… 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
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.
“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…
Photo credit: Orienteering England England have retained the Interland Cup after a weekend of orienteering in Northern France on 14th-15th March. The six way competition pits teams from England, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, as well as French (FRSO) and Dutch (OV) speaking teams from Belgium against one another. Sunday’s race followed training activities on the Saturday, with a very close battle for top spot between England and OV. While the Belgian team had the biggest points haul in the Senior categories,…
Series co-ordinator John Leeson shares his reflections on the season; scroll down for the final league table.
Mandy Mackereth and David Williams are the champions of the winter’s six round test of night-time navigation. Congrats to both!
(Photos: Robert Lines) The British Long Distance Championships took place last Saturday at Carreg Goch in the Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly known as Brecon Beacons National Park). This wild and quite remote area, blessed with plenty of pits, depressions and rock features provided a suitable challenge and ‘varied weather’, with many competitors having to contend with a sudden hailstorm which punctuated the otherwise benign conditions. This year the event was run in conjunction with the Welsh Orienteering Championships, and we had two…
“After seven winter SMApp events, HOC’s Night Street League table is starting to become clear as the 10 event series provides six counting events for the NSL. In the women’s competition, Karen Thompson has already scored 148 points out of a possible 150 and is on course to win the Open and Veteran’s trophies. She is followed by Jenny Uff who is assured to win the Super Veteran’s trophy. In the men’s competition Ben Crone has already scored 150 points…
With a desperately close battle amongst the top four clubs at Sutton Park, and only three to qualify, it was a tense wait for the official results to be published. Club standings in the Cup qualifier are below, meaning that DVO, OD and HOC will be going to the final at Pippingford Park on Sunday 18th October: DVO 2314 OD 2312 HOC 2311 NGOC 2307 DEE 2216 TVOC 2182 NOC 2147
After 5 races, Mandy Mackereth and David Williams are looking unassailable in the Winter Evening Event league standings. The final event of the series takes place at Arrow Valley on 26th February. Photo credit: Adrian Bailey