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 Recent successes, 20th May 2009, Chris
Catch up with some recent SYO successes with this article in the Sheffield Telegraph |
Summer Training Camps 18th May 2009, Adam
Congratulations to Aidan Smith and Cari Littler who have been selected to attend British Orienteering's Talent Programme Summer Training Camp at Lagganlia.
Also to Simon Bradbury who has been selected to attend British Orienteering's Talent Programme Summer Training Camp at Badaguish.
For those who don't know what Lagganlia and Badaguish are, or who want to find out more about them, have a read of Simon's article here, in the lastest SYO Newsletter, about his experiences at Lagganlia when he was selected last year. |
British Elite Championships 7th May 2009, Peter
Congratulations to Oli Johnson for winning the British Elite Championship for the third year in a row and to Grace Elson for a bronze medal in the women’s race.
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Northern Champions 19th April 2009, Adam
Congratulations to the following SYO members who ran at Graythwaite and are the 2009 Northern Champions in their classes
- Oli Johnson M21L
- Charlie Adams M45L
- Louise Adams W12A
- Lesley Ward (SPOOK) W40L
- Wendy Billing W45L
- Jill Gorvett W60L
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Oli wins the Men's Elite at the JK in Northumbria 13th April 2009, Martin/Jackie
 Congratulations to Oli Johnson on winning the Men's Elite Class at the JK international event in Northumberland.
SYO members winning medals at the JK
Day 1, Sprint Race
Gold - M14 Aidan Smith
Bronze - M40 Martin Ward, M45 Charlie Adams
Days 2 and 3, Classic Race
Gold - M21E Oli Johnson, M14 Aidan Smith, M45 Charlie Adams, W21N Alex Kilcoyne
Silver - M14B Jack Fletcher, W21N Gwyneth Morris, W35S Emma Martin
Bronze - M40 Martin Ward, W21E Grace Elson, W12B Joanna Smith, W40L Jenny Peel
Day 4, Relay
JK Trophy – SYO took silver and bronze
Women’s Trophy – SYO Gold
M120 – SYO silver
W120 – SYO Bronze |
Louise wins British Age Class Sprint Championships 4th April 2009, Martin
Congratulations to Louise Adams, who won the W10 age category at the British Age Class Sprint Championships held at Stirling University on Saturday.
Other SYO members who made the top three places - M14 Aidan Smith 2nd, M40 Martin Ward 2nd. |
Talent Development and Increasing Participation Projects
The projects kicked off with a meeting at EIS on 6th April. Notes from the meeting will be available soon. A sub-committee of members will be formed to oversee the two projects, working with Steve Vernon and Sarah Hague from British Orienteering. Contact a committee member to find out more. |
SYO wins Compass Sport Cup match at Sherwood Pines 30th March 2009, Martin
A good turn-out of over 80 SYO members ensured that we won the qualifying round of the Compass Sport Cup match held yesterday at Sherwood Pines. On several courses SYO filled the top three or four places, so despite missing a few of our top elites, in the end we won by over 100 points. Well done everyone, especially course winners Dave Sprot, Jenny Johnson, Tim Tett, Peter Gorvett, Simon Bradbury and Aidan Smith! We now get to defend the Cup in the Final, which will be held on 18th October at Fineshade in Leicestershire. Put the date in your diary. |
Family training session 21st March 2009
The third of the family training sessions was held today in conjunction with the SYO Bingham Park event. After a map walk in the glorious spring sunshine we set up base at the tennis courts and set off on loops and short courses. Later, some of the more energetic families went down to the start and took part in the event, completing the yellow course. Well done everyone. Details of next week’s venue will be on the website soon. |
YHOA Night League 15th March 2009
Adam Bradbury won the Junior Men's category last night in the YHOA night league and Marcia Bradbury came 3rd in the Veteran Women's category. The YHOA night league consisted of 6 night events spread over 5 months, including Tankersley. |
Yorkshire & Humber Junior Squad
A number of SYO juniors train with the YHOA junior squad. Training takes place around the region on Saturdays roughly once per month. In January the training was on Loxley Common in Sheffield. You can see a slideshow of photos from the Loxley training here. SYO |
 Excellent turnout at Wombwell Wood 8th March 2009
SYO's latest event was at Wombwell Wood, attracting around 250 people. Wombwell is a small but very nice woodland, and at this time of year if offers fast runnability. SYO member Matt Crane won the longest course (Brown, 8.1km) in 38 minutes. The shortest course (White, 1.1km)was successfully completed by 17 beginners and younger juniors.
The event courses were very quickly available on RouteGadget after the event - already over 70 runners have marked their route on, which helps everyone to see what routes others took, and improve their own navigational techniques. Routegadget here. |
Beginners' training 7th March 2009
A great turn-out for today's first of five Saturday morning beginners' training sessions. With 25 adults and 30 children, the five coaches had their work cut out. Having covered the basics today, next week the training will move to Loxley Common to try out some courses and training on terrain. If you missed this week, but want to join in, contact Colin on colinallanb (AT) yahoo.co.uk. |
Success for SYO at the British Championships 1st March 2009
At the British Orienteering Championships held in the New Forest on February 28th, SYO member Aidan Smith won the M14A category, and Nick Barrable won M35L.
At the British Orienteering Relay Championships held in the New Forest on March 1st, several SYO teams were on the podium, and the Men's Open and Men's 40 teams won.
SYO junior girls' team came away with a bronze medal in the relays. An excellent result in what was the first experience of a championship event for at least two of the girls.
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Recent News Summary March 2009
Here's a summary of news for the last couple of months:
- SYO members won age categories in the Nopesport Urban League (a series of street races throughout 2008)
- SYO has been appointed to be one of the five new clubs taking part in the British Orienteering Participation Project in 2009
- SYO has been appointed to be one of the five new clubs taking part in the British Orienteering Talent Project in 2009
- SYO members Aidan Smith and Simon Bradbury came 2nd and 3rd respectively on their course at the Northern Night Championships at Gilling Woods on January 17th
- Well done to Aidan Smith and Matt Crane who won silver and bronze medals respectivley in their own courses at the Interland competition at Burnham Beeches on February 22nd. England was victorious at the event
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Yorkshire Championships 26 October 2008
16 SYO members took part in the Yorkshire Championships held at Rishworth Moor today. About 250 runners braved the elements on what turned out to be a successful event for SYO members. Aidan Smith, Colin Smith, Katherine Hall and Cari Littler were all first on their respective courses. For full results see the EPOC website |
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