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Overall Womens UK Cup

The women’s competition in this year’s UK Cup has proved one of the most exciting in recent years, with the standard of orienteering getting better and better. Anyone from a number of our top athletes could have taken the title, and with Jo Stevenson and Heather Monro being the only two of the t...

Overall Mens UK Cup

This year’s UK Cup has been an interesting one for the men, with 6 of the races attracting nearly every top athlete (JK, Triple O-Severn and the Lakes weekend). However, with 5 of our top athletes, Jamie StevensonTM, Dan Marston, Richard Wren, Stephen Palmer and Jon Duncan, not running the full ...

BEOC Classic

BEOC Classic Race Ed Nash managed to produce another top run to retain his title as British Elite Classic Champion, with Jon Duncan finishing 2nd for the second time in 2 year’s, though showing that his performance the day before was a minor blip. Duncan paid for an early mistake, losing a co...

BEOC wins-McCarthy & Winskill

Ewan McCarthy and Helen Winskill celebrated yesterday after being crowned British Middle Distance champions on a hot sunny afternoon on the Moray coast. Helen took victory from Hannah Wooton by 34 seconds, although splits analysis shows Hannah lost 1:30 on the long second leg and was running f...

Edinburgh 'SSSSS'

Today saw the inaugrual Edinburgh Super Special Saturday Sprint Series take place on 3 city areas and attracting a top class field. In warm conditions competitors faced serveral contrasting terrains such as open parkland, urban jungle, forest and finally open moor. Race one (map extract above...

York City Park Race

This year’s York City race took place completely round the streets round the city centre, on a beautiful summer’s day, complete with hundred’s of tourists making running in a straight line a bit more of a challenge. A lot of publicity had gone into the event, with radio broadcasts, full page rev...

UK Relay League Decided

After the Scottish Relay Championships at Errochty the UK Relay league has been decided. Victory for OD meant they took the series title for the second year in a row, while in the womens although they finished a long way down on EUOC, by completing the course SYO did enough to beat Interlopers o...

World Students::Team News

[nope] can confirm that Nick Morgan has dropped out of the World Students team following his selection to the European Champs team. Clive Parry, reserve, will fill his space in the team.

British Champs 2005

The date for the British Champs 2005 has been changed to 16th/17th April. The venue remains Penhale Sands. The weekend will incorporate the British Elite, British Junior, British Senior and British Relay Championships.

UKRL - Tie Breaker

In order to avoid any debate at the Scottish Relay Championships this weekend the following has been agreed as the means of deciding the winner of the UK Relay League should there be a tie under the current scoring system. If the sum of the three counting races is equal then the winning tea...

UK Cup Race 9

LOC National Event The penultimate UK Cup weekend took place over a rather warm couple of days in the Lake District. Sundays race saw a return to Holme Fell, having not been used for a major event since the JOK Sprint was there 5 years ago. A minor problem with the car parking, due to a rath...

European Champs Team

From BOF: The higher standard of results produced by many athletes and the mix of results produced, made the selecting of the European Championships Team extremely difficult. We have selected the team that we believe will produce the best results in Denmark. We have used the selection races a...

British Sprint Championships

It was a double for SYO today as it was both Kim Buckley and World Champion Jamie Stevenson™ who took the honours at the British Sprint Championships. Stevenson won by the somewhat comfortable margin of 14 seconds from GBR relay teammate Dan Marston but it wasn't until the final 4 controls that ...

Harvester Relays

Harvester Relays 2004 This year held by Mole Valley on Pippingford Park, part of Ashdown Forest with areas of low heather, lightening quick woodland and open parkland. Times were fast and the conditions were good, with a slight mist in the valleys. The organisation was very good, with radio c...

Peel Land Surveys MTB-O

bruce duncan reports... MTB Orienteering Saturday saw the 3rd round of the Peel Land Surveys Mountain Bike Orienteering Series, this race being held in Sherwood Pines, venue of the JOK chasing sprint, and home to miles of brambles. The weather was ok, rain was threatened, but stayed off ...

Jack Bloor Fell Race

Jack Bloor Fell Race The Jack Bloor race is an annual event held on Ilkley Moor, and the event is held as a tribute to Jack Bloor (1926-84). All profits from the races are used to promote outdoor activities and sporting interest for young people. During the last fifteen years, the Jack Bloor ...

JBOC 2005

One of the decisions made at Council on Saturday 8th May was that the British Junior Championships should be held with the British Championships at Penhale and not with the World Cup on the early May Bank Holiday. The decision was made much easier by SWOA announcing that, in principle, Penhale ...

0007 Day 2

Triple O Seven Classic Race Once again a big race descended on Lydney Park in the Forest of Dean after the JK Day 1 in 2002. Combined with the Triple O Seven short race the classic provided the backdrop for selection races for the European Champs in Denmark and the final of the future champion...

Compass Sport Cup Final

Compass Sport Cup Final This year’s Compass Sport Cup and Trophy Final took place at Pillar Woods, nr Grimsby, expertly put on by HALO. The area was an exceedingly fast beech forest, with just a few areas of undergrowth. The early starters were unfortunate as tracks quickly appeared through ...

New GBR Team Kit

Nopesport can reveal the new o kit design for team GBR. The top, above, is made by Kampela and is sumplemented with navy o-bottoms. There are also navy sprint tops, t-shirts and tracksuits, by Ron Hill.

World Students Selections

This weekend saw the final selection races for the World Students held this year in the Czech Republic. Britain's girls are defending relay champions Ewan McCarthy (MAROC) Matt Crane (SHUOC) ® Allan Bogle (NWOC/HALDEN) ® Ed Nash (KNOBOC) ® Nick Morgan (OD) ® Reserve Clive Parry (CLYDE)...

UK Cup standings after 0007

We have now had 7 races of the season, and with just 2 more weekends to go if you haven’t started scoring points already it’s a bit late to start now! Stephen Palmer came back to Britain for the weekend from Sweden to take the most points from the Men’s class, with Allan Bogle, Matt Speake, Matt...

0007 Day 1

0007 Day 1 - Short Race. 16 seconds, that was the gap dividing the top senior, Helen Winskill, and the top junior, Mhairi Mackenzie, NYT. Luckily for Andy Kitchen, who has put up a prize of £100 for the first junior to win a UK Cup race the result was in Helens favour. It was a fairly damp ...

SOL3

The meercat that had tunnelled through into the Children's Play Area had hordes of visitors today, as SOL3 visited the Auchengarrich Wildlife Centre at Mill of Fortune. The Interloper's event had 390 competitors, a very high number for a SOL, who were later spotted basking happily in the sunshine...

New Sponsors for GB Squad

The new sponsors have just been announced. Despite much speculation it is the gentleman above who is responsible for the new running clothing for the squad. Expect all squaddies to be sporting a cheeky moustache and a pair of tracksters soon. Ron Hill is an all round running legend and hasn't mis...

British Blodslitet

Saturday saw the second running of the British Blodslitet. This race is hosted by South Ribble and the idea is taken from the Norwegian Orientering Club Fredrikstad (home of British Orienteer Clive Parry). Blodslitet translated as the Blood Race is a long distance mass start race. This year the e...

UK Cup overall standings

We have now had 5 rounds of this year’s UK cup, and we already have a few people pulling away in the overall standings. However, with not even half of the races having taken place, nothing is certain at all. In the men’s, a good couple of runs from last year’s British Elite Classic race champ...

JK Veterans

Charlie Adams drinking a victorius pint in anticipation of his victory in 15 years time The Graythwaite Estate also provided great racing for the veterans. As with all previous JK races the veteran classes are the most competitive attracting the most numbers to the respective age classes. This...

JK Elites

JK Individual – Elite Classes The crè de la crè of British Orienteering. The geeks and the sub-gods, the guys and the girls who train for it, race for it and live for it. And they were all in one place – Graythwaite estate in the heart of the Lake District. Although only a selection race fo...

Peel Adventure MTB-O: Race 1

Friday saw the 1st round of the Peel MTB-O series of races for 2004. It was held on a slightly chilly/dull day of typical Lakeland weather in the mighty forest of Grizedale. The numbers were up on many of the previous races due to it being before the JK and reasonably accessible to lots of peop...

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