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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 .
The same year she was a member of the British relay team at the World Orienteering Championships, making her possibly the youngest WOC participant ever. [citation needed] During the following years' WOC, she always had promising qualification results in the top 10, but could not match them in the finals.
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 ...
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.
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]
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 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 ...