Niamh competes at NORT

Niamh O'Boyle will begin her build up to the World champs by taking part in the 2011 Nordic orienteering tour. The tour (better known as NORT) begins this Thursday in Finland before moving to Sweden (June 21st) and then Norway on June 25th.

The Nordic tour is also the first round of the 2011 world cup events and features mainly sprint and middle distance spectator friendly races. This will be good preparation for Niamh who is recovering from injury and is concentrating on the sprint and middle distance races at this years world champs.

Follow Niamh's progress and enjoy GPS-tracking and webTV on the NORT website

Irish 2011 WOC team.

Following a gruelling series of WOC selection competitions the following athletes have been selected to represent Ireland at the 2011 world championships in Chambery, France.

Women’s team

Rosalind Hussey: Sprint and Long
Aislinn Kendall: Middle and Long
Susan Lambe: Sprint
Niamh O’Boyle: Sprint and Middle
Toni O’Donovan: Middle and Long

Men’s team

Darren Burke: Long
David Healy: Sprint and Middle
Seamus O’Boyle: Sprint
Marcus Pinker: Middle and Long
Ruairi Short: Long
Nicolas Simonin: Sprint and Middle
Colm Hill: team reserve

Team manager

Kyle Heron

• Relay teams will be selected during the WOC week based on WOC results.
  


• Can selected athletes please confirm their availability by emailing Ivan (elites@orienteering.ie) before Monday the 13th of June.

This year was another tough selection campaign with many squad members having excellent results during the races making it a very difficult final decision for the team selectors.
The terrains at this years world champs in Chambery will provide a special challenge to all orienteers taking part. The Irish team members involved have shown that they have the ability to meet this challenge and we wish them well in the build-up to the big competition.

Ivan Millar

(High performance director)

WOC selection weekend

A number of Irish senior squad members will take part in WOC selection races this weekend in France. The races will be extremely competitive, with a large number of national teams taking part in the races and the organised training days that follow next week.

Keep upto date with all race results and WOC news the Irish WOC blog.

Congratulations to Niamh O'Boyle who has been selected to compete at the first round of this years World cup races, the Nordic Tour. The tour is held between June 16th and 25th and is based in the 3 Scandinavian countries of Finland, Sweden and Norway.
The competition involves a few new orienteering formats including a long distance sprint, a knockout sprint and a chasing start middle distance.
Niamh,who is finding her form after a winter of enforced mountainbiking is using the Nordic tour as a challenging step towards the world champs in France