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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 format was changed and renamed "Middle Distance" in 2003 with the introduction of the Sprint discipline. ... World Orienteering Championships, senior statistics ...
Jamie Stevenson (born 25 March 1975) is a British orienteering champion. In 2003 he won the gold medal in the sprint distance at the World Orienteering Championships.He was the first and, to-date, the only British male orienteering world champion (Yvette Baker won the short distance race at the 1999 world championships).
Graham did a masters at Sheffield Hallam University and ran for Sheffield University Orienteering Club. In 2010 he was part of the winning JK and Harvester relay teams. Currently he runs for Forth Valley. Gristwood became only the second man after Chris Hirst to win the British Orienteering Championships four times in a row, between 2014 and ...
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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 .
In 2001, after a winning her fourth consecutive qualification (1995/97/99/2001), she retired from the WOC with an 11th place in the long distance event. Between 1983 and 2001, she took part in all 11 WOC. [citation needed] In domestic competition, she won both the British Orienteering Championships and the JK Orienteering Festival multiple times.
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 .