23rd July – Bradmore, Wolverhampton (SMApp / Team SMApp)- POSTPONED
This event has been postponed. The new date for this Summer Series event will be posted when known. It will use the smartphone-based SMApp format used in Winter 2025/2026.
Hilltop Summer Series Event – POSTPONED
Sutton Park Gates Run & Pitcher Oak Wood SSE – POSTPONED
Golden Weekend for junior Harlequins at British Sprints
Harlequins’ trio of junior runners shone at the British Sprint Championships, held at Bristol University and University of the West of England sites on 27th-28th June. At Saturday’s relays, there was no suitable Junior class available for HOC’s line-up of Samuel Hudson, Georgina Hudson and Craig Thompson. So they entered the Ad Hoc category open to all comers – and won it! The HOC 1 team of Kin Wai Lee, Ka Man Leung and Alex Hudson came a creditable fourth…
Sutton Park Gates Run – POSTPONED
HOC at the British Middle Championships Weekend
Harlequins and our neighbouring club Octavian Droobers overcame a number of challenges to host the British Middle Championships and Midland Championships respectively at Brown Clee on 18th-19th April. Saturday’s British Middles saw five HOC members on the podium including three British Middle Distance champions: Georgina Hudson (1st W12), Alison Sloman (1st W90), Seb Blackmore (1st= M16), Jake Fox (2nd M10) & Andy Hemsted (2nd, M75). Photo credits: David Williams, Edward Lines, David Williams Sunday’s Midland Championships saw further HOC success…
Harlequins at the JK Festival
Over 30 Harlequins made their way up to Perthshire, Scotland for the annual Easter weekend 4 day festival of orienteering. Perth hosted the Day 1 Sprint with a City Centre arena, and courses either visiting North Inch Park, or starting to the east of the city centre across the River Tay. Early starters had the best of the weather with the rain coming down mid-morning making conditions slippery. Top 3 results from HOC members came from Danny Fox (2nd, M10),…
Congratulations to James Thomas …
… who somewhat belatedly received his award for winning M35 category in the 2025 UK Orienteering League at Tullochroisk on JK Relays day. The series provides competition in a variety of terrain types, across the United Kingdom; the British Middles hosted by Harlequins is round 9 of the 2026 season. Photo: Steve Blackmore
2026 HOC League standings after 6 events
The HOC League is designed to provide a chance for all Harlequins to compete in different age groups across all events where Members are representing HOC in a calendar year. Now that we have had 6 out of the 11 events expected to be part of the HOC League this season, the current positions are as follows, with thanks to Paul Hammond.
Juniors qualify for Yvette Baker Shield final
“Our juniors travelled to Stoke on Sunday (many laden down with cakes for the WMJS stall) optimistic that they could qualify for the Yvette Baker finals weekend again. They were relatively relaxed despite being light on numbers (thanks to some poorly timed jet-setting from the younger Blackmores), and DEE deciding to enter our qualifier and bringing good numbers. That confidence was well placed – four wins (Craig, Sam, Joey and Danny) and three second places (Peter, Gina and Jake) meant…