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Orienteering Club

British Champs Weekend 2015

in the Forest of Dean

The Long Distance event was held at New Beechenhurst in the Forest of Dean last Saturday (18th April). Vicky Thornton had a brilliant run to become the new W50 British Champion. Andrew Gregory took 2nd place in M80. The Relays at Cannop Ponds on Sunday produced more medal-winners for MDOC with three of our teams achieving podium places.

21st Apr 15

You can see the full results of the Long Distance event here.

In the Relays, the Men's Short team of Alistair Thornton, Steve Dempsey and Alex McCann - MDOC FAST & FURIOUS - lived up to their name, coming home in 2nd place out of 31 teams.

The MDOC DAD'S ARMY team of Laura, Carolyn and Trevor Hindle also finished in 2nd place in the Mixed Ad-Hoc class which was contested by more than 50 teams.

The closest result however was achieved by the W50 team of Heather Fellbaum, Hazel Hindle and Vicky Thornton - MDOC MAMMA MIA - with Vicky outsprinting Sara Campbell of DEE on the run-in to take 3rd place.

The full Relay results are here.

Congratulations to all the medal-winners.

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