West Midlands Orienteering Association   

The Midland Championships for 2021 were held as part of the SinS event at Rorrington and Stapeley, staged by Harlequins and Wrekin Orienteers on May 30th.

Members of any club belonging to the West Midlands, East Midlands or East Anglia Orienteering Associations are eligible to become Midland Champion.

The champions are:

M10	Marcus Richardson	NOR	W10	Alys Powell	WAOC
M12	Max Straube-Roth	OD	W12	Harriet Allinson	WRE
M14	Henry Jeffries	OD	W14	Hebe Darwin	WAOC
M16	Jake O’Donnell	DVO	W16	Hannah Mather	LOG
M18	Barney Steventon- Barnes	SUFFOC	W18	Not contested
M20	Not contested		W20	Not contested
M21	Axel Weatherall	WAOC	W21	Nadine Wright	OD
M35	Robert Holdway	POTOC	W35	Kirsten Strain	OD
M40	Anthony Squire	NOC	W40	Emma Jarrett	WAOC
M45	Andrew Rowe	POTOC	W45	Anne Straube	OD
M50	Alistair Landels	OD	W50	Juliette Soulard	OD
M55	John Duckworth	DVO	W55	Jill Emmerson	OD
M60	Mark Pearson	WRE	W60	Mary Adams	WCH
M65	Barry Elkington	OD	W65	Carol Dredge	WCH
M70	Andy Hemsted	HOC	W70	Judith Holt	DVO
M75	Derek Gale	DVO	W75	Sheila Carey	OD
M80	Mike Callow	WRE	W80	Carol Roscoe	WRE
M85	Not contested		W85	Alison Sloman	HOC

Congratulations to all the winners!

Full results can be found on the SinS web site

The 55th Sutton Park Gates Run will be organised by City of Birmingham Orienteers from 17:30 to 19:30 on Wednesday 7th July. Links to more details and to the entry form can be found on the COBOC home page.

Entries close tomorrow; details are available via Harlequin’s Summer Series page.

Entries close today for Potteries Orienteering Club’s second Local event of 2021 at Biddulph Grange Country Park on Saturday 22nd May. Start times from 10.30 – 12.30; enter using Fabian4 : https://www.fabian4.co.uk/

Details on the POTOC website here.

Entries for Springtime in Shropshire (Midland Championships, 30th May) are now open on Fabian4. Because numbers are restricted entries are initially limited to members of the WMOA, EMOA and EAOA. Information about which course to enter to be eligible for the Midland Championships is here.

Day 1 Saturday 29th May on Corndon : cancelled

Day 2 Sunday 30th May on Stapeley / Rorrington to go ahead

There is a full update and further information about the Sunday 30th May event on the Springtime in Shropshire website.

There are a few entry slots available for Harlequin’s local event; entries wil close at 3.00pm Friday or when the event is full. Full details including entry instructions are here.

POTOC invite you to come and celebrate the return of orienteering with their first Level D event of 2021. Entries are now open to all orienteers through the club’s website, and there is a choice of four courses of varying lengths and difficulty.

JK2022 will be in South Wales at Easter 2022. Many of the roles required to stage this event are already filled and the event has a very experienced overall coordinator in Andy Yeates from Walton Chasers. The team are looking for a non-SI equipment coordinator – take a look at the role description to see if you fancy taking on this role.

Keep your fingers, toes and compasses crossed – the first four events in the Midlands have made it into the diary. First up are Potteries Orienteering Club, with a local event planned for Ladderedge on the 24th April. Walton Chasers have just secured permission to run an event at Shoal Hills the following day. And for the late May Bank Holiday the Springtime in Shropshire team (Wrekin and Harlequins) have permission for back-to-back events on the Saturday and Sunday. These are on the neighbouring areas of Corndon Hill and Rorrington & Stapley.

As always, these are all subect to the rules and guidance at the time of the event.