OVERVIEW OF EVENTS
STAGE 1: TORONTO (MANSFIELD)
Mansfield
Saturday, August 3, 11:00
Kick off the festival with the Canadian Orienteering Championship Middle Distance event in one of Southern Ontario’s most classic ridge and valley terrains.
Mansfield
Sunday, August 4, 09:00
More runnable forest and intricate contour details at the Canadian Orienteering Championships Long Distance race.
Mansfield
Sunday, August 4, 15:00
STAGE 2: KINGSTON
Queen’s University Campus
Monday, August 5 to Thursday, August 8
Kingston
Tuesday, August 6, 9:00
Kingston Penitentiary & Waterfront
Tuesday, August 6, 17:00
The Canadian and North American Sprint Champions will be crowned in this single event.
Beechgrove Complex
Wednesday, August 7, 10:00
Grab your team and make your country proud in this sprint relay!
Kingston Penitentiary
Wednesday, August 7, 16:00
Queen's University
Wednesday, August 7, 19:30
Join us from 7:30 to 9:00 at Queen's University for a series of short talks by Team Canada athletes on a variety of topics.
Some of the talks include Emma Waddington talking about her research on orienteering and brain health, and our JWOC team talking about their experience this summer in Czechia. Entries by donation - all proceeds support Team Canada.
Waterfront & Queen's University
Thursday, August 8, 10:00
A day full of intense and exciting head-to-head sprint races. Qualification race in the morning followed by the knock-out races in the afternoon.
STAGE 3: OTTAWA (CALABOGIE)
Calabogie Peaks Resort
Saturday, August 10, 11:00
Rugged terrain and steep hillsides await you in the beautiful wilderness of Eastern Ontario.
Calabogie Peaks Resort
Saturday, August 10
Calabogie
Sunday, August 11, 10:00
End the festival on high ground in the Long distance race at Calabogie Peaks.
The Toronto Orienteering Club, with the help of the Ukrainian Orienteering Club, are the hosts of the first weekend of races: the Canadian Orienteering Championships middle and long distance races.
Mansfield is one of the classic and historic orienteering landscapes in Southern Ontario.
CANADIAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS
MIDDLE & LONG DISTANCE
Lying along the spine of the Niagara Escarpment about 100 km northwest of the cosmopolitan Toronto urban centre, Mansfield is a unique, well-drained area with virtually no water or rock features. An extensive trail network laces through this newly remapped terrain, with a highly runnable forest and a range of contour detail from complex, rolling ridge and valley closer to the Outdoor Centre, to flatter, subtle sections in the Dufferin County Forest.
A challenge for all and one of the real jewels in the crown of Canadian orienteering!
Mapper: Marian Cotirta
Date: Fall 2023
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Organizing Club:
Andrew Bell
Course Planner:
Controller:
Eugene Mlynczyk
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Assisted by the
Ukrainian Orienteering Club
The 2024 NAOC’s will feature 3 mid-week sprint races on excellent urban sprint terrain in the historic city of Kingston using brand new maps of new areas not previously used for competitive orienteering.
These races will offer something for everyone, from elite athletes to young children, competitive veterans, aspiring juniors and slower ramblers.
All venues are within a few kilometers of Kingston’s historic downtown and a stone’s throw from Lake Ontario, one of North America’s famous Great Lakes.
NORTH AMERICAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS
SPRINT
The Kingston races start on Tuesday Aug 6 with NAOC/COC Individual Sprint Champs, in which competitors will search for controls behind the walls of Canada’s oldest and most notorious maximum security prison!
Return to the penitentiary on Wednesday for a more leisurely guided tour to learn about the Pen’s long history and some of the infamous inmates and amazing escapes that made this institution notorious. More details here.
Competitors will also visit a busy marina that served as the competitive sailing venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Mapper: Andrew Cornett
Date: Summer of 2023
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Organizing Club:
Andrew Cornett
Course Planner:
Controller:
Jennie Anderson
The NAOC Sprint Relay day consists of 3 different races:
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Club Relay
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National Team Relay
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Kids Relay
These relays have been set up to maximize fun and spectating opportunities for all. All courses will be fast and furious.
NORTH AMERICAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS
SPRINT RELAY
The open Club Relay will run first with 3 legs and all legs having an arena passage/spectator control partway through the course. The National Team relay follows with nearly constant spectating through multiple arena passages and announcers keeping track of all the action. Then the race day will cap off with a kids relay for youth 16 and under and all are encouraged to cheer as loudly as possible!
Mapper: Stefan Bergstrom
Date: Summer of 2023
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Organizing Club:
Jeff Teutsch
Course Planner:
Controller:
Jennie Anderson
On Thursday the first-ever NAOC Knock-Out Sprint Champions will be crowned after three rounds of intense and exciting head-to-head sprint racing on the Queen’s University main campus!
Knock-Out Sprint is an exciting new sprint format introduced in 2018 at the World Cup level where strategy, speed and navigation collide in competition sure to challenge your ability to stay cool under pressure while quickly making good route choices and running fast.
NORTH AMERICAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS
KNOCK-OUT SPRINT
Everyone will run a qualification sprint race in the morning. The top 36 male and 36 female qualifiers will advance to the 3-round Knock-Out Sprint in the afternoon while everyone else will be entered in a mass-start consolation race so that everyone gets to run at least twice and experience the thrill of head-to-head sprint racing!
In the qualification race, competitors will get a quick tour of the downtown waterfront, a scenic, historic and busy urban area with lots of technical detail. Highlights include Confederation Park, Battery Park, fortifications from the early 1800’s, the Maritime Museum of the Great Lakes (home of the S.S. Keewatin, a large passenger-liner from the Edwardian (Titanic) era) and the PumpHouse Steam Museum.
Qualification Race
Mapper: Andrew Cornett
Date: Summer of 2023
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Organizing Club:
Andrew Cornett
Course Planner:
Controller:
Stefan Bergstrom
Calabogie, Ontario, presents a quintessential Canadian Shield landscape, with serene lakes framed by rolling hills.
The arena, camping and festivities will all be at the foot of the ski hill at Calabogie Peaks Resort. There is a beach and golf course right across the road. Reward yourself with an ice cream from the snack bar or a refreshing beer on the patio after your races. On Saturday evening, support the Canadian National Team through their annual Silent Auction, followed by a sit-down feast at the closing banquet.
With veterans Stefan Bergstrom, Peter Laurich and Marketa Graham as course planners, you can anticipate physically demanding and well-designed courses.
NORTH AMERICAN ORIENTEERING CHAMPIONSHIPS
MIDDLE & LONG DISTANCE
The terrain has deciduous forest of maple and oak, but with a mix of white pine, hemlock, and cedar in places. There are plenty of boulders and cliffs, and lots of climb (it is a ski hill after all). Intricate rock formations and contour details makes it great place for a middle distance course. The long distance race will test an orienteer’s stamina with route choices in hilly terrain with few trails. Fear not, though, the forest is runnable with good footing.
Mapper: Jeff Teutsch, Navigation Sports
Date: Summer 2023 - Spring 2024
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Organizing Club:
Middle: Peter Laurich
Long: Stefan Bergstrom
Course Planner:
Controller:
Middle: Marketa Graham
Long: Marketa Graham
Check out the video footage from the 2023 Canadian Orienteering Championships that was held just north of Montréal.
Queen’s University was founded in 1841 and today has over 30,000 students and 4,000 international students from over 100 countries. The Knock-Out Sprint Races will be contested on the Queen’s main campus, a typical feature-rich University campus with a complex mix of lawns, paved areas, walking paths, older buildings, newer buildings, stone walls, fences, flower beds and more.
Knock-Out Races
Mapper: Jeff Teutsch, Navigation Sports
Date: Summer of 2023
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