Emily Benham, Double World MTBO Champion While some of us were sunning ourselves (ha ha) in South Wales, Sarum former club member Emily Benham put in a stunning performance becoming a double World Champion at the World Mountain Bike Orienteering Championships held in Aveiro-Coimbra, Portugal. Emily took the gold in the Sprint race in a…
Posts from 2016 (Page 2)
SARUM CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS The last few years have seen Sarum adding variety to the Club Championships by offering novel race formats in compact areas, such as the Moot at Downton, that support micro-sprint type events. This year the Championships were held in Churchill Gardens as part of the Sarum Summer Series midweek evening events. Planner…
Two teams of veterans from Sarum Orienteers competed last weekend in the Wessex Orienteers Hardy Relays. The event was held at Upton Country Park near Poole, Dorset and provided some good orienteering challenges over mixed terrain including open parkland and woodland. The race was run using the Harris format whereby teams of three each have…
Round three of the Sarum Summer Series took us to a recently refurbished Victoria Park for an urban-based course planned by Rachel. A score event, runners had to select to visit even or odd numbered controls before tackling the other set. On a lovely evening the usual suspects were joined by several visitors and the…
British Sprint and Middle Distance Championships 2016 A small flock of Sarum Orienteers headed east to compete in the 2016 British Sprint and Middle Distance Championships. The sprint races were held in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, an area of reclaimed wetlands in the Lea Valley that includes some of the iconic structures used in…
Tamar Triple Success for Sarum Orienteers Seventeen Sarum Orienteers competed successfully in the three day Tamar Triple festival which involved running in three different types of race over the Bank Holiday weekend. It was a weekend of good performances from Sarum with five club members coming away as SWOA middle distance Champions. Day 1 was…
With much sadness we report the death of Pam Swienton after a fight against cancer. Pam may not be well known to everyone in the Club but for many years she has been an absolute mainstay of the work we have done promoting orienteering in schools in Salisbury and across S. Wiltshire and the Avon…
The second event in the Sarum Summer Score Series took us over to Downton where Peter had planned a ‘linear score’ course in the Moot which is a great place for a small course as there are so many contour features in a small (250x200m) area. It is very much orienteering in three dimensions. The…
Sarum takes Orienteering to Warminster Schools On a glorious sunny day in May over 140 children in years 5 and 6 from nine primary schools in Warminster, Westbury and Trowbridge and neighbouring villages took time out of normal lessons to take part in an orienteering competition held in Southleigh Wood, Warminster organised by Sarum Orienteering…
A small contingent of 13 Sarum Orienteers joined 500 other runners to compete in the Chiltern Challenge held in Wendover Woods in Buckinghamshire. The Chilterns are famed for the Red Kite populations that they support and it was quite uplifting on the drives there and back to see these magnificent birds in flight. When the…