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  • Annual Prizegiving – Winners are……….

    Annual Prizegiving – Winners are……….

    Mike George Shield for Best Junior – Steven Denby – medal at British Schools Champs, won junior class at London City Race, won green course at YBT heat and has won blue courses at local events.

    Best Newcomer – Thomas Blyth-Bartram – Tom has jumped in at the deep end on the blue course, and shown steady improvement throughout the year, to the point where he is now beating many experienced orienteers. His second place at the AGM event highlights how far he has come in 12 months.

    Most improved – James Price – After several years ofmoderate progress on orange and light green, James’s improvement over the past 8 months has been startling. He has won green courses, completed blues, and won the East Anglian Champs.

     

     

     

    John Ward Trophy for best performance at a major event – Glen Richardson – M35 runner-up at 2016 British Sprint champs.

  • East Anglian Championships 2017

    East Anglian Championships 2017

    On a glorious day a large contingent of NOR members (17) made their way west to Rushmere Country Park for the 2017 East Anglian Championships hosted by SMOC. Rushmere is an excellent area with many varied types of terrain ranging from runnable forest, to heath and parkland and lots of contour detail.

    Congratulations to our winners, in particular James & Katerina who were East Anglian Champions for the first time.

    James Price (M14)
    Katerina Skarkova (W18)
    Ella Gilbert (W21 / Open)
    Mick Liston (M65)
    Sue Vine (W75)
    Barbara George (W80)
    Peter Levrington (M80)

    Our winners appear to be at both ends of the age spectrum. Let’s hope for some from the middle in future years!

    Our thanks go to SMOC for hosting an excellent event. Results can be found here

  • British Schools Championship Success for Norwich School

    British Schools Championship Success for Norwich School

    bsoc2016_2Eleven Norwich School pupils travelled to Bagworth Heath in Leicestershire on Saturday for the British Schools Score championships. All age-groups had 45 minutes to find a maximum of 31 controls. The headline result was a silver medal for William Blyth-Bartram in year 8. William got 28 controls, which was the joint highest score, but arrived back 16 seconds late, thus incurring 5 penalty points, which meant he finished in 2nd place. William only took up the sport 12 months ago, but has already started training with the East Anglian Junior Squad, and was named Newcomer of the Year at the NOR awards in June. Now he has his first national medal!
    Other impressive results came in year 9 – Josh Kohler 5th, Monty Platt 9th and James Price 10th, while in year 11 Steven Denby was 10th, James Thistlewood 15th, Tom Blythe-Bartram 16th and Katja Ruda 18th.

  • London City Race Win for Glen

    London City Race Win for Glen

    Congratulations to our Club Captain Glen Richardson who won the Veteran’s class in the London City Race at Rotherhithe last weekend.   In a time of 42:18 for the 7k course, he took 1st place with a winning margin of 57 seconds in a large field of 112  competitors.