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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.
Megan Mitchell (née Carter-Davies; born 1996) is a British orienteering competitor. [2] She became sprint world champion at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships . [ 3 ] This made her only the third British athlete to become world champion in an individual discipline, after Yvette Hague and Jamie Stevenson .
August 5–11: North American Orienteering Championships (Senior, Junior, Youth) 2024 in Ottawa; August 16–20: European Orienteering Championships 2024 (as part of World Cup round) in Mór; October 11–14: South American Orienteering Championships in Colombia; December 20–26: Asian Orienteering Championships 2024 in Thailand
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 .
Megan Keith (born 23 April 2002) is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. [2] She was the 2023 European U23 champion over 5,000 metres and won a bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships .
Heather Monro (born 4 September 1971) [1] was the second British female [note 1] orienteer to win a world championship medal. She came 5th at the World Orienteering Championships in 2001. [ 2 ] At the 2003 World Orienteering Championships she was the highest placed British Female coming Fourteenth place over the 11.8 km race. [ 3 ]
Catherine Taylor or Cat Taylor (born 11 August 1989) is a British orienteer. [1] She made her international breakthrough by winning a bronze medal in the long distance at the 2014 European Orienteering Championships in Palmela. The next year at the 2015 World Orienteering Championships in Inverness, Scotland, she placed sixth in the long ...
She was born in the U.S. to British parents. She grew up in England and then lived for several years in Denmark before moving to New Zealand.She attended the University of Edinburgh and was a member of Edinburgh University Orienteering Club; she was inducted into the Edinburgh University Hall of Fame in 2011.