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Orienteering and South
Yorkshire Orienteers
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What is
Orienteering? - from the British Orienteering Federation (BOF)
Get a flavour if the sport by watching an extract from the British
Orienteering Federation DVD
Also the US orienteering federation video, in four sections.
'Play' is the right pointing triangle below and on
the left of the video
screen (bottom toolbar of the video)
Better seen on YouTube
with a larger picture, and also offers a number of 'related' orienteering videos
Local events (in or near South
Yorkshire) See Events page on
the SYO website www.southyorkshireorienteers.org.uk.
Come and try orienteering or improve your basic skills at South Yorkshire
Orienteer's informal
Saturday morning events
These events are designed specifically for newcomers to the
sport, families and those who have done some orienteering but who would like to
improve in an unpressurised environment.
Complete
up-to-date listings of Orienteering events are listed on the British
Orienteering website. You can locate nearby events using a Postcode
search
Other SYO events early in 2011 see website for further details:
DVO (Derwent Valley
Orienteers), the Derbyshire club, and NOC (Nottinghamshire) also have some informal events close to
Rotherham
Don’t forget anyone can come to any of our events you
don’t have to be a member – but we hope you might want to join after a few
goes at it. ”
Congratulations
to
Daniel Marston
Britain: Bronze Medal
Winners in the Men's Relay, WOC 2003
Daniel finished, somewhat
tired
Jamie Stevenson finishes,
joined by Dan, now recovered, and Jon Duncan
Finishing 14th in the World
Championships, 6 August 2003 in Switzerland
(Photograph: Dominik Banny & Walter Rahm
Reuse only permitted with caption
"Photo provided by www.olwm2003.ch".)
British Champion
2002
On the run in (picture from
CompassSport)
(Age Group Champion
in the past, running for SYO)
He lost
most of the 2001 season because of a broken arm. In 2002, his training
was rewarded by winning the British Championships. Calm nerves
were needed; as he went through the Spectator Control he heard
the commentator announce "Dan Marston is in the lead".
Somewhat distracting, but he kept his nerve to win by 2 minutes!
On Saturday 18th August
2001 I was listening to an interview with a couple involved in
Enigma Code-Breaking during the Second World War and was surprised
when I realised that the couple were SYO retired stalwarts Shiela
and Oliver Lawn.
Copy
of BBC Woman's Hour web page on which they feature
Unfortunately, the following link
BBC
Woman's Hour web page on which they feature
seems to have been archived (sound link not sorted out yet)
Sound
(from BBC web page)
Sound
(copy in case BBC page is not available) - removed from website but available on
request - quota problem
Acknowledgements:
The British Orienteering
Federation page.
Compass Sport On-line
(New CompassSport).
link
to the SYO (South
Yorkshire Orienteers)
page
there's a list of events in the
area and other information about Orienteering in general and SYO
in particular
(Rotherham is at the centre of
South Yorkshire, which also includes Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield)
Last update:
05 July, 2024
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