MDOC Juniors at the British Schools Orienteering Championships 2006
Posted on November 22nd, 2006

The 2006 British Schools Orienteering Championships were held on 19th November at Hawkbatch, Bewdley, Worcs.

St Richard's RC Primary School, Fallibroome High School, Hazel Grove High School, King's School Macclesfield and Wilmslow High School were all represented.

Congratulations to Alice Fellbaum who finished 3rd in the Year 8 Girls category.

Results for other club juniors were Stephanie Bryant (12th, Year 10 Girls), Alex McCann (9th, Year 7 Boys), Roger Bryant (8th, Year 10 Boys), Tom Fellbaum (12th, Year 10 Boys) and Elliot Malkin (9th, Year 11 Boys).

Nathan Robinson from St Richard's also did well, finishing 5th in Year 6 Boys.

In the Whole School competition, St Richard's came 4th in the Primary category, with King's 7th and Fallibroome 12th in the Large Secondary category.

Full results can be found on the BSOA website.

Joint winner of the Golden Shoe Trophy
Posted on October 18th, 2006

Congratulations to Elliot Malkin (M16) for being the joint winner of the Reebok Golden Shoe Run-In Split Competition, at the CompassSport Cup Final, tieing with Andy Hodgson (M21) from SLOW.

Nick Barrable reports ... "The run in was about 100metres, slightly downhill near the end with firm, dry going on gravel path and grass. However, competitors had to negotiate a kissing gate or jump a partially dismantled fence beside the gate midway down it.
In the end it was a tie with two runners on 21 seconds. Maybe in future, there will be a sprint-off!"

Well done, Elliot!

Full results on the BAOC website.

British Schools Score Championship
Posted on October 9th, 2006

The 2006 British Schools Score Championships were held on 7th October in Park Wood near High Wycombe. The weather was sunny all day which helped prevent the finish field turning into a mud bath. 30 controls were placed in the wood, of difficulty varying from white to light green. This meant there was a variety of running speeds and on the harder controls potential for lost time.

Congratulations to Alex McCann from MDOC, who finished 2nd in the Year 7 Boys category, with 220 points, behind Aidan Smith of SYO who scored 260.

St Richard's entered 4 teams and although not repeating last year's wins they achieved 2nd and 6th in the Primary Boys team competition and 3rd and 8th in the Primary Girls, receiving nicely framed maps of the area.

Full results can be found on the BSOA website.

Introductory Events for running clubs
Posted on August 15th, 2006

Manchester and District Orienteering Club have recently held two introductory events for running clubs. Whilst it is too early to say whether they will attract new permanent members to the sport, the 2 events were very well received and left a positive impression of the sport.

It was felt important for these events to create both a race atmosphere and to maximise the speed at which the runners were able to compete. This was done specifically because of the fitness of the target market and to give the impression of the sport as one of a navigational race rather than a walking technical search. It was also important to avoid anyone becoming hopelessly lost and therefore put off. In order to achieve this aim the event was based upon a relay format with all of the runners starting at the same time.

The key points were as follows:

• There were 4 courses in total based upon 2 first parts and two second parts
• Of the 27 Controls 13 were common (including the first and last) with 2 controls available for intermediate checkpoints
• All courses were 6 km long (red standard) with path routes possible for all route choices
• A briefing was given to all runners before the start and all maps were handed out 10 minutes before the start
• The maps were pre-printed with control descriptions (written) on the front
• Needle punches were used as we were working on low manpower, this did not seem to detract from this event
• Times across the 2 events (same courses with different clubs) were in the range 48 to 80 minutes

It is proposed to repeat the events in the spring as a feed in to the Club's summer evening series.

Simon Thompson

MDOC members excel in MTBO
Posted on June 9th, 2006

Congratulations to MDOC members past and present who produced some excellent results in the first MTBO British Championships on 3rd/4th June:

Long Distance, Women Open:
1st - Heather Monro (SLOW)
Men Open:
1st - Mark Hayman (SPOOK)
2nd - Liam Corner
3rd - Killian Lomas
Women Vets:
1st - Vicky Thornton
4th - Sophie Wood
Men Vets:
3rd - Andy Thornton
5th - Nick Wood
Middle Distance, Men Open:
2nd - Liam Corner
6th - Killian Lomas
Women Vets:
1st - Vicky Thornton
Men Vets:
2nd - Nick Wood
4th - Andy Thornton

Liam Corner and Vicky Thornton have been selected for the GB Team for the MTBO World Championships in Finland (9th - 14th July), and for the European Championships in Poland (30th August - 3rd September).

Ex-MDOC member Killian Lomas has also been selected for the European Championships. Congratulations to them all.

Funding for Juniors
Posted on May 8th, 2006

MDOC has contributed £500 to help fund the North West Junior Squad's trip to Norway this summer. Five MDOC juniors are going on the trip - Catherine Beresford, Lizzie Britton, Roger Bryant, Thomas Fellbaum and Lucy Harris.

JK 2006 Medal Winners
Posted on April 18th, 2006

Congratulations to members who won medals in the individual competition at the JK:

Liam Corner, 2nd M35L
John Britton, 3rd M55L
Andrew Gregory, 2nd M70L
Roy Hayes, 3rd M80
Vicky Thornton, 3rd W45L

and to Stephanie Bryant (W14), Alex McCann (M12) and Roger Bryant (M14) who were 2nd in the M/W40- relay.

Full results at www.jk2006.org.uk.

See other entries Categorised under: News