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Longtime Nopesport member and old school orienteering legend Ben Roberts is currently in the running to become the "Sony Ericcson Official Photographer 2009". It would be great to get the orienteering community behind him. If he wins, Ben has pledged to offer his photographic services for free to British Orienteering next year.

Surprise win for Wood in Wakerly Woods. RAF Orienteering Individual and Inter-Region Championships held at Wakerley Woods on 22 Oct 08.

This coming Saturday the desolate weekend streets of the City of London will come to life as 400 competitors from across the UK and Europe descend on the square mile for London's first, and Britain's largest, urban orienteering event.

The South West of Scotland, in particular two of the well renowned Seven Staines mountain biking centres, hosted this year’s British mountain biking championships. Consisting of a long race on the Saturday and a middle distance on the Sunday, the numerous technical trails of Dalbeattie and Mabie ...

'Cometh the hour, Cometh the man' John 4.23 'GEEEEEEZZZZEERRR' Matthew Speake The middle race brought its own flavour to the weekends proceedings Weston Heath and Bury Wells was an interesting choice of venue with a succession of high impassable crags which mirrors some of what might be fou...

Selections for the Great Britain team for a number of upcoming international events have been announced today. First up is Euromeeting, taking place in Hungary from 22nd to 25th May in terrain relevant for the World Championships in 2009. Euromeeting is an international competition aimed at up...

British Elite Middle Championships SYO dominate the top spots in the 21 classes with Matt Crane taking the M21 title ahead of clubmate Oli Johnson. EUOC's Scott Fraser was only non SYO member in the top 5, taking 3rd spot. In the womens race it was similar story but a strong run from Sarah ...

Daniel Hubmann & Elise Esgeth both came from behind at the JK today to be crowned champions. At yesterday's middle distance race at Leith Hill competitors battled the weather as much as the courses, with a mixture of snow and hail throughout the day. Sarah Rollins scored a second victory for t...

In the second of our series of previews of the JK, we find out what the elite make of the terrain in the region, the standard of competition at the JK and who they think will be challenging for the trophies over the weekend. The location of this year's JK has proved a popular one, with both Br...

The tables for the Nopesport Urban League have been updated, following the Manchester sprint race. Only two people have two scores in the same class: Sue Lynch (WCH) in the Veteran Women's class, and Steve Watkins (AIRE) in the Open Men. A few male Supervets and female Vets decided to 'run up' on...

British Team Training Camp, Speyside 25-2 March It’s not as glamorous as Madrid, not as warm as Portugal and not as far-flung as South Africa, but Speyside provided a superb winter training venue for the British team, who spent the final week of February in the Scottish Highlands on an intens...

As reported on the JK2008 website, the size of the entry for the men's course means that it is being split into an "Elite" (M18/20/21E) and an "Open" course, with a selection for the Elite course. As different courses are being used for Elite and Open, only runners on the "Elite" course (co...

Orienteering scored a double whammy of publicity this weekend, featuring on both television and radio. Both portrayed the sport well, with an emphasis on the athleticism and challenge of navigation. On Saturday morning orienteering featured four times on BBC 1 Breakfast, as part of Mike Bushe...

This past weekend saw the qualifying rounds for October's CompassSport Cup take place across the country (with the exception of Scotland where the qualifiers will be in March). There was some close scoring in some rounds as clubs had large numbers of runners out in force with some dominant perfor...

The Streets of Oxford play host to the final race of the UK Cities Cup this weekend. The Oxford Street Race, which did much to inspire the series formation, has a great reputation of top quality urban races with the university town lending itself to technical, fast-paced urban orienteering. T...