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SYO Juniors Qualify for Yvette Baker Final
Today at EBOR's event at Ashdale Forest SYO's junior team qualified for the Yvette Baker Trophy final which is to be held at Mausoleum Woods (HALO) on Sunday 4th December. They had a 9 point lead over 2nd placed CLARO who only just pipped AIRE by 2 points.
Our juniors were helped by (junior) wins on the Green Boys, Light Green Girls and Orange Girls. On the Green course, Aidan, Zac and Michael secured 1st, 2nd and 3rd places respectively with several minutes lead.
This is the 3rd year in a row that SYO's juniors have qualified for the Yvette Baker Trophy Final. Congratulations to them all for their runs today and good luck at the final!
SYO take CompassSport Cup for 4th year running
Today SYO won the British Orienteering Club Championships very comfortably, with 2224 points, 161 points more than second place Octavian Droobers.
Congratulations to all our runners. Oli Johnson and Rob Baker have had a particularly successful weekend, being members of the Dark Peak Fell Runners team that won the FRA relay the previous day.
There were a couple of items of lost property: a pair of New Balance trainers and a watch. Please contact me (petergorvett on Hotmail.co.uk) to arrange return. Please contact Tim Tett if you didn't get a chance to collect your map.
2nd for SYO Juniors
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| Photos © Rob Lines |
Congratulations to SYO's junior team who came 2nd at the Peter Palmer Relays on Sunday in Stafford. The juniors were just beaten by Lakeland by 2 minutes and are determined to reclaim the Peter palmer Trophy next year.
The Peter Palmers are an overnight relay for juniors that start in the early morning when it is dark and by the time the last runner is back it is light. This year's event was organised by British Army Orienteering Club for the second year in a row and the barracks presented an interested change from the more traditional rural areas.
Results are here.
Sheffield City Race
Corrected results are now available.
This year the Sheffield City Race moved out from the centre, taking place in the Gleadless Valley in the south-east edge of town on Saturday. It is a great area for urban orienteering; many different shaped blocks surrounded by grass and a multitude of paths and steps gave the course planner an opportunity to present the runners with many route-choice and fine navigational challenges. About 240 competed, from as far afield as Surrey, Bristol, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
SYO members at the World Orienteering Championships
The World Orienteering Championships start this coming weekend in France, with SYO members Oli Johnson and Rachael Rothman both in the Great Britain team. Oli and Rach are both competing in the Long and Middle distance races, so are in action in the qualifiers on Saturday (Long) and Sunday (Middle). From everyone at SYO, good luck!
There should be good online coverage of the races both at the official website (http://www.woc2011.fr) and on World of O (http://www.worldofo.com/). Several SYO members are also going out to France to support in person, and take part in the spectator races.