The first orienteering meet of 2021 was held at Shipyards Park on Wednesday evening.

A total of 61 members came out to enjoy brisk, mostly sunny running along the waterfront south to the Yukon Government Main Administration Building.

We have participants in strollers up to 80+ in age. This was an urban sprint race, meaning that the courses were not as technically challenging as forest orienteering, but tested speed and endurance as the courses got longer.

It was good to see some of our juniors taking on longer courses.

Hopefully, the snow will melt out of the woods soon and we can get back to running there as well.

Thank you to all our volunteers helping with course setup, take-down, and registration.

The next race (also a Sprint race) will be on May 12. Come out and join us! Watch for the location at  http://yukonorienteering.ca.

The top finishers on the 1.1km Novice course were:

1) Lucas Rogers, Oliver Kralisch-Seguin, and Anett Kralisch - 11:33
2) Kyan and Matt Ordish - 12:19
3) Aven, Fischer, and Katherine Scheck - 15:18

The 1.6km Intermediate course had some tight finishes between the boys and girls:

Girls:

1) Anneke Aasman - 10:20
2) Lucy Aasman - 10:37

Boys:

1) Malcolm Murchison - 10:27
2) Sitka Land-Gilles and Peter Embacher - 12:09

The 2.6km Advanced course saw relative newcomers Rachel Moser and Jeremy Johnson leading those with more experience:

Women:

Rachel Moser - 20:53
Barbara Scheck - 23:19
Sabrina Bouayad - 24:43

Men:

Jeremy Johnson - 18:16
Darren Holcombe - 18:51
Brian Horton - 18:55

For the 3.6km Expert course, the junior orienteering coach for 2021, Emma Waddington from Hamilton, Ont., took the field over all rivals

Women:

1) Emma Waddington - 18:39
2) Jennifer MacKeigan - 24:18
3) Virginia Sarrazin - 25:40

Men:

1) Forest Pearson - 19:13
2) Leif Blake - 19:17
3) Dave Hildes – 22:46

Full results available soon at http://yukonorienteering.ca

This was submitted by the Yukon Orienteering Association.