ASOM is back in 2023! It will be an awesome orienteering meeting in the old city of Ghent with plenty of fantastic areas for orienteering.
It will be a real orienteering festival with challenging orienteering races for all classes and a very interesting Elite competition that will be a joy to watch live!
REGISTRATIONS are open at Opunch.
All races will take place near the city centre of Ghent.
18/8 Friday: Dr Guislain Museum
19/8 Saturday: Ghent St Pieters
20/8 Sunday: Ghent old city
An overview map is available here. On this google map all info will be added regarding to locations of Competition Centers, etc.
All bulletins will be published here.
ASOM:
Friday August 18 – 20h00: Mixed Sprint Relay
Saturday August 19 – 14h00 : Sprint 1
Saturday August 19 – 17h15 : Sprint 2
Sunday August 20 – 10h00 : City Race
ASOM for ELITES:
Friday August 18 – 20h00: Mixed Sprint Relay
Saturday August 19 – 10h00 : Knock Out Quali
Saturday August 19 – 13h00 : Knock Out Quarter Final
Saturday August 19 – 15h45 : Knock Out Semi Final
Saturday August 19 – 16h45 : Knock Out Final
Sunday August 20 – 10h00 : WRE Sprint
All registrations should be made via www.opunch.org/event/1959
An updated list of all entries is available at www.start.helga-o.com
Registrations close 11/8/2023.
The registration fee for ASOM is stated below.
The categories Children -12 and Youth -16 get a 50% reduction on the prices below.
Early Bird Price (Until and including 02/04/2023)
ASOM Friday, Saturday & Sunday = 40 €
ASOM Friday = 8 €
ASOM Saturday = 16 €
ASOM Sunday = 16 €
Normal Price (Until and including 30/07/2023)
ASOM Friday, Saturday & Sunday = 50€
ASOM Friday = 10 €
ASOM Saturday = 20 €
ASOM Sunday = 20 €
Late Price (From 31/07/2023
ASOM Friday, Saturday & Sunday = 60 €
ASOM Friday = 10 €
ASOM Saturday = 25 €
ASOM Sunday = 25 €
There are a lot of hotel possibillities in and outside of the WRE embargoed area in the city center of Ghent.
The following categories will be used at ASOM2023.
Age is on 31/12/2023.
M/W CHILDREN -12 (Age <= 12)
M/W YOUTH -16 (13 <= age <= 16)
M/W JUNIOR -20 (17 <= age <= 20)
M/W OPEN (open for everyone aged 17+)
M/W ELITE (open for everyone aged 17+)
M/W VETERAN 40+ (40 <= age <= 54)
M/W SUPERVETERAN 55+ (55 <= age <= 64)
M/W ULTRAVETERAN 65+ (65 <= age <= 74)
M/W HYPERVETERAN 75+ (75 <= age)
As always, ASOM takes care of the winners and lucky participants.
–> There is an overall podium for all categories.
–> Everbody has a chance to win a prize with our lottery on Sunday
–> The top 5 in Men and Women Elite recieve prize money
The Competition Center for the Mixed Relay will be at the Dr. Guislain Museum.
Address:
Dr. Guislain Museum
Jozef Guislainstraat 43B
9000 Gent
PARKING:
You can easily park at the parking of the museum.
Massstart at 20h00 (Men start first)
There are 3 categories:
YOUTH -16
OPEN
MASTERS 55+
Teams should consist of 1 man and 1 woman.
Map: Dr. Guislain
Scale: 1/3000
Terrain: The race is held in a 19th century mental institution and its surroundings. It will be a tricky, beautiful and historical area with a lot of passages and hidden gems.
There are 3 categories:
YOUTH -16
OPEN
MASTERS 55+
Teams consist of 1 man and 1 woman.
Expected winning time for each leg is 7-8 min.
The Saturday races all start from the same event center at St. Pieterschurch in Ghent. An update about the competition center will follow.
9h30 – ELITES – Knock Out Qualification
13h00 – ELITES – Knock Out Quarter Final
14h00 – ASOM Sprint 1
15h45 – ELITES – Knock Out Semi Final
16h45 – ELITES – Knock Out Final
17h15 – ASOM Sprint 2
There will be 3 different maps used for this day of competitions.
Elite Qualifications will be run on the map of ‘Bijloke’. An old hospital with many corners.
The ASOM races and the KO Sprint finals will be around the St. Pieterschurch.
ASOM
All races will have an expected winning time of 15 minutes.
Knock Out Sprint
Quali – 9 minutes
Quarter Final – 7 minutes
Semi Final – 7 minutes
Final – 7 minutes
Elites knocked out of the race can participate in the normal ASOM Sprints
The event center will be communicated later.
The following embargo is in place for the Elites on Sunday.
The WRE Bulletin wil be available here.
8h30 competition centre opens
10h00 start in all categories
12h15 start top 10 Elites
This is a Sprint World Ranking Event for the Elite categorie.
Map: Ghent City
Scale: 1/4000
The area is a typical old Belgian city town with few parks, big squares and a river running through the city. Expect fast running in a beautiful surrounding with interesting routechoices.
The ASOM Training camp is organised for National Teams who build up a training camp around ASOM.
Courses are made by Fabien Pasquasy (BEL team).
Individual national team runners can join these trainings as well by mailing to jeremy@asom.be.
Wednesday 16/8 AM & PM – 2 Sprint Trainings
Thursday 17/8 AM & PM – 2 sprint Trainings
Friday 18/8 AM – 1 Sprint Training
On 01/05/2023 a more detailed program will be published with the training areas.
You can download the Training Camp Bulletin here when available.
Each training costs € 7 per person.
This includes:
* SPORTident timing
* Waterproof maps printed by SPPrint
* quality courses made by Fabien Pasquasy
Map with all locations of competitions and trainings below:
Link to the Results
Link to (one of) the map(s).
Knock Out Qualification
Map M Heat 1
Map M Heat 2
Map M Heat 3
Map W Heat 1
Map W Heat 2
Map W Heat 3
ASOM Sprint 1
ASOM Sprint 2
De ASOM City Run is geschikt voor beginnende oriëntatielopers!
Vind op de 6km lange omloop de kortste route tussen de checkpoints en loop langs de mooie parken, scholen en kastelen van Merksem!
Het afhalen van de borstnummers, start en aankomst zijn gelegen in de Basisschool Het Laerhof.
Het Laerhof
Laarsebaan 100
2170 Antwerpen
Parkeren kan op de parking van sportcentrum de Rode Loop aan de Rodeloopstraat.
8h30 Opening onthaal in Het Laerhof
10h00 Eerste start
11h30 Laatste start
13h00 Prijsuitreiking
14h00 Sluiting omloop
Deelnemen aan de ASOM City Run kost € 10.
Dit is inclusief:
De start is individueel (of in kleine groepjes van max 3 personen) waarbij er elke minuut een deelnemer aan zijn omloop begint.
Je kan gewoon naar start gaan wanneer je wil starten en zal dan een starttijd krijgen of direct kunnen starten.
Bij orienteering moet je zo snel mogelijk checkpoints vinden, in de juiste volgorde, die staan aangeduid op een kaart. Elke deelnemer krijgt een chip mee die elke checkpoint registreert en de tijd bij houdt.
De kaarten zijn getekend volgens symbolen vastgelegd door de internationale federatie en zijn dus over heel de wereld hetzelfde. Wil je weten hoe zo’n kaart eruit ziet? Kijk HIER eens naar de kaart van het centrum van Antwerpen.
A big thank you to Frank Weyler for these ASOMe pictures!