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JK class winners
Over a glorious weekend on the Graythwaite Estate these people gained victory in their classes. Well done!
M21E 1.Jamie Stevenson
2. Nick Morgan
3. Ed Nash
W21E 1. Hannah Wooton
2. Helen Winskill
3. Jo Stevenson
M20E Mark Nixon
W20E Alison O'Neil
M10B Hugh Denton
M10A Didrik...
Indoor AR2:The Aftermath
Well am I knackered or am I knackered…I’m not sure, an all over body ache, bruises all over the legs, sore back and shoulders…oh and blisters all over the hands. This must rank among the most tiring events out there! Even Jamie said he might have a rest day tomorrow…
So the heats (saturday) we...
Scotland Win SHI's
Elite Test, SHI and Scot vs LTU.
Barr Wood, on the outskirts of Stirling was a trifle easier than the Trossachs, and courses were short to compensate for the previous days pain.
Lithuania took top honours in both classes to secure a 10 minute lead into the Vilnius leg of this years Sco/Ltu ...
Elite Test Day 1
Its one of the toughest areas in the world. And thats on a dry day! Mix in a persisent rain and the Trossachs becomes about as tough as it gets. Marsh, rock, heather, crags, streams and hills. Lots of hills.
But the courses are the same for everyone, so the toughest will win. And the toughes...
Senior Home Internationals
After a weekend of fantastic racing, congratulations go to Scotland who won the Senior Home Internationals with a convincing victory on home terrain.
After retaining the Individual title at the Trossachs yesterday they stretched their lead over England by winning both men's and women's relay...
Indoor Adventure Racing
Renault Kangoo Indoor Adventure Race
2nd-4th April 2004
The Outdoor Show, held at the NEC, this coming weekend, will host the third annual Indoor Adventure Race Championships. There are around 30 mixed teams (usually two men and one woman) competing in this unusual event. The event arena take...
SHI Teams & Start Lists
Here are the teams competing at this weekends Home Internationals at the Trossachs & Barr Wood.
Start Lists are now available: here
Final details are available: here
England SHI Team
In true tabloid style, we bring you the England SHI team before we know if it is actually final. If it changes, we will update this article as soon as possible.
Note: changes to M21 team have been ammended
M20
Mark Nixon SOC
Graham Gristwood OD
Mark Saunders LOC
M21
Duncan Archer ...
UK Cup 3
UK Cup Race 3 was held at the British Orienteering Championships on Simonside, 20th March. There was the usual debate beforehand about whether it should have been used for the British Elite Champs and whether the timing of the event was right, but NEOA put the politics aside and put on a UK Cup ...
British Champions 2004
Congratulations to all the 2004 British Junior Champions
M10A Aidan Smith SYO
M10B Christopher Nash SROC
M12B David Noblett WCOC
M12A Matthew Vokes DEE
M14A George Stevens AIRE
M14B Marcus Wheaterburn LOC
M16A John Rocke LEI
M16B Edward Davenport SROC
M18A Ole...
BOC : : Overview
British Orienteering Championships 2004
Incorporating Future Champions Cup Round 4 and Including UKCup Round 3.
Held on Simonside, near Rothbury, North-East England.
Since its original announcement this event had been clouded by criticisms, criticisms of the choice of area, the time of year....
NWOA CompassSport Cup
The NWOA round of the CSCup was held on Formby sand-dunes near Liverpool, organised by MEROC. With a high risk of control vandalism (possibly by the squirrels?!), traditional pin-punching was used, but the organisers still managed to get results out by the evening of the event.
In such a flat ...
EAOA CompassSport Cup
On Sunday all of East Anglia's clubs descended on Warren Wood, together with a few others from further afield, to battle it out for a place in the CompassSport Cup final. With no less than seven controls visible in the large felled area through which all the courses finished, there was plenty of...
YHOA/NEOA CSC Report
Compass Sport Cup – Yorkshire/North East round
SYO put on a good event for this year’s qualifying round of the Compass Sport Cup, held at Cawthorne Woods. The use of Darton High School as the event centre worked well, particularly as the conditions were not ideal on the day.
The forest was...
CS Cup Round 1 Roundup
Sunday saw the qualifying round for the Compass Sport Cup and Trophy over 7 regional heats.
Clubs progressing to the final later in the year are:
Cup
SO (SEOA)
MDOC (NWOA)
SOC (SCOA)
WCH (WMOA)
NOC (EMOA)
AIRE (YHOA)
Trophy
SARUM (SWOA)
SBOC (WOA)
SOS (EAOA)
ERYRI (NWOA)
CLA...
BUSA Relays
So, all Sheffield had to do was hold Edinburgh off in one of the relays. All Edinburgh had to do was beat Sheffield in both relays. Simple as that.
Bordon was another army area, a stones throw north of Longmoor but drastically different. Where Longmoor had been open heath, Bordon was all sa...
BUSA Individual
It was more like something from a ‘Nam movie than a orienteering event, platoons of young men and women pulling up to the barracks all fresh and eager, yet to have their souls broken by the army way. But this was not a movie, it was the 2004 BUSA Orienteering Champs, and the platoons were mostly...
BUSA preview
Just 2 days until the BUSA Championships 2004, so nopesport have decided to talk to the biggest university teams, and Leeds, to get their views on the up and coming races.
Predictions
Men’s Individual
ShUOC*: Ed Nash
EUOC: Rocky the Rhino
UNOC*: Matt Crane, Rocky the Rhino
Leeds: Matt C...
New BOF Website
BOF have finally unveiled their new website (over 6 months later than expected) and although much of it is still under construction, it still looks like a great improvement on the old one.
With a detailed introduction to orienteering in its different forms, explanations of orienteering event...
JOK Sprint report
The 2nd race of the UK Cup and 3rd race of the Future Champions Cup took place in the fast and furious Sherwood Pines. Conditions on the day were a bit chilly, though there was no wind, and the skies were clear – the only dilemma for runners was weather to go for the fashionable short-sleeve mes...
UK Cup 2 - Planner's Thoughts
I'm sure you'd rather read about the race, but here's the planners view. You'll need the map to make sense of it.
Planning the chasing sprint on Sherwood Pines was, well, a challenge it is certainly the worst area we've used. The area is full of tracks, there's no technical detail and the whi...
Irish Team for SHIs
Its not St Patricks Day, but we've got the Irish team to announce anyway!
Team
M20 Patrick Higgins, Christian Foley-Fisher, Seamus O'Boyle
M21 Niall Bourke, Stewart Caithness, Steven Linton, James Logue, Brendan O'Brien
W20 Sarah Browne, Niamh O'Boyle, Rosalind Hussey
W21 Aislinn Austin,...
BUSA Select
David Rosen has announced his BUSA Select team for the Combined Services Challenge this weekend. The match is versus the Army, Civil Service and a BOF select. This is also a prediction of the race results from a selector!
Team:
Women
Aislinn Austin - Leeds Met
Laura Daniel - Sheffield
...
SHI Wales Team
Befitting the atmosphere of St Davids day, nopesport are pleased to reveal the Wales Team for the Senior Home Internationals.
MEN
20 - Rhodri Buffet, Rhys Finlay-Robinson, Matthew Jones
21 - Richard Barrett, Pete Hodges, Dai Brickhill-Jones, Ifor Powell Tim Higginbottom, Rhys Manning
...
JOK Sprint Results
Initial Results from Sherwood Pines
In the prologue race, the top 2 were Laura Daniel and Claire Ward in the Women' and Matt Crane and Alan Bogle in the Men's.
In the chase, the top 10 was -
Women
1. Claire Ward INT 50.48
2. Laura Daniel BOK 51.40
3. Jenny Whitehead SYO 51.42
4. ...
British Nights Results
Initial Results from Crich Chase and The Hagg, Derbyshire
M21
1. Ed Nash KNOBOC 56.22
2. Neil Conway AIRE 59.32
3. Matt Crane WCH 60.30
4. Matt Speake EBOR 60.51
5. Mike Sprot SYO 60.55
6. Jez Edwards WAROC 61.11
7. Ben Rattray CLYDE 61.21
8. Neil Northrop SHUOC 61.40
9. Alastair Bu...
SportIdent to Sponsor GBR
BOF have announced a new sponsor for this year GB team: SportIdent. The manufacturers of Britains most popular electronic punching system will be upgrading all squad members SI cards to the new superfast version 6 model, in a special edition GB card.
SportIdent
Nopesport Trophy
The sun shone over the small village of Twechar as the participants of the inaugral nopesport trophy filtered into the industrial estate-cum assembly arena organisers Clyde had set up. The forrest was Barr Hill, not Barr Wood which is some 20 miles up the road, and it was the definition of mixed...
Scottish Team For LTU 2
SOA have announced their selected team for the away leg of the Scotland vs Lithuania match, to be played at the Vilnius 3-Days from 7-9th May.
It is:
W20
Mhairi MacKenzie
Fiona Berrow
W21
Gillian Godfree
Hazel Dean
Lorna Eades
Lisa Brown
Kirsty Bryan-Jones
Jo Stevenson?
Re...
O On The Beeb?
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED ON FRIDAY NIGHT ON BBC 1
BBC ONE's much-loved comedy sports quiz, They Think It's all Over, offers a touch of Orienteering in this weeks show.
A World Orienteering Champions is appearing on the prime time television show They Think It's All Over on Friday 20th Februar...
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