Jorgensen (38) was near Duntroon yesterday for the Oceania orienteering middle distance championships.
The championships were based on farmland at Earthquakes Rd, with nearly 500 competitors having to cope with very hot conditions.
It was also the third Australia-New Zealand test match series.
Scandinavian-born Jorgensen, now the high performance director for the sport in New Zealand, had been involved with preparing the map for yesterday's event so was not competing.
It was the first time the competition had been held in the Duntroon area and it was an interesting and technical course.
There was a lot of skill in the map reading and keeping the right pace.
In the elite class, it came down to seconds and competitors had to keep very focused and be alert, both with the map and the terrain, he said.
Mistakes could easily be made but there was "always a next time".
The heat meant people could also lose focus, he said.
There are about 1000 registered orienteering club members in New Zealand.
Orienteering provided an opportunity to travel to interesting places and get out into nature and it was fun trying to navigate the different areas using only a map and a compass, he said.
He had taken up the sport so many years ago, he could not remember when.
Orienteering was very strong in Scandinavia, with 25,000 participants in one five-day event in Sweden.
Jorgensen, who now lives in Christchurch, was a member of the Danish relay team which won the world championships in 1997 in Grimstad.
That was an "amazing" experience, he recalled.
