Australian MTBO Champs

Michael Posted: 1 October 2008, 9:44 AM   Kiwis showed well at the Oz Champs near Maryborough yesterday and today. Marquita had a rare loss in the middle but won the sprint and long, Dianne Michels won all three in W40, Michael Wood nearly got all three but for 3 seconds in the sprint. Jacqui Sinclair also won twice, conceding to another kiwi, Alison McDonald in the long. The terrain was pine forest, dead flat for middle and sprint, and a few contours in the long; in spite of that6, plenty of route choice through a curly track system and varying ridability.   Michael Posted: 4 October 2008, 5:31 AM   Full results http://results.orienteering.asn.au/qldindex.php?pg=results Following this Marquita now has a world ranking of 4. The full table is at http://www.michigigon.at/2008/worldranking/wre2008results.htm Australia's Adrian Jackson is the top man. These results are fragile though, the Eurocentric scoring system counts 8 scores and you can usually only get 2 of these down under.   Michael Posted: 7 October 2008, 4:19 AM   http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=3gtEE64GeNg Was that your endo on the finish line Pete??   pete s Posted: 8 October 2008, 12:41 PM   Nah, mine was a lot more spectacular than that Michael - pretty much did a complete somersault with the bike on top of me on the ground!