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Matthew selected for European Youth Orienteering Championships
Congratulations to Matthew Fellbaum who has been selected to represent Great Britain in the 2016 European Youth Orienteering Championships, which are being held in Jaroslaw, Poland from 30th June to 3rd July 2016.
He has also been provisionally selected for the 2016 Junior European Cup, which will be held in Central Scotland from 30th September to 2nd October 2016. (Selections to be confirmed in July.)
Further info in Junior Summer Selection Announcement on the BOF website.
Gold for Matthew and Andrew at the British Champs
Brown Clee Hill - April 30th / May 1st
Congratulations to Matthew Fellbaum and Andrew Gregory who have become the new British Champions in M18E and M80 respectively ...
Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers 2016
The final date for collecting Sainburys Active Kids vouchers for MDOC when you shop is Tuesday 3rd May ...
JK Selected for 2016 World Trail Orienteering Championships in Sweden
MDOC's John Kewley (JK) has been selected for the British team for the 2016 World Trail Orienteering Championships which will be held in SW Sweden in August alongside WOC 2016. He will compete in the PreO and TempO disciplines. This means JK will have competed in all 8 WTOCs since GBR started sending a separate Open team.
Tom interviewed about orienteering on BBC Radio Manchester
Following a newspaper report that children now lack basic navigation and map reading skills, the producer of the Breakfast Show at BBC Radio Manchester invited someone from MDOC to come in to the studio yesterday morning (1st April) to talk about Orienteering, what it is and how it uses map reading.
Many thanks to our Club Captain, Tom Fellbaum, for volunteering to be our representative!
You can listen to Tom's interview at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03n18b4 - the interview starts around 1 hour 49 mins into the programme.