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Australians performed outstandingly at the 2023 World Rogaining Championship held on 29/30 July at Lake Tahoe, California, USA. A superb performance from the "Dream Team" of Joanna George, Abigail George and Meredith Norman to again win Womens’ Under 23. Two Aussie teams Rod Gray and Geoff Lawford, Richard Robinson and Vivienne Prince, took home 2 trophies, won against much younger competitors.
The Northstar ski resort was surrounded by 250sq km of hilly pine forest from 1900 to 2600 metres elevation. Most teams survived the expected hot dry summer weather during daytime and moved faster in the night, especially with the help of the reflective controls.
The top teams overall were from Estonia, Spain, Latvia, USA and Ukraine. The following were the Australian placings:

• Joanna George, Abigail George, Meredith Norman - 1st Women Under 23
• Gill Fowler, Elizabeth Dornom – 1st Women Veteran
• Thorlene Egerton, Christine Brown – 1st Women Super Veteran, 2nd Women Veteran
• Rod Gray, Geoff Lawford – 1st Men Ultra Veteran, 1st Men Super Veteran
• Richard Robinson, Vivienne Prince (NZ) – 1st Mixed Ultra Veteran, 1st Mixed Super Veteran
• David Baldwin, Julie Quinn – 2nd Mixed Veteran
• Sharon Crawford, Robin Spriggs (USA) – 2nd Women Ultra Veteran

NSWRA are hosting the 2023 Australian Rogaining Championships, held on Wiradjuri country, in Goobang National Park and adjacent private land. The event date is 30th September/1st October. This is the long weekend in NSW and clocks change to summer time during the event!
Ominously named "The Edge", the event is about 300km west of Sydney and a similar distance north from Canberra. Nearest towns for accommodation are Parkes and Orange. Transport by coach is available at low cost from both Sydney and Canberra airports.
The Intervarsity Championships will be held in conjunction with the ARC. NAMSF are again providing subsidised travel for one university team per state or territory.
The terrain promises a mixture of grazing farmland with plenty of natural bushland in Goobang NP. Altitude varies from 400 to 800 metres.
Organiser is Trevor Gollan, while the course setters are NSW's most successful Mens' rogaining team: David Williams and Ronny Taib. Entries are now open. The event website is: nswrogaining.org/2023-aus-champs.

The 2022 World Rogaining Championship took place on 26/27th August in the Rychleby and Kralicky Sneznik Mountains along the Czech/Polish border.
The organisers provided a very challenging planning exercise, with bunches of high value controls interspersed by massive gaps of low value. Terrain was hilly and navigation straight forward by Australian standards, with lots of tracks.
The event started on a warm, sunny and humid afternoon that developed into massive electrical thunderstorms with hail during the afternoon, turning the tracks into rivers. Fortunately, it became mild and fine for most of the rogaine and competitors enjoyed sunshine for the closing meal (with Czech beer) and the presentations.
There was only a small contingent of 16 Australians in the field of 567 (271 teams) from 22 countries. A superb performance from Australia's "Dream Team" of Joanna George, Abigail George and Meredith Norman who won Womens Under 23 by 610 points.
The following were the Australian placings:

• Joanna George, Abigail George, Meredith Norman - 1st Women Under 23
• Thorlene Egerton, Shari Hymes (USA) - 1st Women Super Veterans
• Rod Gray, Geoff Lawford - 2nd Men Ultra Veterans
• Robin Spriggs, Sharon Crawford (USA) - 3rd Women Ultra Veterans

The 41st Australian Rogaining Championship, postponed from 2020, was held on 29-30 May 2021 north of Burra, South Australia. The SARA organising team produced a detailed technical challenge on the Deceptive Lands map at Bri Glen Springs. At close of entries there were 108 teams and 251 competitors in the 24 hour event. A Covid outbreak in Victoria during the week before the event lead to last minute border closure, preventing Victorian teams from attending. Consequently, 22 teams had to withdraw from the event. Organiser Craig Colwell said there were heart breaking tales of Victorians trying to beat the border closures and restrictions, including two who made it all the way to Burra on the day before the event, before having to return as additional restrictions were imposed.

The Winners of the open categories were:

• Julie Quinn, David Baldwin (ACT): First Mixed
• Ronnie Taib, David Williams (NSW): First Men
• Anna Sheldon, Kate Houghton (Qld): First Women

The Interstate Trophy was won clearly by Tasmania, with ACT and Queensland almost tied for 2nd and 3rd. Some notable performances: Julie Quinn and David Baldwin won clearly by more than 400 points. Tasmanians Christine Brown and Karen Pedley won the Women's Super Veterans category, Women's Veterans, and came second in the Womens overall. Winners of the Mixed Ultra Veterans: Jean Douglass, Grant Battersby from ACT and Richard Robinson from Qld were 12th overall.

The official results are now available on the ARC 2021 website including the category results and ARC 2021 map.

ARA was recently contacted by Gavon Balharry, who won the Intervarsity 24 Hour Walk in 1967 and 1968.

Gavon is now retired and resident in Switzerland. Gavon related that in the 1960's he and David Moriarty were postgraduate students at the Waite Institute at Adelaide University.

According to the Phillips' rogaining book and David Hogg's article, the 1967 24 Hour Intervarsity was held in Adelaide and won by Adelaide University, the 1968 event was held in Newcastle and again won by Adelaide.

Gavon has kindly sent a copy of the 1968 Intervarsity results and his trophy. Intervarsity "24 Hour Orienteering" was unofficial until the 1969 event held in Victoria, whose 50th anniversary was celebrated last year.