Dravitzki second in Australian Championships
Tuesday 17 July 2007, 1:34PM
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Karl Dravitzki Credit:
Eric Morris
Neil Kerrison Credit:
Eric Morris
Karl Dravitzki (Taranaki) produced a strong performance at the Australian Championships in the long distance, placing second behind Dave Shepherd of Australia.
For the first time in a few years Dravitzki is not heading to the World Orienteering Championships (WOC), instead he is focussing on his dairy farm near New Plymouth. WOC this year is being held near Kiev, Ukraine.
Dravitzki took the opportunity to join a group of New Zealanders who were heading over to Australia to support the NZ Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) team, with the event being held for the first time ever outside of Europe. The Australian Championships were added to the carnival to ensure good numbers and to make the event viable. Dravitzki trained for a week prior to the JWOC week in Orange, around 150km south of Dubbo, home of the JWOC / Australian Championships carnival.
Neil Kerrison (Taranaki / North West) also joined Dravitzki on the tour, and ran into fourth place. This time the meat in the Dravitzki-Kerrison sandwich was Eric Morris.
The results are not yet posted on the event website nor anywhere else.
There was however a bit of scandal with the event, with a protest laid to the Australian event controller for the offical result of Dave Shepherd, following his involvement in the organising for JWOC. Shepherd had run on the area to testrun the courses for the JWOC relay, which was on the same area. Julian Dent and David Meyer took themselves out of the competition for this reason, but Shepherd still raced. The protest committee turned down the appeal on the grounds that he had been promised prior to the event and that a protest should have come before he ran, even though the extent of course and map overlap would not be known until the course was seen. A protest was not laid to the IOF advisor, as this was a world ranking event (WRE) any decision by the IOF advisor would have overuled the Australian committee.
For the first time in a few years Dravitzki is not heading to the World Orienteering Championships (WOC), instead he is focussing on his dairy farm near New Plymouth. WOC this year is being held near Kiev, Ukraine.
Dravitzki took the opportunity to join a group of New Zealanders who were heading over to Australia to support the NZ Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) team, with the event being held for the first time ever outside of Europe. The Australian Championships were added to the carnival to ensure good numbers and to make the event viable. Dravitzki trained for a week prior to the JWOC week in Orange, around 150km south of Dubbo, home of the JWOC / Australian Championships carnival.
Neil Kerrison (Taranaki / North West) also joined Dravitzki on the tour, and ran into fourth place. This time the meat in the Dravitzki-Kerrison sandwich was Eric Morris.
The results are not yet posted on the event website nor anywhere else.
There was however a bit of scandal with the event, with a protest laid to the Australian event controller for the offical result of Dave Shepherd, following his involvement in the organising for JWOC. Shepherd had run on the area to testrun the courses for the JWOC relay, which was on the same area. Julian Dent and David Meyer took themselves out of the competition for this reason, but Shepherd still raced. The protest committee turned down the appeal on the grounds that he had been promised prior to the event and that a protest should have come before he ran, even though the extent of course and map overlap would not be known until the course was seen. A protest was not laid to the IOF advisor, as this was a world ranking event (WRE) any decision by the IOF advisor would have overuled the Australian committee.