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World Orienteering Day, Summer Training Camps and other results
The World Orienteering Day event at Abbey Fields and around Kenilworth Town was hugely popular with 145 entrants for the 5 park and urban courses. In the UK there were 137 events and from around the world there were 79 countries, 2589 registered events with participation level currently standing at 223,422 with 787 locations still to register. Organiser Rob Smart and Dave Chandler were very pleased to see so many schools, Beavers and Cubs taking part. Winners of the courses were Joanna Leadley W14 in 7.49mins on the Park Easy 1.5km course, Alicia Roberts W16 in 20.49mins on the Park Medium 3.4km course, Felix Lunn M14 in 22.19mins on the Park Long 4.6km course, Paul Quinney M45 in 33.21mins on the Urban Short 3.5km course and Chris McCartney M45 40.25mins on the Urban Long 5.8km course. Full results are on the club website www.octavian-droobers.org.
Congratulations go to Oliver Flippance, Oliver Lunn and Felix Lunn all M14’s who have been selected to go to the week long national training camp at the end of July at Lagganlia, near Aviemore in Scotland. They earned their places by achieving championship standard in at least one of the major events during the past few months and were nominated by the West Midlands Junior Squad Orienteering Association. Congratulations also to Nathan Lawson M20 and Harrison McCartney M18 who have been invited, following successful results at major events, to the pre Junior World Championships training camp in August in Tampere, Finland.
Anne Straube W40 had a very successful East Sussex Triple Event Orienteering Weekend, coming 1st in the Women’s Open Sprint Race at Hampden Park in 13.59mins on the 2.4km course, she was also 4th in 46.44mins the Middle Distance 5.3km at Friston Forest and 3rd on the Green 4.2km course in the Long distance Race at Friston Forest in 33.29mins. Bruce Bryant M55 was 2nd and Roman Kotecky M55 3rd on the Blue Middle distance event and Max Straube Roth M10 was 1st on the White Middle Distance 1.3km course in 20.09mins.
There were 5 courses at the Whitchurch Urban Event and Harrison McCartney M18 was 3rd in 45.03mins and Chris McCartney M45 4th in 48.30mins on the longest 7.2km. Keith Willdig M65 was 4th and Peter Carey M70 5th on the 3.7km Course 3. Oliver Flippance M14 was 1st on the 2.1km Course 4.
18th May 2016
CAMBRIDGE SPRINTS, MANSTY WOODS AND WEST MIDLANDS SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS
The Cambridge Science City Double Urban Sprint Races, part of southern England Urban League, were fast and furious and set over two distinct urban areas. The first was in the commercial science park and the second around an intricate housing estate in North Cambridge. Alfie Bullus M16 was 3rd overall in the Men’s Junior category having been 2nd in the first race and 4th on the second with a total time of 32.29mins. Chris McCartney was 3rd overall in the Men’s Vet race taking a total of 29.27mins. Mike Hampton was 6th overall in the Men’s Ultra Vet class in 29.31mins and Peter Carey 7th in the same category in 29.41mins. Harriet Lawson was 6th in the Women’s Open in 33.23mins, Liz Phillips 5th in the Women’s Vet class in 35.44mins and Sheila Carey 5th in the Women’s Ultra Vet class in 29.58mins.
In glorious sunshine on Sunday the West Midlands League event at Mansty Wood, Cannock Chase, organised by Walton Chasers, saw some fast running by OD club members. On the Green 4.5km course Felix Lunn M14 32.40mins just beat his brother Oliver 33.17mins into 2nd place. Finley Flippance M12 was 2nd on the Orange 2.8km course in 41.41mins and Josie Smart W12 was also 2nd on the Yellow 2.4km course taking 18.08mins. Philip Lunn M45 was 2nd on the Light Green 3.3km course in 33.51mins and Tabitha Lunn W12 3rd in 35.50mins. On the Long Brown 8.4km course top ten places were: 6th David Leadley M50 59.27mins, 7th David Dunn M35 63.06mins, 9th Alex Ivanovs M35 63.42mins. Barry Elkington M60 was 6th on the Blue 6.5km course in 45.02mins.
The West Midlands Schools Championships were organised by City of Birmingham Orienteering Club and it was great to see so many club juniors representing their schools. Top junior club members runners were Tabitha Lunn 1st and Florence Lunn 2nd in the Primary Year 6 Girls class, Chris Markham 3rd Primary Year 5 Boys, Eoin Hankinson 1st and Finley Flippance 2nd in the Primary Year 6 Boys, Peter Markham 2nd Secondary Year 7/8 Boys, Oliver Lunn 1st and Felix Lunn 2nd Secondary Year 9/10 Boys and Harrison McCartney 1st and Stephen Elkington 2nd Secondary Year 11 Boys. Congratulations to local school teams for making the podium: Bablake Junior 2nd in the Primary category, King Henry VIII 2nd and Kenilworth School 3rd in the Secondary category. For full results see www.coboc.org.uk website.
10th May 2016