2023 National Rankings – non-elite
This page was first posted on 11 October. A processing error necessitated an update to the post on 2 November. My apologies for the inconvenience. DE
Rankings in non-elite classes have been determined based on results in the Australian 3-Days Championship (31, 32, 33), Australian Championships (AS, AM, AL) and the Oceania Championships (OS, OM, OL)
Points are awarded for each event (at least 4 starters) completed on the basis of 100 points for first place and lesser points for other competitors.
When more than one orienteer in a class has 100 points, the first ranked orienteer is determined by the average of their three best winning margins.
The first 10 orienteers ranked in each class are published in the Australian Orienteer. Orienteers with rankings above 50 points are included below.
Some points of interest in the 2023 rankings:
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Winner by the largest margin was Euan Best M16, EV T, 10.88%.
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There were a number of classes where 2 orienteers scored 100 points: W65 – Jenny Bourne (AO A), Carolyn Jackson (BK V); W50 – Natasha Key (MF V), Cathy McComb (AL T); W40 – Vickie Saye (AO A), Briohny Seaman (WR N); W10 – Ruth Toomey (AD W), Tessa Radajewski (PO A); M85 – Peter Hamilton (WO W), Barry Hanlon (WH N); M55 – Paul Liggins (AL T), Mark Freeman (BF N).
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There were 34 clubs that had members ranked in the first three places: ALT (12); RR A (10); NC N (6); BF N, MF V, PO A, AO A (5); SH N, BK V, EV T (4); WR N, WO W, BS A (3); WH N, UR N, YV V, BG V, TF T (2); BB N, BO W, CC N, GO N, GS N, LI S, NT N, OH S, RR Q, ST N, SW W, YA S, SO Q, BN N, AD W, LO W (1).
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8 orienteers were ranked in 2 classes: Ella Clauson AL T, W14, W12; Naomi Penton BS A, W14, W12; Jonathan McComb TF T, AL T, M50, M45; Steve Cooper YA S, M55, M60; Ricky Thackray BK V, M40, M45; Sanda Halpin PO A, W16, W14; Geoff Lawford,AO A, M55, M65; Rob Vincent NC N, M60, M65.
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The classes with most ranked runners were, for the women, W16, (22), and for the men M70 (24).
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The most successful states for first places were: NSW (9) and ACT,Victoria, and Tasmania (7).
Darryl Erbacher
Statistician
Note: There were no second places in the M85 class.
W85 1 Helen Alexander BK V 100.00 ALAMAS 2 Janet Morris WH N 91.31 333132 W80 1 Jean Baldwin GS N 100.00 ASOLOS 2 Valerie Brammall EV T 98.16 3331AM 3 Ann Ingwersen PO A 95.98 3231OM 4 Janet Tarr YV V 94.22 AM3133 W75 1 Jenny Hawkins NT N 100.00 OS3231 2 Libby Meeking YV V 99.56 OLAL33 3 Val Hodsdon SH N 99.46 AMOMAL 4 Robin Spriggs UG Q 96.41 ASALAM 5 Judi Herkes BK V 85.72 ALAS33 6 Carol Jacobson GO N 75.35 313332 7 Janet Fletcher LO W 67.64 AMAL31 8 Pat Miethke PO A 62.49 313332 9 Rosemary Kullmann LO W 57.84 ALAMAS 10 Janet King BK V 54.78 ASAM31 11 Margaret Duguid IK N 51.39 313233 W70 1 Alison Radford BG V 100.00 31AL32 2 Louise Fairfax AL T 99.96 OLAMOM 3 Carol Brownlie WO W 95.39 AM3332 4 Valerie Barker BS A 94.98 OMALAS 5 Lynn Dabbs WH N 91.35 323331 6 Jacquie Rand UG Q 83.92 ALAM33 7 Kerryne Jones RR A 76.01 OSOM31 8 Barbara Tassell AL T 74.48 313233 9 Jan Hardy AL T 73.97 OSOM31 10 Ann Scown AO A 69.99 ASAMAL 11 Helen Post WO W 68.52 ASAMAL 12 Hilary Cane AL T 65.02 ALOMAS 13 Jan Candy KO W 63.22 AMASAL 14 Leila Henderson YA S 62.75 ASAMAL 15 Christine Sinickas YV V 62.67 323331 16 Toy Martin NC N 59.32 333132 17 Robyn Pallas CC N 56.82 OMOSOL 18 Jane Saye AO A 54.81 33AM32 19 Lois West BO W 54.37 AMASAL W65 1 Jenny Bourne AO A 100.00 0.19 OLOSOM 2 Carolyn Jackson BK V 100.00 0.02 31ALAM 3 Debbie Davey WR N 95.07 323133 4 Hilary Wood CC N 77.81 313332 5 Sue Key MF V 77.26 31OSOL 6 Julia Prudhoe CC N 75.61 OSAS33 7 Robin Uppill OH S 71.36 OS3233 8 Mary McDonald AO A 70.17 313332 9 Kathy Petrie SO Q 64.44 OLOM31 10 Liz Wood AW V 58.22 333132 11 Meredith Rasch WA S 55.03 AS3132 12 Julie Flynn BG V 50.13 AMASAL W60 1 Paula Shingler BF N 100.00 32OLOS 2 Chris Brown EV T 99.35 AMASAL 3 Toni Brown BS A 94.84 OM31OL 4 Carolyn Matthews NC N 86.92 33OSOL 5 Andrea Schiwy AL T 81.62 ASAMOM 6 Vanessa Smith KO W 75.71 AMASAL 7 Ana Herceg PO A 75.47 313332 8 Christine Marshall AL T 72.20 OMOL32 9 Jo Parr BF N 71.17 3331OS 10 Sally Wayte AL T 60.10 AMALOS 11 Airdrie Long GO N 51.93 OSALAM W55 1 Jennifer Enderby NC N 100.00 ALOLOS 2 Nicola Dalheim MF V 96.82 OM3331 3 Sue Hancock AL T 96.04 3133OS 4 Linda Sesta UR N 93.55 313233 5 Alison Inglis BS A 88.04 3331OS 6 Wendy Read UG Q 85.97 323331 7 Su Yan Tay UG Q 82.57 AMASAL 8 Janine Steer DR V 68.50 OS33OM 9 Patsy Burley YA S 65.65 AMAS32 10 Zara Soden OH S 64.21 ASOS32 11 Tania Kennedy GO N 58.66 OS3331 12 Vanessa Freeman BF N 52.03 AMOS33 13 Susannah King MF V 50.22 3231OM W50 1 Natasha Key MF V 100.00 0.16 AL32OL 2 Cathy McComb AL T 100.00 0.08 ASOSAM 3 Martina Craig NC N 95.32 OM33OS 4 Emily Walter RR A 94.40 31AM33 5 Alison Stubbs AL T 85.67 OMAS33 6 Belinda Allison RR A 79.38 333132 7 Sheralee Bailey BN N 65.24 333231 8 Chris Stocks BS A 60.82 OS33OM 9 Sandra Tarr LO W 57.54 AMASOM 10 Helen O'Callaghan BB N 51.76 ASOS33 W45 1 Jo Allison RR A 100.00 333231 2 Tracy Marsh BF N 99.44 OLOMOS 3 Kirsten Fairfax AL T 98.24 OSOMOL 4 Allison Jones RR A 98.05 AMAL31 5 Rachel West BO W 96.25 ASOSOL 6 Jenny Casanova WA S 90.75 OSALAM 7 Sussan Best EV T 81.07 OMASOS 8 Meredith Gray UG Q 76.41 OMOLOS 9 Susanne Casanova TE S 73.29 OSOLOM 10 Hania Lada YV V 72.96 32ASAM 11 Jen Graham-Taylor AD W 70.49 OSAS32 12 Ruth Shedden SH N 67.10 OSAS32 13 Ceri Pass KO W 60.80 323133 W40 1 Vickie Saye AO A 100.00 0.20 AMALAS 2 Briohny Seaman WR N 100.00 0.07 OSOM33 3 Marina Iskhakova RR A 97.98 323133 4 Shannon Jones AO A 95.01 OL3331 5 Liisa Hirvonen LO W 80.15 ASALAM 6 Phoebe Dent RR A 73.96 OM31OS 7 Bonnie Butler AL T 67.74 ASALAM 8 Samantha Howe NC N 51.37 323133 W35 : 1 Mace Neve RR A 100.00 OS32OL 2 Felicity Brown CC N 94.80 333132 3 Thorlene Egerton EV T 93.93 OMOLOS 4 Nikolett Halmai GO N 89.06 32OSOM 5 Moira Kuffer YV V 85.73 313233 W18 : 1 Sophie Best TF T 100.00 33OLOS 2 Gemma Burley YA S 97.25 AMOMOL 3 Louise Barbour BF N 91.72 323133 4 Sienna White LI S 87.87 ALASAM 5 Ingrid Shelton Agar AO A 86.22 OMOSOL 6 Tara Powell AL T 84.10 ASALAM 7 Sophie Arthur MF V 78.42 ASOSAM 8 Abigail McGhee BN N 50.55 ALASAM W16 : 1 Liana Stubbs AL T 100.00 AMALAS 2 Katherine Maundrell BS A 98.33 3331AS 3 Rebecca Craig NC N 96.83 OLOS33 4 Maggie Mackay UR N 96.34 32OMAL 5 Alice Radajewski PO A 94.67 OMOLOS 6 Amy Dufty BO W 89.96 OS31OL 7 Aoife Rothery RR A 86.78 3332AS 8 Ella Maja Lang YV V 84.51 OM3331 9 Alexandra Edwards RR Q 82.94 ASALAM 10 Ella Hogg PO A 80.72 ALASAM 11 Savanna Sweeney WH N 80.01 31AL32 12 Mia Kluth PO A 78.33 ALASAM 13 Sanda Halpin PO A 75.54 333231 14 Cassy Reinbott RR Q 72.61 ASALAM 15 Skye Hassall RR Q 70.78 ASALAM 16 Ingrid Young RR Q 70.63 ALASAM 17 Maya Bennette YV V 67.13 ASAMAL 18 Lena Baracsi GO N 64.90 323331 19 Ruby Phillips BO W 64.79 ASAMAL 20 Jessica Jarvis WA S 64.50 OMOSAM 21 Lyra Simpson BF N 62.80 333231 22 Lucinda Fogarty OH S 58.21 ASAMAL W14 : 1 Katie Clauson AL T 100.00 OLOSAM 2 Katy Hogg PO A 99.5 313332 3 Mira Walter RR A 95.90 3233AS 4 Sanda Halpin PO A 93.89 ALAMOL 5 Izzy Greenhalgh NE V 80.91 3233AM 6 Sophie Hartmann AL T 80.16 ASALAM 7 Margot Marcant AL T 75.96 ALASAM 8 Ariadna Iskhakova RR A 69.15 ASALAM 10 Ella Clauson AL T 68.83 OMOSOL 11 Naomi Penton BS A 51.66 ASAMAL W12 : 1 Ella Clauson AL T 100.00 0.24 ALASAM 2 Naomi Penton BS A 100.00 0.04 OLOSOM 3 Alma Walter RR A 87.71 333132 4 Justine de Remy de Courcelles WH N 83.72 323331 5 Veronika Iskhakova RR A 82.66 3231AS 6 Beatrix Louis AL T 80.82 323133 7 Isobel Walter RR A 76.40 32AM31 8 Angelina Kozma BK V 75.66 32AM31 9 Lucinda Barnes RR Q 71.65 323133 10 Aria Butler AL T 50.78 AMASAL W10 1 Ruth Toomey AD W 100.00 0.34 ASAMAL 2 Tessa Radajewski PO A 100.00 0.22 OL32OS 3 Banjo Bluett-Jones AO A 79.95 3331OS 4 Chloe Marcant AL T 69.92 ALAMAS M85 : 1 Peter Hamilton WO W 100.00 ALAMAS = Barry Hanlon WH N 100.00 313233 M80 : 1 Alex Tarr YV V 100.00 OLOMOS 2 David Hogg PO A 90.19 AL33AM 3 Mike Howe LO W 89.31 ASAMAL 4 Ron Junghans GO N 77.03 AMALAS 5 Trevor Sauer SO Q 73.77 3332OS 6 Peter Searle BG V 73.34 AMALAS 7 John Hodsdon SH N 57.23 3133OM M75 : 1 Tony Radford BG V 100.00 AL3331 2 Jim Lee NC N 98.47 ASAM32 3 Steve Flick BN N 90.84 323331 4 James Laver AL T 90.41 OLOMOS 5 Ross Barr GO N 90.36 ASAM31 6 Reid Moran TF Q 87.80 OLOM31 7 Ian Fletcher LO W 82.90 AM33AS 8 Terry Bluett BN N 79.91 3133AS 9 Peter Dalwood DR V 78.87 OSOMOL 10 Bob Hawkins NT N 74.55 OMOLOS 11 Eric Wainwright RR A 70.94 OSOLAS 12 Leigh Privett AW V 70.79 323133 13 Ken Brownlie WO W 66.12 31ASAM 14 Keith Fifield RR A 63.82 AM31AS 15 Ron Frederick NE V 52.60 323331 16 Robert Allison RR A 50.73 333132 M70 : 1 David Marshall AL T 100.00 OL3233 2 Tim Ashman LI S 98.80 ALAMAS 3 Adrian Uppill OH S 98.04 31OSOM 4 Russell Wade WO W 93.07 AM33AL 5 Paul Hoopmann UR N 89.82 OS3331 6 Gordon Wilson BN N 89.69 ASOMOL 7 Nick Dent CC N 87.15 313332 8 Bill Jones RR A 87.11 OS3331 9 Paul Prudhoe CC N 79.82 AS3132 10 Colin Price CC N 76.84 OS3132 11 John Oliver WR N 75.91 333231 12 John Scown AO A 75.44 AMASAL 13 Geoff Armstrong NE V 74.96 AS3331 14 Robert Rapkins EN Q 71.26 OLOMOS 15 Bert Elson AL T 69.12 333132 16 Randall Hope AL T 65.24 323331 17 David Firman EN Q 64.82 ALASOL 18 Lindsay Pender AL T 64.20 3132AM 19 Greg Hawthorne AL T 62.70 323133 20 Rob West BO W 62.66 AMASAL 21 Mike Calder AL T 61.59 33OS32 22 Warwick Selby GO N 59.64 OS3332 23 Robert Lewin NC N 59.39 323133 24 Richard Matthews LO W 57.02 ASAMAL M65 : 1 Geoff Lawford AO A 100.00 32AL33 2 Eoin Rothery RR A 98.22 ASAM33 3 Jeff Dunn AL T 97.26 OSOLAS 4 Ted van Geldermalsen YV V 92.01 OM3132 5 James Lithgow GO N 91.41 OMASAM 6 Robert Vincent NC N 89.23 313233 7 Chris Norwood EU V 78.98 333231 8 Roch Prendergast EU V 76.80 31OMAS 9 Geoff Todkill NC N 76.23 33OMOS 10 Andrew McComb OH S 75.82 OMOSAM 11 Alex Davey WR N 72.28 333132 12 Noel Schoknecht LO W 67.16 OMOSOL 13 Grant McDonald AO A 66.71 333132 14 Michael Burt RR A 62.02 OM33AS 15 Stephen Collins BK V 60.74 ASOS33 16 Mark Petrie SO Q 59.70 OMOL31 17 Malcolm Roberts NC N 56.75 OMOLOS 18 Warwick Davis TK V 53.30 OS3231 19 Paul Pacque EV T 51.34 33OMOL 20 Neil Barr BG V 50.74 ASALAM 21 Geoff Peel NC N 50.50 OMOS33 M60 : 1 Warren Key MF V 100.00 OLOS33 2 Tony Woolford BB N 96.68 AMOMAS 3 Tim Hatley BK V 94.88 ALAS31 4 Simon George BF N 92.07 3132OM 5 Tim McIntyre UG Q 85.94 33ALAS 6 Jim Russell BG V 79.31 OSOMOL 7 Robert Vincent NC N 77.91 OMOSOL 8 Sebastian Burgess AL T 73.59 ALOSAS 9 Kenneth McLean EV T 71.94 31OS32 10 Bernard Walker AL T 70.75 323133 11 Glenn Burgess NC N 66.52 333132 12 Steve Cooper YA S 65.92 AL31AM 13 Geoff Powell AL T 63.12 ASOS33 14 Mark Shingler BF N 51.66 OSOMOL M55 : 1 Paul Liggins AL T 100.00 0.21 323133 2 Mark Freeman BF N 100.00 0.10 AMALOM 3 Shane Doyle UR N 96.32 ASOSAL 4 Geoff Lawford AO A 94.32 OSOMOL 5 Steve Cooper YA S 82.46 OSOLOM 6 Paul Marsh BF N 80.02 OSOM33 7 Jamie Kennedy GO N 69.69 AMASOS 8 Ruhi Afnan YA S 63.79 333231 9 Rohan Hyslop PO A 60.67 32OM33 10 John Shelton Agar AO A 60.42 OSOMOL M50 : 1 Craig Dufty BO W 100.00 32OLOS 2 Andy Hogg PO A 99.86 33ALAS 3 Jonathan McComb TF T 99.76 AMALAS 4 Matthew Stocks BS A 92.42 OS33OM 5 Fredrik Johansson MF V 91.48 3331OM 6 Stephen Craig NC N 89.27 OMOLOS 7 Anthony Stoner TF T 88.87 ASOSAL 8 Graham Braid KO W 82.20 AS33AL 9 John Toomey AD W 80.21 ASALAM 10 Richard Morris BN N 80.12 323133 11 Blair Trewin YV V 78.87 AS33AL 12 Greg Morcom UR N 74.47 ASAMAL 13 Ben Cazzolato UR N 68.54 ASOS33 14 Arpad Kocsik GO N 68.52 323133 15 Shane Trotter NC N 64.26 323133 16 Andrew Hobson BS A 53.19 ASOS33 17 Dion Keech MF V 52.60 313332 18 Peter Miller BS A 51.82 32OL31 19 Phil Best EV T 50.32 OSASAM 20 Brenton Gray UG Q 50.17 ASOMAM M45 : 1 Bruce Arthur MF V 100.00 ALASOS 2 Rob Walter RR A 98.88 323133 3 Angus Shedden SH N 93.97 OMOLAS 4 Jonathan McComb AL T 91.72 313332 5 Ben Rattray RR A 87.47 OMOL32 6 Ricky Thackray BK V 86.13 OLOSOM 7 Simon Rouse DR V 85.63 33OL31 8 Tom Walter RR A 82.90 333132 9 Damien Enderby NC N 81.92 AMASAL 10 Dion McKenzie AL T 81.54 ASOMOL 11 Kris Clauson AL T 79.16 ASAMAL 12 Mark Gregson UG Q 70.56 313332 13 Tom Brownlie WO W 55.11 AMASAL M40 : 1 Matthew Crane AO A 100.00 OMOLOS 2 Simon Louis AL T 95.12 333231 3 Steven Todkill NC N 94.20 313233 4 Ricky Thackray BK V 85.61 ALASAM 5 Matthew Cohen AL T 82.48 AMASAL 6 Justin Stafford NC N 80.57 3233OL 7 Fedor Iskhakov RR A 71.24 ASAM31 8 Samuel Wilson RR A 68.38 333231 9 James Mcquillan WH N 63.21 323331 10 Klaas Hartmann AL T 55.48 AMASOS 11 Richard Vanzella RR Q 50.66 AM3233 M35 : 1 Andrew Slattery RR A 99.87 33AL32 2 Eric Smyth SO Q 99.14 ASAMAL 3 Dave Meyer RR A 97.88 313233 M18 : 1 Nick Stanley GO N 100.00 AL32AS 2 Henri du Toit MF V 96.72 313332 3 Jamie Woolford ST N 96.37 OMOLOS 4 Liam Dufty WN W 95.54 OSOLOM 5 Hugo Taunton-Burnet EN Q 88.02 AMASAL 6 Isaac Madden WN W 87.73 OMOSOL 7 Joshua Newnes EN Q 83.82 AMALAS 8 Oliver Freeman ST N 79.86 OSOMOL 9 Hugh Giblin TF T 79.35 OMASAM 10 Nicholas Mousley AW V 78.18 AS31AM 11 Joseph Coleman KO W 74.54 AMASAL 12 Finn Johnston UR N 71.69 AMASAL 13 Alex Crowe UG Q 67.82 AMAL31 14 Jamie Marsh BF N 60.14 OM3133 15 Callum Waland KG N 54.74 AMASAL M16 : 1 Euan Best EV T 100.00 OL3331 2 Eckart Bosman SW W 89.12 OMAMOS 3 Marcus Cazzolato UR N 79.74 AMASOM 4 Alex Woolford BB N 76.59 OMAMAS 5 Eric Lovell RR Q 75.59 AMALAS 6 Duncan Still UR N 75.39 AMALAS 7 Lachlan Braid KO W 68.37 ASALAM 8 Jonathan Nolan UR N 68.27 32AS31 9 William Barnes RR Q 65.07 31AMAL 10 Miles Bryant EN Q 63.44 AM31AL 11 Oliver Bishop PO A 59.63 OSAMOM 12 Curtis Pepper BN N 55.62 313332 13 Austin Clem LI S 52.54 AMAS31 14 Lachlan Coady WH N 52.33 ASAMAL 15 Ewan Keith BB Q 52.06 31AS32 M14 : 1 Alton Freeman BF N 100.00 33OSOL 2 Hayden Dent RR A 99.96 AM31AS 3 Alex Vanzella RR Q 93.19 32AS31 4 Callum Degenaar AL T 87.07 OLOSAM 5 Matty Maundrell BS A 87.02 ALASAM 6 Rory Shedden SH N 86.68 OM33AS 7 Rohan Braid KO W 74.72 ASAMAL 8 Ben Marschall TT S 71.08 ASALAM 9 Christopher Drury WO W 65.38 ASALAM 10 Adrian Garbellini EN Q 63.14 3332AM 11 Matthew Layton NE V 60.21 AMASAL M12 : 1 Baxter Peel NC N 100.00 OM3231 2 Euan Shedden SH N 98.76 AM3331 3 Angus Hewitt AL T 89.11 OLALOS 4 Quinn Lommers LO W 87.70 ALASAM 5 Luca Schulz UG Q 82.11 323133 6 Troy Kingma BO W 75.45 ALASAM 7 Ben Mansell BS A 71.91 ASALAM 8 Pierre Marcant AL T 70.91 ALASAM 9 Angus Bishop PO A 69.65 AL3233 10 Zaf Bluett-Jones AO A 67.04 3132OM 11 Joshua Layton NE V 54.50 313233 12 Thurein Halpin PO A 54.03 32AM31 13 Ruben Claessens KO W 51.56 ASAMAL M10 : 1 Logan Seaman WR N 100.00 OLOSOM 2 Neo Kozma BK V 93.40 323133 3 Fraser Brownlie WO W 92.36 AMALAS 4 Levi Coady WH N 86.77 ALASAM 5 Maxwell Povah BN N 70.77 323331 6 Mattias Preston CH V 67.57 313332 7 Felix Preston RR A 58.52 333231 8 Max Altmann NC N 51.94 AL3332