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SYO is the local orienteering club for the Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham and Barnsley area. Orienteering is an adventure sport for all ages. Races and training sessions take place every week in forests and parks around South Yorkshire and are open to anyone.

For more information on orienteering visit the British Orienteering Federation.

Please feel free to come and try our events! |
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 | |  SYO club night almost every Wednesday night - see the Coaching page for details
| | Date | Event | | Details | | Wed 28th July | Park Race 5, Sheffield City Centre |  | Start/Finish at Devonshire Green, off Devonshire Street, edge of car park. Map
This week mass start 30 minute score event around the city centre planned by Oli Johnson. No controls but you will need a pen. Not suitable for unaccompanied under-16's but very suitable for families. Start 6.45pm sharp. Cost: Adults £2, Children £1 | Thurs 12th Aug
| Park Race 6, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield |  | Starts from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Cost: Adults £2, Children £1, Family groups £3. | Wed 1st Sep
| Park Race 7, Gleadless Valley, Sheffield |  | Starts from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Cost: Adults £2, Children £1, Family groups £3. | Sat 4th Sep
| Sheffield Urban Sprint Double (Sheffield City Race)
|  | Flyer here. Entries on Fabian4, now open. The event is part of the Nopesport Urban League series. Map link
| | Sun 12th Sep | West Haigh and Howell Postponed
|  | Event postponed. Will be rescheduled at a date when the bracken is lower.
| | Sun 17th Oct | CompassSport Cup Final, Burbage Moor |  | Area is embargoed. Map of embargoed area. | | Sat 30th Oct | Saturday informal, Graves Park |  | | | >> Click here for more SYO fixtures |
|  | Parkrun at Endcliffe Park 15th July 2010, Adam For those SYO Members living in/near Sheffield who want a bit of speed training, from 10th July, parkrun started in Sheffield at Endcliffe Park. As at many other venues through the UK, who already host their own parkruns, it is a free 5km timed run starting at 9:00am every Saturday. It's good for newcomers to running, or as a time trial for the elite. Details are on www.parkrun.com, look under 'events'. People who want to run should register (a one off task for all parkruns) by Friday night before their first Saturday run. Update 20 July: It is now possible to register with club South Yorkshire Orienteers. | JIRCS and European Youth Champs 1st July 2010, Peter Congratulations to the SYO juniors representing YHOA who came 3rd at the Junior Interregionals, especially Aidan Smith for the individual performance of the weekend trophy "for his 2nd place on M18 when he is still a first year 16" and to Simon Bradbury and Michael Adams for their runs in the winning boys relay team YHOA2.
Good luck to Aidan, who is now heading for Spain to take part in the European Youth Champs this weekend. | Jukola Relay 19th June 2010, Martin Five teams from SYO and ShUOC (and friends) took part in the largest orienteering relay in the world this weekend, in Kytaja near Helsinki, Finland. The women's Venla race took part on Saturday afternoon, with 1105 teams of four starting. SYO's teams finished an excellent 125th (Grace Elson, Heather Gardener, Laura Daniel, Jenny Johnson) and 297th (Lizzie Ingham, Lesley Ward, Hilary Bloor, Clare Baker).
The men's race, which starts at 11pm as it gets dark and runs through the night, had about 1500 teams of seven starting. SYO's teams finished a very creditable 46th (Jamie Stevenson, Matthew Crane, Oliver Johnson, Neil Northrop, Ralph Street, Robert Baker, Graham Gristwood) and 168th (John Rocke, Kris Jones, Chris Smithard, Tim Tett, Charlie Adams, Dave Abrams, Richard Guillaume). Unfortunately the third SYO team (Alex Rothman, Martin Ward, Todd Oates, Dave Harrison, Ben Carter, Tom Beasant, Forrest Mann) was disqualified after one of Dave's punches didn't register. The best ever result by a GBR team is 41st, so the team came very close to bettering this.
This year's event was one of the hardest ever races, according to the locals, with both the terrain and technical challenge being very tough.
Most of the weekend's events were filmed by Oli, so expect a new film release of this exciting event soon...!
| Cliffhanger Ultrasprint weekend The UK's premier Ultrasprint orienteering event will return to Cliffhanger on Saturday 3 July. A high intensity, high speed form of orienteering, the Ultrasprint starts and finishes into a specially constructed labyrinth. Competitors face a technical and physical challenge that includes complex map reading, multi-terrain racing, and a number of river crossings. A number of the UK's top elite orienteers will battle it out over a qualifying stage and final to become the Ultrasprint champion 2010. Qualifiers are open from 11am-1pm and the chasing start final begins at 2pm. EOD only, entries are FREE to all visitors to Cliffhanger.
Why not make a weekend of it and combine with the EPOC regional event at Holmfirth on Sunday 4 July, part of the YHOA urban league.

Visitors to Cliffhanger can experience the labyrinth for themselves Sunday 4 July after watching the experts racing around the park on Saturday. It is free of charge to take part and test yourself over a series of short courses of increasing difficulty. South Yorkshire Orienteers will have a number of experienced athletes on hand to offer tips and coaching, and you will be provided with a specially produced map that is yours to keep. All ages and abilities are welcome.
Cliffhanger is one of the UK’s largest outdoor outdoor-pursuits festivals, based in one of Sheffield’s biggest green spaces. The aim of the event is to Inspire & Involve. Featuring competitions or demonstrations in rock climbing, orienteering, kayaking, mountain biking, running, skiing & snowboarding, skateboarding, free running, adventure racing and more, visitors will be able to watch elite sports-people of all ages competing or demonstrating, and then take part in the sports they have just been inspired by. Pay to enter the festival and orienteer for free.
Watch this space for more info and see Cliffhanger.
| Junior Inter-Regional selections 8th June 2010, Adam Well done to SYO juniors Katherine Hall, Louise Adams, Yasmin Field, Cari Littler, Michael Adams, Jake Field, Alex Hall, Zac Field, Simon Bradbury, Aidan Smith and Adam Bradbury for being selected to represent Yorkshire and Humberside (YHOA) in the Junior Inter-Regional Champsionships (JIRCs) later this month in south Wales. Impressively SYO juniors make up just under half of the juniors selected to represent YHOA. | Scottish Championships 30th May 2010, Adam Just over 20 SYO members travelled up to Scotland this weekend to compete in the Scottish Orienteering Championships and Scottish Relay Championships. Zac Field had a great result, finishing 1st on the M16A course, 9 minutes ahead of second place. As did Adian Smith who ran up on the M18L course and beat all the M18's into 1st place, an M16 winning the M18 class. Martin Ward was 1st on the M40L course with a 5 minute lead over second place.
In the Scottish Relay Championships, SYO3 secured 1st place in the 6 points handicap, with a comfortable 9 minute lead. SYO hopeful, were right to be, but just missed out on a podium finish by 38 seconds to finish a respectable 4th in the 12 points handicap class. SYO Young Guns finished in a commendable 2nd place in the junior 48- class and missed out out on 1st by only 17 seconds. SYO1 finished in 6th place on the mens open, with SYO2 also finishing in 6th place on the womens open. SYO somehting were non-competitive on the 12 point handicap course, but would have finished in 9th place had they been competitive.
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| Individual: | M16A 1st Zac Field
| W21E 2nd Jenny Johnson
| M16A 2nd Simon Bradbury
| W35S 2nd Pauline Tryner
| M18L 1st Aidan Smith
| W45S 2nd Roseanne Field
| M35L 3rd Pete Tryner
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| M40L 1st Martin Ward
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| Relay: | 6 points handicap, 1st, SYO3 (Martin Ward, Pete Tryner, Richard Baxter)
| 12 points handicap, 4th, SYO hopeful (Dean Field, Jake Field, Paul Bradbury)
| | 12 points handicap, n/c, SYO something (Heather Gardner, Lesley Ward, Ceana Heron (EUOC)) | Junior 48-, 2nd, SYO Young Guns (Zac Field, Simon Bradbury, Aidan Smith)
| | Mens Open, 6th SYO 1 (Tim Tett, Dave Peel, Rob Baker) | | Womens Open, 6th, SYO 2 (Jenny Johnson, Pauline Tryner, Clare Baker) |
| SYO members selected for World Championships 17th May 2010, Martin Congratulations to SYO members Oli Johnson and Rachael Elder, both selected to run for Great Britain at the World Orienteering Champs this August in Norway. Oli has been selected for the Long race, and Rach for the Middle distance race. Former SYO member Matt Crane has also been selected (Middle race), as has SYO Lead Coach Graham Gristwood (Sprint and Middle races). WOC takes place near Trondheim, from 8th to 15th August. http://www.woc2010.com/ | New SYO member is Open British MTBO Champion 15th May 2010, Peter Last weekend Ben Plowman, who joined SYO in February and has been a regular at recent club nights, won the long distance MTBO (Mountain Bike Orienteering) British Championships at Mabie, near Dumfries. Ben won by a comfortable margin, taking 69 minutes for the 15.8km course, with second-place Andrew Windrum taking 74 minutes.
Emily Benham, Killian Lomas and Ben Plowman - 2010 British Champions! Ben has now been selected for the GB MTBO team and will be riding in the World Champs in Portugal in July.
| Harvester Relays win for SYO Juniors 10th May 2010, Adam SYO's junior team, SYO Kids running amok, won the Junior class and came second on the B course at the Harvester Relays last weekend. Team in running order: Simon Bradbury, Zachary Field, Jake Field, Adam Bradbury and Aidan Smith.
SYO International finished 5th out of 19 on the A course. Team in running order: Martin Ward, Nicholas Lightfoot, Mattias Movmoller, Johan Markstedt, Nick Barrable, Jesper Hansson and Richard Guillaume.
SYO Leftovers finished 13th out of 24 on the B course. Team in running order: Lesley Ward, Wendy Billing, Michael Adams, Paul Bradbury and Dean Field.
For those that don't know, the Harvester Relay starts in the early hours of the morning (this year the A course started at 00:30 and the B course at 02:00) and so the early runners run in the dark and the last runners end up running in the light/dawn.
www.cix.co.uk/~neper/harv2010/index.htm | British Orienteering Training Camp Selections 7th May 2010, Adam Congratulations to Simon Bradbury, Zac Field and Aidan Smith for being selected for the British Orienteering Talent Coaching Camp this summer at Badaguish.
Also to Mairead Rocke for being selected for the British Orienteering International Racing Camp this summer in Poland.
Well done also to Katherine Hall, Michael Adams and Jake Field who have been selected for the Regional Squads Coaching Camp.
It is the 2nd year in a row that Zac and Aidan have been selected for a BO training camp and it is the 3rd year in a row that Simon has been selected.
| British Orienteering Championships 2010 5th May 2010, Adam
Many SYO members travelled to the British Orienteering Championships and British Relay Championships 2010 last weekend at Abraham's Valley & Wolseley Park, part of Cannock Chase. The weekend was very successful for many SYO members. Congratulations to all the SYO members who competed at the BOC and BRC, especially those who managed a podium position.
Those who achieved a place in the top 3 are detailed below.
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| Individual: | | M10B 2nd Joe Field | W12A 3rd Louise Adams | | M16A 2nd Aidan Smith | W14A 2nd Katherine Hall | M16B 3rd Jack Fletcher
| W20L 2nd Alex Kilcoyne
| M18S 3rd Ryan Wilson
| W21L 1st Jamie Buckley
| | M21E 2nd Oli Johnson | W21S 1st Kathy Sprot
| M21L 3rd Jeff Colbert
| W21V 1st Louise Preston
| M21S 1st David Sprot
| W35S 3rd Pauline Tryner | M21S 2nd Gareth Candy
| W40S 1st Jenny Peel
| M35L 3rd Alastair Buckley
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| M40L 1st Bill Edwards
| | M40S 2nd Tim Wiegand
| | M50L 1st Tim Tett
| | M55S 1st Arun Sahni
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| Relay: | | Men's Premier 2nd (Neil Northrop, Alastair Buckley, Oli Johnson) | | Women's Premier 2nd (Kim Baxter, Jamie Buckley, Jenny Johnson) | | M40 1st (Dave Peel, Bill Edwards, Tim Tett) | | W40 3rd (Wendy Billing, Lucy Weigand, Jenny Lightfoot) | | M18 2nd (Simon Bradbury, Zac Field, Adian Smith) | | M14 3rd (Michael Adams, Alex Hall, Jake Field) | | Mixed Ad Hoc 2nd (Arun Sahni, Dean Field, Jeff Colbert) | | Mixed Ad Hoc 3rd (Kathy Sprot, Pete Tryner, Pauline Tryner) | | Junior Ad Hoc 2nd (Adam Bradbury, Lova Chechik (EBOR), Cari Littler) |
www.walton-chasers.co.uk/boc2010/ | Barnsley Club Night 3rd May 2010, Peter Barnsley Orienteers (a satellite of SYO) is starting up next week, coordinated by Tim Mullett. Website is http://groupspaces.com/barnsleyorienteeringclub/
A weekly club night is starting on Tuesdays from 11th May. Details in the fixtures section above.
| SYO comfortably through first round of CompassSport Cup 26th April 2010, Peter The first round was put on by HALO at Scardale and Knapton in North Yorkshire. SYO won with 2377 points out of a maximum possible of 2462. AIRE were 2nd with 2274 and also go through to the final at Burbage in October.
The event was enjoyable, the northern woodland has some good orienteering, though the event was slightly marred by the course lengths being wrongly calculated, so 50% longer than expected. Congratulations to all scorers, particularly those counting for the first time for SYO, who I suspect are Jaimie Buckley, Tony Hall, Dean Field, Zachary Field, Jake Field and Katherine Hall (let me know if I'm wrong). The new rules splitting boys and girls on the two junior courses seem much fairer, giving the girls a better chance to score.
| Aidan selected to represent GBR at EYOC 21st April 2010, Martin Congratulations to Aidan Smith who has been selected to be a member of the Great Britain team at the European Youth Orienteering Champs to be held in Spain from 1st to 4th July.
http://www.eyoc2010.com/ | Rach and Oli win Elite titles at British Middle Distance champs 17th April 2010, Martin
 On a sunny spring day in the South Lake District, Rachael Elder and Oli Johnson made it an SYO double in the 21 elite classes. The courses in Haverthwaite Heights were both technically and physically challenging, but Oli reckoned he had lost no more than 10 seconds on his course, putting him about a minute ahead of SYO Club Coach Graham Gristwood in 2nd place.
Lots of other SYO members achieved podium places in other age classes - more results to follow. | JK International Orienteering Weekend 6th April 2010, Martin The UK's largest orienteering event of 2010, the Jan Kjellstrom (JK), was held in Devon over the Easter weekend. Lots of SYO members headed down for the four days of competition, and it was very successful for many (perhaps our best set of results ever?).
Here's a quick summary of SYO members who achieved top-3 placings: | Sprint (Day 1): | | M40 1st Martin Ward | W12 2nd Louise Adams | | M45 2nd Charlie Adams | W14 2nd Katherine Hall | | M60 3rd Peter Gorvett | W21E 3rd Rachael Elder | | | W40 1st Jenny Peel | | Individual (Days 2 & 3): | | M10B 2nd Joe Field | W12A 3rd Louise Adams | | M16A 1st Aidan Smith | W14A 2nd Katherine Hall | | M21E 2nd Oli Johnson | W21S 1st Jaimie Buckley | | M35L 1st Al Buckley | W21V 2nd Louise Preston | | M40L 3rd Martin Ward | W21V 3rd Kelly Candy | | M45L 1st Charlie Adams | | | M50L 1st Tim Tett | | | M60S 3rd Colin Best | |
| | | JK Trophy 2nd (Nick Barrable, Neil Northrop, Oli Johnson) | | Womens Trophy 1st (Laura Daniel, Mairead Rocke, Rachael Elder) | | Womens Trophy 3rd (Jo Stevenson, Kim Baxter, Jenny Johnson) | | M120 1st (Al Buckley, Dave Peel, Charlie Adams) | | M120 2nd (Martin Ward, Mark Chapman, Tim Tett) | | W120 3rd (Wendy Billing, Mo Chapman, Jenny Peel) | | M48- 1st (Simon Bradbury, Zac Field, Aidan Smith) |
www.jk2010.co.uk | Katherine helps England to victory at Interland 7th March 2010, Martin Katherine Hall won the D14 class at the Interland international competition in Belgium on Sunday, with a convincing lead of almost 4 minutes. Other SYO members running well in the England team were Aidan Smith (5th in H16), Nick Barrable (2nd in H21) and Tim Tett (2nd in H50). |   Scottish Weekend 8th March 2010, Adam Last weekend a few devoted SYO members travelled up to Scotland for a series of orienteering events. First up on Saturday was a sprint around the Kings' Buildings at Edinburgh Univeristy. The British Night Championships was also on Saturday at Dreghorn Barracks. This was tough area at night, made even more so by several inches of ground snow, but nonetheless Simon Bradbury and Martin Ward won their classes to become British Night Champions in M16 and M40L respectively. This event was filmed by BBC Scotland. On Sunday there was an event at Gullane Dunes, a lovely Scottish area with detailed contours, the sea on one side and a golf course on the other.
Well done to SYO's new British Night Champions, Simon and Martin, and to all the other SYO members who competed at these events. British Night Champs results, splits and Routegadget | New British Orienteering Rankings List Launched 21st January 2010, Martin British Orienteering maintains a ranking list of orienteers, based on results from ranking events. The new ranking system includes everyone in a single list, which can then be filtered (by age class, gender, and by club). The list also shows the number of positions you have moved up, or down, since the previous week. Here's a ranking list of SYO members. | SYO members selected to represent England at Interland 6th January 2010, Martin Five members of SYO have been selected by the English Orienteering Association to run in Interland, which this year is being held in Belgium. The five are M16 Aidan Smith, M21 Oli Johnson, M50 Tim Tett, M60 Peter Gorvett and W14 Katherine Hall. | | More news... |
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