Orienteers at World Championships

The New Zealand Orienteering team won the Fair Play Award at the World Schools Orienteering Championships in Italy after MAGS member Adam Bateman and a competitor from Napier Boys High School helped an English girl who was hurt on the course.

Adam (left) was part of MAGS Junior Boys team selected to represent NZ in that category at the World Champs in Sicily – the Junior Boys team came 6th overall and another team member, Mitchell Cooper (right), came 6th in the Middle Distance event. The other MAGS team members pictured above were Daniel Carroll, Aidan Skinner and Thomas Brendolise. Their coach was Albertian Mr Kieran Woods.

More than 140 teams from 27 countries competed across of programme of middle distance, long distance and relay events.