2 and 3 September in the city of Dzerzhinsk took place the Trail-O competition.
Trail-O (Trail Orienteering) – sport, where the participants overcome during the control time (usually in a given sequence) distance, consisting of items, on each of which several prisms are located within sight (flags). Participants must identify and record, which of these prisms (flags) on the ground corresponds to the indicated point on the map and the given legend (possibly, and no).
The key elements of this type of orientation are detailed reading.
cards, eye detection and control of distance on the ground, the ability to accurately take the azimuth to the object, knowledge of work techniques at the checkpoint, as well as knowledge of conventional signs of sports maps and legends of checkpoints. In trail orienteering, maps are used with an enlarged scale and a terrain with a large number of roads and trails is selected, wheelchair accessible. Orienteering is a sport accessible to everyone, it enables athletes with disabilities to participate in competitions on an equal footing with all. Trail-O can be used in regular training to improve map skills and map reading accuracy, athletes of all types of orienteering.
In the "Championship and Championship of the Nizhny Novgorod region in sports of persons with a defeat of the ODA (orienteering – accurate orientation) among athletes with POD " 2 September was attended by more than forty athletes and representatives of the regions. Before the competition, everyone trained at a specially prepared training model distance.
At the end, summed up the number of correct answers. If they were equal, priority was given to the smallest time spent in answering. At the close of the competition, they were awarded medals, certificates and prizes.
Competitions became possible thanks to the distance author: Dulatova to Alexander Rafaelevich – Coach of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Paralympic Team in Orienteering, support of the Ministry of Sports of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the management of the Municipal budgetary institution "Sports School" Magnetic Arrow "and the management of the NROOI" INVATUR ". Competitions were held within the framework of the International Festival of Culture and Sports "Oksky ParaFesta-2020" (ParaPlan) and the project "Inclusive Triathlon" (NROI Invatur) These projects are being implemented under the "Formula of Good Deeds" program with the support of PJSC "Sibur-Holding".
