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BOF Awards
Each year BOF makes awards for the best international performances. This year there was an additional award for the best elite planner.
Best Senior Performance: Jamie Stevenson, WOC Classic 8th.
Best Junior Performance: Alison O'Neil, JWOC Short 4th, Classic 3rd.
Best Senior Performance at...
GBR Squad Inaugural
It's been a pretty good year for everyone involved with the British Teams this year, what with JWOC and JEC medals for the Juniors, countless top 10s and relay medals at the World Students, and strong performances accross the board at WOC. The traditional "Inaugural" weekend provides an opportun...
West Midlands Championships
Today saw the West Midlands Championships hosted by Wrekin Orienteers at their colour coded (sorry, district) event held at Shobdon Hill Woods. Ifor Powell won the 8km Brown course in a time of 69:16 with the 330m of climb obviously slowing times down. Closest class of the day was M16 with Walton...
Glasgow Parks Challenge
Three parks, one day, that was the score in Glasgow today for the STAG Park challenge.
Racing kicked off with the relatively simple Alexandra park. Murray Strain fought off the nopesport party hangover to take the lead in the Open class by 31 seconds from on-form Ross McLennan. Danielle Winds...
Micro-orienteering
The first birthday of the UK's finest orienteering website seemed an ideal opportunity to introduce a new format of orienteering racing to the UK.
The location was an ancient quarry beneath the Salisbury Crags, one of the classic images of Edinburgh. A special 1:2000 map had been prepared, ...
Derek Allison Awarded
Director of coaching at the British Orienteering Federation (BOF), Derek Allison will be inducted into the Coaching Hall of Fame by HRH The Princess Royal at the UK 2004 Coaching Awards, (Thursday 2 December). The Coaching Awards is a prestigious ceremony held at the Caféoyal, London and organise...
Fylingdales National
CLOK’s National Event was marred by the malfunctioning of an S.I. unit, and due to the nature of the event (i.e. it was a national event) it was the controller’s decision to disqualify those who could not prove they had been to the control site. The official quote from CLOK’s website is
“Not...
Southern Night Champs
The Southern Night Champs were held at West Woods, near Marlborough, by SLOG this weekend. A large contingent from the Army were on hand to compete in the Army championships, and as a result many of the age classes were slightly less well attended. Even so, Clive Hallett (BOK) put in a fine per...
JK DVD
As you may or may not remember SKY TV sent their cameras to the JK to capture some footage of the sport that is orienteering. This was televised over a series of short programs on Sky Sports in September and October. A DVD is now available for purchase from BOF. A great opportunity to keep a piec...
JK and the Holy Grail?
JK and the Holy Grail?
Orienteers love a puzzle and a fascinating new theory has highlighted a centuries old enigma on the doorstep of next year’s JK. The secret code on the bottom of the famous Shepherd’s Monument at Shugborough Hall on the edge of Cannock Chase has been the subject of conje...
Cambridge Sprint-O
Every year, just as its starting to get a bit nippy, students of all ilk gather in the forests near Cambridge for a bit of a party, and a little o race. Its an interesting format of a race, a sort of knockout run on loop courses which usually leads to fights and sprint finishes as the the masses ...
British Squad Fundraising
Murray Strain, Graeme Ackland and Scott Fraser will attempt to beat the World 10,000m Record of 26:20 set by Kenenisa Bekele.
There is 50x 200m to be completed and we will do it in relay style. (E.g. Scott runs 200m passes to Murray (he runs 200m) then he passes to Graeme (he runs 200m). This...
World Cup Changes
Change of Programme at British World Cup Races.
BOF and IOF have agreed that the programme for Round 1 of the Orienteering World Cup 2005 should be changed.
The IOF has recently learned that many of the National Teams will be sending a reduced number of competitors to all races in the 2005...
SEDS 2005
The new-look Scottish Elite Developement Squad was unveiled recently by its 'guardians'. The selected athlets will recieve discounts on SEDS training weekends, a summer tour and the SHI's.
The new squad is:
>Mhairi Mackenzie
>Claire Ward
>Hazel Dean
>Janine Hensman
>Murray Strain
>Patri...
Tinto Twin
The annual night and day extravaganza that is the Tinto Twin was held in Newcastleton Forest last weekend, a fine bit of borders plantation marking the events return to its taditional home in the South of Scotland, after last years soiree up to Inshriach.
The night event incorporated the Scott...
Karrimor International
Karrimor International Mountain Marathon
You’ve probably heard of the KIMM and either competed, thought it sounded crazy or fall somewhere between the two. Having just successfully completed my third KIMM it’s something I’d recommend all orienteers have a go at. Founded in 1968 the KIMM, is wi...
November Classic
One of the largest Regional events of the year took place in the New Forest today, with SOC’s 37th running of the November Classic (is this the longest running club event in the country?) playing host to over 1000 competitors on what turned out to be an overcast but mainly dry day. Dry, however,...
British Squad 2005
The elite end of orienteering in Great Britain has had a shake up with the Senior Squad no longer divided into two groups. The senior squad has also been reduced in numbers with, amongst others, Murray Strain, Dickie Wren and Stewart Fishwick being left out. However a place has been made for JEC ...
NI Championships
Last weekend the Northern Ireland Orienteering championships returned to Tullymore forest park, Newcastle. This area has been used many times for events but this year a new extended map was being used. It consists of a fast running mature woodland on the foot of the Mourne mountains and open moun...
October Odyssey
This year’s October Odyssey was held last weekend in the North East. The event retained its traditional double regional event style with Day 1 being held at Dukes House Wood and Day 2 held on Simonside home of the 2004 British Championships. For a good use of cost effectiveness the Organiser...
England Triumph at VHI
It was a close run thing, but a disqualification for Scotland in the relay meant England took the VHI title in Northern Ireland this weekend.
The relays were held on Saturday, and although a Scottish team crossed the line first, they were disqualified because they failed to punch a control whi...
Nightmare at BOKTrot!
Bristol OK's annual BOKTrot was besieged by problems this year as Motorway closures and an SI nightmare tainted an otherwise sucessful event.
Some competitors, travelling from south of Bristol, were caught up in huge traffic jams after an accident forced the closing of the M5. For those that m...
World Cup Final Team
The British team for the world cup finals in Germany has been announced. There are two senior international debuts for Ewan McCarthy and Nope Young Team member Mhairi Mckenzie
Derek Allison, BOF Director of Coaching said "We are sending our leading runners whom we believe can deliver high pos...
Rat Race on Sky TV
Well those of you who want an idea of what Fiona Berrow, Bruce Duncan & Pete James put themselves through in order to win the Rat Race this year can see coverage on TV this week. Those with Sky TV can see footage at the following times:
19:00 on Monday 13th September on the Sky Sports 2 channe...
Sportnation 2004 on Sky
During September and October Sky Sports will be broadcasting Sportnation 2004. This series of programmes will feature footage from Day 2 at the JK 2004.
Content of the programmes is unkown as yet, but the dates have been confirmed for broadcast.
Programme 2
3rd September 16.30 Sky Sports ...
BOF fees
BOF has announced a new membership deal to non-members.
Anyone joining the Federation after 1st September 2004 will receive membership valid until the end of 2005, all for the price of a year's subscription.
Many membership benefits are mentioned on the BOF website
Team GB for World Champs
The selectors have released the British Team for the World Championships, held this year in Väerå Sweden. The past 3 days have seen the selection races held around Stockholm and 20 men and 15 women made the journey to compete and try to win their place at WOC, now just 32 days away.
Saturday ...
Rat Race Winner Report
The Rat Race
Well, after a day of recover and contemplation, it is really starting to sink in just how big a victory that was on Sunday. I’ve won quite a few orienteering races in the past, usually with less than 50 people competing, but to win a race with over 300 people racing doing all kin...
Rat Race Urban Adventure
Hot off the press here in Edinburgh, the winners of the first Urban Adventure race in the UK were the Orange/Saab Salamon Team of Fiona Berrow, Bruce Duncan and Pete James - all three of course are orienteers. What makes their victory is that this team only came together a couple of weeks ago th...
EOC : : Team News
Following the news that Allan Bogle has been added to the British Team for the European Champs, to run in the Sprint distance, it has now been revealed that Kim Buckley has dropped out of the team
Kim fell in training last week and has injured her knee. She has been diagnosed twice and both d...
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