2020 NSW Sprint Championships - an event to remember

March 2020 will be remembered as the time when Australia realised the Covid-19 pandemic was something serious. Orienteering events were being cancelled right and left. The NSW Sprint Championships (also State League 1) were being held in Sydney at Sir Joseph Banks Park in Botany.

Would Uringa be running an event, or not?

Prize winner's award (thank to Linda Sesta for arranging for these to be supplied)

The answer was Yes, under guidelines for social distancing, bring your own hand sanitiser and water, no results boards and no presentation ceremony. That didn't put many off. The day was mild and sunny, the roll up good.

Best efforts were made to keep our distance...

Results were made available only online. What people were looking at on their hand-held devices remains private.
 

Uringans featured well on the Championship virtual podium.

W14 A 3 Maggie Mackay

W18A 1 Serena Doyle

M45A 3 Ant Nolan

M45AS 1 Ori Gudes

M50A 2 Shane Doyle

W50A 2 Linda Sesta

W70A 1 Mary Jane Mahony

W85A 1 Maureen Ogilvie

Enter on the Day featured members of one of Uringa's newer families as well as one of our younger runners.

EOD Hard 1 Joel Haasdyk

EOD Moderate 3 Rose Haasdyk

EOD Easy 2 Alon Gudes

Thanks to Wayne Elliot (Course Setter), Dave Lotty (Controller), John Fuller and Ron Pallas (Event Organising) and Ron Palls (Event Technology()

And just to show that it was a useful day all round, Melanie Christie managed to get our electronic payments  device to work!