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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.
Jimmy Birklin, Sweden, winner of the 2001 Sprint World Orienteering Championships; Betty Ann Bjerkreim Nilsen, Norway; Sture Björk, Sweden; Anders Björkman, Sweden; Ida Marie Bjørgul, Norway, received a silver medal in the middle distance at the 2007 Junior World Orienteering Championships in Dubbo, Australia; Kjetil Bjørlo, Norway
An orienteering control. The middle distance is a shorter cross-country race than the classic (or long), with a winning time in the region of 30 minutes and with an emphasis more on fine navigation than route-choice. When races of this distance were run in the mid-late 1990s, they were called "short" races, or "sprint-O".
At the 1968 World Orienteering Championships, Swedish Television (SVT) broadcast the individual competition live, which was the first TV broadcast of orienteering in Sweden [5] and worldwide. [6] The first ever competitor at the World Championships from outside of Europe was Robert Kaill from Canada , who participated at the 1970 World ...
Non-exhaustive list of foot orienteering events that are open to everyone: O-Ringen , The largest five-day event in Sweden . In 2022 more than 20,000 orienteers participate
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).
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 ...
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 ...