News Archive [2009]
10 December 2009
A summary of the presentations & discussions from the training weekend in Fermanagh on 28 Nov is on the event page here
8 December
The calculations are complete! The final results of the Junior Cup are on the Junior Cup page.
Prizes will be awarded at the next squad get-together.
19 November 2009
Sand Dunes
2009-2010 is turning out to be the year of the sand dunes.
fine performances from the Irish junior squad... and their coaches! Read more about it here.11 July 2009: Relay competition JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Sprint finish puts boys in 19th position, 2 seconds behind Britian's first team and 1 second ahead of Italy10 July 2009: Relay competition on Saturday 11th
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: See JWOC page for more information. Nick's account of the middle distance final also added.
10 July 2009: Online videos
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Interviews with the course planners, some coaches and the JWOC champions can be viewed on this website.
10 July 2009: Nick 44th in A final
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: A fantastic 44th place finish for Nick in the middle distance A final, results and maps here. (Map extract below is the last loop of the men's A final). Also added is Nick's account of the middle distance final and Ruairi's account of the middle distance qualification.
JHI 2009 was run on highly technical forested sand dunes at Newborough on Anglesey, Wales.
Two Irish juniors made podium places in the Individual - W14 Niamh Corbett & W16 Aine McCann.
See the TIO blog for a report by John McCullough who was helping out at the weekend.
Irish results are at the JHI 2009 page
15 August 2009: Training Diaries
IJS Training Group has been set up on Attackpoint (thanks to Sean K), the link is http://www.attackpoint.org/group.jsp/group_147
13 August 2009: Sprint O for Juniors, Tara
Sprint O at Tara, Co. Meath, with prizes for Juniors, details here
8 August 2009: Scottish 6-day results
Scottish 6-day:
It started with the JHI in Newborough. The Connachts are on the high dunes of Finner in Donegal, and 2 days of the JK are on sand dunes in Devon. All good practise for the Irish Champs on Magilligan dunes north of Derry, leading up to the subtle forested dunes of JWOC on the West coast of Denmark. Sand dune experts should have a good season.
Entries for the Connacht Champs close this weekend see http://www.wego.orienteering.ie
This is the last event in the Junior Cup competition.
Results so far are on the Junior Cup page. Some classes are pretty much settled, but there could be big changes in M14, M16 & M18, specially if those who have only run in 3 events are at Finner.
10 November 2009
Training for M/W 16 and older potential EYOC and JWOC squads - Sat 28 November, the day before the Connacht Champs. Some light training on the Burren but the emphasis will be on preparation for the big international races.
9 November 2009
The Connacht Champs are the last major event of 2009, and the last of the Junior Cup series.
Entries are open til Fri 20 November.
Current standings in the Junior Cup, including Munster Champs results, will be up here very soon...
15 October 2009
The Junior Cup. There are only 2 events left in the Junior Cup league, Munster and Connacht Champs. The closing date for The Munster Champs is Saturday 17 Oct.
The best 4 out of the 7 events count for the league, the events are Leinster, Northern Ireland, Munster, Connacht Champs, IOC Long & Middle, and Shamrock day 2. Details at 'The Junior Cup' on the Events page.
Training weekend 10-11 October - John McCullough has a brief report here
11 September 2009
The next Training weekend will be in Dublin/Wicklow on 10-11 October, including Time trials in Phoenix Park.
Accommodation on Saturday night in Knockree hostel near Bray.
11 September 2009
09 July 2009: Nick easily qualifies for A final
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Middle distance qualification was run this morning. Nick had another great performance, more news here.
08 July 2009: JWOC middle distance qualification
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Middle distance qualification start times are published, see here.
08 July 2009: JWOC long distance - Niall's race report
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Niall reports on the long distance from Italy: JWOC page.
07 July 2009: JWOC long distance - Fantastic top 50 result for Nick
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Long distance final results and maps added to the JWOC page. The next race will be the middle distance qualification race on Thursday, 9th July. You can follow the races on live results on the organisers homepage, www.jwoc2009.it and also via a live blog on WorldOfO, www.worldofo.com
06 July 2009: JWOC sprint
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Kevin O'Boyle leads the Irish challenge in the sprint race on day one of the championships. Results, maps and a report from Kevin here.
06 July 2009: JWOC starts today
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, Italy: Follow the fortunes of the Irish team at JWOC at this page - athlete profiles, exclusive interviews, results, photos, etc. will be posted here during the Junior World Champs in Italy. Photos from opening ceremony added.
06 July 2009: Your turn!
Route choice from M18 sprint at EYOC: How would you tackle leg 7 to 8 in the sprint?
05 July 2009
EYOC Sprint results posted: results here
04 July 2009: CONGRATULATIONS to M16 and M18 RELAY TEAMS at EYOC
EYOC relay results posted: fantastic results for the two junior relay teams at EYOC, see here
03 July 2009: EYOC page created
EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPS, Serbia: Follow the M16's and M18's competing at EYOC at this page.
27 June 2009
EUROPEAN YOUTH CHAMPS, Serbia
The EYOC races will be at altitudes of 1500 to 2000m, and the 7 members of the Irish team, with Team Leader Greg McCann, are now in Serbia acclimatising and preparing for the competition. They will train on maps near the competition centre at Kopaonik, until Thursday. The competition begins of Friday 3 July with the Long Distance, followed by the Relay on Saturday and Sprint on Sunday. The EYOC website is at http://www.eyoc2009.org/
The Irish team:
M18 Sean Knight, Padraig Mulry, Conor Short
M16 Cillin Corbett, Eoin McCullough, Jack Millar, Laurence Quin
23rd June 2009
PRE-JWOC AND EYOC TRAINING
Members of the JWOC and EYOC teams are currently preparing for these important competitions at high altitude in Italy. The competitions are the pinnicle of the junior calender. The team profiles will be posted here in the coming weeks as a build up to the competitions. Links, with all the competition details, can be found here.
20th June 2009
Juniors at Jukola
28th April 2009
Compass Point to sponsor junior table quiz
The kind people in Compass Point have donated vouchers worth £120stg to the junior squad. This will be the first prize in the quiz. Compass Point is the UK's largest online orienteering & outdoor equipment shop and have a website where you can shop till you drop at www.compasspoint-online.co.uk. Thanks also to the Great Outdoors in Dublin for providing many of the spot prizes for the raffle.
Maths and orienteering! Leaving Cert. student and Irish junior squad member Alan Lane was part of the winning Midleton CBS team at the national Team Math final in UCC. Alan competed at EYOC, JEC and JHI in 2008 as an M18. The team was coached by well-known orienteer Liam O'Brien. You can read an article about the win from the Irish Times here.
5th May 2009
The junior squad was well represented at the annual Jukola relay, at which over 15,000 orienteers and 2,000 teams congregated at Mikkeli in Finland. Niall Ewen (2nd leg), Conor Short (4th leg) and Colm Moran (6th leg) were running for the all-Irish team that finished a respectable 321st position. Ruairi Short ran the last leg for Tullinge SK's second team, who finished 190th, while Nick Simonin ran the 'long night' leg for OK Tisaren's second team who finished 116th. Click on the positions for detailled results. Norway's Kristansand OK took first place in a close finish involving Daniel Hubmann, Thierry Guergiou (Kalevan Rasti, Finland, 2nd) and Emil Wingsted (Halden SK, Norway, 3rd). All in all, a fantastic experience
6th May 2009
Thank you to everyone who supported the junior fundraising quiz at the weekend. Between the quiz and the raffle, we raised €909 to help fund the junior squad's extensive competition and training calander. Thanks again!
6th May 2009
Irish Championships: Well done to the newly crowned Irish junior champions. Full results are available on the orienteering.ie website. Juniors who did the double and won both the middle and classic distance championships were:Niamh Corbett (W14), Andrea Stefkova (W16), Fiona Hill (W18), Kevin O'Boyle (M18) and Katarina Stefkova (W20). The smallest winning margin was in the M16 class in the classic where only 23 seconds separated Jack Millar from Cillin Corbett. Well done to everyone who competed
23rd April 2009
(from the NI orienteering website)
Congratulations to Jack Miller on being selected as the Down Democrat’s Down Junior Clubmark Sports Association’s National and International Junior Sportsperson of the Year. He won the award in recognition of his standing as the leading M14 orienteer in Ireland, North and South, and for his consistent top 10 performances in British prestige events. He beat off strong competition from young contenders from the Rugby and Netball world, all of whom had reached the final shortlist for this award. Typically modest, his first words on hearing the announcement were “I don’t believe it”. Jack represented Ireland at the JHI in 2008 in England where he finished 3rd in M14. He is also the reigning M14 Irish Champion in the classic distance.
19th April 2009
Tiomila, Sweden: Top junior stars Ruairi Short and Nicholas Simonin were in action for their Swedish clubs at the Tiomila relays last night. Nick ran the first leg for OK Tisaren 2 and came back in 123rd position (out of over 350 teams, and less than 10 minutes down on first place!). Ruairi likewise had a great run on the last leg for Tullinge SK 2 to bring them home in 89th position. Full results are online at www.tiomila.se.
18th April 2009
JK results added: see JK 2009 Northumbrian Hills. Very impressive performances by all age classes, including 6 podium finishes!
30 March 2009Spring Cup: reports from the night sprint, classic and relay have been posted under 'Events' subpage Spring Cup 2009. Interviews with the team included! Some photoes are at http://irishjuniorsquad52.fotopic.net/c1675317.html
27 March 2009
Irish Junior squad at Spring Cup 2009
The Irish Juniors are taking part in their first international outing of 2009 in Denmark. For the team, full information and results check out 'Events' and subpage 'Spring Cup 2009'.
12 March 2009
Squad Trial & Training 14-15 March
Last minute details for the training this weekend are on the Events page
12 March 2009
Czech Silva O Camp
A week of orienteering training and other activities for under-18s, 23-30 August, cost €170, more details under the Events page and on the official website.
10 March 2009
The Selection Policy for International Events in 2009 can be read here
23 Feb 2009
Junior cup event announcement
A new competition is to be established for Irish junior Orienteering in 2009. In the age classes MW14A up to MW20L there will be 7 rounds of racing of which the best 4 results will count.
For more details on these races see the fixtures lists for:
Irish Orienteering Association - http://orienteering.ie/builder.php3?Fixtures ,
Northern Irish Orienteering Association - http://www.niorienteering.org.uk/NIOA/?Events
The scoring system to be used will be the same system as the Leinster league uses.
Prizes will be announced at a later date.
Let the training commence!
12 Feb 2009
Summer Tour 2009: Scottish 6-day 2-8 August
We are now taking names for this Tour. There will be space for up to 25 people including leaders and parents, and its always a good occasion with terrific orienteering. So book your place now if you haven't already done so!
6 Feb 2009
IJS events for Summer 2009
mid-June: possibility of training at altitude in Italy for JWOC and EYOC squads
2-5 July: EYOC Serbia
1-12 July: JWOC including pre-competition training, Italy
18-24 July: Swedish O-Ringen. Not an official squad tour but some IJS members will be going.
2-8 August: Squad Summer Tour to the Scottish 6-day.
July/August JWOC 2010 training camp in Denmark. Likely dates 26-30 July or 10-14 August.
26 Jan 2009
O-Ringen Junior Training Camp - for ages 17 to 22.
Swedish O-Ringen are running an International Training Camp for Juniors & young Seniors (age 17-22) for 3 days before O-Ringen, Wed 14 - Sat 17 July, in Eksjo, Sweden.
Cost is about €200 for everything, about €90 for just training (organise your own accommodation & food). There will be training exercises, shadowing, route & orienteering technique analysis. All juniors welcome regardless of skill level.
Details are at http://www.oringen.se/loaders/oo.php?objid=2281
15 Jan 2009
Junior Squad Training weekends
1. Sat 14th & Sun 15th February.
The first squad weekend of 2009 will be held in Waterford, training on Mahon Falls on Saturday & Knockanaffrin on Sunday. Both areas are on the east side of the Comeragh Mts. off the Clonmel-Dungarvan road. Accommodation will be in Tramore hostel.
This training weekend will be suitable for all members & aspiring members of the squad
including first-year M/W14s.
If you think you would be interested or want more information contact
juniorrep at orienteering dot ie.
2. Sat 14th & Sun 15th March. Time Trial and Training weekend based around Dublin.
The Time Trial on Saturday morning is for M/W 16, 18, 20 who aim for international selection.
Training on Saturday afternoon & Sunday. Accommodation is in Knockree hostel near Enniskerry.
7 Jan 2009
Squad Tours this Spring:
1. Spring Cup, Denmark, 26-29 March.
http://www.orientering.dk/springcup/
The programme is: Night event on Friday evening, Classic on Saturday and Relay on Sunday. The squad will travel out on Thursday 26 so as to have time for training on Friday morning.
This tour is only suitable for M/W16 and older who are reasonably proficient technically, and numbers will be limited.
2. JK, Northumbria, England, 10-13 April.
Sprint on Fri 10th, main competition with both days to count on Sat and Sun, Relays on Monday. There is still some space on this tour though it is filling up fast!
If you are interested in joining either of these tours email: juniorrep at orienteering dot ie.
