The sixth World Rogaining Champs has been allocated by the International Rogaining Federation to USA. The event will be run in Arizona in 2004.
There were two other bids, from Australia (Wilpena Pound area in SA) and China.
Strangely, the Chinese bid, which appeared to come from a tourist organisation with
no experience of rogaining, got 3 votes from IRF members, ahead of South Australia!!!
Still, the US bid was the clear favourite, and comes from a group that have run
lots of rogaines including 24-hour ones. It will be a good move for the international
spread of rogaining, and Australians will still have plenty of good events to attend.
Perhaps the champs will return to the birthplace of rogaining in 2006.
This written by Michael Wood
and installed on 4 July 01.