Uringan Ori Gudes is a keen MTBO rider, and has been for a while. Ant Nolan and some of his his family members have been active MTBO in 2019.
Ori was one of three rookies are among the six ONSW riders named in the national team to race against New Zealand at the Australian MTBO champs in Victoria in October.
Ori Gudes (Uringa, M40), Michael Ridley-Smith (Garingal, M40) and Rob Vincent (Newcastle, M60) wore the green and gold for the first time in Maryborough October 25-27.
Ori is a keen track cyclist as well as doing mountain bike orienteering and foot orienteering.
Well, it was not the best day in the saddle for Or Gu at the Long Distance MTBO champs as technical difficulties- one misbehaving map board - made life a little difficult. However, whilst placed 6th he was still very happy with his navigation which he described as a clean ride. 30kms was the course distance - Interesting to see just how many kms were covered!
Unfortunately for another Uringan, the new kid,Zuzu Burford it was a mp on the M70 course.
To finish the weekend on a positive note: Or Gu finished 4th in the MTBO National Rankings, 2nd Australian. A couple of pesky kiwis were just in front!
Australia won the MTBO challenge over New Zealand, 18-14 in the trophy challenge conducted across 4 events.
[Compiled from various postings on the Internet.]
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