News
News
SYO Hall of Fame
Adam Bradbury and I have added new sections to the About SYO/Hall of Fame drop-down which give details of all our winners in various categories since SYO was formed in 1972. They were originally part of a booklet given to members in 1997 to celebrate our silver jubilee and for which many had assisted by looking through old results, and other research was done from old newsletters and CompassSports. Fortunately, since 1997 it became much easier to keep the spreadsheet up to date as results became available online.
In the next few weeks we will add further sections giving details of all SYO events, maps, how the club was formed and other things, all of which we hope you will find 'interesting'!
We are aware of one or two formatting issues but if you find any errors or omissions, please add a comment here or email me.
Yorkshire Superleague 2011
Jan 23 EPOC Marsden Moor
Competitors will count a maximum of 5 races. Rules remain the same as in 2010 and can be seen here : http://www.orienteering.ilkley.org/clubdocs/YOS_2011.htm
UK Masters Cup - a new competition series for 2011
Following on from the UK Cup for elite runners, and the Future Champions Cup for juniors, a new national competition for over-35s is being launched this year: the UK Masters Cup. Details have been posted to the BOF website Events > Competitions > National Senior Competitions. I am circulating to as wide an audience as possible, as details weren't ready for publication in Focus or elsewhere in British Orienteering until the last couple of weeks. Please do pass information on to fellow club members!
The aim of the UKMC is to organise a high quality national level competition for over-35s using a range of the alternative formats and disciplines that have been developed over recent years. The competition is based on the five-year age bands for Men and Women. At each race, in each age class, scoring will be 60-55-51-48-46-45-44....1. 19 races have been designated as UK Masters Cup races in 2011, with individuals able to count a maximum of 8. Highest score at the end of the year wins!
Some races, eg the urban races, are not set up in 5-year bands. At these races, the organisers will designate courses to age classes, and the results will be separated out by the co-ordinator for scoring.
The co-ordinator for this competition is Eddie Harwood of Moravian, on behalf of Senior Competitions Group, but if you have any queries, I'll do my best to answer them!
The races for 2011 are:
Jan 22 SOA EUOC Edinburgh City Race
Feb 05 WMOA British Night Championships, Tamworth
Feb 20 EAOA Midland Champs, Sheringham
Feb 26 NWOA MDOC Twin Peak Day 1, Middle Distance, Bleathwaite
Mar 06 WOA Welsh Championships
Mar 13 SCOA Southern Championships, Henley
Mar 27 NEOA Northern Championships, Northumberland
Apr 09 SEOA British Sprint Championships, Brighton
Apr 10 SEOA British Middle Championships, Crawley
Apr 22 NIOA JK Sprint
Apr 23-24 NIOA JK Days 2 & 3 combined
May 14 YHOA British Long Championships, Wharncliffe
May 21 NWOA LOC Middle Distance, Bigland
May 29 SOA Scottish Championships
Jul 31 SOA Scottish 6-Days Day 1, Oban
Aug 05 SOA Scottish 6-Days Day 5, Oban
Sep 10 SEOA SLOW City of London Race
Sep 17-18 SWOA Caddihoe Chase (both days combined)
Oct 22 EAOA CUOC Cambridge City Race
Andy Kelly, for British Orienteering Senior Competitions Group.
World Schools Selections
Congratulations to Katherine Hall who has been selected to represent Britain in the ISSF World Schools Championships at the Dolomites in north Italy next May. Katherine came 3rd in the selection race on 20 November.
Well done also to Zac Field who came 3rd the British Schools Orienteering Championships at Wormley Woods, Broxbourne on 21 November.
Photo © Robert Lines.