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Croatia Open

July 27th - August 1st 2015

Orienteering club „RIS“ Delnice

Orienteering club “RIS” Delnice was founded on February

12th 2000. In order for orienteering sport to reach an

Olympic status, “RIS” is popularizing orienteering in city of

Delnice, Gorski Kotar and Primorsko-goranska County.

It helps club members in their development in order to

worthily represent the club on both sport and professional

level. Club members have organized the European Military

Championship in 1998, World Military Championship in 1999

and World Championship in ARFD in 2010.

Taking into account the regional competition Alpe Adria Cup in 2004 it can be

concluded that the specific areas covered by green karst and proximity to coastal

resorts are a winning combination that each year attracts more and more fans of this

sport. We believe that our application is justified, as the founder and full member of the

Croatian Orienteering Federation, and that we have the necessary competences to

realize this program.

Croatia Open - a synonym for Croatian Orienteering sport

Croatia Open is a five-day international

orienteering competition. One of its kind

and most meaningful orienteering event

with traditional character in Croatia.

Aspiration and devotion to organize this

competition at the highest possible level

have so far attracted hundreds of

competitors from more than 40 countries

to Gorski kotar and Croatia.

Leading men of the IOF (International Ori-

enteering Federation) have recognized this achievement and have several times al-

ready assigned this competition status of Race for the World Ranking list (World Rank-

ing Event).

The competition has profiled itself into one of

the most important in the region, while

Gorski Kotar and the island of Krk became

desirable orienteering summer destinations in

Europe. Organizing of Croatia Open at this

level is the best reference for acceptance of

our nomination by entire orienteering

community.

Event: Croatia open 2015

Organiser: OK Ris Delnice

Date: 27th July – 1st August 2015

CC – CAMP – SPORT HALL Delnice GPS positions: 45.396249, 14.804362

Place: Klanac, Krk, Crni lug, Delnice, Golubinjak

Maps: According to ISOM and ISSOM rules, based on laser-scanning, printed on waterproof paper.

Special symbols: some special symbols may occur on maps for Croatia open 2015: small black circle o representing chasm

(deep stone pit - dangerous!), small green T representing fallen tree with rootstock and small brown bear icon representing

brown bear´s habitat.

Control descriptions: With IOF symbols – printed on the maps and additional ones on coloured paper (different for each day),

placed in club bags. Reserve control descriptions can be found on Info desk at Competition Centre. Additional control descrip-

tions will be available at the start (to be used only if necessary).

Start: The route from the finish to the start is marked. If you are late for start by organizers mistake a new start time shall be

given. Otherwise, it is runner´s responsibility to be at the start on time. Competitors in BEG, M10, W10, OPEN S and OPEN L

may start whenever they want with use of start control (read more in start procedure)!

Start list: Will be placed in your club bags, finish area and in start

area.

Start procedure: Every competitor is responsible to “clear” his SI

card before he starts. Clear stations will be placed in start

corridors. When your start time is shown on entry clock you

need to enter into corridor where your SI card and start number

is going to be checked. Punch clear station with SI card. In next

minute you are entering for check station and can take reserve

control descriptions (only in case if you forgot to take it from

your club bag). In last minute you should stand near your

category map and wait for sound signal which defines start time.

It is forbidden to turn over and look at maps before start signal!

Categories BEG, M10, W10, OPEN S and OPEN L will have free

start times! Each competitor in this class can choose his own

start time. Competitors are obligated to perform “check in” at

start corridor where organizer will check your SI card number.

After “clear” and “check” you may proceed till start control. You

need to punch start control station with your SI card. From that

moment your time will start to count. Proceed to the maps and

pick the corresponding category. Free start is available since

zero minute untill last start of that stage.

Control points: Some control points will have multiple SI-units. It

doesn't matter which SI-unit you punch with your SI-chip. Mis-

punching results in disqualification. In case of SI-station failure

you need to perform manual punching on the map. Place for

manual punches is marked on the bottom of the maps.

Map issue: We want to have fair-play conditions for everyone so after each competitor finishes his race he must place the map

into the box with corresponding category label on it. Maps can be taken after the last competitor has started (1-1,5 h after first

start).

Finish procedure: When punching finish control your race is over. After punching finish control you need to perform SI card

read-out in finish tent and dispose your map. Every competitor is obligated to perform read-out of his SI card, whether he

finished the whole course, or retired from the race.

Scoring and results: Overall results will be based on your time through 5 stages. Stage 2 (sprint) will be ranked for both overall

and extra as individual stage. Results will be printed in finish area and published on crochallenge.net and our Facebook page

after each stage.

Refreshment on course: Only for stage 4 on control point number 50. We will provide water. Please, dispose empty cups on

the ground close to the refreshment point.

Retirement: If you decide to retire from the race you are obligated to report that in finish area and perform SI card read-out.

Parking: Organizer will provide free parking for stages 1, 3, 4 and 5. Note that parking will not be provided by the organizer for

Stage 2 (Krk). Parking spaces in the town of Krk area are under charging system – please, check where you need to pay for

parking. We recommend parking in south-west part of city (close to the bus station) and then walk to the finish area.

Special note for clubs with busses: Busses have to use slightly different route to reach Stage 4 (Petehovac). Please look for the

detailed instructions in the Bulletin section regarding Stage 4!

Race bibs: Or start numbers should be worn on chest for all 5 stages.

Clothing: No restrictions but we recommend you clothes covering your body with exception for head and arms.

Footwear: Restrictions only for stage 2 (sprint) – spike shoes forbidden – normal running shoes are recommended! For all

other stages no restrictions.

Transport towards the start: By foot for all stages. No official transport is organized this year.

Transport of clothing from start to finish: We will return clothing from start back to Info desk in finish area.

Toilets: In finish area (no toilets on start!).

Trash: Please dispose trash into trash cans. Stages will be organized in areas where special care about nature is required

so take care of the environment – thank you!

Accommodation: Organizer will provide official accommodation close to and in sport hall in Delnice. It is forbidden to wash

dishes in sinks – please use predicted area for that. Put garbage into trash cans and help us preserve environment around sport

hall. It is forbidden to enter sport hall in spike shoes.

All camp users MUST check and update their date of birth and passport/ID card number. Tourist board insists on charging

tourist taxes (fees) to all camp users.

Fees will be charged as follows:

children by the age of 12 – no fee,

youth (younger than 18) – 3,50 HRK,

adults (older than 18) – 7,00 HRK.

Organizer will use accommodation fees to settle the costs of rent and utilities and from that fee tourist taxes will be paid as

well, so there will be no additional costs for camp users.

All users who do not update or send their correct passport/ID card number by July 7th 2015 will not be able to use accommo-

dation provided by the organizer.

Kindergarten: Will not be provided this year.

First aid: In the finish area

Food:

Klanac - you will be able to get a warm meal/buy food in the finish area

Krk - we recommend checking the offer on ”Dražica“ beach and restaurant “Nono“ (200 meters from the finish area)

Crni Lug - you will be able to get a warm meal in the finish area

Petehovac - we recommend checking the offer of “Petehovac” mountain centre

Golubnjak - we recommend checking the offer in “Golubinjak” (in the finish area)

Club tents: It is allowed for teams to make club tents in finish area. Organizer is not taking any responsibility for your tent dur-

ing event.

Training maps: Can be bought in finish area. Training courses are marked with paper OL-markers. Training maps are printed on

non-waterproof paper.

Training area, Sunger

GPS positions: 45.336074, 14.799944

Training area, Delnice

GPS positions: 45.395614, 14.794935

Shadowing: accompanying of competitors is allowed for Beginners, OPEN SHORT and OPEN LONG

Dogs: Dogs must be on a leash at all times.

Insects: In Croatian forests you can run across ticks, wasps and mosquitoes. We recommend you to use insect repellent lotion

or spray.

Protest: Should be made at finish area up to 1,5 hour after the last start. Organizer will answer on it right-away with positive or

negative answer.

Insurance: All participants at Croatia open 2015 take part at their own risk. We recommend you to have travel insurance.

Club bags: Individual club bags contain (for each club member): race bib, safety pins, control descriptions, rented SI card, bulle-

tin, and the receipt.

Payments: All payments must be made in Euro (EUR) or Croatian Kuna (HRK) currencies. We remind all competitors to pay en-

try fee, accommodation and SI card rent as soon as they arrive at the competition. Club bags and receipts are prepared in ad-

vance so we urge you to pay the receipt for your whole club at once. Splitting club bags and receipts takes a lot of time for the

organizer and we will allow the receipt to be split only once. Organizer will provide the currency exchange service but only

from Euro (EUR) to Croatian Kuna (HRK) and vice versa.

Additional payments: Loss of rented SI card 50€, additional start time and SI card number change 2€.

Extra prize-giving ceremony: Note that on Stage 2 (Krk) we will have extra prize-giving ceremony for the best competitors of

that stage in finish area at 20:30.

KONOBA NONOKONOBA NONO

1 st stage

June 27 th , 2015

STAGE 1 – Klanac

GPS positions: 45.396249, 14.804362

Date: July 27th

How to come: We expect competitors to arrive from 2 main directions: from Zagreb and from Delnice.

If you are planning to arrive to the Stage 1 competition centre from Delnice, the fastest way is to take highway A6 in

direction of Zagreb. On exit Vrbovsko take regional road towards Zagreb. Drive 12 km and in village Klanac (just after Severin

na Kupi) turn left towards Kupa river. After 500m you will reach the finish area.

In case you are driving from direction of Zagreb take highway exit Bosiljevo 1. Drive 5 km in northern direction towards

Bosanci. In Bosanci continue driving west (turn left) for 6,5 km. You will reach Klanac village in which turn right towards Kupa

river. After 500m you will reach finish area.

Competition type: Middle distance

First start: 16:00

Map: Klanac, 1:10000, e=5m, drawn in 2015 by Jan Drbal and Zdenek Sokolar

Course planning: Tihomir Salopek

Course advisor: Ivica Urbanc

Special symbol: Brown x representing small plateau.

Terrain: Nice karst terrain.

Parking: Provided, near finish area for personal cars. Campers and busses must park in Klanac village (close to restaurant

“Mirni kut”). From there, competitors will need to reach the Kupa river by foot - 200 m.

Important: Swimming in Kupa river is allowed. Note that it is the border line between Croatia and Slovenia.

2 nd stage

June 28 th , 2015

STAGE 2 – Krk

GPS positions: 45.026933, 14.577403

Date: July 28th

How to come: From Delnice you can take the highway to Oštrovica exit. From there follow road signs for island

of Krk. Other way is to go by old road from Delnice to Fužine, Zlobin, Hreljin, Križišće and then island of Krk.

Note that bridge on island of Krk is charged (only in one-way). Once on the island follow the signs towards Krk.

Delnice-Krk: 65 km (~75 minutes by car). Finish area will be placed on the beach on eastern part of city of Krk.

Competition type: Sprint distance

First start: 17:00

Map: Krk, 1:3000, e=2m, drawn in 2013 by Zdenek Sokolar and Daniel Lebar

Course planning: Matjaž Štanfel

Course advisor: Ivica Urbanc

Terrain: Nice urban area covering old town of Krk and park area. Please do not enter forbidden area drawn on warm-up map.

Special comment of map: please respect ISSOM drawing standard! We would like to invite all competitors on fair-play. Do not

jump over impassable fences or enter private area.

Parking: Organizer does not provide parking for Stage 2. There will not be a parking place in the finish area. Parking spaces in

the town of Krk area are under charging system – please, check where you need to pay for parking. We recommend parking in

southern part of city (close to the bus station) and then walk to the finish area.

Prize-giving ceremony:

Note that this stage will also have prize-giving ceremony in finish area at 20:30

3 th stage

June 30 th , 2015

STAGE 3 – Malo Selo

GPS positions: 45.422377, 14.715252

Date: July 30th

How to come: From Delnice, take the main road in South direction, towards Rijeka. After 500m make the right

turn towards Crni Lug. After 10 km you will arrive to the finish area. Finish area will be placed on meadow close

to entry into Crni Lug village.

Competition type: Short-long distance

First start: 10:00

Map: Malo Selo, 1:10000, e=5m, drawn in 1998 by Bogdan Stramyk, revised in 2014

Course planning: Tihomir Salopek

Course advisor: Ivica Urbanc

Special symbols: small black circle representing chasm o (deep stone pit - dangerous!), small green T representing fallen tree

with rootstock and small brown bear icon representing brown bear´s habitat.

Terrain: Nice karst area, very detailed.

Parking: Provided, near finish area.

4 th stage

June 31 th , 2015

STAGE 4 – Petehovac

GPS positions: 45.379992, 14.820716

Date: July 31st

How to come: Best way is to come to the Competition Centre in Delnice (Sport hall), from there go to

„Ina” gas station where marking will be placed pointing towards Petehovac. The road to Petehovac is

quite narrow but all vehicles except busses should have no problem driving on it.

Special note for clubs with busses and camper-van owners: Busses cannot reach finish area on the Stage 4 (Petehovac)

via previously mentioned route. For those clubs there is an additional route – please check the provided map.

Since tunnel towards Petehovac is quite small, busses will need to take the road towards “Konzum” shop,

cross the railroad and follow marked (unpaved) road. After 500 m you will return to the marked route

(main road) towards Petehovac.

Competition type: Long distance

First start: 10:00

Map: Petehovac, 1:10000, e=5m, drawn in 2015 by Jan Drbal, Zdenek Sokolar, Robert Miček, Rudi de Ferrari and Matjaž Štanfel

Course planning: Matjaž Štanfel

Course advisor: Ivica Urbanc

Special symbols: small black circle representing chasm (deep stone pit - dangerous!).

Terrain: Nice highland are, sometimes very detailed.

Parking: Provided, near finish area.

5 th stage

August 1 st, 2015

STAGE 5 – Golubinjak

GPS positions: 45.356361, 14.765960

Date: August 1st

How to come: From Delnice take the main road in South direction, toward Rijeka (do not enter the highway,

but stay on the “old” road). After 5 km you will arrive in Golubinjak. Roads will be marked from Delnice.

From this year, local municipality of town Lokve is managing “Golubinjak” forest park and they insist on charging all competi-

tors entrance fee of €1.

We urge all competitors to pay this symbolic entrance fee for “Golubinjak” forest park because beside right to enter Stage 5

competition centre they will get an ID bracelet upon their entering which will also allow them to get discount on food/drinks

inside park, tickets for the “Lokvarka” cave and/or a raft ride across “Lokvarsko jezero” lake.

Competition type: Middle distance

First start: 10:00

Map: Golubinjak, 1:7500, e=5m, drawn in 2012 by Daniel Lebar and revised by Ivica Urbanc

Course planning: Tihomir Salopek

Course advisor: Ivica Urbanc

Special comment of map: Since there was never forest cutting made in southern part of map paths are less obvious to notice

than in northern part of map. Sometimes it is better to do precise walk than to run with mistakes (hard to relocate).

Terrain: Extreme karst. Primeval forest. Probably one of most detailed drawn karst terrain used for orienteering in Europe!

Expect up to 30 m high stone cliffs, giant boulders and narrow stone passages.

Parking: Provided, near finish area.