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Normandie O’ Tour 22 and 23 September 2018

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1. Organisation

Club d’Orientation des Boucles de la Seine

www.cobs.free.fr

Race director : Sebastian Wild

Assistant director stage 1 and 3 : Patrick Eudier

Assistant director stage 2 and 3 : Philippe Sanchez

GEC manager and registration: Agnès Eudier

Communication manager : Xavier Brière

Cartographer : Philippe Sanchez et Agnès Eudier

2. Event controller

Delegate : Michel Ediar

Referee : Eric Boulet

Controller : Alain Guillon

Probatione controller : Hélène Ediar

3. Audience

500 orienters are expected, aged 10 and over, from all over France but also neighbouring

countries such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany or Scandinavia.

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4. Location

Le Havre area : Harfleur, Etretat et Montivilliers.

Distance from Rouen : 85 km

Distance from Caen : 95 km

Distance from Paris : 195 km

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5. Bibs

The bibs will be picked up at the first stage Event Center and must be worn in all 3

stages.

6. Program

Saturday 22 september 2018 :

11h : Event center opening at Harfleur « Centre culturel de la Forge »

14h : First start stage 1

20h30 : Event center opening at Etretat on the sea front

One hour after legal sunset time: First start stage 2 (before sunset time for HD 10-12)

Sunday 23 september 2018 :

8h : Event Center opening at Montivilliers, « Cour Saint Philibert »

9h : First start stage 3

13h : prize giving

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7. Sponsors

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8. Stage 1

Urban sprint

Place : Harfleur city-center

Event Center and finish line : « Centre culturel de la Forge »

Start : 200m

Parking : « Centre culturel de la Forge » (car), « rue Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny » (car

and camping-car)

Map : « Harfleur Centre » updated and extended

Scale : 1/5000 et Equidistance : 2.5m

Tourism :

The Vikings gave its name, in the 9th century, meaning Harfleur in Norse "Upper

harbour" as opposed to Honfleur "Bottom harbour". Thanks to its location of crossroad

on the maritime and river roads, Harfleur is prosperous since the Gallo-Roman era. Port

of Rouen and Royal City in the 13th century, Harfleur became a sovereign harbour of

Normandy and gave birth to « le Havre » after the silting of its port in the 16th century.

Its pedestrian streets, its heritage, its large park and the windings of « la Lézarde » wich

run into his heart, give the city a picturesque touch.

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« La Lézarde »

Town hall parc

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9. Stage 2

Middle distance : urban and golf by night (before sunset time for HD 10-12)

Place : Etretat city-center and golf

Event Center and finish line : Sea front

Start : 1km

Parking : « Route du Havre – D940 »

New map

Scale : 1/10000 et Equidistance : 5m

Tourism :

Once modest fishing village, Etretat became a seaside resort on the coast of the English

channel. The amazing and monumental look of its almost immaculate white chalk cliffs

and beaches of greyish pebbles ,makes of it an international tourism place. Painters like

Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet or Eugène Boudin contributed much to its advertising, in

immortalising the specificity. Writers like Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant,

were followers of the place while Maurice Leblanc, who lived there, contributed to the

myth surrounding the site in Arsène Lupin adventure titled « l’Aiguille creuse ».

Three successive arches: the upstream door, the downstream door and the Manneporte,

and a needle can be seen.

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Etretat’s cliff

Etretat’s golf

Etretat by night

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10. Stage 3

Urban longue distance

Place : Montivilliers

Event center, start and finish line : « Cour Saint Philibert »

Show passage and map changing for all runners on the « cour Saint Philibert »

Parking : « Place Abbé Pierre », « Avenue de Dieppe » et « Rue de Bréquigny »

Map : « Montivilliers centre » updated and extended

Scale : 1/5000 et Equidistance : 2.5m

Tourism :

Montivilliers owes its prosperity and its reputation to its prestigious Women Abbey

established in 684 by St Philibert. Montivilliers has the particularity to be crossed by a

river : « la Lézarde » which is included in the old medieval center, bounded by walls, and

the suburbs expanded in the 19th century along the roads at the town entrance.

« L’aître de Brisgaret » dating from the XVth century, built to deal with epidemics has

been classified as Historical Monuments in 1886 and restored in 2013-2014. The inner

wall of the gallery presents a unique painting of the sixteenth century.

The calvary, melted in a greenery nest, overlooks the whole city and offers a wonderful

panorama from where the spectator can observe the old neighbourhoods of

Montivilliers, but also the outlying areas who settled in the twentieth century. It was

erected to pay tribute to the victims of the second world war while thanking to have

protected the city of bombing.

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Montivilliers Abbey

Arena

« La lézarde »

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11. Accomodation

Accomodation near the event centers

Camping :

Camping le grand hameau : http://www.camping-le-grand-hameau.fr/#home-anchor

Camping municipal d’Etretat : http://www.normandie-tourisme.fr/hpa/camping-

municipal-detretat/etretat/fiche-HPANOR076FS0002K-1.html

Hotel :

B&B Harfleur : http://www.hotel-bb.com/fr/hotels/le-havre-

1.htm?utm_source=googlemaps&utm_medium=fichehotel&utm_campaign=seo

Ibis Harfleur : https://www.accorhotels.com/fr/hotel-0951-ibis-le-havre-sud-

harfleur/index.shtml

Campanile Montivilliers : https://www.campanile.com/fr/hotels/campanile-le-havre-

nord-montivilliers

Kyriad : https://www.kyriad.com/fr/hotels/kyriad-le-havre-montivilliers

Campanile Gonfreville l’Orcher : https://www.campanile.com/fr/hotels/campanile-le-

havre-est-

gonfreville?utm_source=google&utm_medium=maps&utm_content=FRA21850&utm_ca

mpaign=Campanile

F1 Gonfreville l’Orcher : https://www.accorhotels.com/fr/hotel-2331-formule-1-hotelf1-

le-havre/index.shtml

Lodging :

www.gites-de-france.com

Camping-car :

Car park of Etretat’s race

Accomodation:

www.airbnb.fr