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CONTENTS

THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE CANADIAN ORIENTFFRINq FFOERATION

333 River Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1L 8H9

Vol. 15, No. 2 call, 1987

Editor's Notes 4

Not do la Re'dactrire President's Niche Le Mot du Pri4rsident Alex "Sass" Peepre and New Brunswick Dialogue 7 Name the Cluh P Fixture List o Junior Participation Badge Recipients C.O.C. Crops 10 1.0.r. Video Competition 11 The Presidential Chair 11 Tours - 1988 12 Orienteering-The Adventure Came, A Review 13 Let's Put the 'First' Rack in 'Safety' 13 The Fnd of an Era or 1ust an interruption' 14 1987 Canadian Orienteering Championships 15 1987 CCC Penults 19 Thank You For Your Support 21

1927 Cnc Relay Results 21

Board Meeting Highlights 2? Faits Saillants de la Rjunion 23 1987 1.4orld orienteerino Championchir.. , ?4

ORIENTEERING CANADA is published in Ottawa with the assistance of the National Sport and Recreation Centre. FOITOR: Winnie Stott, clo COF 133 River Pd. Ottawa, Ont. KlL Rug ASSISTANT EDITOR: John Craig. TYPIST Y. LAvOuT nFSIC41: Lee Leger. CONTRIBUTORS: Hinnie Stott, Charlie Fox, Colin Kirk, Ted de St. Croix, Jo-Ann Fellows, ?4 f7uhs.

COVER PHOTO: 1987 Canadian Champions H71 Category. Left io Right: Ted de St. Croix (bronze), nivind Maess (silverl and Poss Purnett (gold). Photo by Silles Ouenneville.

RFADL1NF FOR APTICLFs FOP NEXT ISSUE: Oct. 31 1427. AlE ARTICLES MUST BE SURMITTED TO THE FDITIIP Rv THF OFAnLitIc TWIT.

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Gouvernement du Canada Condition physique et Sport amateur

OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW

Our 20th year is now almost history and we are on the threshold of our 21st year. In many walks of life the age of 21 signifies "the coming of age" or reaching adulthood. Has orienteering in Canada reached adulthood? A review of the results at many of our meets would lead me to believe we have reached "old age" rather than adult age. We have a serious problem of an aging membership with no real evidence of an influx of younger members.

This problem extends into our meet organizers, course planners etc. We have seen many events organized by the same tireless volunteers who have been putting on events for years. Have you ever considered what will happen to orienteering in your area if and when two or three of these 'die bards' are no longer available? The best 21st birthday gift that orienteering in this country could receive is for some of our younger members( juniors included) to organize events. Meet organization is like orienteering - you learn by doing - don't be afraid to volunteer your name to organize a '13' meet or set courses. You will be surprised at how much thanks and support will be offered by the 'regular' organizers. As a point of interest, the 1983 World Champion, Morten Berglia, was one of the course planners for the 1978 WOC in Norway. He was 19 at the time but you can be sure that the WOC was not the first meet he had planned the courses for.

On a wall in the dressing room of the Montreal Canadiens there is a large photograph with the heading. "With Failing Hands We Pass the Flag". The photograph shows a group of older exhausted men passing on the flag/responsibility to a younger eager group. The Montreal Club has stayed in the forefront by continually grooming and giving the opportunity to younger players.

The COF has recently introduced a new Associate Club Membership Plan that will encourage school groups, youth clubs. university clubs. scouts/guides etc. to become members. This new membership plan should result in more younger participants at future events.

If 1987 was our Anniversary Year and a Year of Reflection, then let's make 1988 "The Year of the Youth."

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Earle Phillips instructing at the Seminar held during COC week. Photo by: Winnie Stott

The 1987 Canadian Orienteering Championships (COCs) in Sundre, Alberta ended a week of interest-ing meets and get togethers.

The week started with an event in Edmonton. The sand dunes were a

fine tune up for the champion-

ships.

Wednesday saw a meet in Bow Valley. It acquainted orienteers from the lowlands of Canada with

the mountain air west of Calgary.

It also gave people an oppor- tunity to assemble relays for Thursday's Canadian Orienteering Relay Championships.

Friday's schedule was full. From 9:00 am until 3:00 pm there were seminars at Sundre's High School. The seminars covered a variety of subjects ranging from: Forest Adventure Programs to Motivating

the Orienteering Volunteer.

Friday's steady rain helped to fill the seminars. There was a break in the clouds around 3:00 pm. The timing was perfect for the Sundre Street Orienteering Meet. Within two hours the rains came and the Street "Oers" re-turned to The Elk Lodge for a

reception.

EDITOR'S NOTES by Winnie Stott

Saturday was Day One Champion- ships and the Banquet. Sunday was Day Two.

Yes, it was an interesting week. The Canadian Orienteering Feder-

ation is eager for your comments

on the activities. Should we have a seminar day next year?

Another Street "0"? What topics would you like covered in future seminars?

Personally, I enjoyed the nine days and am looking forward to 1988's meet and week in Manitoba. I easily recall the hospitality

we enjoyed in 1982 when Manitoba last hosted the Canadian Cham- pionships. And...my seminar

request is: a map walk with former Canadian Champions...it would be interesting to pick

their brains and see the map and terrain as they do.

MOT DE LA REDACTRICE par Winnie Stott

Le Championnat canadien de course d'orientation de 1987 tenu Sundre (Alberta) a mis fin a une semaine de rencontres et de rassemblements interessants.

La semaine a debute par une epreuve a Edmonton. Les dunes de sables constituaient un excellent exercice de mise au point en vue du Championnat.

Une rencontre a eu lieu A Bow Valley le mercredi. Les coureurs

ont pu se familiariser avec les plaines du Canada an respirant lair montagnard de l'ouest de Calgary. Les participants ont egalement eu l'occasion de former les equipes pour les relais du Championnat canadien de course de relais d'orientation du jeudi.

L'horaire du vendredi etait chargé. De 9 h A 15 h, des seminaires ont eu lieu a l'ecole

secondaire de Sundre. Les semi-naires couvraient une variete de sujets allant de programmes d'aventure en fork. 4 la motiva-tion des benevoles.

Grace a la pluie ininterrompue du vendredi, les seminaires ont attire bien des participants. Une accalmie vers 15 h est tombee A point pour la course d'orienta-tion dans les rues de Sundre. Deux heures plus tard, la pluie reprenait de plus belle et les coureurs eparpilles dans les rues sont retournes au Elk Lodge pour une reception.

Le samedi etait le jour du banquet at le premier jour du championnat, le dimanche °tent le deuxieme.

Oui, la semaine a et6 interes- sante, La Federation canadienne

de course d'orientation est impatiente de recueillir vos commentaires sur les activates. Devrions-nous tenir une journee de seminaires l'an prochain? Une autre course d'orientation dans les rues? De quels sujets aimeriez-vous que les prochains seminaires traitent?

Personnellement, j'ai apprecie les neuf jours d'activites et j'ai hate de participer A la rencontre de 1988 et A la semaine de course d'orientation au Manitoba. Le souvenir de l'hospitalite des Manitobains en 1982 a l'occasion du Championnat canadien est encore frais a ma memoir°. Voici ma demande quant au seminaire: une marche A la carte avec les anciens champions canadiens. II serait interessant de scruter leur esprit at de voir la carte et le terrain par leurs yeux.

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In November of 1982 when I was elected C.O.F. President, I would hardly have imagined carrying on into 1987. I made a commitment to double the membership by 1984 which in reality has yet to be done in 1987. Despite my depar-ture from the presidency having not fulfilled this commitment there are many positive memories and accomplishments which I will long remember and feel pride in.

The most significant memory of all will be the people I have had a chance to meet and in many cases work with at the inter- national and national level. An orienteer is a special breed of athlete/competitor, one which I feel has so many inherent posi-tive qualities that it is going

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to be a difficult transition from the role of national president to that of past president. Regard-less of the inevitable, I hope that the work of the past five years has had a positive impact on the sport of orienteering in Canada and that the person who replaces me will find the work-ings of the Federation in good order.

On the flip side of the coin, it will be important for the Federa- tion to continue to grow and change. It is vitally important that issues are dealt with from a national perspective with the interests of all orienteers. recreational and elite, in mind.

There are issues which I am leav-ing behind which need addressing:

• e.g. Long range junior develop-ment plans. These are our future national team members.

• Competitor/landowners liability. • The membership numbers game. • The performance of the national

team. • The ongoing impact of Sport Canada's policies and guide- lines governing unique sports such as ours.

But I feel a strong sense of confidence in our National Office staff and the present Board, from whom the next few years' leader-ship must emerge.

My thanks to all those who have worked diligently in support of the C.O.F. during my tenure as President.

LE MOT DU PRESIDENT par Charlie Fox

En novembre 1982, lorsque j'ai ete elu president de is FCCO, je n'imaginais vraiment pas conser-ver ce titre jusqu'en 1987. Je m'etais engage a doubler le nombre des membres de l'associa-lion avant la fin de 1984 mais cet objectif n'a pas encore ete atteint en 1987. weme si je quitte mon poste de president sans avoir honors cet engagement, it reste de nombreux souvenirs positifs de nos realisations dont je me souviendrai longtemps avec fierte.

Je me rappellerai surtout des gens que j'ai eu is chance de rencontrer et souvent avec les-quels j'ai travaille aux niveaux national et international. Les adeptes de is course d'orienta-lion sont une race d'athletes ou de competiteurs bien speciale, une race possedant tant de

qualites positives intrinseques que la transition entre mon role de pr6sident national et celui de president sortant ne sera pas facile. Quoi qu'il en soft, j'ose esperer que mon travail au tours des cinq dernieres annees a eu un effet positif sur la course d'orientation au Canada et que le nouveau president trouvera la federation dans un etat de fonc-tionnement satisfaisant.

D'un autre cote, it faudra aussi que is federation poursuive son essor. Il est de la plus haute importance que les questions soient considerees dans une pers-pective nationale en tenant compte des interets des coureurs recreatifs et d'ilite.

Je laisse derriere moi des ques-tions sur lesquelles it faudra se pencher:

. les plans é long terme de perfectionnement des juniors. Ce sont la nos futurs membres de l'equipe nationale.

. les responsabilites des compe-titeurs et des proprietaires de terrain l'accroissement de l'adhesion

. la performance de l'equipe nationale.

. l'effet permanent des politi-ques et des lignes de conduite de Sport Canada sur des sports uniques come le n8tre.

J'ai pleine confiance dans le personnel du bureau national et les membres du conseil d'admi-nistration actuel qui dirigeront les operations pour les quelques prochaines annees .

Je remercie tous ceux qui ont travaille assidament a appuyer la FCCO pendant mon mandat de presi-dent.

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ALEX "SASS" PEEPRE AND NEW BRUNSWICK: A POSTSCRIPT

submitted by Jo-Ann Fellows

As New Brunswick was noticeable

in the article on Sass Peepre in the spring issue only by its absence, I would like to add the New Brunswick chapter to the Sass

Peepre story.

Orienteering was founded in New Brunswick in the spring of 1975

as a result of a workshop held at

Mactaquac Park. sponsored by the New Brunswick Teachers' Associa-tion. Mr. Peepre conducted the workshop, assisted by Marg James of Halifax. The local attendees at that meeting were Andy Martin,

Dean Mundee and Don Coles, who went on to become, respectively, the first president, secretary-treasurer, and mapping coordina-tor of Orienteering New Brunswick.

As Mr. Mundee told me while I was preparing this article, "Mr. Peepre's attendance at the work-shop was pivotal. His enthusiasm was the motivating force that got orienteering started in New Brun-swick at that time." Clubs were founded first in Fredericton, and later in Grand Falls and Moncton, as a result of this workshop. Mr. Mundee attended the national championships in Hamilton in 1975 in order to gather information on the sport.

Sass Peepre's pivotal role in

founding orienteering in New

Brunswick has been recognized by the establishment of the Sass Peepre Memorial Orienteering Meet. This meet has been held each spring since 1981 at Macta- quac Park, sponsored by the Fredericton Foxes "0" Club. Alex McNaught proposed the establish went of the meet, and donated the cup that is awarded annually to the winning team. The profits from this meet are donated to the Sass Peepre Memorial Fund.

The competition for the cup is a team one, and the rules that were used this year represent a re-

finement arrived at over the past few years. Teams of three members are entered from a club. A club may enter as many teams as it wishes. The members of the team

each run one of the second, third and fourth courses. The begin-ners course is not included in the competition. Competitors run either their own course or a higher course. At least one member of the team must be female. The combined total times determine the winning team.

Fredericton Club members win 198? Sass Peepre Memorial '0' Meet (L to R: Chris Jardine, Mike Fellows & Ann Urquhart. Trophy was presented by Prof. Andrew Martin.

Eight teams were entered in this

year's competition, and the winning team (picture here) was from the Fredericton Club.

There has been a keen competition

for the trophy since the meet

began. Fredericton managed to

win for the first few years, but Grand Falls has won for the past two years. There's always next year! Teams representing clubs from outside the province would

The presenter of the trophy at the conclusion of this year's competition was Andy Martin, who

in addition to being a professor in the Education Faculty at the University of New Brunswick, was, of course, the first president of O.N.B. Prof. Martin proudly retains a peaked cap presented to him by Sass Peepre at that founding workshop 12 years ago.

be most welcome to compete,

although none has done so to date.

DIALOGUE

The following article appeared in "The COF Newsletter" No. 2, 1968.

Don't talk orienteering, unless you mean orienteering, then orienteer, don't talk! (16th Century. Anonymous).

The Canadian Orienteering Feder-

ation and its member associations are concerned with the develop- ment of a COMPETITIVE sport. Orienteering, and not with other forms of non-competitive map and compass exercises occupying the vast numbers of hunters, scouts, girl guides etc. We will try to interest them in our sport, but we will not be the vehicle to train and teach them compass and map skills solely to enable them to pass some proficiency test...

We want orienteers who partici-pate. who run or walk, against a

clock, who compete in meets regu-

larly, who come as individuals.

and are not brought in groups

only to gain experience for their

next merit award, etc., and we

want instructors and coaches also to compete so that they will be able to continue setting inter-

esting and demanding courses.

Orienteering is a competitive, four-dimensional sport. It takes in the 3 dimensions of movement (forward, lateral, and climbing) plus the 4th dimension, TIME. If any one of these dimensions is lacking, it becomes something

else, not orienteering. If time

is lacking, it becomes a non-com-petitive exercise of simply "get-ting somewhere". If the need for

climbing or avoidance of obstac-les such as hills, marshes etc., is lacking, it becomes cross-

country running, not orienteer-

ing. The essential ingredients

of the sport are that each of

these dimensions has to be pre-sent, has to be a variable to some degree determined by the individual, and it has to be

competitive, THEN it is orien- teering. Other€Fan that, it is

exercise only. Orienteering is a complete and separate type of

sport experience and to maintain the excellence of this experi-ence, course setters should en-

sure that each of their courses

is not just a cross-country run for their harriers (they can do

that in their own races) not just a "240° North for 80 steps and a 127° East for 200 steps" (parking lot problem) nor just exercise, competitive or not. Each and

every one of the courses should include the four dimensions of

the sport related to the skill of the competitors. When properly balanced, the problems presented by the composite of these 4 dim-ensions make the sport a truly

exhilarating and immensely re-

warding experience for all its

participants.

o-spo rt orienteering equipment

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As part of the 20th of their logo for use 0.C., Parkland 0.C., Hamilton Kings Foresters Forest Adventurers of C., Valley Navigators 0.C., Sage 0.C., Toronto

We have deleted the to correspond to the logo

Anniversary in Orienteering

NAME THE CLUB were asked to send a copy

are: Guelph Gators de Bois O. C., Ottawa 0.C.,

2nd Dixie Scouts O.C., 0.C., Niagara O.

Foothills Wanderers 0.C. and Loup Garou 0.C.

See if you can name the club

of COF, all orienteering Canada. The

clubs in Canada 24 clubs that responded Foxes 0.C., Coureurs

Ukrainian 0.C., Vancouver 0.C., Peterborough

Cowichan Valley Orienteers, Edmonton Overlanders

logo where possible. 13 ).

Spartan D.C., Fredericton 0.C., Shaughnessy Orienteers, York, St. John's 0.C., Greater

0.C., VictOrienteers 0.C., 0.C., Prince George O.C.,

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FIXTURE LIST Nov. 13-15 A.G.M. Ottawa, Ont.

1988

5-Day Event in Manitoba

Aug. 6 Training Day-Trans Atlan-tic Cup-Hartney. Contact: J. Forsyth. Box 163 Hartney, Man. ROM OX0

Aug. 7 DAY 1 Trans Atlantic Cup Hartney. Contact-J.Forsyth

Aug. 8 DAY 2 Trans Atlantic Cup Hartney. Contact-J.Forsyth

Aug. 10 DAY 3 'A' Meet-Brandon. iTntTaTt - L. Konotopetz

1038 Palmerston Ave, Winnipeg. Man. P3G 11(2

Aug. 11 COO Relay-Brandon-Contact Jim Lee, Box 132 Hartney, Man. ROM OXO.

Aug. 12 Training Day COCs

Aug. 13 DAY 4 COCs - Carberry. TOTIT7T-Lois Watts 522 Paufeld Dr. Winnipeg, Man. R2G OV5

Aug. 14 DAY 5 COCs - Carberry.

Contact: Lois Watts.

1988 M.S. 6-Day Event

Oct,29-30 DAY 1 & 2 North Ameri- can Champs-Pennsylvania Contact - J. Edwards 115 Fairfax Pd. Rosemont, PA 19010

Nov. 1 DAY 3 'A' Meet. Contact: 7;r7ias NAOC.

Nov. 3 DAY 4 'A' Meet. Maryland. ontact: Quantico OC,

671? Thomas Dr., Springfield, VA 22150

Nov. 5-6 DAY 5 & 6 US Champs. Maryland. Contact: same as Nov. 2 'A' Meet.

JUNIOR PARTICIPATION

BADGE RECIPIENTS

Participation in spring and

summer orienteering events has meant many juniors are rapidly

filling their tally cards. Many badges have been sent out since the last issue of the magazine. Congratulations to all juniors who have earned badges.

YELLOW BADGES

Anne Marie Balfour, Victoria, RC Shelley Beglace, Victoria RC Geoff Colman. Inglewood. Ont. Andrew Giles, Victoria, B.C. S usan Giles, Victoria, B.C. Ted Girouard, Calgary, Alta. Tim Lee, Hartney, Manitoba Dawn Lind, Innisfail, Alta. mar McMillan. Victoria, B.C. Jana McMillan, Victoria, B.C.

Dan Nedelcu, North YorL, Ont. Chad Smith, North York, Ont. Peter Tam. Calgary, Alberta Lynn Usciski, Penhold, Alberta Chris Wiggins. North Yorl.. (Int.

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latiors CAW be ebroecl by umber. brit. Wen part!

ORANGE BADGES

Tedd Girouard, Calgary, Alberta

[::arren Upward. North York, nnt. Inar McMillan, Victoria, B.C. Jana McMillan, Victoria, B.C. Michael Sinclair. North York, Ont. Chad Smith. North York, Ont.

GREEN BADGES

Matthew Craig, Calgary, Alberta

Tedd Girouard. Calgary, Alberta Gteffanie Scott, Victoria, B.C.

BLUE BADGES

Karin Skarborn, Fredericton, N.B. Peter MacKenzie, Innisfail, Alta.

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NEW HOME FOR N.S.R.C.

The National Sport and Recreation Centre (N.S.R.C.) will relocate in new premises in the fall of 1988. The new building (pictured above) will be located in the east end of Ottawa at the junction of Highway 17 and Blair Road. Two local school 5 -colour orien-teering maps, Gloucester High School(Green l s Creek map) and Sir Wilfred Laurier High School (Carson Grove map) adjoin at the same intersection and have Blair Road as their respective west and east boundaries. Our National Office staff will be able to train during lunch hours.

C.O.F. DROPS 1. Sass Peepre Fund Benefits from Demise of Two O,Clubs: A. One of Canada's topclubs the Clarke O.C. recently disbanded. The Clarke Club originally star-ted in the Clarke Highschool under the direction of Phys. Ed. teacher, Lars Carlson, with one of the founding members being Ron Lowry. The Clarke Club hosted the 1971 COC in an area a few miles north of the highschool.

In recent years the club has been inactive. Most of the members have drifted away from both the area and also orienteering. In formally ceasing operations the club also dispersed of their re-maining funds and made a donation of $750.00 to the Sass Peepre Trust Fund. This amount is the largest single donation received by the COF office in the last 10 years.

B. A second donation in the amount of $400.00 was made to the fund from the Calgary Kangaroos O.C. who have also discontinued operation. The Kangaroos were the first O. club in Calgary and per-haps the first club in Alberta. Best known amongst their members are Raelene and Scott Robertson. Raelene was president of AOA during the late'70s and Scott was a member of our 1976 WOC team. During the last few years Scott has concentrated on track racing and has been one of the better Canadian 1500-5000 metre runners.

It is sad to see two of our pioneering clubs ceasing opera- tion but nice to know that the members' thoughts are still with orienteering. Sincere thanks and best wishes to all members of the Clarke O. C. and the Calgary Kangaroos.

2. Nabisco Brands Fund: Two ex- penditures were made from this fund during the first half of 1987. A. An additional Sport Tester- Heart Rate monitor was purchased on behalf of the National Team. The cost of a sport tester is almost $400.00. Three units were purchased in 1986 using monies from the Nabisco Brands Fund.

B. Medical expenses in the amount of $255.00 were paid on behalf of Denise DeMonte.

NOTE: The full name of the fund is The Nabisco Brands Fund for Elite Orienteers. Funds can only be used for coaching, training and medical expenses for Elite Level athletes.

3. Alberta Member Ken Robertson Named to I.O.F. Committee: The International O. Federation have formed a new Marketing Committee with USOF President, Per Stensby being named Committee Chair- person. Five committee members were selected by Per with one of the five being Ken Robertson of Calgary. Like all member federa-tions, the I.O.F. is anxious to improve the public's awareness of orienteering and equally anxious to acquire some major sponsors and corporate funding. With a good business background in public and employee relations plus the establishment of a new consulting business, Ken should be able to make a solid contribu-tion to the new committee.

4. Provincial Presidents Elected: Several provincial associations have held their 1987 Annual Meet-ings during the past few months. The following were elected as presidents: A. Yukon: Ella LeGresley elected for a first term, replacing Helen Slama.

B. Nova Scotia: Ian Miller re-elected for a third term. C. Quebec: John Charlow re- elected for a third term. D. Ontario: Alex Kerr elected for a first term, replacing Jack Lee.

5. COF Bulletin Receives Vote of Approval: The first issue of the "COF Bulletin" was published and distributed in early June and feedback received was all posi-tive. The "Bulletin" will be published twice each year (June & Dec.) between issues of Orien- teering Canada (Mar. & Sept77—TTe "Bulletin" is distributed to all Provincial Associations and O. Club Presidents. Associations and clubs are encouraged to use "Bulletin" material in their own newsletter.

The "Bulletin" is strictly an information type publication with the intent of keeping clubs/as-sociation presidents up to date on happenings/decisions that occur between Orienteering Canada issues.

THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR

Most of our current members have known only one C.O.F. President -Charlie Fox who has held the position for the past five years. What of his predecessors - who were they; when did they serve; where are they now? The follow- ing is a recap of the C.O.F. presidents from our start in 1967 to the present.

Although the C.O.F. applied for and was granted a charter in 1967, there was no Annual Meeting or election of officers. Three Montreal area orienteers, Pat Skene, Chris Skene and Michael Rowland are named in the charter as directors but no president was named or elected. In 1968 two formation meetings were held on August 17 (Ottawa) and August 28 (Guelph) and a slate of directors named, but again no elections were held and no president elec-ted. The only individual named to a federation position was Pat Skene as Executive Secretary.

1969 The first official Annual Meeting and election of officers was held. The meeting was at the University of Waterloo in con- junction with the 2nd COC. Chris Skene of Montreal was elected to serve as the 1st president of the federation.

1970 Chris Skene was re-elected for a second term. In early 1971 he resigned. He and his wife, Pat, the C.O.F. Executive Sec- retary, quit the sport, moved from Montreal to Vermont. In recent years he moved to Burling-ton, Ontario but has not been in contact with the sport. The Vice President, Russ Evans, of Hamil-ton, Ont. took over as interim President until the 1971 AGM.

1971-73 Russ Evans was elected TEF-F;(71 terms. Russ was one of our more active and capable orienteers in the '60s and '70s. He was a member of our National Team in the 1972 and 1974 World Championships. Russ retired from the sport in the mid '70s but returned in 1985 accompanied by his young son, Neil. Russ can normally be seen near the results board at most Ontario events, checking up on Neil's progress.

1974-75 Professor Alex "Sass" Peepre of Guelph, Ontario served for 2 years. The name of Sass Peepre is synonymous with the very successful Guelph Clinic and

Festival held for several years in the '60s and '70s. A separate article on Sass appeared in the spring 1987 issue of Orienteering Canada. Professor Peepre passed away in 1976.

1976 Mike Day, Ottawa 0.C.. Vowed next and was president for a single term. Mike started orienteering in 1969 and was one of our better competitors for several years. He represented Canada in the World Championships in 1972 & 1974 and won several Canadian titles in the H35-45 categories. He has not been active since 1984.

1977-1980 Margie James of Halifax, N.S. became the first woman to be president of the federation and also the first president from outside the Ontario-Quebec bloc. Margie was involved in orienteering through the Youth Hostels from its inception in Nova Scotia in 1967. She still remains involved through daughter Pam, son Edward and husband Dick. Margie has been busy the last few years studying for her doctorate at Mount Allison University.

1980-82 Patricia de St. Croix of V177 57d, Ontario followed her good friend Margie James into the top position in the C.O.F. Pat had served as a director for many years prior to being elected president. Pat stepped down in 1982 after her son, Ted, was employed as Technical Director. She still remains one of our more active members with her most recent noteworthy contribution being Meet Director for the 1985 Masters Games.

1983-Present Charlie Fox, Langley B.C. The first Westerner to hold the position and to date the longest serving president (now in his 5th year). In addition to being president, Charlie is a very active senior official, having been controller for the 1985 COC in Alberta and the 1986 COC Relay event. He has also been named as Course Planner for the 1990 APOC and COC.

I.O.F. VIDEO COMPETITION

Video equipment has reached an advanced technical level. Anyone can now make a good quality video film. Cameras can also easily be hired.

The IOF wants to encourage the making of orienteering video films and invites all orienteers to enter for this competition. The IOF aims in this way at bringing about the production of video material to help sell the sport in all member federations.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO: produce a new VHS video colour film running for not more than 20 minutes. The film should show orienteering to newcomers and encourage them to try it. The text can be in the home language; the film should in any case convey its message mainly through the pictures.

MATERIAL: the most commonly used video system is VHS. As the film will need to be copied, the use of a quality cassette (e.g. XGH) is requested.

JURY: John Pearson (Chairman, DPC, with casting vote); Erich Simkovics (DPC); Per Stensby (Council); Lennart Levin (Sec. Gen). The Jury will judge the film from the following angles: extent to which it meets the above aims; content; plan and structure; use of camera; techni-cal quality.

RULES: An entrant can enter more than one film. Ry sending

in his cassette an entrant de- clares that the film was made by him and that no other rights are affected. He also agrees that the film may be used for IOF pub- licity purposes. Entrants may be individuals or groups. There is no entry fee. The IOF Secret- ariat will give further technical details in a letter to the member federations.

PRIZES: 1st Prize: a video camera. 2nd & 3rd Prize: cash prizes. The winner will be an-nounced and the winning films will be shown at the TOE Congress in Sept. 1988.

ENTRY: Entrants should announce their entry by Dec. 1, 1987. The video cassettes must be sent in by Mar. 15, 1988.

ENTRIES, CASSETTES, ENQUIRIES TO: Erich Simkovics, 7. Heinrich Maier-Strasse 46/5/5 A-1180 WEIN, AUSTRIA.

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TOURS - 1988 SPECIAL EVENTS SCANDINAVIAN, EUROPEAN & DOMESTIC

ORIENTEERING "TOURS" - 1988

These tours are based on the IOF Fixture List and reflect the, proximity of events and dates. Events restricting their participation (i.e. elite competitions) are noted with an asterisk *.

For the complete IOF Fixture List (with event addresses) write to the COF. The complete list has contact addresses for entry forms. The COF receives entry forms for about 1/4 of the events listed.

SKI-0 TOUR Feb. 27-28

* Mar. 1-6 Mar. 11

ORIENTEERING Jan. 1

* Jan. 3 Jan. 6-13

* Jan. 9

Vanta, Finland World Championships in Ski-0 Kuopio, Finland Swedish Ski-Games, Falun, Sweden.

Hong Kong Championships World Cup Event #1 - Hong Kong APOC (Asia Pacific '0' Champs) Tasmania, Australia

(Individual, Relay, Mountain events) World Cup Event #2, Tasmania, Australia

April JU

Lordagskijappen, Norway moss May 1

Solrenningen, Norway Klavestadhaugen * May 5

Stockholm International - Sweden May 7-8

Tio Mila, Sweden

FISU WORLD UNIVERSITY ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS

Trondheim, Norway July 19-22, 1988

COSTS: $6.00 U.S. Entry Fee. $25.00 U.S. Accommodation

(per person per day)

ELIGIBILITY: Full time student at university or similar. Born between Jan. 1, 1960 and Dec. 31, 1970. Maximum 5 men, 5 women, 4 officials per country.

Maps of 1987 & 88 drawn by Morten Berglia, Hgvard Tverite and Knut Olav Sunde according to IOF stan-dards.

EVENTS: 1-Day Individual and 1-Day Relay (4 legs per team). Combine this event with the 0- Ringen 5-Days - July 15-29th in Sundsvall, Sweden just 440 kms east of Trondheim.

may el May 21 May 22

* May 28 May 28 May 29 June 4-5 June 11-12

July 3-9 July 13-17 July 25-29

* July 6-10

July 5-10 July 11-13 July 16-17

* July 19-22 July 25-29

World Cup tvent f.i - Stirling, scotiand Scottish Championships - Individual Scottish Championships Relay

World Cup Event #4 Turku, Finland International Event Turku, Finland International Event Uusikaupunki, Finland Suunto Games Helsinki, Finland Jukola-Venla Relay Pudasjarvi, Finland

Kainuu Uleek 6-Day Kajaani, Finland Fin-5-Day Helsinki, Finland O-Ringen 5-days Sundsvall, Sweden

Open European Championships for Juniors-Eupen, Belgium (NORTHERN PART OF SWEDEN) Norbotten 5-day Boden, Sweden Hallefors 3-days Hallefors, Sweden Vittjarus 2-days Boden, Sweden IOF Veteran World Cup (35 & over) Amal, Sweden 0-ringen 5-days Sundsvall, Sweden

Swedish 5-Days 1988 85171 Sundsvall Sweden

FISU World University O. Champion-ships: Student-VM Norske Studenters Idrettsforbund Akerbergveien 56 0650 Oslo 6 Norway

OR W.U.C. NTH1 0-Group Studentpost 222 NTH 7034 Trondheim, Norway

Eligible Canadian competitors must be entered by the Canadian Orien-teering Federation. Write to COF if you are planning to compete.

July 18-21

4 days Falkenberg, Sweden (SW coast) July 22-24

Jysk 3-days Silkeborg, Denmark

July 29-31 Bohemia 88 3-days Czechoslovakia * August 4 World Cup #5 Nitra, Czechoslovakia * August 7 World Cup #6 Eger,Hungary * August 11 World Cup #7 Neustadt, Austria August 7, 8-9 Ilbusz-Pokal Eger, Hungary August 11-13 3-day International Neustadt, Austria

CANADA August 7-8

Trans Atlantic Cup 2-days August 10

'A' Meet Brandon, Manitoba August 11

COC and TAC Relay, Brandon, Man. August 12

COC Training Day August 13-14 COC Brandon, Manitoba

* September 2-4 Nordic Championships Halmstad, Sweden September 5-9 WOC Training Camp #1 Falkbping, Sweden September 10 World Cup Final Gamleby, Sweden

U S A October 29

North American Championships Delaware Valley Nov. 1

'A' Meet USA Championships Nov. 2

Night Event Championships Nov. 3

'A' Meet Nov. 5-6

U.S. Championships Quantico, VA

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - ORIENTEERING FOR JUNIORS - 1988

OPEN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ORIENTEERING FOR JUNIORS 1988

EVENT CENTRE: Institut Royal Militaire d'Education Physique, Eupen Belgium

DATES: July 6-9, 1988 (Races 8th & 9th)

TERRAIN: Individual 300-500 metres altitude. Deciduous forest on south side of valley, coniferous forest on north side. The valley slopes are very detailed. Hill tops cut by wide firebreaks. Relay-relatively flat ground covered with conifer thickets and a network of dry ditches.

ELIGIBILITY: 19 and under (H19/D19 born in 1968 or later) 6 men and 6 women, 3 officials.

CONTACT: Jean-Pierre BORMANS N. Welterstraat 8 3290 DIEST Belgium

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ORIENTEERING - THE ADVENTURE GAME A Review by Ted de St. Croix

that some of the diagrams (obvi- ously created to illustrate a point) make the sport of orien- teering appear rather difficult technically. I am referring to the use of detailed contour maps to show how to take a bearing, fold the map or illustrate hand-rails and catching features. They are also lacking in labels or headings.

The coloured maps and overprinted courses were well chosen since the trails stand out so well. In

some places I get the impression this book was designed to tickle one into giving orienteering a try. Explanations are short and sound intriguing but end there. This will certainly ensure that the whole book will get read in 30 minutes.

The sections on rough and pre- cision orienteering and compass technique are almost too short and may possibly serve to confuse a new orienteer trying to grasp

LET'S PUT THE 'FIRST' BACK IN 'SAFETY'

Upon being handed the new book, Orienteering - The Adventure Game by Ron Lowry, I was told that it was written for people to "show them how to do it, make them feel confident enough to come out to an event or to motivate them to become members".

Obviously this is the object of any provincial/territorial assoc-iation's programs but whether all that can be achieved by this book alone is a goal well worth pur-suing at least.

The book is short, concise and interesting to read, with excel-lent photographs to give the book lots of life. For someone who has orienteered since the advent of black and white maps in the early 1970s, it was difficult for me to put myself in the place of a potential recruit to our sport. I can understand all that is written or displayed without thinking about it. I do feel

all the concepts contained in the book. This aspect would have been better filled with more detail on orienteering events and programs.

As a professional administrator for orienteering, this book will be helpful to me for the people looking for information. It contains the WHAT, the HOW and the WHO to contact all together in one book.

With 10,000 copies available at $5.00 each there should be good revenue for Orienteering Ontario Inc. Whether the book motivates more newcomers remains to be seen.

Congratulations to Orienteering Ontario for a fine publication.

If you wish to obtain a copy: Contact: Orienteering Ontario Inc. 1220 Sheppard Ave. E. WILLOWDALE, Ontario M2K 2X1

The "Race Day Information Sheet" is a common sight at many of our provincial and national champion-ships. This sheet contains impor-tant information. There was such a sheet at a recent meet and it pointed out that heavy rains had deepened the streams. Competitors were asked to cross with care.

While racing I leapt into the adventure of these "how deep is this spot???" streams. I didn't consider them dangerous or threatening...but then again, I've been a competitive swimmer for decades. On one of the "Russian Roulette" crossings a competitor to my right opted to go on one side of a small beaver dam and I on the other. I stepped off the bank and sank to my neck. He went calf-deep and laughed. As I approached the far bank the water became shallower. My gig-gling competitor was silenced. By midstream he was waist deep. Two feet from the shore only his head was visible.

Day two of the meet found me at a crossable marsh. A fellow compe-titor was 10 to 15 metres to my right. We both entered the

by Winnie Stott

marsh. He trotted through at ankle depth. I also got my ankles wet and my knees and my waist and my neck. After 50 metres of this "crossable marsh" I was wishing I'd been 15 metres to the right.

Day two offered other water haz-ards. Cold weather, rain and stream crossings put some compe-titors close to hypothermia.

Which brings me back to the "Race Day Information Sheet". If I could wave a magic wand and make two inserts this is what they would be:

1. Due to heavy rains the streams are difficult to cross. There are two streamered cross-ings in the terrain which are marked with red "X's" on your map.

2. Due to the large area of the map we have the normal first aid station at the finish and a second first aid station near the bottom third of the map. This station is marked on each map with a red cross.

That two day meet is over and done with. Everyone survived. And there are quite a few 'river

stories' floating around. But... let's not take any chances in the future. Course setters and con-trollers must look critically at their meet and take no chances with the competitors. Let's put the FIRST back into SAFETY.

CLUB LOGOS (from page 8)

1. Greater Vancouver O.C. (Vancouver) B.C. 2. Guelph Gators O.C. (Guelph,) Ont. 3. Peterborough 0.C.(Peterborough) Ont. 4. Parkland O.C. (Innisfail) Alta 5. Niagara O.C. (Niagara Falls) Ont. 6. Spartan O.C. (Kelowna) 3.C. 7. Valley Navigators (Langley) B.C. 8. Fredericton Foxes (Fredericton) N.B. 9. VictOrienteers (Victoria) B.C. 10. Coureurs de Bois O.C.(Grand Falls) N.B. 11.Cowichan Valley Orienteers (Duncan) B.C. 12. Ottawa 0.C. (Ottawa) Ont. 13. Foothills Wanderers O.C. (Calgary) Alta 14, Hamilton Kings Foresters(Hamilton) Ont. 15. Sage O.C. (Kamloops) B.C. 16. Shaughnessy Orienteers(Willowdale) Ont. 17. Toronto O.C. (Toronto) Ont. 18. Ukrainian O.C. (Toronto) Ont. 19. Prince George 0.C. (Prince George) B.C. 20. 2nd Dixie Scouts 0.C.(Mississauga) Ont. 21. Edmonton Overlanders 0.C.(Edmonton)Alta. 22. forest Adventurers of fork(Aurora) Ont. 23. Loup Garou O.C. (Ottawa) Ont. 24. St. John's O.C. (St. John's) Nfld.

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Ross Burnett, Champion H21, Race WOC 87.

1987 Canadian at the Qualifying

1987 CHAMPIONSHIPS THE END OF AN ERA OR JUSTAN INTERRUPTION?

by Winnie Stott

After winning the Canadian Men's Elite Orienteering title for eleven years in a row Ted de St. Croix was defeated. Ross Burnett (age 28 from British Columbia) is now the Canadian Champion.

"Prior to the competition" com- ments Ross, "I thought I'd be in the top three. I felt Ted could be beaten, but I didn't think it'd be by me. I thought it'd be Mark Adams. After Day One I felt I was in the driver's seat." (Ross was ahead). "My approach to Day Two was to be cautious and conservative. I didn't want to do anything risky. I didn't make any big mistakes, but I was a bit sloppy. Oivind Naess caught me at control seven. I said to myself, 'don't do anything for the sake of getting rid of him.' There wasn't much route choice on the latter legs so we were basically going straight. We generated some speed running near each other. From control 16 to 17 I took off my compass and ran without it.

"I think the 1987 Championships was a good meet. The organizers were under a lot of pressure to do the meet in just one year. And...looking at the results board it is good to see so many juniors competing."

When asked what it feels like to be the champion..."It feels good!"

And why did he win? "I feel really fit and I am comfortable

with the woods. In May I mapped for a month in Edmonton so I knew what to expect the green areas on the map to be like. All of the mapping I've done has made me more comfortable in my interpretation of areas when I'm competing. Map-ping increases my adaptability. I have a wider interpretation spec-trum. If I see something that isn't quite right I'm more adapt-able because I've had to make similar decisions when mapping."

What about this year's World Orienteering Championships? "The WOCs in France are my third Worlds. My first race was in Hungary. They had a Selection Race and I did not make the cut. My second WOCs were in Australia. I placed 56th. I had a problem with an ankle and twisted it again on the course. There was one en-couraging factor during that race. I • was in the top 30 at the first split. For the third Worlds in France I feel more fit."

Ross's orienteering activities don't stop with mapping and com-peting. He is active in coaching juniors and instructs at the Blue Lake Orienteering Clinic.

So...Canada has a new champion. He's put in years of training to attain this position. And, like his predecessor, he eagerly places his talents back into the sport to help others.

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Gord Hunter made a video tape of the Sundre Street Meet which included scenes such as this.

1987 CANADIAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS Article & Photos by Winnie Stott

I would like to bring each of you to the 1987 Canadian Championships...but since they are already finished perhaps we can re-live them for you.

The Canadian Orienteering Championships is PEOPLE. It's the people who put it together and the competitors who test themselves. Hopefully the fol-lowing photos and interviews will give you a taste of the week's activities. AND...cause you to mark next year's calendar now for the 1988 Canadian Orienteering Championships in Manitoba.

• Gord Hunter (winner of men's 35-39 category). Gord has run for Canada in the World Orienteering Championships in the past. He is also over 40 years old and has elected to compete against younger men and run on longer

courses.

"If the 40-44 category had the same distance as the 35-39 I would run my age group. The distance on Canada's 40 is too short. I'm not ready to run that distance yet.

"This year's Canadian Champion- ships was another well organized meet. The competitors were well taken care of. I'm impressed with the liaison with the local community. I made a video tape of the Sundre Street Orienteering Meet held Friday.

"As far as the terrain goes, I'm surprised at the difference between this terrain and the 1985 map at Mt. Laurie near Bow Valley. I expected the two areas to be similar. The maps demon- strate that they have a good variety of terrain here."

• Jim Webster (Course setter for the 1987 Canadian Championships and meet director for the 1987 Canadian Championships).

"It was interesting doing the meet from the role of the course setter. For one thing...putting out the water controls was a pain in the neck because I didn't think of them when I was design-ing the courses.

"I found designing courses one and two most difficult because I didn't want the competitors to have stream crossings and get wet. But with the rain on Day One everyone of the runners came in wet and muddy. Course eight worried me. I felt that it wasn't difficult enough.

"When setting the map walk I made it course two difficulty."

..and one final comment as the thunder rolled after the result ceremony..,"I'm glad the weather held."

Jim Webster, Course Setter, ."everyone came in wet and

muddy."

• Nancy Craig (1987 Canadian Championships Meet Director)

"I'm glad the meet organization was a one-year project. Everyone got involved and worked hard. It was easy to sustain the interest and keep everyone motivated. (Alberta took on the project of hosting the 1987 championships last year when the previously scheduled host cancelled).

"We were fortunate to have the facilities of Pioneer Lodge and the use of an all terrain vehicle from Bow Cycle.

"To liaise with the town of Sundre we attended their annual meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce. We created a street map for them and they sold adver- tising space on the back. The town was very supportive and interested in the project.

"The high point of the Champion-ships for me was seeing everyone work. The team work was great. Since we held the Championships two years ago we have a lot of the same people involved. They know their jobs and do them so well!"

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1987 C.O.C.s ...continued "As far as my race went...I lost two minutes to cows. I was one of the first ones out Saturday. I crossed the first river and ran into ten cows. I looked to the left. It appeared thick. I went to the right and it was thick!!"

Gloria adds, "Bill tells me my complexion improved 1007 due to my orienteering facial. When I was on a trail Steve Pearson ran by and fell down flat on his face...he splashed me and my face was covered in mud.

"The babysitting at Pioneer Lodge was good. The girls tended the children very well. Also the Canadian Championship entry form asked if parents wanted split starts. With a baby that was appreciated."

Nancy Craig - Meet Director - 1987 Canadian Championships

• Susan Ridley (Banquet and Accommodation Chairperson).

"I learned one key thing in organizing a banquet. If at all possible rent a hall that has a bar already in it...so YOU don't have to do it all. AND it's sur-prising how much work it can be to put on food for 250 people.

"The local people did the cooking and cleaning. They went out of their way to help us. John and Chris Grimstead of the Bergen Community Association were a fan-tastic help. The hall had a capa-city for 200. In late July we went to 250 and the Grimsteads were a great help.

...a word of advice to any future banquet organizers "Number your banquet tickets! It seems like a small point, but I don't care to remember how many time we came up with different totals."

• Mark Astridge (One of the mappers for the COCs).

"Some of the area had been mapped in 1982 on a 1:10,000 scale. In June 1986 I did fieldwork. Kitty Jones did some additional check-ing early in 1987.

"I stayed at Pioneer Lodge while mapping. Back in 1986 it was very dry, but since then the creeks came up. I haven't heard any complaints about the map. I think they attributed any prob-lems to the weather."

Jennifer Anderson participated with her parents in the Street Meet and also took advantage of the baby sitting service.

SILVA contributed the special ribbons for participants on the string course.

THE STRING COURSE (A course for children and beginners which is completely marked with a string).

Thirty-three Stringers parti- cipated each day of the Champion ships. During the meet at Edmon-ton the previous weekend several dozen youngsters and beginners also enjoyed the string course. Each participant received a ribbon designed specifically for the 1987 Orienteering Champion-ships. These ribbons were contri-buted by Silva.

• Bill Anderson and Gloria Rankin and daughter Jennifer (Bill is a member of the COF Board of Direc-tors. Gloria is one of the top competitors in her age group.)

Bill comments, "I was BRONZED again...I've been bronzed for four years!!" (Bronzed means...he received the bronze medal...for third place).

"I feel the courses were on the easy side. I would have liked to have seen them more technical. My overall impression is that it is a beautiful area with fast running.

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Refreshments were provided at the 'Finish'.

1987 COCs...continued

THE PEOPLE OF SUNDRE

Frank Jankulak (Ont.) as well as hundreds of other orienteers visited this Sundre landmark.

The Street '0' started at the Elk's Lodge.

There was free camping for the

competitors. And a town eager to

support the orienteers. While

putting together a seminar for

Friday I net several shopkeepers. One kind lady set me down at her

computer. After one hour I had the material I needed. Then...she

made copies for me.

Next I check out the video equip-ment at Sundre High School, While explaining what I would need and when it was needed I learned that the cable TV station operates out of the school. They were interes-ted in the video I'd created about the String Course and be-fore I,knew it we were in front of the large video editing consol. Ninety minutes later we'd "cleaned up" some of my extremely amateur effort and set up a film-ing session for Friday. They, too, wanted to create an orien-

teering video.

And...what is a meet without

FOOD??!! The town of Sundre had

numerous restaurants and a de-

lightful bake shop. No one went

hungry.

The meet site provided food

also. When the competitors

finished there were oranges,

cookies and Nanton water.

THE RELAYS

There were many teams and many

stories. Here is just one of them. The team of Bill Anderson,

Gord Hunter and Doug Bishop had some viewers "on edge."

Bill went out and tagged Gord. They were 8 minutes behind. Gord went out, returned and tagged Doug. They were four minutes behind

There is an excellent view of the final control from the finish.

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1987 COCs ...continued

The orienteers who weren't in the forest were gathered there in an effort to spot the first finish-ing runners and cheer them home to victory.

And who bounds out of the forest first in the Masters category? It's Doug Bishop. He flies across the open field. But...all is not well...his teammates suddenly realize that this first place person isn't really sure of where he is.

Doug dips out of sight into a marsh (to study his map without being scrutinized himself). He bounds back. He sees the radio control. He punches in AND WINS by one minute...(and yes, the entire sequence is forever preserved on video). Winners of the Masters Category-Relays. Ottawa O. Club members.

L to R: Bill Anderson, Gord Hunter, Doug Bishop.

A good-sized crowd was present at the awards presentation.

• Anne Marie Fisher and Doug Craig (Two raffle ticket buyers at the banquet.)

THE PRIZES ONE FINAL NOTE

Along with the usual medals and ribbons, the Alberta Association contacted businesses and received donations. Some of the prizes were: fanny packs, ski rentals, Woods sleeping bag, a framed print.

Moments before the draw for a round-trip flight to Victoria, B.C., Doug and Anne Marie swapped half of their tickets. The winning number was drawn and meet direc-tor Nancy Craig and her husband Doug were the winners. Amid the applause a voice was heard call-ing across the room. It was Doug shouting, "Thank you Anne Marie.!"

The Alberta Orienteering Associa-tion put on one fine week of Orienteering. The Festival offer-ed the orienteers across Canada a chance to enjoy the sport and the people who make it possible. Thank you all for your contribu-tions.

CANADIAN OR RINCT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Weeme 'Trlimbe The 1987 CCC Individual Results include only those competitors

who ran and completed their courses on both days.

RESULTS COURSE 1

Class H12 777-- Evans HKF/0111T 10;30: 2. J. Duasmair /ALT 36.06; 3. N. French HKF/ONT 37,09; 4. J. Ible POC/ALT 37.43; 5, M.Heldrum HUS/NR 45.08; 6. M. Craig FWOC/ALT 45.33; 7. S. Collings GVOC/RC 68.00.

Class D12 1. R. Sidney LVOC/ONT 28.48; 2. S. Meldrum HOST/NB 48.59; 3. S. Collings CVOC/Bt 67.57; 4. J. lble POC/ALT 82.04.

Class Wayfarer B 1. C. Fox VN/BC 59.57; 2. B. Fedoruk VIC/BC 73.331 3. L. & L. Ible POC/ALT 113,27; 4, J. Hetherington /ALT 204.27,

Class 0-Novice 1. Nadine Murphy E00C/ALT 95.08

COURSE 2

Class H13-14 1. P. MacKenzie POC/ALT 44.29; 2. B. Sidney LVOC/ONT 56.12; 3. S. Toole VIK/QUE 58.19; 4. S.Morgan CVO/BC 80.50; 5. A. Edgett MON/NB 92.46; 6. A. MacKenzie POC/ALT 99.40; 7. N. Geddes TOC/ONT 103.26; 8. J. Broomfield /ALT 104.40; 9. A. Roberts POC/ALT 111.34; 10, R. Greer U0C/ONT 138.19.

Class Open E 1. Pam McCaskill FOOC/ALT 171.06

Class 013-14 1. Andrea Keeley POC/ALT 86.49: 2. Laura Prellwitz /RC 119.17.

Class Wayfarer A 1. D. Green GVOC/BG 104.04; 2. G. Kennedy VN/BC 124,20; 3. L. Collings GVOC/BC 164.23; 4. K. Burnell CVO/BC 183,26; 5, Leger/ Phillips HKF/ONT 204.05; 6. G. Gallinger & J E00C/ALT 230.50; 7. M. Brown /SAS 264.59.

COURSE 3

Class H15-16 1, .1„ Pearson HKF/ONT 65.07; 2, 0. Blais COB/NB 75.07; 3. S. Force ROG/ALT 77.36; 4, P. McCormick •DR/NB 85.14; 5. 4. Broomfield /ALT 89.17; 6. P. Darby POC/ALT 90.44; 7. N. Dowell E00C/ALT 93.57; 8. M. Pastula CVO/BC 103.08; 9, K. Wilder JFW/ ALT 107.30: 10. J. Kalan FWOC/ALT 122.40; 11. M. Nerdy CVO/BC 142.38; 12. T. Girouard FWOC/ALT 169.47; 13. S. Ible POC/ALT 183.35.

Class Open 4 1, J. Inglis FOGG/ALT 163.45; 2. K. Ible POC/ALT 176.18: 3. B. Ulmer FOOL/ALT 178.15; 4. T. Devries /ALT 184.16; 5. C. Prelwitz /BC 189.30; 6. J. Sperry ELOC/WA/USA 215.12; 7. S. Ridley FWOC/ALT 222.34: 8. J. Requegnat FWOC/ALT 227.48.

Feeney COB/NB 90.51; 3. A. Skinner NFLD/NFL 110.07; 4. R. Tharp N1SQ/WA/USA 146.58; 5. P. McNeil LG/ONT 171.59; 6, V. Burnell CVO/BC 213.40.

COURSE 4

Class H Open C 1. A. Kimicl CVO/ONT 148.50; 2. I. Duncan ROG/ALT 178.49; 3. A. V. Winkoop /ALT 194.29.

Class HSO 1. A. kerr TOC/ONT 90.54; 2. J. Geddes TOC/ ONT 99.50; 3. K. French HKF/ONT 104.17; 4. E. Phillips HKF/ONT 109.15; 5. E. Gookin SDOC/CA/USA 117,20: 6. C. Moore CASC/WA/USA 140.24: 7. N. Bugge CDB/MAN 141.01; 8. 0. Brenda HOC/ALT 147,25; 9. M. Mahoney BAOC/CA/USA 284.41.

Class H55 1. D. de St. Croix NIA/ONT 130.41; 2. J. Charlow RAM/ODE 148.34; 3. D. Scott E00C/ALT 151.56: 4. S. Jonsson POC/ALT 161.36; 5. C. Williams SMOG/M1/ USA 171.21; 6. W. Sperry ELOC/WA/ USA 187.56; 7. M. MacConaill LG/ ONT 203.03; 8. C. Davies FWOC/ALT 216,07; 9. C. Kirk LG/ONT 239.53; 10. W. Kuz UOC/ONT 332.57,

Class 0 Open C 1. K. Haunts E00C/ALT 159.06; 2. 0. Fox VN/BC 179.12: 3. E. Harmer FOOL/ ALT 238.03; 4. S. Barry SPOC /BC 249.42; 5. L. Rodgers GVOC/BC 266.59; 6. A, Allen FWOC/ALT 267.42; 7. D. Dewey FWOC/ALT 283.47.

Class 045 1. Irene Jensen LG/ONT 178.31

Class 450 1. P.de St. Croix NIA/ONT 166.17; 2. S. Donald KOC/BC 178,38; 3. G. Charlow RAM/OUE 225.43; 4. D. Gookin SDOC/GA/ USA 246.23: 5. M. Williams SMOG/MI/USA 289,09; 6. M. Brenda E000/ALT 416.24.

COURSE 5

Class H45 1. R. MacKenzie POC/ALT 109.05; 2. A. Boyt NH/HER/UK 110.00; 3. M, Foubister SOCK/BC 114.34; 4. B. Hagen PGOC/BC 116.05; 5. P. Smith CVO/BC 119.19; 6. S. Pearson HKF/ONT 129.44: 7. J. Lee HKF/ONT 134.55; 8. L. Bishop FC4/0NT 143.20: 9. K. L. Kelley LAOC/CA/ USA 144.04: 10. G. Murphy EON/ ALT 152.30: 11. J. Forsyth HG/MAN 153.53; 12. A. Mc Naught rom/ALT 158,27; 13. S. Donald KOC/BC 160.12; 14. A. Bagdan E00C/ALT 174.32; 15. D. Irving SDO/CA/DSA 177.21.

Class D Open B 1. E. Breseman CASC/WA/USA 144.53; 2. C. Kennedy CVO/ONT 163.10; 3. J. Foubister SOCK/BC 172.31; 4. K. Sprugel COO/WA/USA 186.02; 5. S. Miller COC/WA/USA 210.07; 6. B. Cornish E000/ALT 221.36.

Class 017-18 1. S. Skinner NFLO/NFL 126.55; 2. N. Wilder JFW/ALT 159.08; 3. S. Force ROG/ALT 161.41: 4. C. Parks KOC/BC 170.06: 5. A. Skinner NFU) /NFL 178.17; 6. N. Brenda EOOC/ ALT 184.13; 7. Nancy Lee HKF/ONT 251.12.

Class 019-20 1, J. Veale TOG/ONT 113.50; 2. L. A, Cameron LG/0N7 186.16; 3. K. Robin LG/ONT 210.19.

Class D40 1. H. Stott HKF/ONT 127.30; 2. R. Wares SMOC/MI/USA 145.46; 3. M. McLean FWOC/ALT 149.43; 4. L. Watts COB/MAN 150.58; 5. G. Rankin 00C/GUF 152.43; 6. L. Sidney LVDC/ONT 158.33; 7. B. MacKenzie POC/ALT 161.07; 8. P. Lee CDB/MAN 174.43: 9. R. Dorschner PGOC/BC 211.36: 10. K. Dennis S00/CA/USA 237.01; 11. B. Trevis 00C/OUE 331.15.

COURSE 6 Class 14 Open B 1. C. Fox VN/BC 123.41; 2. D. Giles CVO/ONT 130.16; 3, K, Hill-Tout PGOC/BC 166.49; 4. D. Trimmer PGOG/BC 179,50; 5, D. Sprugel COC/WA/USA 182.15; 6. B. Livsey GVOC/BC 187.29; 7. K. R. Kelley LAOC/CA/USA 191.26; 8. J. McLean FWOC/ALT 201.25; 9. B. La-prade FWOC/ALT 245.14; 10. 0. Tallest SAMM/WA/USA 205.38; 11. B. Shear FWOC/ ALT 225.22; 12. C. Brooks GVOC/BC 228.45: 13. P. Wong E00C / ALT 239.04.

Class H17-18 1. B. May NFLO/NFL 96.50; 2. C. SeligY LG/ONT 101.22; 3. M. Fellows FF0/NB 101.26; 4. G. Soderquist CVO/BC 114.15; 5. N. Page KOC/BC 117.33; 6. M. Cote COB/NB 122.15; 7. K. Manstan LG/ ONT 126.44; 8. M. Traynor CVO/BC 132,42; 9. J.Morgan CVO/BC 137.08 10. J. Zwart TOC/ONT 142.04; 11. B. Lusby HUS/NS 150.28: 12. U. Unligil LG/ONT 157.08: 13. J. Brenda E00C/ALT 185,54; 14. R. Klute FOOC/ALT 208.02.

Class H40 17-77-Force ROG/ALT 103.06; 2. D. Dowell E00C/ALT 105.25; 3. A, White OHOC/SA/AUS 117.19; 4. B. Anderson 00C/Q1JE 118,41; 5. J. Rance GVOC/BC 121,15: 6. H . Tammemagi NIA/ONT 123.07: 7. D. Bishop 00C/ONT 123.19: 8. R. Evans HKF/ONT 126.43; 9. A. Philip VIC/BC 127.47: 10. M. Tharp NISQ/WA/USA 129.37; 11. J. Critchley EOOC/ALT 135.27: 12. P. Lewis CVO/ONT 136,04; 13. K. Meldrum HUS/NB 140.29; 14. B. Pollock LAOC/CA/USA 154.02; 15. D. Fedoruk VIC/BC 158.29; 16. B. Stackhouse POG/ALT 161.45; 17. R. Miller COC/WA/USA 162.28: 18. A. Barry SPOC/BC 199.34: 19. G. Quenneville FF/QUE 201.47; 20. J. Collings GVOC/BC 211.50; 21. R. Elliott CVO/ONT 289,46

Class 4 Open A 1, J. Hamilton COB/MAN 223.11; 2. M. Miller TRAK/NS 278,46.

Class 035 1. K. Peterson PGOC/BG 149.03: 2. 1. Rupners GVOC/BC 154.06; 3. J. Cornish E000/ALT 172.34; 4. K. Lachance GVOC/ BC 173.43; 5. V. Malanczyj UOC/ONT 192.67; 6, M. Meldrum NUSAB 204.35: 7. B. Laprade FWOC/ALT 216.44; 8. R. Chinchilla E00C/ALT 257.29.

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Class 015-16 Waddington HKF/ONT 81.39; 2. A. 1. N.

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R ESU LTS . . . (continued)

COURSE 7 Class H Open A 1. T. Gloor SWIT/SWI 161.19; 2. M. Smith CVO/ONT 177.36; 3. C. Shahbazian CAOC/WI/USA 202.27; 4. D. Lilly SAMM/ WA/USA 208.32; 5. J. MacKenzie COB/MAN 212.20; 6. S. Inglis E00C/ALT 238.26; 7. A. Zissos FWOC/ALT 242.16; 8. Q. Miciak E00C/ALT 257.59; 9. J. Nichol-son COB/MAN 264.10.

Class H19-20 1. E. Geddes TOC/ONT 158.24; 2. G. Flanagan SOCK/BC 164.37; 3. M. Rab LG/ONT 171.03; 4. A. MacDougall LG/ONT 174.41; 5. L.Fjelstad MIOC/MIN 176.09; 6. N. Tharp NISO/WA/USA 176.58; 7. C. Bullock KOC/BC 181.04; 8. E.James HUS/ NS 182.43: 9. P.Hunter 00C/ONT 191.05; 10. O. Majeed 00C/ONT 258.46.

Class H35 1. G. Hunter 00C/ONT 148.59; 2. R. Harvey SCOT/SCO 151.03; 3. S. Wood FWOC/ALT 153.10; 4. J. Peepre GVOC/BC 155:55; 5. W. Stott HKF/ONT 166.23; 6. E. Ulmer EOOC/ALT 172.57; 7. R. Green GVOC/BC 184.45; 8. M. Ware FWOC/ALT 184.59; 9. S. Friesen PEM/MAN 185.09; 10. A. Newman SMOC/MI/USA 187.33: 11. P. Connors CDB/MAN 195.23: 12. P. Glover FWOC/ALT 195.42; 13. J. Maier TSN/AR/USA 199.03; 14. G. McCausland NISQ/WA/USA 212.46; 15. J. McLean FWOC/ALT 215.31; 16. L. Konotopetz CDB/MAN 256.58; 17. G. Grieve GVOC/BC 289.06; 18. L. Sribney E00C/ALT 316.28; 19. D. Brown BAOC/CA/USA 326.08; 20. R. Monk FWOC/ALT 391.03.

Class 021 17-17-Robert LG/ONT 150.58; 2. D. DeMonte HKF/ONT 162.34; 3. P. James HUS/NS 168.45; 4. G. Savard /ALT 175.57; 5. J. Brandreth FWOC /ALT 196.15; 6. M. de St. Croix LG/ONT 209.53; 7. M. McKellar FWOC/ALT 220.31; 8. S. Todd TOC/ ONT 233.23; 9. A. Pearson E00C/ ALT 240.04; 10. S. Locke GVOC/BC 241.00; 11. Anne-M. Fisher FWOC/ ALT 244.12; 12. C. Bagdan EOOC/ ALT 252.48; 13. U. Heikkila FWOC/ALT 257.12; 14. S. Berman CSU/MA/ USA 312.15; 15. D. Chinchilla E00C/ALT 412.12.

COURSE 8 Class H21 1. R. Burnett GVOC/BC 150.45; 2. O. Naess TRAC/NS 152.47; 3. T. de St. Croix LG/ONT 163.16; 4. M. Adams VIK/ QUE 167.14; 5. B. Chubb E00C/ALT 178.21; 6. K.Sidney LVOC /ONT 182.52; 7. J.Samuelsson /SWE 198.25; 8. P. Berting VN/BC 206.31 9. B. Wolfe BAOC/CA/USA 208:50; 10. O. Enger SAMM/WA/USA 209.56; 11. M. McMillan GVOC/BC 218.07; 12. D. Ross TOC/ONT 221.44; 13. M. Pardoe FWOC/ALT 226.17; 14. L. Jones FF/NB 241.29; 15. D. Wyllie FWOC/ALT 242.35; 16. K. Moore E000/ALT 249.15; 17. I. Miller TRAC/NS 250.39; 18. J. Baker RI /USA 253.53; 19. Y. Duchesne FF/ QUE 281.19; 20. O. Albinsson GVOC /BC 293.07; 21. K. Pratt 00C/ONT 300.41; 22. L. Berman CSU/MA/USA 334.09; 23. M. Green HKF/ ONT 339.26.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

The Canadian Orienteering Team publicly thanks the following generous people for their support.

They each made donations to the team fund for which they received souvenir maps or T-shirts from the recent World Orienteering Championships.

Russell Kilbourn Julie DePass Kitty Jones

Pat and Dick de St. Croix John and Kay Yardley

Judy and Malcolm Adams Winnie Stott

One anonymous supporter and any-one who purchased a map puzzle.

The Team also expresses their profound thanks to SILVA, a division of Johnson Diversified for the donation , of Team equip-ment and to WINTARIO, SPORT NOVA SCOTIA and especially to SPORT CANADA for funding.

C.O.C. RELAY RESULTS D16

1. ONT R. Sidney. P. McNeil, N. Waddington 2:03:58. 2. AB D. Lind, L. Usiciski, A. Keeley DSO.

D17 1. ONT D. DeMonte, M. de St. Croix, M. Robert 1:38:22. 2. AB K. Jones, J. Brandeth, G. Savard 1:17:27. 3. AB A. Pearson, K. Bogdan, M. McgT1lar 2:07:29. 4. NFLD Andrea Skinner, Alison Skinner, 777k -inner 2:47:50,

D35 1. AB J. Cornish, P. MacKenzie, C. Lowan 2:18:18. 2. BC M. Roozendall, K. Lachance, K. Peterson 2:21:59. 3. AB O. Wood, N. Craig, M. McLean 2:44:310 4. PQ G. Charlow, M. Light, G. Rankin 2:4979.

D OPEN 1. ONT J. DePass, L. Cameron, L. Sidney 1:23:13. 2. ON/FIN S. Todd, J. Veale, L. Suntio 1:29:35. 3. BC M. Munro, C. Prellwitz, P. Pugh 1:57:7r

H16 1. AB N. Dowell, P. McKenzie, S. Force 53:07. 2. AB M. Darby, A. MacKenzie, P. Darby 1:47739. 3. NB P. McCormick, A, Edgett, D. Blais-7:15:17. 4. AB T. Soderberg, A. Roberts, Doug Ryes 2:23:40. AB J. Kalan, L. Prellwitz, T. Girouard DST- ONT N.French, N. Evans, B. Sidney DSO. ---

H17 ONT M. Waddington, K. Sidney, T.de St. Mix 1:38:52. 2. NB M. Fellows, L. Jones, M. Cote 1:58:07. 3. NS Oivind Naess, I . Miller, F. James 2:0110. 4. ONT D. Ross, A. MacDougall, Mark Rob 777:20. 5. USA J. Baker. R. Pressman, B. Wolfe 2777:22. 6. AB D. Wyllie, K. Moore, M. Astridge 2:0972. 7. BC G. Soderquist, M. Traynor. J. Morgan 2:14:54. 8. m K. Pratt, M. Adams. P. Hunter 2:37708. 9. BC N. Page, C. Bullock, G. Flash 2:37:18. 10. BC P. Berting, B. Hagen, C. Brooks 2:7:56. 11. USA P. Lily, O. Fnger, D. Tallent 3:46:38.

835 1. PQ R. Anders5T D. Bishop. G. Hunter 1:28:39. 2. 2. BC A. Philip, D. Fedoruk, J. Rance 1:30:17. 3. MAN P. Connors, S. Friesen, L. Konotopetz 1:30:13. 4. AB B. Chubb, J. Webster, S. Wood 1:7:21. 5. ONT K. French, R. Evans, J. Lee 1:36:17. 6. BC R. Green, G. Pugh, P. Smith 1:35714. 7.AB D. Dowell, E. Ulmer, J.Force 8. AB D. Scott. A. Ragdan, G. Brenda 7706:55. 9. PQ M. MacConaill, J. Charlow, G. Ouenneville 7:17:48. 10. AB P. Wong, J. Critchley, P. Gilchrist 2538: 43.

H OPEN 1. ONT B. Stott, C. Fox. E. Phillips 1:29777. 2. AB/ON P. Glover, H. Tammemagi. L. man 1:40:46. 3. ONT D. Giles. P. Lewis, A. Kimick 1:55:777 4. AB T. Cartmell, J. McLean. J. SamueTTson 1:55:35. 5. ONT/PQ S. Morgan, N. Geddes. S. Toole 2:49:49.

AB A. 2issos, D. Jeffers, A. Orr DSO. --

MIXED 1. USA R. Tharp, -77- Tharp, N. Tharp 1:41770. 2. ONT F. Lee, J. Pearson, S, Pearson 1:49:1117 3. NS C. Moore, B. Leslie. P. James 1:ZI:28, 4. ONT C. Kennedy, M. Smith, R. Harvey 1:7759. 5. USA C. Shahbazian, M. Jaffe, L. Fjelstad 1:55:02. 6. NB M. Meldrum, A. Feeney, K. Meldrum 1:55737. 7. AB N. Brenda, S. Force, B. May 1:57:33. 8. MAN J. Hamilton, P. Lee, D. Holden 7775:53. 9. USA S. Miller, S.M. Berman, R. Mier 2:06:47. 10. ONT P.de St.Croix, D.de St.Croix, J. Maier 2:11:28, 11. MAN J. Lee, L. Watts, A.N. Other 2:7734. 12. USA D. Gookin, E. Gookin, B. Pollack 2:3771. 13. AB T. Hagen, M. Brenda, L. Curson 3:42:30. BC - V. Burnell, M. Vardy, M. Pastula 117.0. USA - G. McPhee, K. Dennis. D. !rving DSO. ONT - K. Manstan, C. Willy, U. Unlioil-UNP.

NEW PRODUCT FROM SWEDEN The Canadian Orienteering Federation has ordered several sets of

new control card carrying cases called PA-POCKET from Sweden.

The PA-POCKET gives the competitive orienteer faster access and better protection to the control card for "punching-in". The POCKET is a good quality clear plastic case open at one end with a finger strap attached to the side. Former methods have the case tied to the wrist which does not offer the same punching control.

For those of you looking to save 20 minutes on your course, this item is not for you but if it is peace of mind and a second or two saved at each control, then order your PA-POCKET now before our small supply is gone. The package contains: 5 pockets (210 X 100 mm) & 5 reinforcing strips.

COST: Available for $4.00 from the Canadian Orienteering Federation, 333 River Rd. Ottawa, Ont. K1L 8H9

CLIPS FROM W.O.C. - FRANCE

1. former Canadian National Team member, Bob Kaill, now living in Sweden attended the WOC as coach of the Australian team.

2. The charming Hong Kong girl, Wai-Ching Wong, being interviewed over the P.A. system. When asked, "What had impressed her the most at the WOC 9 ", replied, "The trees. In Hong Kong we don't run in forests, we run on open hill-sides and fields. When there is forest it is too dense to run in."

3. The P.A. announcer's surprise to receive answers from Magali Robert in perfect French until informed that her parents are from France and that she speaks French at home.

4. The Israel runner. Shimon Shomrony, finishing in 56th place. In the 1983 WOC he broke his leg at the 4th control. This year his goal was just to finish. This he accomplished in 199.32.

5. Sixteen teenagers competed in the WOC - 11 girls + 5 boys (six 18-year olds and ten 19-year olds.) Hungary and France led with three each. Hungary with 3 girls, one aged 18 and two aged 19: while France had two 18 year old girls and one 19 year old boy.

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BOARD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS Board of Directors Meeting

Sundre, Alberta, August 11, 1987

1. Silva Challenge Award: The 3rd recipients of the Silva Chal- lenge Award and the first dual winners of the trophy are the hard-working Judy and Malcolm Adams of Quebec.

The selection was based upon their tremendous effort in en-suring that the 1986 COC would be held in Quebec after COF sanction had been withdrawn from the original organizers.

Malcolm worked on the map while Judy was the Meet Director. In addition, Malcolm was Controller for the '86 North American Champ-ionships at Barrie the weekend following the COC.

Previous winners of the award, Gary Feeney. NB and Peter Wong. Alberta were involved in the process to select the joint winners.

Congratulations to two worthy winners!

2. 1989 COC Officially Awarded to Ontario: The delegates to the 1986 AGM gave provisional ap- proval with final approval pend-ing COF receiving an official letter from Ontario.

The COF has received the letter. The event will be a joint effort between 0.0.1. and member clubs with Alex Kerr of the Toronto O. Club being Meet Director.

Final dates for the event have not yet been established due to conflict with the World Champion-ships. Traditionally, the WOC is held on the first weekend in Sept.: however, in 1989 it will be

held in mid August. The COC is usually held on the 2nd weekend in August and this year was the main selection event for our WOC Team.

The 1989 COC will be moved either to late July or late August to avoid the conflict with the WOC.

3. Standard Application Form for COF Members: The COF will develop a standard multi-part membership form which will be the only means of membership to COF.

The form will permit the use of

one copy as a renewal invoice that will assist associations in

their membership campaigns.

4. Board Gives Sanction for 1988 World Ski-0 Team: Although the COF no longer has an official

Ski-0 program or committee and does not allocate funding to Ski-0, it still must sanction indivi-duals wishing to compete in international events.

Approval has been given for a Canadian Team to compete in the 1988 World Ski-0 Championships in Finland.

5. Johnson Diversified-Silva Com-pass Division Sponsors National Team: Johnson Diversified have

agreed to be sponsors for our National Team through the 1989 World Championships.

Each Squad Member will receive a complete outfit - orienteering suit, rain suit, warm-up suit, T-shirts, 0-shoes, gaiters, sweat band, compass, travelling bag.

The suits were specially designed in new team colours of red and gold (similar colours to the Canadian Alpine and XC Ski uni-forms) and provide a striking identity to our National Team members who wore their new suits at the 1987 COC and WOC.

6. Landowners Access and Liabi-lity Insurance: Liability Insur- ance has been a problem for some associations in recent years while landowner access was a major problem to the 1986 North American O. Championship organ- izers. It was decided to pursue these items with the possibility of obtaining legal advice once enough information has been acquired on the National scope.

The COF office obtained copies of a booklet produced by the Ontario Government, "Whose Land Is This Land". Copies were forwarded to each association with a request for information of a similar nature from each province.

NOTE: a separate article on this topic will appear in the next issue of Orienteering Canada.

7. COC Support Grants to be Re- viewed: A task group will be 17517r70- to study all funding as-pects of future COC, NAOC and other major international events i.e. revenue, expenses, meet fees, levies, sponsors, advertis-ing, hosting grants etc.

Information from the study will be used to determine future fees. levies, COF involvement and sup-port etc. A proposal will be pre-sented to the delegates attending the 1987 Annual Meeting.

8. Changes to COF Membership Structure - New Associate Group Membership Approval: In order to recognize the many groups that are actively involved in orien- teering but who do not take out individual membership (e.g. school groups, scouts/guides, community groups) the COF will

now offer associate membership through provincial associations at a fee of $14.00. Associate members are not eligible to compete in Championship cate-gories or to receive COF funding. Associate members will not be in-cluded in the tabulation to de-termine provincial voting rights at the AGM and only the group leader will receive COF mailings.

9. Increased Emphasis on Grass Roots Programs: Several sugges- tions for introducing orienteer-ing to a greater number of the population have been discussed. Some of these ideas e.g. Intr-O, String Courses, Video Clips, a set of Basic Rules etc. will be explored in detail this fall with the view to developing a compre-hensive introductory package. The Executive Director and VP Devel- opment will be responsible for the development and implementa- tion of these programs.

10. Fitness Canada Withdraws Funding to COF: The COF was one of several National Sport Govern-ing Bodies that were advised by Fitness Canada that we would no longer receive financial support. Other federations included Alpine Skiing, Squash Racquets. Fitness

Canada assured us that the with-drawal of funding support was due to a change in philosophies and policies and not due to poor per-

formance by COF.

Fitness Canada's mandate is to have large numbers of the popu-lation participating in leisure activities on a regular basis and they feel that they can accomp-lish this through a variety of new programs. However, they need funds to develop these new pro-grams and no additional govern-ment funds are available. There-fore, they are withdrawing sup-port from some sports groups in order to fund their new initia-

tives. In fact, COF received only a small percentage of our govern-ment funds from Fitness Canada (approx. 5%). However, the funds received were for such programs as Leadership Clinics, Develop-ment Clinics, Development Commit-tee Meetings and National Physi-cal Activity Week.

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FAIT SAILLANTS DE LA REUNION Reunion du Conseil d'administration

a Sundre (Alberta), le 11 aoat 1987

1. Le prix den Silva: Les troisiemes laureats du prix defi Silva merits pour la premiere fois par deux personnes A in fois sont les travailleurs acharnes Judy et Malcolm Adams, du Quebec.

Les efforts qu'ils ont deployes en vue d'organiser le CCCO de 1986 au Quebec eves que la sanction a etc retiree par la FCCO aux organisateurs originaux ont valu A Judy et a Malcolm ce prix de reconnaissance.

Malcolm s'est attaché a is prepa-ration de la carte pendant que Judy etait directrice de is ren-contre. En outre, Malcolm agis-sait a titre de eentraleur au Championnat nord-americain de 1986 qui avait lieu a Barrie la fin de semaine suivant le CCCO.

Les anciens gagnants du prix, Gary Feeney (N.-B.) et Peter Wong (Alberta) ont participe a is selection du couple gagnant.

Nos felicitations a ces deux gagnants tres meritants!

2. L'accueil du CCCO de 1989 a officiellement ate accords l'Ontario: Les delegues a l'aga de 1986 ont donne leur accord provisoire dans I'attente de l'approbation finale de is FCCO en suspens jusqu'A la reception d'une lettre officielle de l'Ontario.

La FCCO a recu la lettre en question. La competition sera organisee conjointement par l'OOI (l'association de course d'orien-tation de l'Ontario) et certains clubs membres. Alex Kerr, du club de course d'orientation de Toronto sera le directeur de la rencontre.

Les dates definitives de la manifestation sportive n'ont pas encore etc fixees en raison de conflits d'horaire avec le Championnat du monde. Tradi-tionellement, le CMCO se tient la premiere fin de semaine de septembre, toutefois, en 1989, it aura lieu a is mi-aoat. Par contre, le CCCO se deroule gene-[element la deuxieme fin de semaine d'aoat et le Championnat canadien devait cette armee constiluer notre principale epreuve de qualification pour l'equipe qui participera au CMCO.

Le CCCO de 1989 as tiendra done vers la fin de juillet ou d'aor_it afin d'eviter tout conflit.

3. Formulaire d'adhAsion standard pour les membres de la FCCO: La FCCO preparera un formulaire d'adhision standard a usage multiple, sans lequel it sera impossible de as joindre a is FCCO.

Une copie du formulaire pourra servir de facture de renouvel-lement qui aidera les associa-tions dans leurs campagnes de recrutement.

4. Le conseil d'administration autorise is participation d'une equipe au Championnat du monde de ski-course d'orientation de 1988. Mime si la FCCO ne possede plus de programme officiel de ski-course d'orientation ni de comite a eel effet et si elle n'alloue plus de fonds h cette discipline, elle a encore le devoir de sanctioner la parti-cipation des personnes dAsirant prendre part aux ipreuves internationales de ski-course d'orientation.

Une equipe canadienne a Ate auto-risks a participer -au Championnat de ski-course d'orientation de 1988 qui aura lieu en Finlande.

5. Johnson Diversified, une division de de is compagnie Silva Compass commandite l'Squipe nationals. Johnson Diversified a accept6 de commanditer notre equipe nationale jusqu'au Championnat du monde de 1989.

Cheque membre de l'equipe recevra un attirail complet: tenue de course d'orientation, tenue de pluie, suv6tement, T-shirts, chaussures de course d'orien-tation, guetres, bandeau, bous-sole et sac de voyage.

Les tenues arborent les nouvelles couleurs de L'equipe, spit le rouge at l'or (les memes couleurs que les uniformes des equipes de ski alpin et de ski de fond). Les membres de requipe nationale avaient vraiemnt fiere allure dans leur nouvel uniforme au CCCO at au CMCO de 1987.

6. Autorisation d'acces des proprietaires de terrain et assurance responsabiliti. L'as-surance responsabilite a cause quelques problemes a certaines associations au cours des der-nieces annees Landis que l'auto-risation d'acces du proprietaire du terrain a represents une dif-

ficulte enorme pour les organi-sateurs du Championnat nerd-- americain de course d'orientation de 1986. 11 a Ate decide d'etudier ces questions plus a fond at on n'ecarte pas is possi-bilite d'obtenir des conseils juridiques des qu'une quantite suffisante de renseignements auront etc recueillis a l'Achelle nationale.

Le bureau de la FCCO s'est procure des exemplaires d'une brochure publike par le gouvernement de l'Ontario et.

intitulee "Whose Land Is This Land". Des exemplaires de l'ouvregc serest expedies A cheque association accompagnes dune demands d'information parallele adressee a cheque province.

REMARQUE: Vous trouverez dans le present numero un autre article traitant uniquement du sujet qui precede.

7. Examen des subventions accordees aux championnats. Un groupe de travail as reunira afin d'etudier tous les aspects du financement des futurs CCCO, CNACO at des autres competitions internationales d'importance. On parle ici des benefices, depen-ses, frais d'inscription, droits, commandites, publicite, sub-ventions d'hote, etc.

Les conclusions de la recherche serviront a etablir les futurs frais d'inscription, droits, par-ticipation et appui de is FCCO, etc. Une proposition sera presentee aux delegues assistant A l'assemblee generale annuelle.

8. modifications A la structure de l'adhesion de la FCCO -Approbation de is nouvelle cateKorie de membres appelie "Groupe associe" Dans le but de reconnaitre de nombreux groupes actifs dans la course d'orien-tation pour lesquels l'adhesion individuelle des membres est im-possible, (comme les groupes scolaires, les scouts, les guides, les groupes municipaux), la FCCO offrira dorenavant une adhesion de groupe associe au coat de 14 dollars, par Pinter-mediaire des associations provin-ciales . Les membres associes ne peuvent prendre part a des championnats ni etre subven- tionnes par la FCCO. On ne tiendra pas non plus compte des membres associes 1¢ moment venu de determiner le timbre de voix A

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accorder A cheque province a l'aga at seul le leader du groupe recevra de is correspondence de la Federation.

9. Accent accru sur les programmes a l'intention des debutants. La discussion a porte sur plusieurs suggestions en vue de mieux faire connaitre la course d'orientation. Certaines de ces idees, come les- tours d'initiation A is course d'orien-tation A l'aide d'une corde, les videos et l'elaboration de regle-ments generaux, etc. seront etudiees en detail a l'automne dans le but de mettre sur pied un programme d'initiation complet. Le directeur administratif et le vice-president au developpement, seront responsables de l'elabo-ration et de la mise en oeuvre de ces programmes.

10. Condition physique Canada retire son financement a la FCCO. La FCCO est un des organismes nationaux directeurs de sport qui a ate avise par Condition physique Canada de is perte prochaine de leur aide financiere. Parmi les autres organismes, on retrouve ski alpin et squash racquets. Condition physique Canada nous a assure que le retrait du financement etait 65 a un changement dans leurs philosophie et politiques et non a is performance de la Federation.

Condition physique Canada a pour mandat d'encourager la partici-pation d'une bonne partie de la population a des activites recreatives regulieres et ils croient pouvoir atteindre cet objectif par l'entremise d'une variete de nouveaux programmes.

Toutefois, ils ont besoin de fonds pour mettre ces nouveaux programmes en place et aucuns fonds gouver- nementaux supplementaires ne sont disponibles, c'est pourquoi ils ont decide de retirer leur appui

financier A certains sports afin de pouvoir consacrer les fonds ainsi liberes A leurs nouvelles initiatives. En fait, la contri-bution de Condition physique Canada ne representait qu'une faible partie (5 p. c.) de nos fonds gouvernementaux. Les fonds recus ont cependant ete mis a profit dans les programmes tels les stages sur le leadership, les stages sur le developpement, les reunions du comite de develop-pement et is Semaine "Canada en forme - .

1987 W.O.C. REPORT - SWEDISH & NORWEGIAN ORIENTEERS DOMINATE AGAIN - - BEST EVER PERFORMANCE BY CANADIAN RELAY TEAM -

by Colin Kirk

The 1987 WOC was held in the northeastern part of France about a 1-hour drive from the Swiss border. All National Teams were

housed in the Hotel de Vallees in

the town of La Bresse while press & media, IOF visitors and specta-tors were accommodated in the larger town of Gerardmer, 15 km from La Bresse. Both towns were situated in a mountainous region and reached only by high mountain passes that offered spectacular views of valleys and rivers stretching far into the horizon.

La Bresse is a small, charming, rural type town while Gerardmer is a major tourist resort, some-

thing like Banff or Jasper - wall to wall hotels circling a pictur-

esque lake -with prices almost as high as the surrounding mountains.

Tuesday, Sept. 1-Opening Ceremon-ies: These took place in Gerard-mer with the teams parading from the town square to a sports com-plex on the lakefront. The Canad-

ian Team (Magali Robert, Denise DeMonte, Ross Burnett, Ted de St. Croix, Oivind Naess, Mark Adams and Gilles Quenneville - Team Leader), were resplendent in their new red and gold uniforms

and were featured on the front page of the local newspaper the next day. Canadian D21 Champion,

Magali Robert, carried the Cana-dian flag in the parade. Among the cheering spectators was Magali's brother, Chris, now liv-ing in France. Chris who was run-

ner-up to Ted de St. Croix in the

'84 COC won the French Champion-ship this year and tried to qual-ify for the French WOC Team. Un-fortunately, he did not have a

good run in the Selection Race and ended the opportunity of him and Magali being the first sister and brother act to represent dif-ferent countries in the WOC.

Wednesday - Sept. 2 - Qualifying tvents: ihese consist of two courses each for Men and Women with the courses being of similar length and difficulty. The compe-titors are divided with one half

running on Course A and other on Course R. The top 25 Men and

Women on each course go on to the

Final plus the top finisher from

those countries who did not have a runner in the top 25. This is to ensure that every nation is

represented in the Final.

The day was overcast with a light rain falling for a good part of the morning. Our Team Leader felt the team was well prepared and that all six would make the final. The best we had previously accomplished was one man and one woman in the Final; so while hav-

ing all 6 qualify was perhaps a

bit too optimistic; having 4 make it seemed attainable. The luck of

the draw had Ted the first start-er of the day, so his time would

serve as a bench mark for later

starters. He was overtaken by a British runner who started 4 min. later and was about 5 min. behind at the Finish. Ted felt the course had been more of a track race on trails and roads with very little technical orienteer- ing or navigational skills re- quired. When the next 3 finishers also posted faster times it look-ed like the start of a long day for our team.

Mark Adams was our next runner

and returned in a time of 73:38

on Course A compared to Ted's 74:48 on Course B. As times in the high 50s and low 60s were

being posted, both of these times

looked shaky. Our 3rd runner,

Oivind Naess, turned in a 69:33 and appeared safely through to

the Final. Our last runner, Ross Burnett, had been running very well in training events and we expected a good result from him, This was not to be as he finished behind Mark on the A Course.

When the last runner had finished only Oivind had made it into the Final. Both Ted and Mark missed

Megan Robert carried the Canadian flag at the Opening Ceremonies.

qualifying by about 3 min, with Ross about 15 min. out of a final spot.

Meanwhile both Magali and Denise qualified comfortably with Denise finishing in 9th spot on Course B and Magali in 20th on Course A.

The 3 runners in the Final is our best so far but not as good as anticipated. One US runner, Sharon Crawford, qualified in 23rd spot: while Mikell Platt, although in 26th place, also qualified as the top US male. All 4 Russian Men and Women qualified.

Thursday, Sept. 3 - World Champ- ionship - Individual Event: A bright sunny day, although the ground and underbrush was wet and heavy from the overnight rain. The early starters will be at a disadvantage although if it be-comes hot later on it could get very humid for late starters. As in the Qualifying Event, the courses favoured the runners with not a lot of difficult orienteer-ing in the forests,

The first finisher of the day was a Swedish woman, Arja Hannus, in a time of 67:40. Being interview-ed on the P.A. system, she said that she had a good run, losing only 2 or 3 min. through mis-takes. However, she felt the heavy slow conditions had cost her 3 or 4 min. and that late starters would be faster. One by one the others took a run at her time and one by one they failed. All of the vaunted Norwegians were unable to catch Arja and to make matters worse the top Norwe-gian finisher, Ragnild Bratberg, was later disqualified. One of the last starters and fellow

Swedish team member, Karin Rabe, came closest to catching Hannus but faded a little over the last 3 controls to finish a mere 16 secs. behind. Karin has been orienteering for many years and has had an astonishing career of successes both in Sweden and internationally. She has won several gold medals as a member of the Swedish Relay Team in the previous 3 WOCs and has had -a bronze medal in the Individual Championship. Now at the age of 33, she achieved her highest placing with a 2nd place silver. In 3rd place was a Czechoslovak-ian woman, Jana Galikova, in a time of 68:39. Denise and Magali ran well but not spectacularly finishing 28th and 35th respect-ively. Denise in 83:51 and Magali in 88:02. Magali lost 2 1/2 - 3 minutes on the last control. The control was located on a large

open hillside, easily visible from the Finish area however, obviously not so visible for Magali as she ran right past it and spent time searching else-where.

The Men's race was expected to be between the powerful Norwegians and Swedish runners and to a large degree that is how it turn-ed out, although 2 Swiss competi-tors made it interesting. Early times were around 105-106 min. then dropped to 102:31 when the 1st Norwegian finished. The next Norwegian reduced the time to 101:38 and then a Swiss runner improved this to 100:50. Next the top Swede and 1986 World Cup Champion, Kent Olsson, knocked another 3 1/2 min. off the time with a brilliant 97:19. This was now the target to shoot at.

Several top stars took a good shot at the leader, former World Champion Oyvin Thon (NOR) and Jorgen Martensson(SWE) came

close. The one with the best chance was the brilliant Tore Sagvolden (NOR), probably the most consistent male orienteer of all. Tore has competed in 4 pre-vious WOCs finishing 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 2nd plus 3 gold medals in the Relays. Once again, fate de-creed that he should not capture the Individual crown and for the 3rd time he had to be satisfied with the runner-up spot. In an after-race interview he said that he had made no mistakes except that perhaps he had started out too slowly and was unable to make up the time later on.

A surprising third place for Swi- tzerland in the person of Urs

Fluhmann with Martensson (SWE)

4th, another Swiss. Peter Bol- liger 5th, followed by three

Norwegians, Tveite, Thon and Vestre.

A big day for Sweden capturing both Individual titles. Very little in the way of surprises from the smaller/newer countries as the powerful teams from Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Finland and Czechoslovakia took most of the top 20 places. The closest finish to the top 10 from a new nation was the Russian, Wladimer Alekseew in 11th place, 8 minutes behind Olsson.

Unfortunately for Canada, Oivind Naess after his fine performance in making the Final came up empty on this day and was unable to finish. He had not felt well upon awakening and did not eat break-fast; by the 4th control he was both weak and exhausted and al-though struggling on for a few more controls finally gave in to fatigue.

Saturday. Sept. 5 - Relay Champ- ionships: This area was an en-tirely different type of terrain from the Individual events. Not quite so steep and not nearly as many trails. The area also con-tained numerous small lakes and ponds that provided both route choice challenge and reference points along the route.

The Norwegian Team were out to redeem themselves while the Swedes wanted to prove the super-iority they had shown in the In-dividual event. Canada only had a Men's Team and they wanted to have a good performance to show

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that the Qualification Race re-sults were not indicative of their ability.

In WOC Relays each runner runs a different course with controls mix-matched so that every team runs the exact same legs but in a very random order. This reduces following to a large degree al-though there are several common controls on each course for water stops and the recording of inter-mediate times. The Men s Courses were 9.6km and Women's 6.9km

LEG 1: Sweden elected to run their two new World Champions, Hannus and Olsson on the first legs. Norway had 1983 World Cham-pion, Morten Berglia running first for their Men's Team and Ragnild Bratberg for the Women's Team. Oivind Naess went first for Canada.

At the 1st radio control (3.2km), Norway and Sweden were in a lead-ing pack of 5 in the Men's event with Oivind Naess very close be-hind and at the 2nd radio control (6.6km) the positions were still the same. Oivind was running a great race and only one minute behind Berglia and Olsson. The leading group of 6 burst into the Finish Chute with only 9 secs between 1st and 6th - 1. France, 2. Czech., 3. Norway, 4. Poland,

5. Switzerland, 6. Sweden. After a 2 min. gap came Finland and Canada. We were off to our best start ever only 2 1/2 min behind. Oivind had run a superb race. A slight error from the 2nd last to the last control had cost him about 2 min. and at least the place to Finland. There was a small path that led almost directly to the last control. The red line joining the last two controls had covered part of the trail on Oivind's map and he missed the trail. He came out on a road adjacent to the Finish Chute and had to run back up the chute to the last control - on the way passing the leading group coming down the chute in the opposite direction.

Having a bunch of runners to- gether at the end of the 1st leg is common in the WOC with the 2nd & 3rd really spreading the teams apart. This was not the case in the Women's race as the Norwegian Team opened up a huge 6 min. lead over Sweden. The Russian Team were a close 3rd but then there were big gaps between the other teams.

LEG 2: The 2nd Norwegian man 6T5F17d-up a lead over his closest

pursuer, Switzerland, with Sweden falling over 6 min. behind in 3rd place. France who were in the lead after Leg 1 tumbled all the way to 17th while Poland dropped from 4th to 16th.

Ross Burnett ran 2nd for Canada and did not have a particularly good run. We dropped from 8th to 10th but lost about 15 min. on the leaders. We were now in a battle with teams from Britain (7), Denmark (8), Austria (9), Hungary (11), and Bulgaria (12).

In the Women's race Norway in-creased their lead over Sweden to almost 8 min. with Finland close behind. At this midway stage of the Relays the Russian teams were in 5th (Women) and 6th places.

LEG 3: The Norwegian determina- tion to win both Relays continued and with superstars, Sagvolden and Thon, running the final 2 legs, it appeared all over in the Men's race. Sagvolden added an-other 1 1/2 min. to the lead over the surprising Swiss team with Sweden closing up a bit in 3rd spot and Finland close behind.

The 3rd Canadian runner was Mark Adams and he ran a steady race to keep us in 10th place. He lost 2 or 3 minutes to Britain and Den-mark but gained an equal amount of time on Hungary and Bulgaria and stayed even with Austria.

In the Women's race Sweden now made a move and lopped 4 min. from the Norwegian lead. They were still 4 min. behind but now had 2nd place locked up. The big

surprise was the Russians moving past Finland into 3rd place.

LEG 4: There was no letting up by the Norwegian men. Two-time World Champion, Oyvind Thon, increased the lead by another 2 min. to capture his 4th Relay gold medal. The excitement centered around whether Switzerland could hold off Sweden for 2nd place and the loudest cheers of the day went up as the Swiss runner came into the Finish Chute a full minute ahead of Sweden. Of equal interest was the 5th place finish by the Rus-sian team.

From a Canadian viewpoint our interest was centered on whether Ted de St. Croix could catch the Austrian runner and/or hold off the Hungarian. Bulgarian and Australian teams behind him. Well he did both-passing the Austrian and holding off a strong chal-lenge for Hungary. Ted had a very good run of 68:05 but our star of

the day was unquestionably Oivind Naess and his excellent 66:56.

Although 9th place may not seem something to brag about, it is

our best ever result in Relays. In 1978 we finished 8th of 17 teams and 78 min. behind the win-ning team. This year we finished 9th of 23 teams but only 32 min. behind the winning team.

Some excitement was added to the Women's relay with the last Swed-ish runner, Karin Rabe, running a fine race and closing the gap be-hind Norway to one minute. How= . ever to all intents and purposes the race had been over after the 1st leg. The main interest was in seeing if the Russian team could hold on to 3rd place. This was not to be as both Czechoslovakia and Finland moved ahead of them. In spite of this the Russian team can look ahead with a lot of con-fidence - all their runners made the finals and both relay teams finished 5th in this their first WOC appearance -a most impressive debut.

PARTIAL W.O.C. RESULTS

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS - MEN 1. K. Olsson SWE 97:19; 2 T. Sagvol-den NOR 98:18; 3. U. Fluhmann SUI 99:30; 4. J. Martensson SWE 99:48; 5. S. Bolliger SUI 100:50; 6. H. Tveite NOR 101:38.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS - WOMEN 1. A. Hannus SWE 67;40; 2. K. ffabe SWE 67:56: 3. J. Galikova TCH 68:39; 4. A. Kottonen FIN 69:20; 5. A. Kucharova TCH 69:22; 6. B. Sonderegger SUI 70:27; 28. D. DeMonte CAN 83:51: 35. M. Robert CAN 88:02.

MEN RELAY RESULTS WOMEN 1. NOR 4:11:21 1. NOR 3:44:04 2. SUI 4:16:05 2. SWE 3:45:07 3. SWE 4:17:07 3. TCH 3:56:21 3. FIN 4:18:56 4. FIN 4:01:05 5. URS 4:28:07 5. URS 4:02:17 6. DEN 4:31:09 6. SUI 4:21:19 7. TCH 4:32:58 7. GBR 4:23:05 8. GBR 4:38:20 8. FRG 4:38:18 9. CAN 4:43:56 9. FRA 4:38:55 10.HUN 4:45:14 10.HUN 4:48:52 11.AUT 4:45:36 11.DEN 4:50:21 12.BUL 4:51:54 12.AUS 4:55:30 13.AUS 4:53:27 13.AUT 5:04:22 14.FRG 5:05:15 14.NZL 5:05:26 15.USA 5:16:26 15.ITA 5:36:15 16.POL 5:21:22 16.USA 5:43:28 17.NZL 5:22:52 17.IRL 6:22:39 18.BEL 5:34:23 18.JPN DSQ 19.FRA 5:35:18 20.ITA 5:45:10 21.JPN 5:59:09 22.ESP DSQ 23.IRL DSO * Copies of complete results available for $1.00 from the COF office.

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