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Pippa represents GB at EYOC
Well done to Pippa Dakin, who earlier in the summer, represented GB at the European Youth Orienteering Championships. Read her report on her experience.......
This year the competition was held in Poland and based in the city of Jaroslaw. There were three races in total; Long, Relay and Sprint.
Before we travelled out the team had spent time familiarising ourselves with the terrain that we would be faced with by looking at maps of the area and planning courses for each other. Only the Long area had a previous map and so one of the GB coaches created a map of the Sprint area for our use! To further help with preparations as what to expect from the terrain, when we arrived we had the chance to walk around the town where the Sprint was to be run and also participate in the model event on the Eastern part of the area where the Long was to be held. We knew after the trainings that it was going to be a tough few days ahead of us with temperatures hitting 30 degrees Celsius as well as the extremely physical terrain.
Being my last year at the competition I had hopes that all my training, both physical and technical, in the lead up to the competition would enable me to post pleasing results, unfortunately this was not exactly the case.
In the Long race I made a number of technical mistakes and was also feeling very physically drained due to the heat and tough terrain. This led me to a 34th place and out of the top 20 finish I had hoped for, 6 minutes behind 20th position.
For the Relay it had been decided that I was to run in a mixed relay and was on first leg, my preferred leg! This race I was much cleaner than the previous day with only one technical slip up and was much happier afterwards.
The Sprint was the last race and I was feeling very tired and not as sprightly as I had hoped. This meant the whole course was a struggle to get up to speed, and even though technically relatively clean I ended up in 36th place.
I had a great time in Poland and I am very grateful for the financial help I received - this helps me to continue orienteering to high levels and rely less heavily on my parents for financial support. I have learnt many lessons from the EYOC 2016 experience about where the faults are in my orienteering, specifically in technique and how to approach racing and can now work on these so that in the future I can achieve that top 20 placing that I have set my sights on!
Ian Wainwright
We are sorry to have to report that Ian Wainwright died in the early hours of Wednesday last week.
Ian was passionate about running, for many years running every day. He was active in SYO both as competitor and official before he broke his neck in 2009 in an unfortunate accident. He still completed a section of the Olympic Torch Relay in 2012.
Quoting from Hallamshire Harriers' Facebook page:
"Everyone who encountered Ian will remember his forthright and honest views, his compassion, generosity, support, love of life and his sense of humour. Ian’s philosophy of life is aptly summed up in the words of one of his great heroes, Emil Zatopek: ‘Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.’"
Ian’s funeral will take place at Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium on Thursday 4 August at 12.30 pm. To anyone attending, could you please follow this link so his family are aware of how many are attending, thank you.
https://m.facebook.com/events/1005869532865656?refid=12
Our thoughts are with Margaret and the rest of the family.
Logo Competition
The process of agreeing SYO's new logo is nearing completion. The 3 finalists of the SYO logo competition are Adam Bradbury, Marcia Bradbury and Julian Pieters. We would like club members to vote for their favourite. The one with the highest number of votes will become SYO's new logo. Please email
Logo A
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Logo C
Yvette Baker Trophy 2016
On Sunday 3rd July the SYO Junior team travelled by coach to the YBT final at Wormley Woods in Hertfordshire. More than 30 juniors ran on behalf of SYO, more than any other club! 13 English clubs competed in the competition with BOK topping the leader board on 874 points. Our noticeably young team performed incredibly well to finish in 6th place with a score of 848, only 3 points behind 4th placed Devon - last year's winners.
Well done to everyone who took part, but particular congratulations to those whose scores counted to the final result:
Name Class Score
Conrad Reuber Yellow Boys 99
Euan Tryner Orange Boys 99
Freya Tryner Yellow Girls 97
Freddie Emmett Yellow Boys 95
Alex Elliott Orange Girls 95
Jamie Lightfoot Orange Boys 93
Carys Phoenix Yellow Girls 93
Yasmin Field Green Girls 90
Louise Adams Green Girls 87
Next year's final is on Sunday 2nd July in Alnwick, Northumberland. Put the date in your diaries.......
South Yorkshire Schools Orienteering Final
Hunters Bar Y3/4 Girls Winners
216 pupils aged 7-11 from 28 schools across Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield, took to the scenic fields of Canon Hall Country Park to compete in the South Yorkshire School Games, Orienteering Finals. South Yorkshire Orienteers' Colin Best organised the finals in conjunction with South Yorkshire Sport to support and promote orienteering in the region.
It was wonderful to see so many of our regular schools' league competitors and club members qualifying with their school teams for the finals. The standard of orienteering was excellent, which is testament to the success of the Sheffield Schools' League in developing the sport of orienteering.
In the year 3/4 girls compeition, club members Ciara Keen and Freya Tryner were part of the winning team. Meanwhile, the year 5/6 boys competition was a very close fought affair. SYO's Daniel Hill played an integral part in leading Totley All Saints to a win, narrowly beating Hunters Bar in 2nd (Euan Tryner & Conrad Reuber - both SYO and classmate,Eddie Hall) and Nether Green, who were helped into 3rd place by SYO's Jamie Lightfoot.
The 2016/17 schools' league starts again in Endcliffe Park on Saturday 10th September from 1-3pm in Endcliffe Park and is open to all.