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The British Orienteering Championships are the highest level of competition in Orienteering in the United Kingdom, along with the JK Orienteering Festival. 1967 saw the first British Championships, held in Hamsterley Forest. Since then, 4 further disciplines have emerged: the Relay, Night, Middle and Sprint Championships.
The British Orienteering Federation Limited, generally known and branded as British Orienteering, is the national sports governing body for the sport of orienteering in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ] The federation was founded in June 1967, and is a member of the IOF .
Kainuu Orienteering Week, held annually in Finland with four races and ca. 4000 orienteers participate. Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering; The Scottish Six Days Orienteering Event, held biennially in Scotland since 1977, with typically 3,500 individual competitors
The Jan Kjellström International Orienteering Festival or "JK" is the premier domestic orienteering competition in the United Kingdom along with the British Orienteering Championships, usually held over the Easter Weekend. 1967 saw the first JK event, held in memory of Jan Kjellström. The annual JK moved to Easter in 1969, and now regularly ...
He entered the men's event of the Australian Orienteering Championships in October of that year and finished in first place. [6] Bagness entered and won the British Orienteering Championships again in March 1985. [7] He entered the men's individual competition of the 1985 World Orienteering Championships, but fell during the race and lost. [8]
The 9 English regions of the British Orienteering Federation (BOF) are Members of English Orienteering Council (EOC). Its voting members are representatives of each of the nine English regions of the BOF. The Council meets each year at the Jan Kjellström International Orienteering Festival to make policy decisions. EOC is not a National ...
Additionally, there are a large number of orienteering events staged all over the south-east run by other clubs, which SLOW members regularly compete at. [3] The club is a member of the South East Orienteering Association and the national governing body British Orienteering
The university won the first men's relay at the JK Orienteering Festival in 1969; The event was held in Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The club then went through a period with little domestic success. The next win at the domestic relays was the British Orienteering Championships in 1991, where the women's team won, retaining their title a year ...