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2024 Australasian Championships Results
Over 400 keen rogainers were treated to a very well organised and high quality event at the Australasian Rogaining Championships near Donnybrook in Southwest WA on 7-8 September. Many thanks to the hard-working volunteer organising team including Ann Smithson, Owen Horton and Peter Mattner and all of the WARA team (see full list here: https://wa.rogaine.asn.au/index.php/volunteering).
Paul Williams and David Symons were the overall winners, with young intervarsity competitors Christopher Bradley, Guyver Fu and Ryan Stocks in second place and Paul Monks and David Baldwin in third place overall. Thorlene Egerton and Jonathan Sutcliffe won the mixed open, mixed veteran and mixed super veteran categories, while Jenni Blyleven, and Anne Frankland from New Zealand won the womens, womens veterans and womens super veterans categories. Well done to all category winners and placegetters! Full results are here: https://rogaine.asn.au/results/44th-2024-7-8-september-mysterious-traveller-grimwade-wa and detailed results with team routes are here: https://rogaine-results.com/event/results/2024/australasian-champs/24hr
 
ARC20205 logo2025 Australasian Championships
The next ARC will be held on 15-16 March 2025 in the Snowy Mountains, hosted by ACTRA. Start making your travel plans and don't miss this one!
https://arc2025.rogaining.au
 
2027 World Rogaining Championships
Planning continues for the 2027 World Rogaining Championships, to be held in the Flinders Ranges in September 2027. A media release has been prepared (see attached), and additional publicity will be rolled out later in the year. Spread the word! If you'd like to join the organising team, let me know.
 
ARA AGM
The annual general meeting of the Australian Rogaining Association was held on 19th August and a good discussion was held. The President's report which includes a summary of activities from each state association is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11GxteLKTzk2TTDWIgw8HkPEJGYe3vHqB/view?usp=drive_link and the Treasurer's report is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10xLRKhRmiYa_8YzvNA4Iw6gaAVchIqVl/view?usp=drive_link
The ARA thanks and congratulates each of the member Associations for another successful year of rogaining.
 
ARA Grant Applications
Grant applications are due by the end of November: https://rogaine.asn.au/documents/policy/grant-policy 
 
National Calendar: https://rogaine.asn.au/events
Next European Championships:  17-18 August https://erc2024.rogain.ee/
Next World Championships:  5-6 July 2025  https://wrc2025.org/ 
 
Cheers, Paul
 
Paul Guard
ARA President
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The International Rogaining Federation has announced that the 20th World Rogaining Championships will be hosted by the Australian Rogaining Association. The Championships are planned for 16-17 September, 2027 in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia near Wilpena Pound, a spectacular and popular destination for visitors from around the world.
The course will offer technically challenging navigation amidst spectacular scenery.
More information in the attached Press Release.

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2024 Australasian Championships
Less than four weeks to go until entries close in this year's Australasian Rogaining Championships!
Merchandise orders are also due by Friday 16th August for pickup at the event.
Some states are extremely poorly represented at the moment! Tassie is outperforming, but where are the Victorians and New South Welshpeople!?
 
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20th World Rogaining Championships Awarded to Australia
Australia has been awarded the 2027 World Rogaining Championships with a unanimous vote. Congratulations to the bid team, and especially Craig Colwell who put a lot of effort in to get us to this point.
We look forward to welcoming the world to the Flinders Ranges in September 2027!
Here is the winning bid document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zuC9atgBhNQGY092Re35iL5PfoS0_93J/view?usp=sharing 
 
NAMSF Bursaries to attend the 2024 Intervarsity Rogaining Championships are still available
There are still NAMSF travel bursaries available for university teams to compete at the Australian Intervarsity Rogaining Championships to be held with the ARC in WA in September. Information is available on the ARC website, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need more information. 
 
ARA AGM to be held on 19th August
The ARA AGM will be held on Monday evening 19th August at 7:30pm AEST via Skype.
If you have items for the agenda, please get in touch with your state/territory President or contact the ARA Secretary, Stephen Gray This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
ARA Grant Applications
Grant applications are due by the end of November: https://rogaine.asn.au/documents/policy/grant-policy 
 
National Calendar: https://rogaine.asn.au/events
Next European Championships:  17-18 August https://erc2024.rogain.ee/
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- Entries are now open for the 2024 Australasian Championships! Remember, this event is open to all and you don't need to be an elite to enjoy a high quality course with like-minded people from all over Australia.
The webpage also now includes some additional information on the event, and some photos from the course. Please promote this event to the other members of your state/territory club, and get your flights booked!
https://wa.rogaine.asn.au/index.php/events/744-2024-australasian-rogaine-champs
We would love to see a much higher representation of easterners than at previous ARCs held in WA. 
Here is a Facebook reel https://www.facebook.com/share/r/syjyXP7ipSZE4zPy/
and post https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Fc5e3AxRBuzQmDiM/
for you to share among your networks
 
- The ARA submitted a proposal to host the 20th World Rogaining Championships in 2027, with SARA leading the bid team. Big thanks to Craig Colwell for both the effort he put into working up the proposal and also for offering to lead the organisation of the event. All of the State and Territory rogaining clubs contributed to the bid and will have important roles to play in supporting SARA to deliver the event. The International Rogaining Federation Council is now considering our bid (no others were received) and we should hear back in mid-July.
News item: https://www.sleepmonsters.com/news.php?article_id=7238
 
- There are NAMSF travel bursaries available for university teams to compete at the Australian Intervarsity Rogaining Championships to be held with the ARC in WA in September. Information is available on the ARC website, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need more information. We would like to find and confirm the recipients of the bursaries by the end of June, so time is short.

- Here is the national calendar, lots of great events coming up across Australia:
https://rogaine.asn.au/events

- VRA have been publishing quite a few of their recent training events to their website:
https://rogainevic.org.au/training/
 
- QRA recently held a map making workshop, where participants used a recently developed basemap that covers all of the usual rogaining areas in SE Qld to lay out a course and make a georeferenced PDF using free QGIS software. Resources are being collated and will be made available to all mapmakers on the QRA website shortly. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information. You can also join the map making Google Group.
 
- the new software that has been developed for the Navlight system has now been trialled at events in WA, SA and Qld and is a lot more intuitive and user-friendly than the previous software. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would also like to try it out on your local events.
 
- if the results from your events aren't being published on rogaine-results.com, they should be! It's a great service provided by Greig Hamilton, and he's happy to publish results from any Navlight-based event, providing you with detailed analysis of team routes, leg statistics, GPS upload and much more. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

- the Australian Rogaining Association AGM will be held by Skype in mid-August 2024. Contact your local committee if you would like to raise any agenda items.
 

- The 2025 World Rogaining Championships will be held in Spain on 5-6 July 2025. Limited information is available at this stage:
https://www.rogaining.com/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=461&Itemid=105&year=2025&month=07&day=05&title=2025-world-rogaining-championships&uid=ff12efb5e16e8cbd35bb16cb6a08d4a0&catids=13

- The 2024 European Rogaining Championships will be held in Estonia in August:
https://erc2024.rogain.ee/

Cheers, Paul 
 
Paul Guard
ARA President
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Australian rogainers well represented across age categories at the Australasian Rogaining Champs at Lake Tekapo on 16-17 December. Teams on the podium were Julie Quinn and David Baldwin (1st mixed open and veteran, 4th overall), Jeannie and Peggy Douglass (1st women’s ultravets, 2nd supervets), Bella Lilford, Chloe Woodburn and Abby Kidson (1st women’s youth), Richard Robinson and Viv Prince (2nd mixed ultravets, 3rd supervets), Paul Guard and Sally Lochhead (3rd mixed veterans), Sue Clarke and Walter Kelemen (3rd mixed ultravets) and E Wen Wong and Thomas James (3rd mixed youth). A good number of other teams made the trip across the Tasman for the event.
 
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The Mysterious Traveller Rogaine

Entries are now Open! Remember - this event is open to everyone - you don't need to be an elite. Come for the high-quality course and great company.

The 2024 Australasian Rogaine Championships will be hosted in WA on the weekend of 7th and 8th September 2024.

Where is the Mysterious Traveller?  A mask, an old logging village, a Melburnian forester, and ochre springs.  We may need to navigate complex river valleys (150m a.s.l. to 300m a.s.l.).  There may be a few pines, but we are mostly in stunning Jarrah - Marri - Blackbutt forest.  We leave the open Nannup farmlands of 2016 far behind. We have a very easy trip here - less than 3hrs southish of Perth and less than 1hr Bunbury.  For all travellers, far, near, mysterious or not, the Event Bus will take you on a magical tour from the airport to the event via a replenishing town.  The Setting and Vetting team look forward to showing you some topographical mysteries!

For more information, including the schedule for buses from Perth Airport, please visit https://wa.rogaine.asn.au/index.php/events/744-2024-australasian-rogaine-champs

 

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