onTEROio – 7-time World Champion visits Ontario!

Seven-time and reigning World Orienteering Champion and the King of International middle distance orienteering, Thierry (Tero) Gueorgiou, recently toured Ontario (or is that onTEROio?) with three countrymen including Francois Gonon (a former WOC bronze medalist). The one week visit to Ontario was part of a three week visit to North America for the Frenchmen with stops in New York City, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Lake Placid.

The Golden Horseshoe Orienteering club has written a detailed report about the visit – including several map samples and pictures. One of the places visited was Rocky Ridge – the site of the 2006 North American Orienteering Championships (see map with course in omaps.worldofo.com) and is typical Ontario limestone terrain:

Flat terrain, with small features and plenty of rock. Gueorgiou re-ran both the 2006 Middle Distance and long distance races. His comment to GHO members after the training was that the style of orienteering at Rocky Ridge is similar to that which will be tested at the 2011 World Orienteering Championships in France.

• Read the complete article at dontgetlost.ca – including map samples and discussions

Complete maps (only map samples posted in article for some of these):

• North American Championships Sprint 2006 – Routegadget
• North American Championships Middle 2006 – Routegadget (or only map with course)
• North American Championships Long 2006 – Routegadget
• Ottawa Fall Festival sprint race
• Ottawa Fall Festival middle race