 The Harvester night relays take place at Henley on 17th/18th May, and club captain Tim Tett will be looking to form several strong SYO teams for the event. Expect to see an email or message on the Forum from him soon, seeking volunteers for the teams. More details here |
| The British Elite championships at Middle and Sprint distance took place on 5th/6th April. Excellent results for SYO, including a win for Matt Crane at Middle distance, and some other highly placed SYO runners, as reported on the BOF news pages. BOF report here |
At the JK international orienteering weekend held in southern England over the Easterweekend, SYO members obtained  several podium places but only one overall winner, who was Kelly Candy on W21N. In the relays on Easter Monday the Junior (M/W40-) team achieved 3rd place, theWomen's Open team (Jo Stevenson, Grace Elson, Jenny Johnson) got 2nd place and the Senior Men (120 ) team (Martin Ward, Mark Chapman, Charlie Adams) won, retaining their trophy from last year. |
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British Orienteering Board of Directors.
Martin Ward was elected to be a BOF director at the AGM held at the JK. SYO now has two members on the board of ten people, with the other being Jenny Peel, BOF Treasurer. The first meeting of the new board is on 16th April. |
Interland, 1st/2nd March.
SYO members Nick Barrable, Mike Sprot and Martin Ward were part of the England team that competed at the annual Interland competition, this time held in Holland. England were again victorious, with Nick Barrable winning the H21 class. More info here |
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| British Night champs were held in the Forest of Dean on 23rd February. SYO winners were Nick Barrable (M21L), Martin Ward (M40L), Jenny Peel (W40L) and Monika Cooper (W60L). |
SYO Training Weekend
The event planned for the Yorkshire Dales is now not going ahead due to lack of coaching staff available, but may be replaced by an event on another weekend. Watch out for further news. |
Martin Ward standing for BOF director - postal votes due now!
SYO member, Martin Ward, is standing for election to one of the Director positions of BOF on 22 March. Read Martin's election address here |
Footpath relay 2008
Please contact Tim Tett, timtett (AT) ttpca.force9.net if you are interested in taking part in this year's Footpath Relay, which is being organised by Ashbourne Rugby Club and will take place on 14th or 15th June. This event is a 24 person, 12 stage relay. Contact Tim for more information. Prompt replies please. |
| The recent Northern Orienteering Championships at Arncliffe Wood produced some excellent results for SYO juniors. Trophy winners were: Louise Adams, W10; Michael Adams, M14 and Adam Bradbury M18. Also Aiden Smith got third, and Simon Bradbury 4th, just missed out by 2 minutes on M14. |
SYO Training Weekend in the Yorkshire Dales
Need to improve your Orienteering skills?
Need to know how to get fit?
Need a weekend away from home?
Then come to the Yorkshire Dales for SYO's Training Weekend!
We need to confirm our booking in the next few weeks so we need to know
who's interested in coming. If you think you'd like to come or want to find
out more please contact Tim Tett on 0114 266 7922 / 07771725021 or email:timtett(AT)ttpca.force9.net by Feb 20th.
More details... |
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Website redesign
You'll have noticed the website looks a bit different. We have moved things around so that the information you need most frequently is on the front page. We will be adding more features, and hope to enable members to make changes to the content soon; in the meantime, please send updates to Chris Littler |
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Photos wanted!
Help spruce up the new website by sending us your SYO-related photos for use on these pages. Please say if you want an accreditation or copyright statement adding. |
Change of venue
Please note the 8 & 9 March events at Bawtry have been changed to Burbage. Offers of help please to Brian Shaw: brian (AT) drgbshaw.mail1.co.uk |
SYO Successes at Portugal O Meet
Several SYO members have made the trip down to Faro in Portugal for the 2008 Portugal O Meet.
Oli Johnson won the M21E class over the four days beating many top Scandinavians including most of the Norwegian team. Mike Sprot, Rob Baker, Neil Northrop, Clare Leventon and Laura Daniel have also taken several notable scalps during 4 days of top quality competition.
M21E
1st Oli Johnson
11th Mike Sprot
16th Rob Baker
18th Neil Northrop
61st Shane Ohly
114 runners
W21E
16th Laura Daniel
27th Clare Leventon
In the non-elite classes SYO have 3 other podium results overall;
W40A 5th Judith Checkley
W60A 2nd Jill Gorvett
M60A 2nd Pete Gorvett.
Full results available POM results |
SYO Achieve Clubmark
Congratulations are in order for all members of South Yorkshire Orienteers as we have become the 20th British Orienteering club to achieve Clubmark. Thanks must go to Colin Best and Melinda Riley who put a lot of hard work into making this a reality.
Further information on what this entails.
The club's policies can be viewed via the members' pages |
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Orienteer of the year
SYO member and former World Champion Jamie Stevenson has been named Orienteer of the Year by British Orienteering for his 9th place in the World Champs Long in Kiev in August. |
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SYO Newsletter
The September edition of SYO News (with colour photos) can be downloaded here. (It's a PDF so you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read it)
If anyone would like to receive SYO News electronically in future (it looks much better in colour) then please email ja_butcher@DONOTSPAMMEyahoo.co.uk (remove the capitals!). |
