The Australian v New Zealand MTBO Challenge will take place in conjunction with the Australian MTBO Championships from October 25-27 in Maryborough, Victoria.

New Zealand, as the visiting team, determined that the challenge would be contested over the following 8 classes:     W21; W40; W60; M21; M40; M50; M60; M70.

The challenge will be contested in all 4 Australian Championship competitions – the sprint, middle, long and mass start events.

The scoring system works as follows:

• The times of the two fastest of the three team riders in each contested class are added to give the team time for the stage.
• The nation with the lower team time is the winner of the class for that stage.
• The nation with the most class wins over the four events triumphs.

The full AUS v NZL MTBO Challenge Rules are at the link below.

https://orienteering.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Australia-v-New-Zealand-MTBO-Challenge-Rules-June-2017.pdf

The Australian team to contest the Challenge is very strong, comprising of riders from all states & ACT.

Our M21 team all represented Australia at the elite World Championships in Denmark earlier this year, while Carolyn Jackson (in W21) has just returned victorious from the World Masters Championships last week in Germany.       Andrew Power (NSW) is the Australian team manager.

The team is listed below: