Published 19th April 2024

Last weekend a large SYO contingent travelled to the North East for the British Long and British Relay Championships. 

 

Mulgrave Woods was the setting for the British Long Distance Orienteering Champs. Although the courses were incredibly physical with tough, muddy conditions underfoot, our best athletes still powered their way onto the podium. Excitingly Olympic medallist and President of British Orienteering, Steve Cram, was on-hand to present the prizes.

3rd Louis Bryant M12

3rd Hannah Chapman W14

3rd Martin Ward M55

 

Sunday saw the action shift to Hutton Mulgrave and Skelder Woods for the relays. After a bit of slipping and sliding we all managed to negotiate the parking field just in time for the start! Courses were fast & tricky leading to very exciting races. SYO had a very successful day lifting 6 trophies and achieving another 8 podium positions. Congratulations to:

 

 

1st - W14 - Hannah Chapman, Sophie Howsam, Lucy Walwyn

1st - M14 - Freddie Guy, Nathan Peel, Maxwell Groom

1st - W18 - Anna Todd, Ella Baxter, Freya Tryner

1st - W40 - Jenny Johnson, Laura Goy, Kim Baxter

1st - M40 - Andy Preston, Nick Barrable, Oli Johnson

1st - Ad-hoc - Miia Roller, Ben Tedstill, Ben Stevens

 

 

2nd - Women's Open - Immy Pieters, Chloe Potter, Laura Robertson

2nd - M18 - Oscar Peel, Caspar Reynolds, James Bryant

2nd - Mini - Jemma Waters, Alex Johnson, Beau Elliott

2nd - M50 - Martin Ward, Mark Chapman, Pete Tryner

 

3rd - W50 - Lucy Wiegand, Amanda Crawshaw, Jenny Peel

3rd - M60 - Tim Tett, Nick Lightfoot, Charlie Adams

3rd - M14 - Stanley Preston, Jack Baxter, Jago Reynolds

3rd - Mini - Jack Walwyn, Louis Bryant, Lucy Holt

 

 

 

Published 3rd April 2024

On the final day of the JK we headed back north to Stanton Moor for the relays. Despite the rather relentless rain, we enjoyed a very exciting day of racing on lovely technical terrain. We saved our best performances to last, grabbing a fantastic 6 relay titles and another 4 podium positions. Performance of the day goes to our elite women taking the Women’s Premier trophy – great effort ladies!

Women’s Premier – Gold – Chloe Potter, Laura Robertson, Cat Taylor
Men’s Vet – Gold – Martin Ward, Tim Tett, Nick Barrable
Women’s Vet – Gold – Lucy Wiegand, Bronwen Doyle, Jenny Peel
Men’s Intermediate – Gold – Oscar Peel, Maxwell Groom, James Bryant
Women’s Intermediate – Gold – Anna Todd, Alice Pieters, Charlotte Chapman
Junior – Gold – Freddie Guy, Nedd Hunt, Stanley Preston

Women’s Intermediate – Silver – Ella Baxter, Hannah Chapman, Freya Tryner
Mini – Silver – Jemma Waters, Zac Garratt, Louis Bryant
Women’s Senior – Bronze - Jenny Johnson, Amanda Crawshaw, Kim Baxter
Women’s Premier – Bronze – Imogen Pieters, Laura Goy, Miia Roller

Published 3rd April 2024

The action transferred to Cannock Chase for days 2 and 3 of the JK. Both the middle and long races were held on a very muddy Beaudesert; the results of which were combined to calculate overall JK results. As a club we clearly prefer smooth tarmac to waist deep bogs, but we still performed well producing 3 JK Champions and 9 other podium positions. Well done to all those that got round but particular congratulations to our medallists!

W20E – Gold – Imogen Pieters
M20E – Gold – Euan Tryner
M75 – Gold - Peter Gorvett

M10 – Silver – Joseph Trenell
W10 – Silver – Martha Preston
M12 – Silver – Zac Garratt
M45 – Silver – Andy Preston
M50 – Silver – Nick Barrable

M14 – Bronze – Maxwell Groom
M16 – Bronze – Oscar Peel
M35 – Bronze – Joe Taunton
W40 – Bronze – Laura Goy

A special mention also to Yana Petrovska for 3^rd place on W21L and Sam Crawshaw for 1^st place on M21L.

Published 2nd April 2024

Over the Easter weekend 134 of our members descended on the Midlands for the Jan Kjellstrom Orienteering Competition. Day 1 took us to Loughborough University for the sprint race, where SYO had a very successful day at the office securing a whopping 16 podium positions, of which 3 were elite titles! Courses were technically challenging and the racing fast & furious.

Huge congratulations to our 9 JK sprint champions:

W21E – Laura Robertson
W20E – Immy Pieters
M20E – Euan Tryner
W10 – Martha Preston
M12 – Louis Bryant
W40 – Laura Goy
M45 – Oli Johnson
M50 – Nick Barrable
M55 – Martin Ward

Well done also to our 7 other medallists:

W12 – Beau Elliott – silver
W40 – Rachael Rothman – silver
W45 – Kim Baxter – silver
W55 – Jenny Peel - silver
M10 – Fred Garratt – bronze
M16 – Oscar Peel – bronze
W16 – Anna Todd - bronze