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Race Report – UiTM International Orienteering Championships

12.09.2019 by ofs //

OrienteeringSG’s biggest overseas contingent

OrienteeringSG at Uitm 2019

Held between 6th – 8th December 2019, Team Singapore headed up to Kuala Lumpur for the last event of the Malaysian’s race calendar – UiTM International Orienteering Championships 2019.

Coincidentally, this is also Singapore’s biggest contingent at any international race so far. The whole entourage comprise a record number of 26 athletes (10 Juniors, 13 Youths, 3 Elites) and 3 coaches for this journey.

The entire event was held within the UiTM Shah Alam’s campus with two days of competitive races. Day one was an individual sprint event (also the WRE event) followed by a team relay on the second day of the event. Many of the youths are experiencing a formal orienteering race for the first time in their life while the juniors are still fresh from their experiences in the AsJYOC held earlier in August.

Race Day 1 – Sprint Individual

The athletes are divided into their competitive categories. For this event, there are only two categories that is applicable for us – the Under 18 and the Elite class. Hence, some last minute shuffling of the team’s position were made and everyone got their race bibs ready to start.

As typical of races in this region, available information about the race was limited and the coaches were seen scurrying around for start lists and amenities info. Nonetheless, everyone figured things out and started the race.

The terrain was an interesting mix of hilly contours coupled with buildings and recreational areas. The map had been an improved version of what we had expected and the feedback from all runners were positive (though some had issues about accuracy and race fairness).

Elite Course Race Map (Sprint)
M18 Race Map

Race result for Day 1 :

  • M18 Category: Azhad (1st), Mikhail (2nd), Junxiang (3rd) – All Singapore podium
  • W18 Category: Grace (1st), Qiman (2nd), Natasha (3rd) – All Singapore podium

Elite Category M21:

  • Peng Hsian Tsai, Taiwan (1st)
  • Azam Mohd Shidid, Malaysia (2nd)
  • Thng Yan Han, Singapore (3rd)

Well done Team Singapore!

W18 Winners
M18 Winners
M21 Winners

The day ended on an invitation for a dinner by the host where the team unwinded to great musical vibes and a feast for their stomachs.

Junior team with an athlete of Chinese Taipei. They have met earlier in the AsJYOC!
Team SG letting their hair down

Day 2 – Team Relay

Going into the last day of the competitions, the format was a relay with 2 male, 2 female runners to make up a team. There were no age restrictions and the team was regrouped by their abilities.

As we do not have enough female runners, the coaches took the chance to organise groupings with runners from the Malaysian and Indonesian teams. Our friends, Dirk & Linda also took part and ran under the Singapore flag too 🙂

Starting the relay was by a female member of the team and in a mass start format. Representing Singapore were Sharlene, Natasha, Grace, Zi En, Roxanne, Yik Yi. There are a total of 6 teams.

Relay start by the ladies

Tragedy strike (then) a blessing

Unfortunately, Sharlene representing the first team got into a problem (twisted her ankle while negotiating a steep downslope) halfway into her leg as the first runner. However despite the immense pain, she completed her course with full CP scores and managed to pass on to her team mates – We are still in the running!

Azhad passes to Mikhail
Mikhail passes to Qiman
what an amazing couple of Dirk & Linda
Teshil passes to Clarissa

Counting it as a blessing in disguise, the remaining team mates – Yan Han, Dirk and Linda powered through their legs and pull the team back into the lead. The final result proved to be to-good-to-be-true as Team Singapore secured the 3rd position on the relay podium – narrowly edging out the Malaysian teams.

Team SG determined to finish the relay in all ways necessary!
Team SG – Relay 3rd
Team Relay Winners

The other teams did fairly well — leaving with a 7th, 8th, 9th position too! Well done Team Singapore for the race!

Results from Relay:

  • 1st Place – Chinese Taipei
  • 2nd Place – Chinese Taipei + Indonesia
  • 3rd Place – Singapore + Belgium

Other Light – hearted moments:

Natasha ending her race with a big smile
Team Sharing
SG + Malaysia Team
Team Sharing
SG + Indonesia Team
SG + Taiwan Team
SG + Taiwan Team

Post Race Thoughts

The two days of competition by the team had been an impressive showing by our junior, youths and adult runners. Even though the team did not manage to organise many training sessions locally, it is a resounding victory with 2 golds, 2 silvers, 3 bronze and an additional team bronze medals to bring home.

More importantly, these two days have helped the team to gain competition experiences and build camaraderie among each other. As a young federation, these are important foundations for us to build on.

We also like to thank the many friends we met on & off the competition and we look forward to more meetings with each and one of you soon.

Lastly, to the UiTM organisers and our friends from Malaysia Orienteering — Thank you for organising this great event. We will meet again next year!

Till then, rest well team! Enjoy the festivities!

Blogged by Eugene Chow

 Team Singapore signing out

Categories // Overseas Race

Asian Junior and Youth Orienteering Championships

09.01.2019 by ofs //

First Youth Team from Singapore

The 3rd Asian Junior and Youth Orienteering Championships (AsJYOC) was held in Hokuto City, Japan between 26th August to 1st September 2019.

We are proud to have our first ever youth team to take part in this annual event. It was such a honour to have the flag introduced at such a high level international competition.

The athletes are as follows:

  • Azhad, M16
  • Qaiyum, M14
  • Mikhail, M14
  • Nheo, M14
  • Qiman, W14
  • Grace, W14
  • Natasha, W14
  • Aina, W14

Much gratitude also goes to our team sponsor – Salomon Singapore and Running Lab SG for providing them with good trail shoes to ensure their safety in the Japanese forests. Race report to come in the next article.

Categories // Overseas Race

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