
Series winner Angus Sheddon with sons Rory and Ewan
SummerGong 4 was run in perfect weather yesterday morning. The first challenge was finding a parking spot at Flagstaff Hill, Wollongong, with space in demand from Nippers, surfers and the breakfast crowd. Angus Shedden (SHOO) had his third win of the series, collecting all 30 controls but was 12 seconds late back, so finished with 590 points. Second was Darren Harrow (IKO) on 520 points and Rohan Taylor on 500 points.
Congratulations to Angus Shedden (SHOO) who won the overall series with an almost perfect score of 397 points (three wins and a second place). Second place went to Alexander Karavaev (IKO) with 265 points and third place to Linda Sesta (Uringa) with 244 points.
IKO members filled seven of the top ten spots. The highest placed non-member was Melinda Wiecek who competed at three events and scored 176 points. Melinda will be offered a 1 year membership reimbursement if she joins IKO.
On the short course Cooper Anderson made it around the 10 controls in a winning time of 19:00 minutes (no doubt due to the expert coaching of “Poppy Keith”). Both of Keith’s grandchildren Cooper and Flynn completed all four of the short courses during the series with Cooper being the series winner. Well done Cooper.
Rory Sheddon came second over the short course series after competing in three of the four events, while IKO junior Ruby Harrow narrowly beat her brother Bailey to third place for the series. Congratulations to all of the children who participated in the short course events, hopefully we have helped to inspire a few more junior O-champs.
The day’s results can be accessed here and the cumulative results can be found here Summergong 2016 Final Scores
The series point scores for the short course is here Summergong 2016 Short course.
Finally, a big thanks to all the IKO members who helped out course setting, organising, coaching and helping at the assembly areas. As usual, great team work was displayed by all.