The final race of the 2017 UK Urban League was scheduled for last December at Castle Vale, Birmingham, but heavy snow and an amber weather warning forced Harlequins Orienteering Club to postpone. They chose June, combining with the Birmingham University sprints to create an attractive weekend.

The opening day of the 2018 edition of European Youth Orienteering Championships (EYOC) in Bulgaria saw a highly technical, challenging sprint in the old medieval capital, Veliko Tarnovo, confront Team GB's runners. However one athlete, in the form of young debutant, Megan Keith, rose superbly t...

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Sprint W16, European Youth Orienteering Championships 2018 in Bulgaria today!

What a stark contrast yesterday with Wednesday's hilly Mass start yesterday for the Sprint event in a wooded Budapest park with very little climb but lots of fast and furious technical riding.

On a glorious midsummer night 36 teams went to battle against each other and the terrain of Tilgate Park in Crawley, West Sussex. The race started at midnight Saturday 24 June with the lighting of a cake to commemorate the 40th running of this competition. The competitors on the start line, poised w...

A silver and two bronzes for GB in the World Masters MTBO championships in Budapest in the first ever Masters Mass start race. Charlie Somers-Cocks was in silver by only one second from Monica Kolberg of Sweden in gold. Killian Lomas and Sarah Bayliss raced to bronze in M/W50 respectively. The fores...

Thursday 28 June - Sunday 1 July 2018, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria 

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Saturday 1 September 2018:  British Sprint Championships: University of Bath Sunday 2 September 2018:  British Middle Championship: Stockhill near Wells, Somerset

Bristol Orienteering Klub (BOK) has successfully organised a new programme, designed to recruit and coach adult joiners into the club. Aptly named “Track to Terrain”, it aimed to recruit and coach new adult joiners into the sport. A range of participants from the Bristol area was recruited, and give...

Sunday 1 July 2018 Premiere Junior Inter-Club competition for English and Welsh Orienteering Clubs.

The final race of the 2017 UK Urban League was scheduled for last December at Castle Vale, Birmingham, but heavy snow and an amber weather warning forced Harlequins Orienteering Club to postpone. They chose June, combining with the Birmingham University sprints to create an attractive weekend. And n...

The Harvester Relays are taking place next Sunday (June 24th) at Tilgate Forest in Sussex.

Saturday 9th. June: British Mixed Sprint Relay - Pegswood, Morpeth, Northumberland Sunday 10th June: Urban Races - Morpeth, Northumberland

The international orienteering relay competitions, the 70th Jukola Relay and the 41st Venla Relay, were held in the towns of Lahti and Hollola at the weekend on 16th and 17th June 2018. The joint organising clubs were Hollolan Urheilijat -46 and Lahden Suunnistajat -37.

This year sees the 7th Lakes 5 Days event taking place in the English Lake District and will incorporate five individual regional events between Sunday 29 July and Friday 3 August 2018 with one rest/activity day.

The Junior World Orienteering Championships 2018 will be held in Kecskemet, Hungary from 8-15 July 2018. 

Jennie Taylor Communications Officer at British Orienteering caught up with a couple of the athletes who attended the recent Balmoral Talent Training Camp.  

Following a vacancy on the Board of Directors British Orienteering are recruiting a new independent Director with a portfolio including legal and governance.