Congratulations to Kim Eden on her impressive overall victory in the W55S class at the JK championships held over Easter weekend in the Lake District. Placing 1st on Day 1 and 2nd on Day 2, she took the overall title with a winning margin of 22 minutes!
photo courtesy of Wendy Carlisle
For those looking for some urban orienteering, here’s the list of the UK Urban League events this year. More information can be found on the websites of organising clubs.
The East Anglian championships took place at Croxton on Sunday. Bad weather meant the presentation was postponed, but 7 NOR members can look forward to getting their hands on some silverware. The role of honour is as follows……
I always like to see wins for NOR members. It is a bit more special to win something for the first time, and a narrow winning margin makes it all the more exciting. So Jonathan Gilbert is my man of the day, winning his first East Anglian title by 11 seconds.
In the NOR Colour Coded League 2014_15 CC League Table Ella Gilbert has established a big lead, Ian Renfrew looks comfortable in second, but there is a close battle for third.
The next action is this coming Sunday, at Cockley Cley.Looking further ahead, if you would like to run in the compassport cup, entries are now open on Fabian4.
And even further ahead, are you going to the JK or British Long Champs? If so, would you like to run in NOR relay team? So far seven people have expressed interest, and it looks like we’ll have male and female veteran teams, possibly plus another team. Entry deadline in Feb 15th, so let me know in the next few days if you are interested.
Glen Richardson
Fifteen pupils travelled to Leeds at the weekend to compete in the British Schools Orienteering Championships, and returned with their biggest ever haul of medals. Last year NOR member Steven Denby won their first individual medal, but this year they won bronze team medals in two age groups.
The first medallists were the L4 boys. The team of Gus Plater, Monty Platt, Ed Bayes, Alex Mandilakis and Joshua Kohler produced a very consistent set of results to secure third place. Gus was the highest finisher in 16th place, and the others were all close behind him. This is an amazing result considering how little previous experience the team had, and bodes well for the future.
The other medallists were at the opposite end of the experience spectrum. The U6 team of Ben Crane, Matthew Jefford and Kieran Betts have been competing together since L5 and in their final year, they finally got to step onto the podium. Ben produced probably his best ever race to come 6th individually, with Matt 14th and Kieran 16th. These results combined to secure richly deserved bronze medals.