsman and can be reached as shown below. Leave a message as detailed as you wish, or simply say that you have a matter to discuss.

Ray St-Laurent 17 Wallace Lane

Hanwell. NB E3C 1M6

Tel: (506) 459-4827 email: [email protected]

1998 SANCTIONED 'A' MEETS SCHEDULE

DATE MEET LOCATION CONTACT TEL. & E -MAIL

00.1 0-1 1 Ontario Champs Kolapore, Ont Susan Ryans (519)433-9350

Oct. 25 Golden Horseshoe Ancaster, Ont Mike Waddington (905)523-7645 E-mail: viaddinguilnernaster.ca

INTERNATIONAL NEWS NOTES FROM 1998 IOF CONGRESS

(Items 1-4)

1. SWITZERLAND TO ORGANIZE WOC 2003

The Congress approved the application from Switzerland to organize the WOC 2003. This will be the second WOC held in Switzerland, the previous one being 1981.

The Japanese Federation advised that they will submit a bid to host WOC 2005.

2. MOUNTAIN BIKE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS INTRODUCED IN 2002

World Championships in Mountain Bike Orienteering (MBO) were approved commencing in 2002 and every second year following. No nation has been approved to organize the first WOC MBO

3. THREE NEW FEDERATIONS APPROVED

India, Moldova and Chinese Taipei were accepted as associate members of the IOF. The addition of these three nations brings the number of IOF member nations to 51. India had previously been an associate member but relinquished their affiliation several years ago.

4. WORLD CHAMPIONS RECEIVE WOC BERTH

Individual World Champions will be able to defend their titles by being granted an automatic place in the qualification races. The proposal submitted from Finland did not receive universal approval.

Switzerland opposed on three points:

a) it is not usual in other sports; b) it means large nations can increase their number of

participants; c) a defending champion might not be active 2 years

later, and this could give negative media coverage. Japan also opposed the proposal saying: "if the runner is strong enough he will gain a place on the national team anyway".

The proposal was approved - 13 For, 6 Against, 9 Abstentions.

5. BRITISH FEDERATION HIRES TOP SWEDISH COACH

The BOF has hired Goran Anderson to the positionPerformance Director; his main role is to bring

more medals to Brtitish orienteering. Many well-known international coaches applied for the position advertised at $100,000 a year plus car. Anderson was coach of the Swedish junior team that won medals at the 1986-87 JWOC and coach of the Swedish Women's team at the 1988 and 1992 WOC's when they won two Relay golds and three Individual medals. The position is funded by the UK Lottery Sports Fund.

6. IT'S UP IN THE AIR

At a World Park championship race in Vasa, Finland, the second last control was located 5 metres up the face of a climbing wall. We should be able to hang them a bit higher than that at some Gatineau Park meets.

7. TOUGH TRAINING

A note in the Australian 0 magazine advises that Aussie national team member, Grant Bluett, is currently training in Sweden with multi-world champion, Jorgen Martensson. One session was a six hour run, "to toughen up".

NORWEGIANS LEAD WORLD CUP SERIES AFTER 6 RACES

MEN

1 Bjornar Valstad Norway 185 2 Johan Ivarsson Sweden 184 3 Valentin Novikov Russia 152 4 Jimmy Birkl in Sweden 147 5 Carl Henrik Bjorseth Norway 142 6 Jorgen Martensson Sweden 140 7 Havard Tveite Norway 135 8 Steve Hale Britain 134 9 Chris Terkelsen Denmark 130 10 PetterThoresen Norway 129

WOMEN

1 Hanne Staff Norway 180 2 Katarina Borg Sweden 173 3 Katarina Allberg Sweden 147 4 Reeta-Mari Kolkkala Finland 147 5 Brigitte Husebye Norway 136 6 Yvette Hague Britain 133 7 Johanna Asklof Finland 133 8 Gunil la Svard Sweden 131 9 Annika Viilo Finland 130 10 Heather Monro Britain 130

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1998 Junior World Championships - Fun in France By Dave Donaldson

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Just prior to the COC I returned from the 1998 Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC), held at Reims, France, (an hour east of Paris). The team consisted of three Ontario juniors: myself and Dave Anderson, members of the Golden Horseshoe OC and Gabor Lipcsey, (Toronto OC). This was the last JWOC chance for Gabor and me, but Dave will be eligible to compete next year in Bulgaria.

We got to the Reims area about a week before the races, and managed to get out to the main training map--a huge, varying, challenging forested area that was very well mapped. With no luck for accommodation we had to camp in the forest for two nights, buying loads of cheap bottled water to survive on! A tip from the Aussie team pointed us to a sweet place to stay in the village adjacent to the map, and for $10/night each we had a mini house to ourselves!

The training went well, but as always it's tough to achieve a balance between getting lots of map exposure and being physically overdrawn. The Reims area terrain is pretty flat on top, but with steep, detailed slopes on the edges of the main hill range. There was definitely an emphasis on the `bingo' compass legs for portions of the race, but also on more technical contouring legs for other portions. Generally the courses were planned to avoid a lot of climb - courses either stayed in the flats, or contoured - rarely zig-zagging up and down.

Before the races began we had the experience of a lifetime as we watched France win the World Cup. We went to the centre of Reims (a town of 200,000), where on the main pedestrian boulevard they'd set up a giant TV screen for the game. Despite getting there 1.5 hours early, we sat 100m back - yet we were probably amongst the closest 3rd to the screen! Thousands of people sat down orderly and watched the game, but huge celebrations followed each of the three goals. Car horns honked incessantly through the night as 400 JWOC competitors tried to sleep - thank God for ear plugs!

We opened with the Classic - a race which surprised a lot of people I think. Top times were fast, but many runners had disappointing runs. I was able to take advantage of this, finishing 53rd. Gabor and Dave had problems, finishing 87th and 105th respectively. I was very pleased with my run, but had to wonder 'what could have been!' as I made about 4 minutes of silly mistakes near the end.

1 H. Peterson (Sweden)

56.47

53 D. Donaldson

69.05

87 G. Lipcsey

84.49

105 D Anderson 11331

Hopes were high for the Short Qualification races the next day. Gabor had a very impressive run, finishing 15th in his heat (20 qualify for the Final). Despite feeling much faster than in the Classic I ended up 31st but only two minutes out of qualifying. Dave had a tough time again (one big error), and was 57t n.

Heat 1 - 1. R. Gunnarsson (Sweden)

25.48 15. G. Lipcsey

30.53 20. L. Calabro

31.13 57. D. Anderson 64.23

Heat 2 - 1. J. Rostrup (Norway)

25.31 20. G. Ranonis - 30.03 31. D. Donaldson - 32.07

Gabor qualified for the A final, I for the B, and Dave A. for the C. Unlike the qualification race, the final was in quite thick and technical hillside terrain. Times were quite a bit slower, and the depth in each final was quite poor as many runners made mistakes. Gabor decided to run slowly, but surely and finished very respectably. I had my worst run of the week, making two 2 min. mistakes. Dave had big troubles again (it certainly wasn't his week for good luck!).

A Final: I. J. Rostrup (Norway) - 26.58 2. R. Gunnarsson (Sweden)

29.03

32. G. Lipcsey - 35.22

B Final: 1. J. Moe (Norway) - 22.15 2. J. Hansen (Denmark)- 24.22

20. D. Donaldson - 31.38

C Final: 1. H. Klauser (Switzerland) - 24.15 45. D. Anderson - 74.27

Rostrup (definitely the best Jr. male in the world) had a storming run after he caught up the 2nd last starter (Gunnarsson) early on. They flew around together to finish one-two. Moe (maybe 2nd best in the world)also had a stormer, running at a TPK that would have placed him 2nd in the A final.

After another night of fun (half the fun was the team leader meetings where the organizer sat through hours of criticism over his very poorly run JWOC!), we looked forward to the relay. We knew that if we each had a decent/very good run we could achieve our goals. The hair was dyed red for added touch (although it's since washed out). Gabor went first, he has the relay experience and speed to do very good things on the first leg. Unfortunately, he had some bad luck at the second control and lost the lead pack. After a long, and 3-way-forked first control (in wide open, visible forest though), there was a short leg to a common 2nd control that only had 1 Regnly punch! Fifty-six teams descended onto this one punch, and this obviously separated things! Gabor estimates that he lost 3 minutes punching! So, he came back about 9 minutes down, and very disappointed.

Dave A went next and had his best run of the week, running about 25 minutes offthe lead pace. He wasn't entirely happy, but it was certainly nice to run a race without one huge error. The bad news was that Japan was having the relay of their lives, so I went out with one thing on my mind: 'how do I explain to the o-squad that we lost to Japan!?' Luckily

their last leg guy crumbled, and I had the run I'd been waiting for--quick and clean. Quite a feeling. I lost another 7.5 minutes to the fastest time, but passed 9 teams (despite not seeing anyone!) So, in the end we did alright--just a little slower than last year's relay effort.

1 SWEDEN - 2.15 (43 + 44 + 47 ) 9 NEW ZEALAND - 2.22

16 GREAT BRITAIN - 2.28 19 AUSTRALIA - 2.33 25 CANADA -2.55 (53.06 + 71.41 + 51.09) 32 USA - 3.57

We were 34th out of 56 teams (including the double teams).

One highlight was the mixed/unofficial teams relay. Unlike previous JWOC's, the IOF Controller wouldn't let the six unofficial teams start at the same time as the official relay. This does make sense, and it's how it's done at WOC, but there's a huge difference between running the JWOC 56 team relay and running a six team relay half an hour later.

During the distraction of the mass start, the unofficial teams' 1st leg runners ran to the big map board and grabbed their 2nd leg maps and joined the mass start pack illegally! When the 1st leg guy for AUS/NZL came in, he handed over this map to the 2nd leg runner who was pursued by the organizers (they thought he was confused, and was mistakenly handing over the map!) Finally the organizers caught on, and as the second hand-off took place, an organizer stood in the running lane trying to tackle the 3rd leg runner! He showed an impressive Aussie Rugby move, jumped the streamers and ran off into the forest with his map to the cheers of everyone! Needless to say, they were disqualified in the end!

That night was the banquet - a JWOC classic. I think Wil Smith once described it as 'a bunch of responsible young adults playing chess, eating green KoolAid and going to bed at 10.' Very apt Congrats JWOC Team Canada. All the best to next year's team as they battle the orienteers of the world, and the Gastrointesi nal diseases of Bulgaria.

GOOD IDEAS Edmonton Overlanders OC Marilyn Edmunds, suggested that Orienteering Canada include a column to share 'Good Ideas' with others and forwarded two to introduce the new column. Thanks Marilyn for your "Good Idea".

WEAR NAME BADGES

EOOC has issued official name badges to some of its members - certified officials, coaches, committee members and others who are good at giving beginners clinics. There are lots of advantages to these name badges:

• first timers can instantly tell the officials from the participants

• the greeter can tell newcomers that after they have registered they can "find someone wearing one of these badges and ask them for a beginners clinic"

• new members can learn the names of one or two other members each week

• its nice to give some kind of recognition to those who take Officials Courses

• owners of the badges can decide for themselves whether they want to help out at an event or not by wearing their badge or not.

Our badges have the club logo plus "Edmonton Overlanders Orienteering Club" as well as room for the member's name. As the set-up fee for the logo is a large part of the cost, we ordered and paid for more than we needed and have them engraved as necessary.

STRING COURSES ARE NOT JUST FOR SMALL KIDS (This one is second hand).

At a recent "C" event organized by GVOC, lots of Scout groups were expected. Event Director George Pugh set up

a String Course for the Scouts to try while their leaders were registering them. This not only kept the Scouts busy at a crucial time, but also gave them an idea what orienteering is about.

KITCHEN BAG SEALERS SUITABLE FOR SEALING '0' MAPS

A few months back a well known Foothills Wanderer member enquired: if any clubs were using heat sealed map bags; did we know of a machine that seals bags similar to sealing food freezer bags; are kitchen freezer bag sealers big enough to handle a fair sized map?

With FWOC's reputation for cutting edge technology and innovative solutions to problems I was surprised they were unaware of using kitchen freezer bag sealers for map sealing. Several clubs have been using these low cost gadgets for the last 8-10 years and I assumed every club used them. It illustrates the need to inform others of "Good Ideas".

Kitchen freezer bag sealers are available at Eaton's and The Bay for about $30-35.. Document sealers can be purchased at office equipment stores e.g Business Depot, Grand & Toy for about $130. Both can handle size normal size map cases. Document sealers are more durable, can handle heavier gauge plastic and can also laminate. Kitchen bag sealers are quite suitable for most '0' meet needs.

A report on the FWOC 1998 Barebones Meet in the June issue of the AOA magazine, notes "We also managed to acquire a map sealer".

If you have a 'Good Idea' to share with others please forward to the COF office.

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1995 CANADIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 1998 Canadian and North American Championships provided excellent orienteering, some very exciting finishes and many opportunities for socializing. Five days of competition: COC Classic - 2 days; COC - Short - I day; NAOC- 2 days; were organized under the umbrella of Sage Stomp '98 with the results totaled to determine Sage Stomp winners. The three events attracted close to 400 competitors to the COC Classic and NAOC and about 280 to the COC Short.

HEAT A MAJOR FACTOR

Most expected it to be hot but few expected it to be in the 40 degrees range every day. The high temperatures affected times and while early morning start times were a bonus they were offset with a late start during the highest temperatures the next day. Competitors are to be congratulated for performing so well over five days in such searing heat.

ORGANIZATION

COC Classic

Meet Director Course Planner Controller

Charlie Fox (Valley Navigators OC) John Rance (Greater Vancouver OC) Adrian Zissos (Foothills Wanderers OC - Alberta)

COC Short

Course Planner Controller

Meet Director Marek Dutkiewicz (Greater Vancouver OC) George Pugh (Greater Vancouver OC) Scott Donald (Kootenay OC)

NAOC

Meet Director Course Planners

Controller

Alan Philip (Victorienteers) Steve Chatwin (Victorienteers) Kris Dartnell (Victorienteers) Bryan Chubb (Edmonton Overlanders OC - Alberta)

This was the third occasion that OABC has organized the COC and in my opinion the best of the three. It is difficult to rank the many COC 's and N AOC 's held since the first COC in 1968 but Sage Stomp '98 would certainly rate in the top 2 or 3. The standards for all events were very high.

Successful events don't just happen. They are the result of an enormous amount of commitment and efforts of many. Sage Stomp '98 was fortunate to have so many members and friends volunteer their services at one or more meets. Over 30 OABC members were heavily involved in organizing the events and another 30+ involved to a lesser degree. Few associations could muster such a strong corp of volunteers.

MAJOR OFFICIALS

Three teams of major officials were responsible for the meets. These teams put in an enormous amount of time to ensure appropriate and enjoyable courses and meets. They are to be complimented on meeting their objectives.

Special recognition and thanks to Sage Stomp '98 coordinators, Jennifer Fenton and Mark McMillan for a superb job.

On behalf of the Canadian Orienteering I extend sincere congratulations to OABC and their members for a wonderful week of orienteering.

Colin Kirk, President

P.S. The COF is looking for an organizer for COG 2001. Is the Sage Stomp '98 group interested?

Canadian Championships - Classic, Meadow Creek, Logan Lake

The Logan Lake area provided a perfect blend of small town friendliness and excellent orienteering terrain - rolling hills, forests, open range land - that offered challenging technical courses combined with good running and visibility. There were various camping possibilities, reasonably priced motels and good restaurants. It would be difficult to find a better venue. One drawback is it's rather remote location -several hours from where most BC orienteers live.

The Meet Site was superb. The highway into town skirts alongside a lake on the left with the town on the right. The Logan Lake Recreation Centre and park are adjacent to the highway at the end of the lake.

Parking was at the Recreation Centre, 300 metres from the Finish, and helped offset the 25-30 minutes walks to the Start each day. The Finish was in the park - a 'run-in' along on the edge of the lake to at a band shelter which provided a shady sanctuary for officials.

Two large marquees situated about 60 metres from the Finish provided shelter and a place for competitors to relax and recount experiences in a pleasant social atmosphere. A Beer Garden was in operation in one marquee with BC members, Shirley Donald and Carl Coger, the congenial bartenders - a nice touch and appreciated by hot thirsty orienteers.

Ross Burnett observed that in addition to the Beer Garden the local beer and liquor store was only 300 metres away and clearly visible from the Finish - a first ever and factors worth consideration in deciding whether this was the Best Ever COC meet site. Ross took a photograph to record this scene.

Drinking lots of water was a must but many still became dehydrated. The organizers felt they had provided sufficient water but some late starters reported there was no water at some water stops. It was reported that some competitors poured water on their heads to 'cool down' , resulting in no water for others. If true this is grossly unfair. Water provided on courses is strictly for Drinking.

Close Races HiRhlieht Elite Classes

F20 An exciting race between four women: 5 time champion, Pam James, Sandy Smith and two visiting orienteers - Eva Stalstad (Sweden) and Kristin Ritzenthaler (Switzerland).

Day 1. Stalstad held a lead of 1.21over Smith with Ritzenthaler 3rd .15 behind and James 4th a further 1.19 back - only 2.55 separated the four. The visitors were ineligible to win and the margin Smith and James only 1.34. Defending champion, Catherine Hagen, finished 3rd.

Day 2. Stalstad was the first of the leaders to finish and set a tough target for the others. Smith, with an excellent time (66.32) moved into the lead. James, with the best time of the day (65.33) reduced the margin to .35 (narrowest winning margin in the Classic). Sandy Smith is the new Canadian champion; Pam James finished 2nd and Catherine Hagen 3rd.

M20 The field of56 included all the top ranked Canadians and thirty overseas competitors. Best of the visitors were Norwegian national squad member, Holger Hott Johansen, and Greg Barbour, New Zealand team member at several WOC's.

Day 1. Barbour, with an excellent 70.02 for the 10.8 km course led by a margin of 3.13 over Mike Waddington with Johansen over 6 minutes back in 3rd place. Waddington was 4.38 ahead of Martin Pardoe for the Canadian title with Mike and Wil Smith 3rd and 4th several minutes back.

Day 2. The Smith's and Waddington started early. Waddington posted the best early time followed by M. Smith. Pardoe started an hour later and with another solid run took over 2nd spot. Barbour and Johansen started very late and in hottest period of the day. The New Zealander reclaimed the lead with an excellent run (73.07). The Norwegian started 12 minutes behind and with an

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outstanding run (69.03) reduced the deficit by 4 minutes but still 2.34 short of overtaking Barbour.

Top Canadian was Mike Waddington, his third Classic title, Martin Pardoe was 2nd and Mike Smith 3rd.

Junior Classes Showcase Future Stars

F12 Morgan Lay won with two times very comparable to the top M12 times.

M12 Day 1 leader, Robbie Anderson, held off a challenge from Darius Konotopetz, to win the title. Darius had the faster Day 2 time but was unable to make up a deficit of 2.20.

F13 Erica Lay made it double victories for the family and in similar fashion as Morgan - two even runs. M13 Good performances by winner, Robin Foubister (58.32), and runner-up, Wil Critchley, (63.30).

F15 Heather Smith followed the consistency route in winning with twin, Victoria, in the runner-up spot.

M15 Nils Carlson took first place by a comfortable margin. In a close race for second, Scott McBride edged Daniel limes by .34.

F17 and M17 Marta Green and Adam Scheck won these classes in impressive fashion and continued their winning ways throughout the entire.

Master Classes - Tough Competition & Excellent Performances

Visitors provided stiffcompetition in most classes. Women: Australia - Meredyth Sauer and Jill Dalton; Switzerland - Veronique Juan; UK - Carol Pearce; Sweden Ann Jansson.

Men: USA - Don Davis and Peter Gagarin (1997 M50 Veteran World Champion); Switzerland - Toby Imhof, 2nd ranked M40 and Alain Juan, 5th ranked M45; New

Zealand - Michael Wood (has been a guest coach at several Sass Peepre National Junior Training Camps including this year).

F35 Ann Jansson and Veronique Juan finished one two overall and Maureen De Camp 'out-steaded' Laura Querengesser and Beatrice Walder to win the COC title.

M35 Toby Imhof had the fastest time each day to win the overall race. Olav Nipen was top Canadian with Man Jones 2nd and Don Ross 3rd.

F45 Meredyth Sauer edged Jill Dalton by .07 for 1st with Carol Pearce a close 3P:I. Muriel Gamey was top Canadian just under 4 minutes ahead of Gloria Rankin with Luella Smith a further 2 minutes back.

M45 This may have been the most competitive class in the entire event with 8-10 very experienced runners battling it out every day. Best in this race was Bryan Chubb, who fought offthe challenge of Alain Juan to finish 1st overall. Gord Hunter and Richard Mathews were 2nd and 3rd place Canadians.

F55 A 'clean sweep' for BC members, Francis Vyse, Diana Hocking and Shirley Donald. While Francis won by a comfortable margin the fight between Diana and Shirley was a nip and tuck affair with Diana turning a Day 1 deficit of .09 into a Day 2 plus of .29.

M55 Alex Kerr won the COC title without undue pressure but only 4 minutes separated positions 2-5. Alan Vyse 2nd, Einar Viddal 3rd, Steve Pearson 4th and Per Gaarder 5th. Don Davis had the fastest time each day to finish 1st overall.

F 65+ Pat de St Croix stretched a 5 minute Day 1 lead into a 28 minute margin over Gloria Charlow with Nesta Leduc 3rd.

M65+ Don Scott turned a Day 1 deficit of 1.18 into a 5 minute victory margin over Andy Lamm with Dick de St Croix taking 3rd place.

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1998 CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS CLASSIC DISTANCE, JULY 25-26

* Not eligible for Canadian Championship awards

Class F12 Course Length: 2.6 2.8

Place Name Assoc Day 1 Day 2 Total 1 Morgan Lay BC 25.00 23.41 48.41 2* Annett Juras SZ 27.46 22.05 49.51 3 Justine Scheck YK 31.14 25.28 56.42 4 Jennifer Anderson QC 29.25 28.26 57.51 5 Kristina Roe MB 41.26 25.06 66.32 6 Katy 1nnes ON 32.29 37.46 70.15 7 Erin Hill-Tout BC 48.26 31.22 79.48 8 Lyndsay Eastwood BC 45.51 40.14 86.05 9 Nicole Bakker ON 52.06 35.09 87.15

10 Ashleigh Browne ON 36.45 60.30 97.15

Class F13 Course Length: 3.3 3.1 I Erica Lay BC 41.40 38.57 80.37 2* Cara Witt 57.23 38.14 95.37 3 Katherine Scheck YK 38.41 DSQ N/A 4 Meghan Rance BC 60.16 DSQ N/A 5 Karen Bernhardt BC DNS 62.40 N/A

Class F15 Course Length: 4.2 3.7 1 Heather Smith NB 40.08 37.36 77.44 2 Victoria Smith NB 41.52 44.19 86.11 3 Crystal Dargie BC 62.24 54.58 117.22 4 Devon Stonehocker BC 78.24 55.44 134.08 5 Danielle Dmytar BC 53.36 119.20 172.56

Class F17 Course Length: 5.0 5.1 1 Marta Green BC 53.54 62.27 116.21 2 Johanna Carlson AB 53.35 72.35 126.10 3 Claire Critchley AB 68.55 83.48 152.43 4 Ashley Matthews BC 85.04 146.43 231.47 5 Keltie Craig AB 112.25 134.57 247.22 6* Jenny Pearson US 147.32 160.46 308.18 7 Tara Matthews BC DNS 104.55 N/A

Class F20 Course Length: 7.3 7.2 1 Sandy Smith NB 66.49 66.32 133.21 2 Pam James NS 68.23 65.33 133.56 3' Eva Stalstad SW 65.28 70.58 136.26 4* Kristin Ritzenthaler SZ 67.04 76.21 143.25 5' Hanna Rangert SW 71.39 77.35 149.14 6* Peggy Dickison US 71.05 79.56 151.01 7 Catherine Hagen BC 82.00 75.41 157.41 8 Marie-Catherine Bruno QC 81.14 90.02 171.16 9* Debbie Newell US 80.18 01.01 181.19

10 Nina Waddington ON 83.58 06.12 190.10 11 Angela Pearson AB 90.31 03.04 193.35 12* Catherine Ashton US 89.50 07.53 197.43 13* Nancy Koehler US 102.35 04.43 207.18 14 Sue Richards AB 121.47 88.51 210.38 15 Cherie Mahoney NB 97.57 14.25 212.22 16 Mel Dutkiewicz BC 97.35 34.18 231.53 17 Abbi May NS 127.34 08.23 235.57 18* Lesley Ward UK 108.08 36.45 244.53 19 Kristin Viddal AB 119.52 25.15 245.07 20 Amanda Edmunds AB 121.29 25.30 246.59 21 Crystal Parks Boser BC 133.27 30.25 263.52 22 Suzanne Pearson BC 117.28 52.54 270.22 24 Gail MacDonald BC 159.08 71.56 331.04 25* Kerstin Juras SZ 207.30 18.51 346.21 26* Helen Pearce UK 104.53 DNS N/A 27 Marketa Graham QC 110.19 DNF N/A 28 Shanna Knights BC 130.02 DNF N/A 29 Tara Matthews BC 204.02 DNS N/A 30 Patricia Johnson BC DNF 232.09 N/A

Class F35 Course Length: 5.7 I* Ann Jansson SW 74.13 2* Veronique Juan SZ 65.01

5.8 83.44 88.12

157.57 163.13

3 Maureen De Camp BC 88.53 81.12 170.05 4 Laurie Querengesser AB 87.02 90.15 177.17 5 Beatrice Walder AB 75.30 105.19 180.49 6 Andree Jarvis AB 89.25 93.03 182.28 7* Eileen Breseman US 59.20 124.30 183.50 8 Annette Van Tyghem ON 78.20 113.58 192.18 9 Barbara Scheck YK 82.59 114.05 197.04

10 Mary Lou Hogg AB 92.25 104.50 197.15 11 Beth Cornish AB 80.20 121.48 202.08 12* Annie Sanderson US 84.52 124.33 209.25 13 Vicki Bondy ON 95.33 121.45 217.18 14 Sabine Schwinger YK 92.18 125.25 217.43 15 Sheena van Dyk AB 88.32 134.35 223.07 16* Anita Brattland US 98.30 141.28 239.58 17 Jennifer Eastwood BC 112.44 132.21 245.05 18 Helen Howard QC 129.18 116.42 246.00 19* Katie Sprugel US 107.44 142.09 249.53 20* Margi Freemantle 131.09 126.53 258.02 21* Christine Franklin US 105.42 165.44 271.26 22 Karen Burns BC 120.56 177.18 298.14 23 Anne Cowling AB 146.58 184.02 331.00

Class F45 Course Length: 5.0 5.1 1* Meredyth Sauer A U 57.29 73.45 131.14 2* Jill Dalton AU 66.32 64.49 131.21 3* Carol Pearce UK 72.22 63.02 135.24 4* Gail Gagarin US 67.47 79.37 147.24 5 Muriel Gamey MB 71.30 87.42 159.12 6* Ardis Dull US 70.48 92.05 162.53 7 Gloria Rankin QC 76.39 86.28 163.07 8* Sandra Kish Miller US 79.40 84.50 164.30 9 Luella Smith NB 83.49 81.21 165.10

10 Nancy Craig AB 94.17 85.37 179.54 11 Karen Peterson BC 83.45 96.31 180.16 12 Vera Malanczyj ON 77.47 102.36 180.23 13 Margaret Ellis BC 85.09 103.59 189.08 14 Judy Cornish AB 102.04 96.16 198.20 15* Liz Turbin UK 97.33 102.51 200.24 16' Jan Candy 92.38 110.55 203.33 17 Svatava Hernianek ON 74.42 138.56 213.38 18 Marilyn Edmunds AB 104.33 125.37 230.10 19 Renate Dorschner BC 132.32 117.37 250.09 20 Judy Ellman ON 125.40 134.47 260.27 21* Barbara Verity UK 140.46 128.53 269.39 22 Ingrid Dagis BC DNF 161.23 N/A

Class F55 Course Length: 5.0 4.0 1 Frances Vyse BC 69.59 65.32 135.31 2 Diana Hocking BC 67.45 87.22 155.07 3 Shirley Donald BC 67.36 88.00 155.36 4* Linda Moore US 73.06 84.32 157.38 5* Marit Davis US 83.52 87.18 171.10 6 Ursula Grady BC 111.38 86.07 197.45 7* Anne York US 96.54 101.44 198.38 8* Sara Mae Berman US 114.26 98.03 212.29 9 Margie James NS 101.09 147.38 248.47

10 Barbara Phillips YK 124.04 139.13 263.17 11 Sue Waddington ON 78.23 209.43 288.06 12* Penny Hemsted UK 108.09 DNF N/A 13 Gill Bailey BC 81.50 DNS N/A 14* Margaret Gregory UK DSQ 162.28 N/A

Class F65+ Course Length: 3.8 3.2 1 Pat de St Croix QC 63.52 70.19 134.11 2 Gloria Charlow QC 68.48 93.30 162.18 3 Nesta Leduc YK 93.18 75.54 169.12

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Class F65+ cont'd 4* Heidi Piguet SZ 125.31 117.23 242.54 5* Ann Fettes NZ 92.05 DNF N/A

Class M12 Course Length: 2.6 2.8 I Robbie Anderson QC 23.22 22.41 46.03 2 Darius Konotopetz MB 25.42 22.25 48.07 3* William Enger US 29.44 21.49 51.33 4* Timothy Street UK 30.22 23.38 54.00 5 Scott Foubister BC 32.20 22.52 55.12 6 Scott Tunnicliffe BC 44.59 18.20 63.19 7 Kevin Tunnicliffe BC 45.21 35.34 80.55 8 Simon Lay BC 48_04 33.36 81.40 9 Dylan Brooks AB 45,27 37.18 82.45

10 Derek Gytenbeek BC 60.03 24.16 84.19 II* Kevin Eastwood BC 69.06 32.28 101.34 12* Jonathan Street UK DNF DNS N/A

Class M14 Course Length: 3.3 3.1 I Robin Foubister BC 28.19 30.13 58.32 2' Benjamin Imhof SZ 30.57 30.07 61.04 3 Will Critchley AB 28.56 34.34 63.30 4 Carl Diederiche BC 37.15 38.06 75.21 5 Byron Green BC 48.46 29.45 78.31 6 Steven Pugh BC 72.43 47.47 120.30 7* Christopher Pickwell 56.15 66.07 122.22 8 Joel Gytenbeek BC 94.35 37.11 131.46 9 David Hill-Tout BC 67.24 66.50 134.14

10* James Wingfield US 72.35 132.48 205.23 11 Olav Viddal AB 34.46 DNF N/A

Class M15 Course Length: 4.2 3.7 I Nils Carlson AB 34.51 46.54 81.45 2 Scott McBride BC 38.58 56.26 95.24 3 Daniel Innes ON 46.46 49.13 95,59 4* Michael Witt 51.42 54.58 06.40 5 Thomas Nipen AB 45.02 63.32 08.34 6 Land Pearson YK 49.06 62.22 11.28 7 Graham Nishikawa YK 57.16 56.20 13.36 8 Greg Henderson BC 53.38 67.35 21.13 9 Errin Eng BC 56.26 78.12 34.38

10 Corey Burger BC 58.57 87.30 46.27 11 Kevin Pugh BC 79.39 109.42 89.21 12 Bowden Stonehocker BC 77.23 DNF N/A 13 Gabe Mastico BC 72.10 DSQ N/A 14 Dan i lo Malanczyj ON DSQ 90.03 N/A 15* Justin Pang DNS 160.14 N/A 16* Jason Dilley DNS 117.09 N/A

Class M17 Course Length: 5.7 5.8 Adam Scheck YK 52.27 59.33 112.00

2 Sky Pearson YK 60.07 69.42 129.49 3 Matthew Rance BC 57.06 75.18 132.24 4* Joel Rauschenbach US 70.07 79.32 149.39 5 Alex Whaley NB 59.16 119.47 179.03 6 Trevor Pugh BC 103.38 119.02 222.40 7° Richard Verity UK 132.18 156.15 288.33 8* Keith Burdette 150.22 138.22 288.44 9 Mark Bernhardt BC 100.53 DNF N/A

10* Justin Pang 149.08 DNS N/A I I* Jason Dilley DNF DNS N/A

Class M20 Course Length: 10.8 10.2 I* Greg Barbour NZ 70.02 73.07 143.09 2* Holger Ho Johansen NO 76.40 69.03 145.43 3 Mike Waddington ON 73.15 74.07 147.22 4 Martin Pardoe BC 77.53 76.11 154.04 5 Mike Smith NB 79.16 76.48 156.04 6 Wil Smith NB 80.17 78.12 158.29 7* Ulrich Aesehlimann SZ 83.05 75.45 158.50 8* Martin Ward UK 88.13 89.00 167.13 9" Karl Dray itski NZ 92.37 75.14 167.51

Class M20 cont'd 1 0* Lars Schagerstrom SW 88.41 11* Mattias Sandqvist SW 81.43 12 Peter MacKenzie AB 85.49 13 Francis Falardeau QC 84.44 14* Lars-Ake Svensk SW 83.56 15 Brian May NS 89.52 16 Ross Burnett YK 93.28 17" Michael Walters AU 90.01 18' Hans Fransson SW 94.53 19' Ondrej Kotecky 96.19 20' Andreas Luthi SZ 99.53 21 Brian Graham QC 99.11 22' Mats Johansson SW 100.14 23* Mattias Beath SW 110.04 24* Christoph Hutzli SZ 95.20 25 James Tasker AR 103.20 26* Rolf Valery SW 97.40 27' Hans Ole Wersted NO 110.42 28' Erik Molenaar NO 121.43 29 Doug Mahoney NB 90.21 30 Vincent Fagnan AB 116.32 31 Forest Pearson YK 98.35 32' J-J Cote US 120.33 33* Jeff Coker US 133.06 34' Nigel Aylott AU 145.28 35 Dylan Green BC 127.36 36 Mark Gibbard AB 157.10 37 Timothy Edmunds AB 168.56 38 Gabor Lipcsey ON 151.35 39* Harald Juras SZ 162.35 40 Richard Hall BC 172.01 41 Raymond Chung ON 182.21 42* Manfred Kopisch US 174.18 43 Mark A stridge AB 87.11 44 Dave Donaldson ON 112,35 45* Philippe Jeanneret SZ 117.35 46 Chris I vanciuc BC 121.06 47 Nevin French ON 126.28 48' Bill Cusworth US 135.00 49* Jeremy Jo McKnight US 149.32 50" James Baker US 158.27 51 Don Livingston BC 177.54 52 Eric Cyr QC DSQ 53 Mark Innes ON DNF 54" Bengt Ohlund SW DNF 55* tiro Kaldco F1 DNS 56' Johan Hakeman SW DNF

Class M35 Course Length: 8.2

1" Toby Imhof SZ 60.31 2* David Rowlands AV 66.54 3 Olav Nipen AB 75.22 4* David McGraw US 75.46 5 Afan Jones YK 80.15 6' Tony Nixon AU 90.32 7* Ted van Geldermaisen AU 91.14 8 Don Ross ON 90.13 9* Steve Gregg US 90.56

10 Desmond Mott BC 92.39 11* Jan Urban AU 110.07 12 Bill Jarvis AB 110.50 13 Jerry Bakker ON 116.47 14* Alan Wallis 114.27 15* Bill Green AU 110.00 16 Peter Innes ON 110.11 17 Stephen Richardson BC 100.54 18 John Chatwin BC 102.47 19' Rick Breseman US 92.51 20 Don Bay ly AB 119.23 21 Ian Schokking BC 121.07

2 Michael Minium US 110.58

82.14 170.55 93.08 174.51 89.23 175.12 90.50 175.34 92.54 176.50 90.39 180.31 90.23 183.51 94.36 184.37 90.22 185.15 95.45 192.04 96.38 196.31 99.24 198.35

100.38 200.52 94.06 204.10

110.10 205.30 103.26 206.46 111.02 208,42 99.35 210.17 99.14 220.57

134.54 225.15 109.22 225.54 127.52 226.27 125,59 246.32 116.57 250.03 113.34 259.02 137.52 265.28 129.59 287.09 127.29 296.25 158,55 310.30 162.58 325.33 170.22 342.23 184,26 366.47 206.05 380.23

DSQ N/A DNF N/A DSQ N/A DNS N/A DNF N/A DNF N/A DNS N/A DNF N/A DNF N/A 95.47 N/A

112.34 N/A 106.20 N/A 109.25 N/A

DNS N/A

8.0 68.19 128.50 75.00 141.54 79.34 154.56 81.03 156.49 82.43 162.58 84.21 174.53 87.37 178.51 89.24 179.37 95.44 186.40 98.17 190.56 91.05 201.12 92.52 203.42 93.18 210.05

101.01 215.28 105.46 215.46 108.00 218.11 120.15 221.09 119.42 222.29 131.29 224.20 108.36 227.59 107.21 228.28 122,23 233.21

201.05 153.42 127.41 115.53 122.58

5.1 50.09 55.10 68.59 61.53 63.00 59.50 64.41 72.51 70.39 73.37 66.54 77.02 72.06 76.42 77.17 73.51 85.06 98.52 78.35 85.08 95.22

101.43 98.49 99.20

138.51 167.12

4.0 81.53 88.14 86.22 85.02 90.33 88.59

104.36 128.57

3.1 52.12 41.54 88.03 77.17

3.7 52.30 85.00

141.28 144.19 131.43

DNF DNF DNF

3.2 52.58 79.44 87.27 82.34

126.26 DN F

136.58

4.0 91.46

117.50 105.32 118.58

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

95.12 106.41 119.53 121.08 122.17 123.20 125.18 127.59 133.06 133.19 133.45 135.46 140.13 141.42 144.56 147.25 150.36 152.46 156.09 156.30 163.38 170.51 175.28 199.05 236.22 290.24

141.07 146.10 158.17 159.01 163.49 168.26 169.03 238.21

95.09 107.03 272.56

N/A

93.09 178.52 221.04 237.35 237.47

N/A N/A N/A

100.44 133.05 164.37 198.26 210.15

N/A N/A

179.38 180.16 235.08 254.58

Class M35 cont'd 23 Torbjom Carlson AB 92.13 44.19 236.32 24 Marvin Eng BC 115.32 21.35 237.07 25* Heinz Hubacher SZ 115.16 24.03 239.19 26 Ralph Lindzon ON 121.04 21.13 242.17 27 David Holder MB 132.40 15.40 248.20 28 Don Roe M B 127.28 27.54 255.22 29 Boon Tan ON 143.09 24.50 267.59 30 Stewart Lamon BC 135.10 35.19 270.29 31 Erik Blake YK 127.38 49.34 277.12 32 Howard Adam BC 144.36 47.17 291.53 33 Peter Sotola BC 127.12 76.45 303.57 34 Don Riddle AB 152.44 77.11 329.55 35 Doug limes ON 176.33 210.56 387.29 36* tiro Kakko Fl 65.52 DNS N/A 37* Clive Street U K 98.12 DNS N/A 38 David Bondy ON 118.10 DNS N/A 39* Jeff Lanam US 218.32 DNF N/A 40 Bill Hobbins AB DNF 128.43 N/A 41* Arne Skog SW DNF 91.28 N/A 42 Gene Brenda AB DSQ 183.13 N/A 43* George Feraru US DNS 89.51 N/A

Class M45 Course Length: 6.8 7.0 I Bryan Chubb AB 51.15 56.27 07.42 2* Alain Juan SZ 55.07 54.04 09.11 3* Peter Gagarin US 60.16 55.10 15.26 4* Andy Hemsted UK 60.16 57.32 17.48 5* Michael Wood N Z 59.24 63.5! 23.15 6* Paul Hoopmann AV 63.08 67.33 30.41 7 Gord Hunter QC 68.22 64.34 32.56 8* Roland Jansson SW 69.18 72.32 41.50 9 Richard Matthews BC 73.52 73.52 47.44

10' Robert Miller US 68.15 80.43 48.58 11 Robert Gilchrist AB 76.54 72.45 49.39 12* Leigh Privett 72.22 78.09 50.31 13' David Enger US 71.28 79.55 51.23 14 Doug Dowell AB 74.47 82.06 56.53 15* Russell Candy 88.43 69.53 58.36 16 Jacky Walder AB 80.49 79.46 60.35 17 Brian Ellis BC 83.34 78.23 61.57 IP Nick Collins US 86.22 78.02 64.24 19 Geraint Edmunds AB 77.07 95.19 72.26 20* Jiri Gurka 88.16 87.35 75.51 21 Eugene Ulmer AB 90.56 87.07 78.03 22 Bill Anderson QC 79.01 99.11 78.12 23' Heinz Zbinden SZ 88.16 91.05 79.21 24' Orlyn Skrien US 87.27 94.27 81.54 25' Charlie Shahbazian US 96.54 87.57 84.51 26 Richard Lay BC 87.21 98.38 85.59 27 George Pugh BC 89.54 96.49 86.43 28' Robert Verity UK 99.32 89.36 89.08 29' Dale Width US 92.51 99.37 92.28 30* Trevor Sauer AU 03.35 89.56 93.31 31* Arnold Hug SZ 00.18 00.30 200.48 32* David Tallent US 96.12 07.53 204.05 33 Doug Craig AB 07.39 01.56 209.35 34 Doug Smith BC 79.23 30.24 209.47 35 Larry Konotopetz MB 09.28 02.11 211.39 36 Greg Yarkie AB 14.25 07.44 222.09 37 Kevin Hill-Tout BC 18.52 11.35 230.27 38 Ed Smith NB 10.42 28.51 239.33 39* Doug Sprugel US 26.26 13.31 239.57 40 Sheldon Friesen MB 15.23 29.25 244.48 41 Roman Malanczyj ON 13.01 39.52 252.53 42* Gary McCauslan US 28.19 47.04 275.23 43 Gary Atchinson AB 38.33 57.02 295.35 44 Dave Mackas BC 46.49 87.53 334.42 45 Barry McCashin AB 95.02 93.12 388.14 46' Brian Ritter US 232.43 57.42 390.25 47 Bob Elliot ON 178.34 233.47 412.21 48 Arthur Caldicott BC 110.14 DSQ N/A 49 Bob Hodgins BC 118.04 DSQ N/A 50 Hugh Connolly ON 120.39 DNF N/A 51 Bill Irwin AB 213.58 DNS N/A

Class M45 cont'd 52 James H. Fulton

BC

DNF 53 Bob Mastico

BC

DNF 54 Grant Spelsberg

BC

DNF 55 Mike Ware

AB

DNF 56 Toivo Taal 32 y

BC

DNS

Class M55 Course Length: 5.0 I* Don Davis US 45.03 2 Alex Kerr BC 51.31 3' Fred Veler US 50.54 4 Alan Vyse BC 59.15 5 Einar Viddal AB 59.17 6 Steve Pearson ON 63.30 7 Per Gaarder BC 60.37 8* Andrew Gregory UK 55.08 9 Jim Waddington • ON 62.27

10* Al Smith US 59.42 I I' Liebich Rudolf SZ 66.51 12* Paul Potter AU 58.44 I3* Gil Hollamby UK 68.07 14 Leigh Bailey BC 65.00 15' Carl Moore US 67.39 16 Stig Skarbom NB 73.34 17 Murray Foubister BC 65.30 18 Nigell James QC 53.54 19 Jack Lee ON 77.34 20 Udo Grady BC 71.22 21 Frank Jankulak ON 68.16 22 Scott Donald BC 69.08 23' Alan Yeadon UK 76.39 24 Martin Hocking BC 99.45 25* Albert Chapman 97.31 26* Harvey Friedman US 123.12

Class M65+ Course Length: 5.0 1 Don Scott AB 59.14 2 Andy Lamm ON 57.56 3 Dick de St Croix QC 71.55 4' Rene Piguet SZ 73.59 5 John Charlow QC 73.16 6* Knut Olson US 79.27 7* Kenneth Lew US 64.27 8 Dick James NS 109.24

Class OPEN2 Course Length: 3.3 1 Spencer Lanyon BC 42.57 2 Susan Bemhardt BC 65.09 3 Diane Bakker ON 184.53 4 Erin Irwin AB DNS

Class OPENS Course Length: 4.2 1 Eva Gilyen SZ 40.39 2 Donna Wunderlich MB 93.52 3 Tina Campbell BC 79.36 4 Marcelle Adam BC 93.16 5 Miroslava Nemcova CZ 106.04 6 Claire Rettie BC 93.35 7 Lorraine Rivers ON 102.50 8 Nicole Davis BC 107.02

Class OPEN4 Course Length: 3.8 1 David Green BC 47.46 2 Ron Diederichs BC 53.21 3 Randy Benz BC 77.10 4 Nancy Lee ON 115.52 5 Rob Bemhardt BC 83.49 6 Scott Drumm . 89.27 8 Matthew Boser BC DNS

Class OPENS Course Length: 5.0 1

Dave Tilley BC 87.52 2

Nathalie Berlinger 62.26 3

Patrick Wells BC 129.36 4

Jonna Jansson 136.00

COC - Short Distance, Chartrand Creek, July 27

The Short Distance venue was 2 km from Logan Lake. Parking was at the junction of the highway and a secondary road. The Start area was 2.0 km up the secondary road and the Finish 500 metres along the highway. A much more informal setting than the Classic - no recreation centre, park, lake, beer garden or shade tents. The area, was hilly but not as steep as the Classic and offered considerable technical challenge.

Ten Classic Winners Double-Up

Morgan Lay

F12 Marta Green

F17 Pat de St Croix

F65+ Robin Foubister M13 Nils Carlson

M15 Adam Scheck

M17 Olav Nipen

Alex Kerr Bryan Chubb M35

M45 M55

Don Scott

M65+

Close Competition in F/M 20 Races

F20 Another close race between the top 3 Classic finishers - Sandy Smith, Pam James and Eva Stalstad plus Hanna Rangert ( 5th in Classic). Rangert won by .20 over James who edged Stalstad by .03 - only .23 between 1st and 3rd. James won the COC title with Smith 2nd and Sue Richards 3rd .

M20 Five of the top six Classic finishers competed - COC runner-up, Martin Pardoe, had a bout of food poisoning and did not compete. This was unfortunate as the Classic and Short were WOC 1999 team Pre-Selection. Martin had been in second place after the Classic race.

Wi I Smith, shut out of a the medals in the Classic, won the COC Short Distance title with a fine 35.52, (2nd overall). Mike Waddington (36.11) was 2nd Canadian and Mike Smith 3rd (.03 behind), Holger Hott Johansen posted an excellent 32.58 to finish 1st overall. Classic winner, Greg Barbour, finished 5th. Only .29 separated 2nd and 5th place - W Smith, Waddington, M Smith, Barbour. M..

Junior Classes

F12 Morgan Lay, F13 Katherine Scheck, F15 Devon Stonehocker, F17 Marta Green, won in very good times.

M12 Scott Tunnicliffe, M13 Robin Foubister, M15 Nils

Carlson , M17 Adam Scheck duplicated the efforts of their junior women counterparts with equally fine times. Worthy of special note: Adam Scheck, with an outstanding 27.10 for his 4.4 km course and runner-up, Mathew Rance, with an impressive 29.25.

Master Classes

Overseas orienteers while taking the top three places in F35 and F45, top four in M35 and four of the top five in M45 did not detract from the exciting competition for the COC titles.

F35 Laura Querengesser won the COC title by 24 seconds over Andree Jarvis with Helen Howard in 3rd place. Eileen Breseman (US), Veronique Juan and Ann Jansson took the top three spots overall. M35 In a repeat of the Classic, Olav Nipen won the COC title with Afan Jones again in the runner-up spot. Bill Hobbins was 3rd Canadian. As in the Classic event, Toby Imhof was 1st overall.

F45 Ilze Rupners edged Marg Ellis, by a razor thin 11 seconds - the narrowest winning margin in the Short Distance championships, with Nancy Craig taking 3rd. Carol Pearce was 1st overall.

llze and Marg started orienteering some 20 years ago while living in Guelph. Career moves led to their relocating to Vancouver and becoming GVOC members. M45 The same outstanding field as in the Classic. Once more Bryan Chubb, proved to be the most outstanding and with a superb run of 24.43 beat out Gagarin , 25.14 and Andy Hemsted (UK), 25.26. Chubb's clubmate. Doug Dowell, was second Canadian and Gord Hunter 3rd...

F55 Diana Hocking added a gold medal to the silver won in the Classic. Second place went to Barbara Phillips and third to Shirley Donald. M55 A close race with Alex Kerr winning by 20 seconds over Steve Pearson There was an even closer contest for 3rd place between Per Gaarder and Einar Viddal, with Per taking 3rd by a margin of 5 seconds.

F65+ Pat de St Croix won her second 1998 title with Nesta Leduc 2nd and Gloria Charlow 3rd. M65+ A second 1998 COC title also for Don Scott with Dick de St Croix 2nd and John Charlow 3rd. Is Don really 65+?

RESULTS - SHORT DISTANCE, JULY 27 * Not eligible for Canadian Championship awards

Course Length: 1.6 Assoc Time BC 16.16 SZ 16.45 ON 23.29 YK DNF

Class F13 Course I Katherine Scheck

2 Meghan Rance

3 Erica Lay 4' Cara Witt

Class F15 Course Length:

1 Devon Stonehocker BC

2 Heather Smith

3 Chrystal Dargie

4 Danielle Dmytar

5 Victoria Smith

Class F45 cont'd 6* Gail Gagarin 7 Nancy Craig 8* Meredyth Sauer 9 Judy Cornish

10 Karen Lachance 1 1* Barbara Verity 12 Luella Smith 13* Liz Turbin 14 Vera Malanczyj 15 Svatava Hermanek

Class F55 Course Length: 1 Diana Hocking BC

Mutt Davis US Barbara Phillips YK Shirley Donald BC Sara Mae Berman US Gill Bailey BC Ursula Grady BC Sue Waddington ON Penny Hemsted UK

Class F12 Place Name

I Morgan Lay 2* Annett Juras 3 Katy lnnes 4 Justine Scheck

Length: 1.8 YK 19.43 BC 23.38 BC 33.07

50.23 2*

2.4 3

30.28 4 NB 36.17 5* BC 37.04 6 BC 41.58 7 NB 48.57 8

9*

US AB AU AB BC UK NB UK ON ON

44.28 45.46 47.04 51.12 51.30 51.35 53.06 83.32 90.50 DNF

2.6 34.57 35.19 40.40 41.58 42.58 43.56 56.01 57.12 79.09

3.2 31.02 43.58 48.15 63.31

Class F17 Course Length: 1 Marta Green BC 2 Johanna Carlson AB 3 Claire Critchley AB 4* Jenny Pearson US

Class F20

Course Length: 4.4

Class F65+ I Pat de St Croix 2 Nesta Leduc 3* Heidi Piquet 4* Ann Fettes 5 Gloria Charlow

Course Length: QC YK SZ NZ QC

2.6 44.13 46.51 74.52 76.04 80.58

1* Hanna Rangert SW 42.4 2 Pam James NS 43.01 3* Eva Stalstad SW 43.04 4 Sandy Smith NB 47.06 5* Peggy Dickison US 49.24 6* Kristin Ritzenthaler SZ 50.17 7 Sue Richards AB 58.41 8 Marie-Catherine Bruno QC 60.49 9 Marketa Graham QC 64,38

0* Nancy Koehler US 68.44 1 Cheri Mahoney NB 71.58 2 Angela Pearson AB 74.05 3 Kristin Viddal AB 74.14 4* Catherine Ashton US 75.00 5* Lesley Ward UK 78.38 6* Helen Pearce UK 84.24 7 Abbi May NS 84.57 8 Charlotte MacNaughton AB 86.05 9 Shanna Knights BC 98,10

20 Chrystal Parks Boser BC 104.41 21 Gail MacDonald BC 131.22 22 Catherine Hagen BC DNF 23 Starr Waddington ON DNF 24 Nina Waddington ON DNF 25* Debbie Newell US DNF

Class F35 Course Length: 3.3 1* Eileen 13resennan US 36.25 2* Veronique Juan SZ 39.45 3* Ann Jansson SW 43.19 4 Laura Querengesser AB 44.02 5 Andree Jarvis AB 44.26 6 Helen Howard QC 48.54 7 Mary-Lou Hogg AB 49.40 8 Sheena van Dyk BC 52.38 9* Annie Sanderson US 53.17

10 Beatrice Walder AB 55.23 11 Maureen De Camp BC 57.15 12 Anita Brattland US 58.12 13 Annette Van Tyghem ON 58.35 14 Barbara Scheck YK 62.46 15 Jennifer Eastwood BC 63.31 16* Margi Freemantle 63.40 17* Christine Franklin US 91.58

Class F45 Course Length: 3.2 I Carol Pearce UK 37.14 2* Jill Dalton AU 38.39 3* Ardis Dull US 43.12 4 Ilze Runners BC 43.23 5 Marg Ellis BC 43.34

Class M12 Course Length: 1 Scott Tuncliffe BC

William Enger US Kevin Tunnel iffe BC Simon Lay BC Scott Foubister BC Timothy Street UK

Class M13 Course Length: 1 Robin Foubister BC 2 Will Critchley AB

Play Viddal AB Benjamin Imhof SZ Bowden Stonehocker BC James Wingfield US Steven Pugh BC

2* 3 4 5 6*

3 4* 5 6* 7

1.6 13.19 16.23 20.13 32.42 40.18 DNF

1.8 13.01 14.07 23.03 24.01 26.45 30.11 42.35

Class M15 I* John Went 2 Nils Carlson 3 Graham Nishikawa

Thomas Nipen Scott McBride Michael Witt Greg Henderson Land Pearson Errin Eng Daniel Innes Dan ilo Malanczyj Kevin Pugh Corey Burger Gabe Mastico

7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14

4 5 6*

Course Length: US AB YK AB BC

BC YK BC ON ON BC BC BC

2.4 19.47 22.16 25.38 26.05 26.15 28.13 35.01 35.05 37.05 38.23 47.16 65.09 65.24 DNF

Class M17 1 Adam Scheck 2 Mathew Rance

Sky Pearson Joel Rauschenbach Trevor Pugh Alex Whaley Richard Verity.

3 4* 5 6 7*

Course Length: YK BC YK US BC NB UK

4.4 27.10 29.25 33.13 39.28 45.15 46.02 54.41

Class M20 Course Length: 1* Holger Hott Johnasen NO 2 Wil Smith NB 3 Mike Waddington ON 4 Mike Smith NB 5* Greg Barbour NZ 6 Ross Burnett YK

0 7 Peter MacKenzie AB

5.4 32.58 35.52 36.11 36.14 36.21 39.20 40.52

Class M20 cont'd 8* Vyten is Benetis 40.54 9* Martin Ward UK 41.19 Os Ondrej Kotecky 41.21 1 Dave Donaldson ON 42.27 2* Hans Fransson SW 42.42 3* Karl Dravitski NZ 43.30 4* Bengt Ohlund SW 43.35 5 Mark Astridge AB 43.50 6* Erik Molenaar NO 44.29 7* Andreas Luthi SZ 47.15 8 Francis Falardeau QC 47.20 9 Brian May NS 47.27

20* Michael Walters AU 48.32 2 I* Jeremy Joe McKnight US 49.16 22 Chris Ivanciuc BC 49.17 23 Forest Pearson YK 49.34 24 Brian Graham QC 49.38 25* Ulrich Aeschilmann SL 50.38 26* Rolf Valery SW 52.05 27* Philippe Jeanneret SZ 52.34 28* Christophe Hutzli SZ 52.42 29* Nigel Aylott AU 56.55 30* J-J Cote US 57.41 31 Mark Innes ON 58.19 32* Jeff Coker US 61.56 33 Mark Gibbard AB 62.02 34 Eric Cyr QC 69.14 35* Johan Hakeman SW 70.57 36 Gabor Lipcsey ON 72.36 37* Manfred Kopisch US 77.31 38* James Baker US 78.51 39 Richard Hall BC 79.36 40 Dylan Green BC 87.07 41 Nevin French ON 93.50 42 Don Livingstone BC 99.04 43 Timothy Ednmunds AB 102.58 44 Vincent Fagnan AB 124.57 45 Raymond Chung ON 139.47 46 James Tasker AB DN F 47* Harald Juras SZ DN F 48* Bill Cusworth US DNF 49* Hans Ole Wersted NO DSQ

Class M35 Course Length: 4.4 Toby Imhof SZ 37.37

2* I irokakko Fl 38.44 3' David Rowlands AU 39.11 4* John Rogers AU 41.02 5 Olav Nipen AB 41.29 6 Afan Jones YK 43.28 7* Jan Urban AU 44.11 8* David McGraw US 46.20 9* Ted van Geldermaisen AU 47.43

10 Bill Hobbins AB 49.36 11 Adrian Zissos AB 49.57 12 Torbjorn Carlson AB 51.33 13* Arne Skog AU 52.11 14 Don Ross ON 52.51 15* Alan Wallis UK 53.19 IV Clive Street UK 56.32 17 Don Bayly AB 58.53 18* Tony Nixon AU 59.41 19 Howard Adam BC 59.57 20* Michael Minium US 60.21 21 Ian Schokking BC 61.16 22 Desmond Mott BC 61.50 23* Steve Gregg US 63.52 24 Peter Sotola BC 64.19 25 Stephen Richardson BC 65.25 26* Heinz Hubacher SZ 70.18 27 Doug lnnes ON 71.53 28 Ralph Lindzon ON 73.08 29* Kean Williams US 76.53 30 Bill Jarvis AB 77.12 31 Boon Tan ON 78.02 32 Peter Innes ON 81.09 33 Craig Brooks AB 117.50 34' Jeff Lanam US 118.27 35 John Chatwin BC DNF 36 Don Riddle AB DNF

Class M45 cont'd 2* Peter Gagarin US 25.14

3* Andy Hemstcd UK 25.26 4* Alain Juan SZ 27.38 5* Roland Jansson SW 29.45 6 Doug Dowell AB 29.49 7* Paul Hoopman US 30.01 8' Michael Wood NZ 30.04 9* Dave Enger US 30.04 0 Gord Hunter ON 30.21 1* Trevor Sauer AU 32.07 2 Jacky Walder AB 32.08 3 Robert Gilchrist AB 32.30 4* Charlie Shabazian US 32.40 5* Heinz Zbinden 34.26 6 Eugene Ulmer AB 35.14 7* Jiri Gurka 36.27 8* Nick Collins US 37.48 9* Robert Verity UK 39.30

20* Arnold Hug SZ 40.11 21* David Tallent US 41.38 22* Orlyn Skrien US 42.26 23 John Rance BC 42.33 24• Leigh Privett 42.52 25 Greg Yarkie AB 44.34 26* Dale Width US 51.28 27 Ed Smith NB 52.18 28 Roman Malanczyj ON 53.51 29 Arthur Caldicott BC 55.08 30 Hugh Connolly ON 55.54 31* Richard Went US 56.08 32 Richard Lay BC 56.38 33 Sheldon Fnesen MB 62.11 34 Barry McCashin AB 65.47 35* Brian Ritter US 67.33 36 Dave Mackas BC 68.04 37 Bob Elliot ON 73.45 38 Mike Ware AB DSQ

Class M55 Course Length: 3.2 Don Davis US 34.25

2 Alex Kerr BC 35.34 3 Steve Pearson ON 35.54 4 Per Gaarder BC 37.46 5 Einar Viddal AB 37.51 6* Gil Hollamby UK 38.18 7' Paul Potter AU 38.44 8 Stig Skarbom NB 38.50 9 Jack Lee ON 38.51

10 Murray Foubister BC 39.40 11 Leigh Bailey BC 40.09 12' Al Smith US 40.35 13* Fred Veler US 43.01 14 Martin Hocking BC 45.08 15* Liebich Rudolf SZ 45.26 16* Albert Chapman 48.45 17 Nigel James QC 50.21 18 Carl Coger BC 53.06 19* Alan Yeadon U K 75.59 20 Udo Grady BC 102.35 21 Jim Waddington ON DNF

Class M65+ Course Length: 2.6 I Don Scott AB 35.16 2' Knutt Olsson US 37.45 3* Rene Piquet SZ 40.15 4 Dick de St Croix QC 41.34 5 John Charlow C 51.56 6 Dick James S 59.12 7* Kenneth Lew US DNF

Class OPEN3 Course Length: 2.4 I Eva Gilyen SZ 23.52 2 Claire Rettie BC 59.22 3 Miroslava Nemcova 63.35 4 Lorraine Rivers

8CN 70.37

5 Tina Campbell BC 93.37

Class OPEN4 Course Length: 2.6 I Nancy Lee ON 39.40 2 Mathew Boser BC 42.08 3 Randy Benz BC 52.44 4 Scott Drumm DNF

Class M45 Course Length: 3.3 I Bryan Chubb A it 24.43

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Class OPENS Course Length: I Nathalie Berl inger

3.2 46.30

North American Championships, Pothole Lake, Aspen Grove

The NAOC is a Biennial event that alternates between

Canada and the United States. COF and USOF members are eligible to win NAOC awards. This event was also Day 5 of Sage Stomp '98.

The competition area was on Douglas Lake Ranch lands and reached after a long drive on a narrow rutted dusty road - actually much more normal to Canadian meets than the highways bounding the Logan Lake meet sites.

Many competitors camped nearby and walked to the meet

site each day. Others remained at the Lac La Jeune campground near Logan Lake and commuted to the NAOC site. For those preferring a bit more comfort there were many motels in nearby Merritt.

The Finish area was on a hillside that provided a good viewing point for spectators. The Results area was only a few steps from the timekeepers tent and results posted promptly. The Start areas were close to the Finish.

The last control was on an open hillside about 300 metres from the Finish. Many runners crossed the hillside to the last control and then up the long 'run-in' to the Finish. Spectators could identify runners and shout encouragement as they battled over the last few hundred metres.

As at Logan Lake, tent shelters and a Beer Garden provided shade and socializing. Depending upon how fast the incoming runner was approaching it was possible to order a cold refreshment and have it waiting for the grateful runner at the Finish line.

F20 Impressive Win by Sandy Smith

Day 1. Sandy Smith held a comfortable lead of 5.10 over Eva Stalstad and 6.38 over Pam James. It would require superlative runs by others or a disaster by Smith if she was to be overtaken. Neither occurred and with another fine run increased her margin over Stalstad and James to add the North American title to the COC Classic won the previous weekend. James finished second for the NAOC title with

Peggy Dickison (US) placing third.

M20 Nail Biting Finish

First place finisher in the Classic and 2nd over-all after the first 3-days of the Sage Stomp, Greg Barbour, decided to compete in his M35 age class for this event. Martin Pardoe, now fully recovered from his food poisoning competed.

Holger Hott Johansen with outstanding runs of 72.02 and 66.07 completely outclassed the field to win by 15 minutes over second place finisher, Ulrich Aeschliman (SZ), and 23 minutes ahead of the top North American. With the exception of the COC Day 1, he won every other race, usually by a

comfortable margin.

Despite the dominant performance by Johansen the race for the North American title was extremely exciting, going right down to the wire before a winner declared.

Day 1. Brian May, with his best race of the week, (80.23), held top spot of those eligible to win the NAOC title. Mike Waddington was in 2nd place, (1.39-) followed by Mike Smith (3.29-), Eric Bone (3.54-) and Martin Pardoe (4.33-). It did

not appear that any others were sufficiently close to mount a serious challenge.

Day 2. M Smith started early. May in the middle of the field. Bone and Waddington started late and 4 minutes apart. Pardoe started very late. Smith set the target with a fine run (80.40), but May with a second solid run (80.42) took the lead - then waited. It would be 45-50 minutes until Waddington and Bone were expected. The countdown was

into the last minute when Mike W came into view heading to the last control. He could beat May's time but it would be very close, perhaps only one or two seconds. To encouragements from supporters he strained to gain the precious seconds but came up short by the slender margin of 06. Mike Smith had his third 3rd place of the week Eric Bone in 4th was the top US competitor.

Brian won several COC/NAOC junior titles but this was his

first victory in a senior class. He was a member of our 1990 & 1991 Junior WOC teams and a member of our 1993 & 1997 WOC teams.

Junior Classes Feature Three 'Hat Trick'

Performances

F12 Alana Tamapolsky won the NAOC title by a margin of 1.35 after a spirited contest with Morgan Lay. Katy Innes took 3rd place. M12 William Enger (US) took top honours with Scott Foubister and George Feraru 2nd and 3rd.

F13 Katherine Scheck won her second title of the week with Erica Lay 2nd and Hilary Saeger 3rd. M13 Robin Foubister with the fastest time each day made it a 'hat trick" of gold medals - one of four to accomplish the feat. Olav Viddal took the silver and Bowden Stonehocker

the bronze.

F15 In a reversal of the Classic places, Victoria Smith finished 1st and twin sister, Heather, relegated to the runner-up spot - a very common occurrence for the girls. Devon Stonehocker rallied from a Day 1 deficit position to take 3rd place.

M15 In one of the more closely contested races in the

championship Joel Rauschenbach (US) won by .21 over Scott McBride with Graham Nishikawa a close 3rd. Only 1.36 separated the top three after 2 days.

F17 Marta Green's week finished as it began - a comfortable win over Johanna Carlson. Starting Day 2 with a lead of only .52, Marta improved her time by over 8 minutes to record her third win of the week while Johanna took almost 13 minutes more than on Day 1.

M17 Adam Scheck added the NAOC title to the COC Classic and Short ones won earlier. Entering Day 2 he held a slender lead of 1.40 that he increased to a 20 minute margin over Sky Pearson. Mathew Rance took 3rd place.

Masters Classes

F35 Veronique Juan with two consistent runs finished 1st overall. Kitty Jones won the NAOC title with Eileen

Breseman (US) 2nd and Barbara Scheck 3rd.

M35 Greg Barbour, first in the M20 in the COC Classic, competed in his age class in this event and recorded the fastest time each day to hand Toby Imhof his first defeat of the week. In a hotly contested race, Olav Nipen bounced back from a Day 1 4th place and 6 minutes deficit to take

the NAOC title. US competitors, Bruce Wolfe and Ernst Lander, took 2nd and 3rd spots 2 and 3 minutes behind.

F45 This race could have done double duty and served as the BC and GVOC championship as the three NAOC medalists, Ilze Rupners, Marg Ellis and Karen Lachance are GVOC members. This was the second gold medal for Ilze and the second silver for Marg. While Ilze won easily there was only a margin of two minutes between Marg and Karen. Throughout the week, Jill Dalton and Meredyth Sauer, were a cut above the rest of the field and finished 1st and 2nd overall in this event.

M45 With Bryan Chubb unable to compete in this event, (he was the Controller), Peter Gagarin had things all his own way and an easy winner of the NAOC title. Canadians, Robert Gilchrist and Gord Hunter took the silver and bronze medals. Gagarin also finished 1st overall after a closely fought struggle with Alain Juan.

F55 Frances Vyse added the NAOC title to the COC Classic won the previous week. Linda Moore (US) finished a close second with an other US competitor, Marit Davis, taking

third.

M55 As in the Classic and Short events, Don Davis and Alex Kerr, were first and second. While Davis had a cushion of 9 minutes, Kerr only had a 38 seconds margin over 3rd place finisher, Orlyn Skrien.

F65+ For the first time of the week, Pat de St Croix did not win this class although she did win the NAOC title. First place overall went to Ann Fettes (NZ) who had the fastest time each day. Nesta Leduc and Gloria Charlow finished second and third in the NAOC.

M65+ US competitors, Ed Gookin and Al Smith, took the two top spots with Don Scott placing third. Gookin took a 10 minutes lead on Day 1 and held on to win by over 4 minutes.

1998 NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS Merritt, British Columbia, August 2-3

a Not Eligible for North American Championship awards

Class F12 Course Length: Place Name Assoc

2.8 Day 1

2.7 Day 2 Total

1 Alanna Tamopolsky ON 30.04 30.00 60.04 2 Morgan Lay BC 34.04 27.35 61.39 3 Katy Innes ON 37.02 52.52 89.54 4 Nicole Bakker ON 49.11 44.26 93.37 5 Justine Scheck YK 65.04 46.58 112.02 6 Krishna Roe MB 47.35 DNS N/A

Class F13 Course Length: 3.2 3.3 1 Katherine Scheck YK 36.21 40.16 76.37 2 Erica Lay BC 43.17 40.40 83.57 3 Hillary Saeger US 69.22 46.47 116.09 4* Cara Witt 42.40 80.30 123.10 5 Meghan Rance BC 78.38 103.05 181.43 6 Stephanie TarnopolskyON 51.42 DSQ N/A

Class F15 Course Length: 3.8 3.7 I Victoria Smith NB 44.25 45.53 90.18 2 Heather Smith NB 51.09 46.46 97,55 3 Devon Stonehocker BC 62.40 48.37 111.17 4 Samantha Saeger US 62.07 51.02 113.09 5 Danielle Dmrar BC 69.52 66.33 136.25

Class F17 Course Length: 5.5 5.5 I Marta Green BC 72.22 63.56 136.18 2 Johanna Carlson AB 73.14 86.03 159.17 3 Jenny Pearson US DNF 237.01 N/A

Class F20 Course Length: 7.2 7.5 I Sandy Smith NB 69.34 69.42 139.16 2* Eva Stalstad SW 74.44 72.48 147.32 3 Pam James NS 76.12 73.12 149.24 4* Hanna Rangert SW 81.52 83.27 165.19 5 Peggy Dickison US 91.04 76.38 167.42 6 Asa Gahne US 85.04 87.06 172.10 7 Catherine Hagen BC 84.08 89.56 174.04 8' Priska Curiger 89.10 98.19 187.29 9 Cherie Mahoney NB 95.33 92.46 188.19

10 Sharon Crawford US 94.00 96.01 190.01 II Marie-Cat Bruno QC 95.50 95.53 191.43 12 Debbie Newell US 91.45 101.51 193.36 13 Nina Waddington ON 94.23 99.36 193.59 14 Nancy Koehler US 105.51 105.55 211.46 15 Sue Richards AB 101.53 112.22 214.15 16 Abbi May NS 109.06 115.53 224.59 17 Angela Pearson AB 108.32 116.5 225.22 18 Kristin Viddal AB 93.07 147.48 240.55 19 Crystal Parks Boser BC 123.32 120.26 243.58 20 Amanda Edmunds AB 130.17 119.12 249.29 21* Lesley Ward UK 130.10 126.09 256.19 22 Suzanne Pearson BC 121.38 139.54 261.32 23 Shanna Knights BC 150.48 112.30 263.18 24 Keg Good US 135.37 130.44 266.21 25 Philippa Hocking AB 151.56 162.51 314.47 26 Charlotte MacNaught AB 174.01 146.10 320.11 27 Jackie Tamopolsky ON 323.48 283.57 607.45 28 Gail MacDonald BC DSQ DNF N/A

Class F35 Course Length: 6.4 6.5 I* Veronique Juan SZ 93.01 90.51 183.52 2 Kitty Jones AB 103.24 93.40 197.04 3 Eileen Breseman US 115.51 87.03 202.54 4 Barbara Scheck YK 110.06 96.28 206.34 5* Ann Jansson SW 119.38 93.57 213.35

Class F35 cont'd 6 Mel Dutkiewicz BC 08.52 04.48 213.40 7 Maureen De Camp BC 89.47 24.12 213.59 8 Helen Bailey BC 20.25 07.17 227.42 9 Clare Durand US 33.25 96.25 229.50

10 Andree Jarvis AB 25.10 09.56 235.06 I 1 Sheena van Dyk AB 37.59 18.56 256.55 12 Laura Querengesser AB 43.45 24.02 267.47 13 Eva Ruutopold US 61.28 16.24 277.52 14 Annette Van Tyghem ON 54.11 27.53 282.04 15 Katie Sprugel US 65.28 20.04 285.32 16 Vicki Bondy ON 73.07 24.04 297.11 17 Mary-Lou Hogg AB 50.19 48.44 299.03 18 Christine Franklin US 70.01 221.44 391.45 19 Ann Leonard US 42.46 DNF N/A 20 Annie Sanderson US 30.17 DNS N/A

Class F45 Course Length: 5.5 5.5 I' Jill Dalton AU 75.05 85.13 160.18 2* Meredyth Sauer AU 72.38 90.30 163.08 3 Ilze Rupners BC 78.01 106.23 184.24 4 Margaret Ellis BC 89,56 109.15 199.11 5 Karen Lachance BC 91.15 109.56 201.11 6 Ardis Dull US 108.38 111.28 220.06 7 Gail Gagarin US 124.22 110.56 235.18 8 Maggie McLean BC 107.36 128.52 236.28 9* Barbara Verity UK 103.34 133.47 237.21

10 Luella Smith NB 97.08 141.22 238.30 11 Vera Malanczyj ON 107.33 133.58 241.31 12 Susan Chartrand BC 107.52 138.53 246.45 13* Liz Turbin UK 108.56 147,26 256.22 14 Mary Smith US 117.55 148.03 265.58 15 Judy Ellman ON 147.07 160.58 308.05 16 Marilyn Edmunds AB 144.29 167.29 311.58 17 Judith Karpinski US 157.44 174.50 332.34 18 Svatava Hermanek ON 174.58 185.52 360.50 19* Carol Pearce UK 86.31 DNF N/A 20 Sandra Kish Miller US 110.35 DNF N/A 21 Ingrid Dagis BC 198.32 DNF N/A

Class F55 Course Length: 4.4 3.8 I Frances Vyse BC 65.03 76.59 142.02 2 Linda Moore US 68.42 74.34 143.16 3 Marit Davis US 82.00 73.00 155.00 4 Miki Snell US 81.59 82.58 164.57 5 Sara Mae Berman US 90.33 90.45 181.18 6 Diana Hocking BC 85.46 97.19 183.05 7 Sue Waddington ON 97.57 99.40 197.37 8 Ursula Grady BC 106.24 91.29 197.53 9 Shirley Donald BC 116.39 89.25 206.04

10 Anne York US 98.38 111.50 210.28 11 Donna Gookin US 143.34 101.23 244.57 12 Gail Hanna US 135.17 111.40 246.57 13 Claire Dell US 122.58 141.44 264.42 14 Barbara Phillips YK 160.06 107.46 267.52 15* Elisabet Roing 166.40 149.57 316.37 16* Penny Hemsted UK 145.50 DNS N/A 17 Margie James NS DNF 158.48 N/A 18* Kathy Hamilton DNF DNF N/A

Class F65+ Course Length: 3.5 3.5 1* Ann Fettes NZ 64.34 58.46 123.20 2 Pat de St Croix QC 80.31 67.28 147.59 3* Heidi Piguet SZ 84.37 88.56 173.33 4 Nesta Leduc YK 128.33 83.17 211.50 5 Gloria Charlow QC 140.14 92.25 232.39

Class M12 Course Length: I William Enger US 2 Scott Foubister BC 3 George Jr Feraru US 4* Timothy Street UK 5 Dylan Brooks AB 6 Simon Lay BC 7 Kaelen Chartrand BC

2.8 33.57 30.45 43.25 31.40

106.06 110.24 173.40

2.7 30.18 39.48 30.48 48.59 29.33 64.28 DSQ

64.15 70.33 74.13 80.39

135.39 174.52

N/A

Class M13 Course Length: 3.2 3.3 I Robin Foubister BC 33.51 31.31 65.22 2 Olav Viddal AB 37.24 36.23 73.47 3* Benjamin Imhof SZ 34.01 49.34 83.35 4 Bowden Stonehocker BC 69.53 48.30 118.23 5 Steven Pugh BC 104.52 58.49 163.41 6 James Wingfield US 100.37 85.06 185.43 7 Tyler Chartrand BC DNF DNF N/A

Class MIS Course Length: 3.8 3.7 I Joel Rauschenbach US 38.10 46.52 85.02 2 Scott McBride BC 48.04 37.19 85.23 3 Graham Nishikawa YK 52.00 34.38 86.38 4 Nils Carlson AB 51.10 39.01 90.11 5 Land Pearson YK 45.11 51.20 96.31 6 Thomas Nipen AB 44.09 52.56 97.05 7 Danilo Malanczyj ON 49.20 49.35 98.55 8 Ross Smith US 60.30 46.11 106.41 9 Greg Henderson BC 58.25 51.00 109.25

10 Daniel Innes ON 73.53 39.14 113.07 11* Michael Witt 54.12 62.19 116.31 12 Errin Eng BC 82.03 65.08 147.11 13 Corey Burger BC 96.20 57.32 153.52 14 Kevin Pugh BC DSQ 108.23 N/A

Class M17 Course Length: 6.4 6.5 I Adam Scheck YK 77.13 66.58 144.11 2 Sky Pearson YK 78.52 85.26 164.18 3 Matthew Rance BC 142.13 116.07 258.20 4* Richard Verity UK 156.31 108.39 265.10 5 Trevor Pugh BC 183.25 118.16 301.41 6 Josh Blake YK DNF 99.00 N/A

Class M20 Course Length: 10.0 10.1 1* Holger Ho Johansen NO 72.02 66.07 138.09 2* Ulrich Aeschlima SZ 80.03 73.05 153.08 3 Brian May NS 80.23 80.42 161.05 4 Mike Waddington ON 82.02 79.09 161.11 5* Karl Dravitski NZ 83.03 78.34 161.37 6 Mike Smith NB 83.52 80.40 164.32 7 Eric Bone US 84.17 83.57 168.14 8 Wil Smith NB 92.14 79.52 172.06 9 Martin Pardoe BC 84.56 89.37 174.33

10* Andreas Curiger 89.52 90.18 180.10 11 * P-0 Derebrant SW 88.17 92.26 180.43 12* Mats Johansson SW 94.24 89.10 183.34 13* Martin Ward UK 92.11 93.28 185.39 14* Andreas Luthi SW 98.11 89.58 188.09 15* Michael Walters AU 101.20 87.07 188.27 16 Doug Mahoney NB 96.54 92.20 189.14 17 Francis Falardeau QC 97.42 92.08 189.50 18* Per Spik SW 93.35 97.05 190.40 19 Dave Donaldson ON 99.28 92.12 191.40 20* Vyten is Benetis 103.10 89.5 193.06 21* Lars Schagerstrom SW 98.04 97.09 195.13 22* Lars-Ake Svensk SW 113.42 82.58 196.40 23* Hans Fransson SW 95.57 101.10 197.07 24* Mattias Sandqvist SW 114.49 85.22 200.11 25* Rolf Valery SW 98.01 110.27 208.28 26 Mark Astridge AB 117.57 97.38 215.35 27 Eric Cyr QC 116.24 99.13 215.37

28 Chris 1 vanciuc BC 06.38 115.06 221.44 Class M20 cont'd 29* Sergey Velichko 04.10 118.26 222.36 30 James Tasker AB 01.49 128.14 230.03 31 Jeremy Jo McKnight US 22.07 109.14 231.21 32 Vincent Fagnan AB 36.14 104.13 240.27 33 Marek Dutkiewicz BC 33.14 108.12 241.26 34 Richard Hall BC 25.25 122.13 247.38 35* David Baldwin AU 25.35 122.33 248.08 36 Jeff Coker US 38.25 113.13 251.38 37* Nigel Aylott AU 41.10 114.55 256.05 38 Alaric Fish AB 51.30 123.49 275.19 39 Syd Reader US 55.46 124.22 280.08 40* Gustav Nordlund SW 62.50 119.44 282.34 41 Timothy Edmunds AB 67.22 115.44 283.06 42 Nevin French ON 46.50 164.20 311.10 43 Bill Green US 67.55 177.22 345.17 44' Manfred Kopisch 223.20 159.20 382.40 45 Raymond Chung ON 233.56 175.56 409.52 46 Matthew Miller US 222.34 188.40 411.14 47* Bengt Ohlund SW 93.57 DN F N/A 48 Forest Pearson YK 111.54 DN F N/A 49 Mark Tarnopolsky ON 115.23 DSQ N/A 50* Philippe Jeanneret SZ 119.20 DSQ N/A 51* Ondrej Kotecky 101.44 DNS N/A 52 Mark Innes ON 128.16 DNF N/A 53 J-J Cote US 131.34 DSQ N/A 54 Gabor Lipcsey ON 137.30 DSQ N/A 55 Don Livingstone BC 172.20 DNF N/A 56* Mattias Baath SW DNF 108.28 N/A 57* Johan Hakeman SW DNF DNF N/A 58 James Baker US DNF DNF N/A 59 Daniel Pittman US DNF 106.00 N/A 60 Ross Burnett YK DNF DNS N/A

Class M35 Course Length: 7.7 8.0 1* Greg Barbour NZ 59.48 61.19 121.07 2* Toby Imhof SZ 65.25 64.14 129.39 3* Ewald Eyrich SZ 77.26 81.57 159.23 4 Olav Nipen AB 85.22 76.12 161.34 5 Bruce Wolfe US 79.04 84.29 163.33 6 Ernst Linder US 78.59 85.49 164.48 7 Adrian Zissos AB 81.46 84.09 165.55 8 Alar Ruutopold US 87.14 80.20 167.34 9 George Feraru US 92.12 87.36 179.48

10 Steve Gregg US 93.33 92.59 186.32 11 Carl Larsson US 87.48 101.37 189.25 12* Alan Wallis UK 97.03 103.15 200.18 13 Ove Albinsson BC 98.24 101.56 200.20 14 Stephen Richardson BC 97.35 102.57 200.32 15 Ian Schokking BC 99.26 105.20 204.46 16 David Bondy ON 114.59 91.00 205.59 17 Bill Jarvis AB 110.02 99.58 210.00 18 Jerry Bakker ON 107.13 104.29 211.42 19* Jan Urban UK 104.10 112.53 217.03 20* Clive Street AU 98.11 122.19 220.30 21 Ralf Becker US 109.44 115.57 225.41 22 Michael Minium US 106.10 122.37 228.47 23 Bill Hobbins AB 87.38 144.03 231.41 24 Desmond Mott BC 105.40 127.01 232.41 25 Don Ross ON 104.46 128.15 233.01 26 Grant Jeffrey BC 123.24 114.31 237.55 27 Jim Eagleton 97.16 145.31 242.47 28 Torbjorn Carlson AB 131.52 128.17 260.09 29 Ron Grayson BC 134.42 130.30 265.12 30 David Webber US 124.11 147.32 271.43 31 Howard Adam BC 138.33 142.26 280.59 32 John Chatwin BC 113.31 194.29 308.00 33 Mark Swinkels BC 122.28 185.55 308.23 34 Stephen Stibler US 166.58 155.30 322.28 35 Don Riddle AB 165.30 206.54 372.24

36 Gene Brenda AB 220.13 167.10 387.23 Class M35 cont'd 37 Ralph Lindzon ON 221.47 174.47 396.34 38 Curtis Condon 154.04 268.56 423.00 42 David McGraw US 88.38 DNF N/A 43 Rick Breseman US 110.35 DNF N/A 44* Ted van Geldermaisen NZ 112.07 DNF N/A 45 Peter Innes ON 134.58 DNF N/A 46 Boon Tan ON 140.29 DNF N/A 47 Charles Leonard US 159.51 DNF N/A 48 Kean Williams US 228.36 DNF N/A 49 Jeff Lanam US 241.53 DNF N/A 50 Doug Innes ON DSQ 145.18 N/A 51 Craig Brooks AB DNF DNF N/A 52* David Rowlands AU DNF DNF N/A 53 Axel Penserot US DNF DNF N/A 54 Don Roe MB DNF DNS N/A

Class M45 Course Length: 7.1 7.0 1 Peter Gagarin US 64.05 57.46 21.51 2* Alain Juan SZ 64.15 58.55 23.10 3* Andy Hemsted UK 68.11 63.57 32.08 4* Michael Wood NZ 73.25 63.22 36.47 5 Robert Gilchrist AB 75.29 71.25 46.54 6* Roland Jansson SW 81.24 69.41 51.05 7 Gord Hunter QC 85.09 69.44 54.53 8* Nick Collins NZ 86.29 69.21 55.50 9* Leigh Privett AU 77.17 79.21 56.38

10* Trevor Sauer AU 83.19 76.27 59.46 11 David Enger US 85.02 75.28 60.30 12 Geraint Edmunds AB 95.09 72.18 67.27 13 Jeffrey Saeger US 95.16 76.19 71.35 14* Jill Gurka 91.05 83.44 74.49 15* Derek Morris AU 11.14 64.42 75.56 16 Ron Green BC 03.37 77.49 81.26 17 Doug Smith BC 97.40 87.04 84.44 18 Robert Miller US 12.58 73.10 86.08 19 Charlie Shahbazian US 01.58 91.59 93.57 20 Dale Width US 06.42 92.29 99.11 21 * Robert Verity UK 00.34 103.54 204.28 22 George Pugh BC 13.58 97.19 211.17 23 Bert Waslander QC 10.24 101.10 211.34 24 Toivo Taal BC 01.59 110.50 212.49 25* Arnold Hug SZ 23.32 92.51 216.23 26 John Rance BC 26.29 91.00 217.29 27 Greg Yarkie AB 08.26 120.18 228.44 28 Jim Webster AB 16.09 113.45 229.54 29 Kevin Hill-Tout BC 19.39 116.01 235.40 30 Sheldon Friesen MB 50.53 108.48 259.41 31 Ed Smith NB 11.58 150.41 262.39 32 Roman Malanczyj ON 69.26 112.01 281.27 33 Jack McLean BC 36.24 145.11 281.35 34 David Tallent US 48.53 144.53 293.46 35 Gary Atchison AB 55.24 142.37 298.01 36 Hugh Connolly ON 50.02 151.18 301.20 37 Doug Sprugel US 53.16 148.43 301.59 38* Alan Burger SZ 69.53 134.03 303.56 39 Brian Ritter US 76.35 136.21 312.56 40 Bob Elliot ON 94.09 190.20 384.29 41 Fred Pilon US 04.53 DNF N/A 42 Richard Matthews BC 08.05 DNF N/A 43 James H. Fulton BC 86.11 DNS N/A 44 Ron Monk AB 91.10 DNS N/A 45 Jim Chartrand AB 247.20 DNF N/A 46 Dave Mackas BC DNF 139.00 N/A 47* John Beck UK DNF DNF N/A 48 Barry McCashin AB DNF 184.06 N/A 49 Ken DeBeer US DNF 192.42 N/A 50 Gary McCausland US DSQ 112.11 N/A 51* Nick Lethbridge AU DNS 84.52 N/A 52* Paul Hoopmann AU DNF DNS N/A

Class M55 Course Length: 5.5 5.5 1 Don Davis US 60.49 84.48 145.37

2 Alex Kerr BC 77.16 77.28 154.44 3 Orlyn Skrien US 86.30 68.52 155.22 4 Fred Veler US 72.09 85.20 157.29 5* Paul Potter AU 79.09 79.00 158.09 6 Alan Vyse BC 91.11 71.51 163.02 7 Jim Waddington ON 72.51 90.26 163.17 8 Einar Viddal AB 77.21 88.30 165.51 9 Peter Snell US 83.47 83.06 166.53 0 Carl Moore US 96.40 95.07 191.47

Larry Berman US 100.43 97.54 198.37 2* Alan Yeadon UK 103.51 99.21 203.12 3 Scott Donald BC 101.11 102.39 203.50 4 Murray Foubister BC 104.25 137.09 241.34 5 Nigel James QC 135.42 106.19 242.01 6 Eric Smith US 116.11 146.04 262.15 7 Jack Lee ON 129.30 136.42 266.12 8 Carl Coger BC 145.28 124.10 269.38 9* Peter Hamilton 138.36 150.51 289.27

20 Keith McLeod US 128.26 177.43 306.09 21 Harvey Friedman US 145.07 174.35 319.42 22 Udo Grady BC 114.36 242.24 357.00 23* Gil Hollamby UK 97.26 DNS N/A 24* Don Atkinson 99.02 DSQ N/A 25* Albert Chapman 144.17 DNF N/A 26 Dan Dell US 209.05 DNF N/A 27 Martin Hocking BC 273.51 DNF N/A 28 Rudolf Chroust ON DSQ 171.39 N/A 29* Bob Reddick DNF DNF N/A

Class M65+ Course Length: 4.4 3.8 1 Edwin Gookin US 55.06 63.23 118.29 2 Al Smith US 65.03 57.56 122.59 3 Don Scott AB 68.53 75.30 144.23 4 Dick de St Croix QC 84.46 83.50 168.36 5 Knut Olson US 95.26 89.54 185.20 6* Rene Piguet 105.34 83.49 189.23 7* Clas Roing 88.51 110.53 199.44 8 Russ Bruce US 114.45 95.10 209.55 9 Dick James NS 106.45 105.06 211.51

10 John Charlow QC 101.34 121.11 222.45 11 Kenneth Lew US 117.21 117.42 235.03 12 Andy Lamm ON 75.25 DNF N/A 13 Bruce McAlister US 150.13 DNS N/A

Class OPEN1 Course Length: 2.8 2.7 I Anna Carlson AB 81.53 63.48 145.41

Class OPEN2 Course Length: 3.2 3.3 I Pam Meuwissen 61.02 47.48 108.50 2 Diane Bakker ON 150.37 80.50 231.27

Class OPEN3 Course Length: 3.8 3.7 1 Eva Gilyen SZ 44.43 34.24 79.07 2 Marek Chroust ON 64.47 67.07 131.54 3 Nicole Davis US 97.07 90.52 187.59 4 Marcelle Adam BC 122.00 105.46 227.46 5 Tina Campbell BC 112.19 130.36 242.55 6 Roberta Fothergi I DSQ 81.30 N/A 7 Lorraine Rivers ON 148.34 DSQ N/A 8 Margi Freemantle DNS 58.51 N/A

Class OPEN4 Course Length: 4.4 3.8 I Nancy Lee ON 82.52 94.36 177.28 2 Scott Drumm US 91.24 162.37 254.01 3 Randy Benz BC 92.07 DNF N/A 4 Tony Knott DNS 114.04 N/A

Class OPENS Course Length: 5.5 5.5 I Ian McLean UK 74.03 99.24 173.27 2 Tony Gazley NZ 117.26 113.30 230.56 3 Dave Tilley BC 117.11 131.34 248.45

Class RECI Course Length: 2.8 2.6 1 Scott Newson AB 232.20 DNS N/A

COC/NAOC SNIPPETS

Record Medal Haul for Smith Family The Smiths' won an amazing 13 medals, the most ever won by members of the same family at a COC: Sandy - 2 gold, I silver; Heather - 1 gold , 2 silver; Victoria - 1 gold, 1 silver; Mike - 3 bronze; Wil - 1 gold; Luella - I bronze.

Honorable Mention to Scheck Family Not to be overshadowed by the Smith's are the seven medals won by the Scheck family: Adam - 3 gold; Katherine - 2 gold; Justine - 1 silver; Barbara - 1 bronze

Successful COC for NB and Yukon Athletes The New Brunswick team of 9 athletes captured a total of 13 medals - 5 gold, 4 silver, 4 bronze (all by the Smith family), while 14 Yukon competitors took home 17 medals - 5 gold, 8 silver, 4 bronze.

Triple Play Performances Four athletes won gold medals in the COC Classic, COC Short and NAOC:

Robin Foubister ( BC)

M13 Adam Scheck (YUK)

M17 Marta Green (BC)

F17 Pat de St Croix(QC)

F65+

Another 3-Peat performer was Don Davis (US) - fastest in M55 every day but ineligible for to receive COC medals.

Close Finishes COC Classic F20 Sandy Smith - .35 over Pam James NAOC MI5 Joel Rauschenbach- .21 over Scott McBride COC Short M20 Wil Smith- .19 over Mike Waddington COC Short F45 Ilze Rupners- .11 over Marg Ellis NAOC M20 Brian May- .06 over Mike Waddington -Shortest margin of week.

New Zealand Junior - rl Dravitski Karl Dravitski, finished 91n in the COC Classic and 5th in thp NAOC, only 32 seconds behind Brian May. He finished 5tn overall in the 5-Day Sage Stomp behind Holger Hott Johansen, Mike Waddington and Mike and Wil Smith. Drqvitski competed in the 1998 Junior WOC and finished 17tn in the Classic.

Fierce Competition between Old Friends 1. One of the more intense competitions was between long

time friends, Per Gaarder and Steve Pearson. Per lived in Toronto prior to moving to Vancouver over 20 year ago. Steve guested with the Gaarder's, during the COC. They competed in M 5 with their prime goal to beat the other. They finished 4t and 5th in the Classic with Steve ahead by 1.58. It was more of the same in the Short with Stpve finishing 2nd only .20 behind the winner and Per 3r a. Steve said it was fear of losing to Per that made him run so well. Per said he was only being a good host and let Steve beat him.

2. NAOC and COC Short F45 champion, I lze Rupners, and Marg Ellis, second in both events, started orienteering 25 years ago while living in Guelph. Career changes led to their relocating to Vancouver and becoming members of the GVOC.

Consistent Performances from National Team Members It is encouraging to note the consistent performances by national team members throughout the series Sage Stomp `98 events. Mike Waddington, Mike Smith, Wil Smith, Martin Pardoe, Brian May, Francis Falardeau, Ross Burnett, Sandy Smith, Pam James and Marie Catherine Bruno. All have competed in WOC's and are either Pre-selected to our 1999 WOC team or are prime candidates for selection of the final places on the team.

Consistency comes through experience and top level competition that the above named demonstrated in the COC and NAOC. Based upon their consistent performances I feel confident our team will acquit themselves well at WOC 1999. Of particular note is the rapid development of Sandy and Mike Smith - they competed in their first WOC in 1997 and now one year later are leading members on the team. Perhaps it's the salt sea spray from the ocean adjacent to their home but it's more likely due to hard work and motivation.

Martin Pardoe Loses Fight with Spagetti Sauce The hard luck story of the COC goes to Martin Pardoe. The combined times of the COC Classic and Short races were used to Pre-Select 3 men and 3 women to our 1999 WOC team. Martin finished second in the Classic and held a 2 minutes margin over 3rd place and 4.25 over 4th place. Unfortunately, he became ill after eating some tainted meat sauce the night before the Short race and was unable to compete and dropped out of contention for a Pre-Selected spot on the team.

He recovered by the NAOC and was 5th Canadian. His total times for the 4 days he competed - COC Classic and NAOC were 3rd best of Canadians but he was missing the all important Short Distance time. Based upon his results he will be a strong candidate for one of the two remaining positions to be decided at COC 1999.

Former Champion Underlines Retirement Earlier this year defending double 1997 COC champion, Brian Graham, announced his retirement from the national team. Brian was a member of our team at the previous four WOC's . After Classic and Short results well below his standards over the last 10 years Brian commented "If anyone doubted I was serious about retiring my performances this week should remove any doubts". Thanks Brian, you were a fine champion and more importantly, a fine sportsman.

CANADIANS AT VARIOUS 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

1. 1998 WORLD MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS -JULY 2- 5

Seven COF members competed in the 1998 WMC at Novy Bor, Czech Republic, July 2-5. Three from the Ottawa area - Pat, Dick and Ted de St Croix; three from Vancouver- Marg and Brian Ellis and Alex Kerr; 1 from Edmonton - Don Scott. e, flew to Sweden in early June to spend a few weeks with Ted before joining a group of Swedish orienteers traveling to the WMC.

The Novy Bor terrain is considered among the best and most technically challenging in the world emphasizing accurate map reading and route choice decisions. The 1972 World Championships were held in the Novy Bor region and competitors still rave about the unique, difficult and immensely enjoyable terrain.

There were approximately 4000 competitors from 38 countries. The largest contingents were from: Sweden -665; Czech Republic - 605; Norway - 530; Finland - 516. The Class with the largest number of entrants was M55 with 434.

The three de St Croix's: :Pat (W70), Dick (M70), Ted (M40) and Don Scott (M70), qualified for the A finals; Marg and Brian Ellis for the W50 and M50 B finals; Alex Kerr for the M60 C final. Alex placed well in the first of two qualification races but a huge error in the second race dropped him to the C final.

Placings in finals: Ted 6 71.44 (winning time - 68.43) 330 in class Pat 13 69.21 (winning time - 50.43) 33 in class Don 46 84.12 (winning time - 57.36) 107 in class Dick 55 96.56 (winning time - 57.36) 107 in class Marg 20 57.28 (winning time - 46.34) 217 in class Alex 2 59.21 (winning time - 54.24) 270 in class Brian DSQ 406 in class

Sharon Crawford, a member of many US teams at WOC's and W Ski-OC won the F50 class for the 3rd straight year - an outstanding achievement at this high level of competition.

2. COF MEMBERS SUCCESSFUL AT 1998 WORLD MASTERS GAMES

The World Masters Games (WMG) were held near Portland, Oregon, August 13-14. Organizers had anticipated around 400 competitors but in fact received only about 50 entries - 29 from the US, 7 each from Canada and Japan and single entries from Latvia, New Zealand, Scotland, Russia and Ukraine. 10F, President, Sue Harvey, was the lone competitor from Scotland.

Earlier this year the 10F Council decided that in years when WMG are held they would serve as the World Master's Championships (WMC). With 4000 at the WMC (item 3) and less than 50 at the WMG the Council decision may elevate orienteering to the top position in number of competitors in the 2002 WMG (Australia).

Seven COF members competed in the WMG and all won at least one medal, in fact, a review of the results advise that all but two competitors won medals.

Helen Howard (Ramblers OC-Montreal) Two Golds - F40A Classic & F40A Short

Peter Sotola (Greater Vancouver OC) Two Golds - M40A Classic & M40A Short

Ursula Grady (Kootenay OC) Two Golds - F5OB Classic & F5OB Short

Udo Grady (Kootenay OC) Two Golds - M6OB Classic & M6OB Short

Gord Hunter (Ottawa OC) Gold in M50A Classic; Silver in M50A Short

Alex Kerr (Greater Vancouver OC) Gold in M60A Short; Silver in M60A Classic

Nigel James (Ottawa OC) Gold in M55A Short

The first World Masters' Games were held in Canada in

1985. Orienteering was one of the sports offered. Most

of the venues were at York University but the orienteering events were held in the Guelph-Kolapore region. The

three orienteering events, 2 qualification races + finals, were under the direction of Pat de St Croix with Frank Farfan and Ted de St Croix assisting. There were almost

200 competitors from 13 countries with the largest

overseas contingent being from . Sweden.

Two Canadians, Bryan Chubb and Marg Ellis, won gold

medals in the F and M 35 classes.

Both are still going strong. Bryan won the M45 class in

the COC, (he was Controller for the NAOC), while Marg finished 2nd in F45 in the NAOC.

3. 1998 WORLD ROGAINING CHAMPIONSHIPS - GOLD MEDAL PERFORMANCES BY CANADIAN TEAMS

The third World Rogaine Championships (WRC) were held August 4-5 at the Douglas Lake Ranch , near Merritt,

BC. There were 130 teams (over 280 competitors): Canada - 125; USA - 69; Australia - 58; New Zealand -

11; Sweden - 9; Britain - 3; Czech Rep - 3; Finland - 2;

France - 2.

Most had competed in the 1998 COC and NAOC the previous week. Many were driving to Whitehorse

immediately after the WRC to compete in the Western Canadian and Yukon 0 Championships.

The 1996 winning team - Australians, David Rowlands

and James Russell competed but with new partners: Rowlands (2nd in the COC M35) was teamed with New Zealander, Greg Barbour, (1st in COC M20 and NAOC M35). Russell was teamed with Michael Walters. The 2nd and 3rd place teams from the 1996 WRC -Peter Mair and Alan Stradeski (BC) and the Australian duo of Rod Gray and Geoff Lawford were still partnered. Mair and Stradeski were entered in the Open Male class while the Gray/Lawford combo were competing in the Veteran class.

Open Male. Based upon COC & NAOC performances the Lawford/Barbour team looked pretty powerful in the Open Male class but had to settle for second behind the team of Nigel Aylott (Aus)and liro Kakko (Fin). 3rd place went to a Swedish team; Mathias Baath/Lars Schagerstrom. The Mair /Stradeski duo were 4th. Francis Falardeau (Que) teamed up with an

Australian, David Baldwin to finish a very commendable

6th. There were 66 teams in this class.

Open Female. National team members, Catherine

Hagen (BC) and Pam James,(NS) combined to win the Open Female class. COC and NAOC champion, Sandy

Smith teamed up with Swedes, Eva Stalstad and Hanna Rangert earning bronze medals by finishing 3rd. There were 10 teams in the class.

Veteran Female. This class was 'clean sweep' for Canadian teams. The BC combo - Carol De Rosa and Shirley Donald took the gold; Karin Andrews (BC) and

Jean Gaucher (AB) won silver and another BC team,

Nancy Ackerfeldt and Karen Lachance won bronze.

Open Mixed.Newly crowned North American M20

champion, Brian May and wife, Abbi , finished a close second to the Australian pair of Helen Bailey and Richard

Mathews.

Super Veteran Mixed. The husband and wife teams

of Eva/Per Gaarder (BC) and Jim/Sue Waddington finished 2nd and 3rd, winning silver and bronze medals.

Total medals won by nations:

Australia 16 Gold - 7 Silver - 5 Bronze - 4 Canada 15 Gold 4 Silver - 6 Bronze - 5

USA 10 Gold - 2 Silver - 4 Bronze - 4

Sweden 4 Bronze - 4

New Zealand 3 Gold - 2 Silver - 1 Finland 1 Gold - 1

The top three teams in the Open Male class scored totals of 3190, 3050 and 2860 of a maximum 3600 points and the 1st place team covered almost 110 kms. Four teams scored between 2400-2500 points and one scored 2300. Nine teams in all scored 2300 points or more. The very high temperature had a major impact on the point score

of many teams.

The 10th highest score was the 2210 points scored by

the team of Catherine Hagen and Pam James in winning

the Open Female class. This is a most impressive result

that ranks with those of the very top male teams. Abbi

and Brian May were almost as good with a total of 2120

(14th overall).

Congratulations to all Canadian medalists.

C 0 F DROPS 1.) Eastern Canadian & New Brunswick

Championships

The following Press Release, prepared by Stig Skarborn, was sent to local area newspaper, radio and television stations immediately following the event on August 30.

PRESS RELEASE

Sandy Smith from Albert, NB, dominated the women's elite category by winning both Saturday's NB Championship race, and the Eastern Canadian Championships which combined Saturday's long distance race with Sunday's short distance race. The event was held at the University of New Brunswick Woodlot. The straight line course lengths were 7.5 km on Saturday and 4.1 km on Sunday with 14 and 11 control check points respectively. Actual distance run depends on the route chosen. Sandy's times were 93:03 and 48:01 minutes respectively. Pam James from Halifax finished second in times of 96:51 and 57:04. Abigail May, also from Halifax, finished third.

Course lengths in the mens elite were 10.1 and 4.9 km respectively, with 18 and 13 controls. Winner of both the New Brunswick and Eastern Canadian events was North American champion Brian May, (Halifax), in times of 84:26 and 45:27. Second place in the Eastern Canadian event went to Fredericton's Michael Fellows with times of 87:31 and 46:20 with third place going to Hillsborough's Doug Mahoney with times of 86:19 and 47:52. For the New Brunswick championships second place went to Doug Mahoney and third to Michael Fellows.

Noteworthy is also Albert's Canadian National team member Mike Smith who had the fastest time on Sunday with a superb 41:50, but who mis-punched his control card on Saturday and therefore was ineligible for the combined time awards.

2.) 1998 Western Canadian and Yukon Championships

The almost 170 competitors included orienteers from every provincial association, Britain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA., most of whom had competed in the COC and NAOC events the previous week. The weather was very good, and the organizers received many compliments on the level of organization, area and Long Lake map. Local press coverage was very good and included a great photo of Swiss runner, Ulu Aeschlimann.

Pam James (Halifax) won the F20 class with Sue Richards (Edmonton) 2nd and Marie Catherine Bruno (Montmorency) 3rd. Richards, the top placed western competitor, won the Western Canadian title.

Eric Cyr (Montmorency) won the M20 class with Wil and Mike Smith (New Brunswick) taking 2nd and 3rd

spots. Peter MacKenzie (Edmonton), won the Western Canadian title.

There was an upset in the M17-19 class with Sky Pearson (Yukon), beating COC and NAOC champion, Adam Scheck.

Swedish orienteer, P.O. Derebrant, competed in the 1997 COC in Manitoba and enjoyed his visit so much that he returned this year. He competed in the NAOC ith i n

M20) but in his normal M35 for the Western and Yukon championships and finished first. He circled a section of the map and commented to Ross Burnett, "This was paradise". Ross replied "Yes, and it's only 5 km from downtown Whitehorse".

3.) Alberta Association Submits Application to Host APOC 2002

The AOA planned an ambitious program of major events for 2002. 1. Submit an application to IOF to host the 2002 World

Master Championships (WMC). 2. Submit an application to the 1998 COF AGM to host

the 2002 COC and NAOC.

The three events would make an attractive package for North American and overseas orienteers.

An IOF Council decision 'in years when World Masters Games are held the WMC will be held as the orienteering component'. The 2002 WMG had already been awarded to Australia and the 10F decision meant the AOA bid was futile.

A few days later the COF received notice that the Asia Pacific Orienteering Championship committee were interested in having APOC 2002 held in North America. When advised of this the AOA changed their route choice from WMC to APOC with the COC and NAOC still included.

A submission was prepared and forwarded to the APOC Secretariat prior to the July 1 deadline. The APOC office acknowledged receipt of the submission and expressed the opinion that it will receive strong support. The decision on the 2002 APOC organizer will be made October.

The AOA application to the AGM to organize the 2002 COC and NAOC was approved.

The Bay Area OC (USA) had considered submitting an application to host APOC 2002 but in view of the attractive AOA decided against bidding and to support the AOA bid.

The APOC decision will be published in the next issue -Winter 1999.

SAFETY AND SEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE Comments from Editor:

The Summer issue Editorial advised that a two part article by Search & Rescue committee member, Marcel Zollinger, would be published in the Fall and Winter issues of 0-Canada. Due to a problem with the disk we were unable to extract

the information in time for this issue. The article will be used

in the next two issues. Fortunately, Mardy Roberts, Foothills

Wanderers OC forwarded the following article/quiz on Safety

and Search procedures.

Note the repeated use of the word 'lost' in the article and questionnaire. The article in the Summer issue emphasized we should not make reference to participants being 'lost' but rather 'overdue'. Thanks to Mardy for the article and the

opportunity to mention 'overdue' rather than 'lost'.

Dear Editor,

The Summer 1998 issue of Orienteering Canada contained information on safety and search procedures for lost orienteers. Readers may be interested in a park meet the Foothills Wanderers held a few years ago that was intended to provide information to newcomers and, perhaps, to remind the pro's about safety features, what to do when lost, and how to avoid getting lost.

The idea was generated after a flood wiped out the essential bridge for our Wednesday meet - leaving us with a city park map which was 3k long and about .25k wide. Instead of a regular meet we switched to a fun score-0 in which competitors had to provide the answers to the following questions - one at each control. Prizes were given for best score, fastest runner, etc. and sheets of hints and instructions were given to everyone when they returned. It was a fun event and, I hope, made everyone a bit more aware of issues related to getting lost and being more safety conscious.

If you think the idea might be of interest to other clubs, please feel free to use the information in any way that seems appropriate. (Jim Force and I made up the questions and answers - but are willing to admit that other answers might be possible!)

Mardy Roberts, President, FWOC

LOST AND FOUND QUIZ FOR

ORIENTEERS

I. Which of the following category of orienteers seems to

be the most likely to get lost at orienteering events? a Beginners

b Intermediate orienteers on medium courses

c Participants on the longest courses

2. No orienteer should be allowed to leave the start without

a

3. Directions on a control card that tell you which way to go if you are lost are called

a escape directions

b safety routes

c safety bearings

4. If you are injured but are able to move during an

orienteering meet, the best thing to do is: a stay at a control.

b try to find your way to a road or trail. c sit down and start blowing your whistle.

5. What is a possible penalty for not stopping to help an

injured orienteer?

a Disqualification

b A 10-minute penalty

c A "rude" comment from the injured person.

6. If someone is lost and asks you for help during an important competition, the suggested procedure is that

you a point them in the wrong direction - especially

if they are on the same course as you. b refuse to speak to the person. c show them their location on the map and report

the incident to the finish.

7. Which of the following could be a reason to cancel an

orienteering meet? (Note all that apply.)

a Not many people showed up

b It's raining c Dangerous animals in the neighbourhood

d Exposure to weather conditions could be

hazardous

e Meets are never canceled (orienteers are tough!)

1. Which of the following terms are used by orienteers to mean "lost"?

a Parallel error b 180o error c Off the map d Out of contact with the map e Rough orienteering ("sort-of lost") f All the above

9. An uncrossable stream or marsh (dangerous and likely to get you disqualified if you cross) will be indicated on the map by

a being highlighted with crosshatched lines. b being outlined in black lines. c being printed in dark blue rather than light blue.

10. The name orienteers give to the procedure of going back to a place where you weren't lost after you decide you are lost is

a reorienting. (sound's logical, eh?) b relocating. c starting over.

11. The distress signal with your whistle (to be used only if you are in serious need) is

a the SOS in Morse code. b one long whistle followed by a shout. c three short whistle blasts.

12. If you did not finish an orienteering course, you should a hand in your punch card at the finish anyway. b leave without bothering the people working at

the finish. c find a private place to have a good cry and

decide on your excuses (see 13). d a and c above.

13. Which of the following excuses have been used to explain why orienteers got lost?

a I lost my compass. b I drew my course wrong.

The fold on the map covered the most important feature.

d I had the map upside down. e I thought the fence was the north line. f I forgot my glasses. g The staples (or pins, or my watch, or....)

threw my compass off. h I lost my contact lens.

They picked up the control before I got to it.

J Any and all of the above.

Editorial (Orienteering World - August 1998)

Three weeks after the 1998 10F Congress, two matters currently under discussion keep coming back to mind, the one because it was raised specifically at the General Assembly and the other because, quite surprisingly as I see it, it wasn't referred to at all at the Congress - at least not in any formal session.

The first is the call made by Oivind Holt of Norway for some prioritization in the Activity Plan in favour of recruitment of young people into orienteering. In many countries people are already very active (and very successful) in this field, and they have even succeeded in having orienteering's superb educational value recognized by getting it accepted as part of the national school curriculum.

What we orienteers are not good at is getting even a small proportion of these young people to take up orienteering as one of their mainstream sport. In most 0-clubs which I have some knowledge of, almost all the youngsters are the sons or daughters of active club members in M/W35 and higher age bracket. The high proportion of older members gives orienteering the image in the community of a sports activity for veterans.

Training geared mainly for adults, lack of suitable social activities and no offers of transport to events are three common reasons why young people don't join orienteering clubs. But maybe it's also to do with the image of the sport - and the sport's Unique Selling Proposition (USP). For me, the unique challenge of trying to find one's way in unknown terrain, coupled with the physical agility and skills needed to cope at speed with every kind of obstacle the terrain can offer, is a central feature of the USP which most of us don't put over, in the way we describe our sport, half well enough. If we did, I feel sure we would spark the imagination of many more budding young runners. Something to be worked on!

The second matter, the one not mentioned at the Congress, is the event format to be proposed for the Summer Olympic Games. Congresses do tend to discuss principles rather than practices, but it is so important that we get the format right that no opportunity for discussion should be missed. If you have a view on what is being suggested, in favour or otherwise, write a letter to Orienteering World.

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