Normandie O’ Tour 22 and 23 September 2018

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1. Organisation

Club d’Orientation des Boucles de la Seine www.cobs.free.fr Race director : Sebastian Wild Assistant director stage 1 and 3 : Patrick Eudier Assistant director stage 2 and 3 : Philippe Sanchez GEC manager and registration: Agnès Eudier Communication manager : Xavier Brière Cartographer : Philippe Sanchez et Agnès Eudier

2. Event controller Delegate : Michel Ediar Referee : Eric Boulet Controller : Alain Guillon Probatione controller : Hélène Ediar

3. Audience 500 orienters are expected, aged 10 and over, from all over France but also neighbouring countries such as Belgium, the United Kingdom, Germany or Scandinavia.

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4. Location Le Havre area : Harfleur, Etretat et Montivilliers.

Distance from Rouen : 85 km Distance from Caen : 95 km Distance from Paris : 195 km

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5. Bibs The bibs will be picked up at the first stage Event Center and must be worn in all 3 stages.

6. Program Saturday 22 september 2018 : 11h : Event center opening at Harfleur « Centre culturel de la Forge » 14h : First start stage 1 20h30 : Event center opening at Etretat on the sea front One hour after legal sunset time: First start stage 2 (before sunset time for HD 10-12) Sunday 23 september 2018 : 8h : Event Center opening at Montivilliers, « Cour Saint Philibert » 9h : First start stage 3 13h : prize giving

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7. Sponsors

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8. Stage 1 Urban sprint Place : Harfleur city-center Event Center and finish line : « Centre culturel de la Forge » Start : 200m Parking : « Centre culturel de la Forge » (car), « rue Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny » (car and camping-car)

Map : « Harfleur Centre » updated and extended Scale : 1/5000 et Equidistance : 2.5m Tourism : The Vikings gave its name, in the 9th century, meaning Harfleur in Norse "Upper harbour" as opposed to Honfleur "Bottom harbour". Thanks to its location of crossroad on the maritime and river roads, Harfleur is prosperous since the Gallo-Roman era. Port of Rouen and Royal City in the 13th century, Harfleur became a sovereign harbour of Normandy and gave birth to « le Havre » after the silting of its port in the 16th century. Its pedestrian streets, its heritage, its large park and the windings of « la Lézarde » wich run into his heart, give the city a picturesque touch.

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« La Lézarde »

Town hall parc

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9. Stage 2 Middle distance : urban and golf by night (before sunset time for HD 10-12) Place : Etretat city-center and golf Event Center and finish line : Sea front Start : 1km Parking : « Route du Havre – D940 »

New map Scale : 1/10000 et Equidistance : 5m Tourism : Once modest fishing village, Etretat became a seaside resort on the coast of the English channel. The amazing and monumental look of its almost immaculate white chalk cliffs and beaches of greyish pebbles ,makes of it an international tourism place. Painters like Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet or Eugène Boudin contributed much to its advertising, in immortalising the specificity. Writers like Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant, were followers of the place while Maurice Leblanc, who lived there, contributed to the myth surrounding the site in Arsène Lupin adventure titled « l’Aiguille creuse ». Three successive arches: the upstream door, the downstream door and the Manneporte, and a needle can be seen.

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Etretat’s cliff

Etretat’s golf

Etretat by night 9

10. Stage 3 Urban longue distance Place : Montivilliers Event center, start and finish line : « Cour Saint Philibert » Show passage and map changing for all runners on the « cour Saint Philibert » Parking : « Place Abbé Pierre », « Avenue de Dieppe » et « Rue de Bréquigny »

Map : « Montivilliers centre » updated and extended Scale : 1/5000 et Equidistance : 2.5m Tourism : Montivilliers owes its prosperity and its reputation to its prestigious Women Abbey established in 684 by St Philibert. Montivilliers has the particularity to be crossed by a river : « la Lézarde » which is included in the old medieval center, bounded by walls, and the suburbs expanded in the 19th century along the roads at the town entrance. « L’aître de Brisgaret » dating from the XVth century, built to deal with epidemics has been classified as Historical Monuments in 1886 and restored in 2013-2014. The inner wall of the gallery presents a unique painting of the sixteenth century. The calvary, melted in a greenery nest, overlooks the whole city and offers a wonderful panorama from where the spectator can observe the old neighbourhoods of Montivilliers, but also the outlying areas who settled in the twentieth century. It was erected to pay tribute to the victims of the second world war while thanking to have protected the city of bombing. 10

Montivilliers Abbey

Arena

« La lézarde »

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11. Accomodation Accomodation near the event centers Camping : Camping le grand hameau : http://www.camping-le-grand-hameau.fr/#home-anchor Camping municipal d’Etretat : http://www.normandie-tourisme.fr/hpa/campingmunicipal-detretat/etretat/fiche-HPANOR076FS0002K-1.html Hotel : B&B Harfleur : http://www.hotel-bb.com/fr/hotels/le-havre1.htm?utm_source=googlemaps&utm_medium=fichehotel&utm_campaign=seo Ibis Harfleur : https://www.accorhotels.com/fr/hotel-0951-ibis-le-havre-sudharfleur/index.shtml Campanile Montivilliers : https://www.campanile.com/fr/hotels/campanile-le-havrenord-montivilliers Kyriad : https://www.kyriad.com/fr/hotels/kyriad-le-havre-montivilliers Campanile Gonfreville l’Orcher : https://www.campanile.com/fr/hotels/campanile-lehavre-estgonfreville?utm_source=google&utm_medium=maps&utm_content=FRA21850&utm_ca mpaign=Campanile F1 Gonfreville l’Orcher : https://www.accorhotels.com/fr/hotel-2331-formule-1-hotelf1le-havre/index.shtml Lodging : www.gites-de-france.com Camping-car : Car park of Etretat’s race Accomodation: www.airbnb.fr

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