Shrewsbury is a medieval town which retains many ancient buildings and has a number of small alleyways connecting its streets. All the information on the Wrekin Orienteering website and the event flyer is here.
Worcester City Urban, Sunday 1st September, Harlequins Orienteering.
Rick Roberts is standing down from this role; we are grateful for all his work over the previous years.
Could you volunteer to take on this vital role? There’s a job description here and you would have full support from the rest of the committee. Please contact Carol Dredge (WMOA Secretary) or Richard Lewis (acting Chair) if you are interested. Email addresses for all committee members are here.
Thanks to everyone who came to the WM Schools Champs at Cannon Hill Park on Saturday, and Harlequins orineteering for organisning the eevent. We hope that you enjoyed it. The results of the event are available here.
Congratulations to everyone who took part. The WM Orienteering Schools Champs Trophies were awarded as follows:
Harlequins Orienteering hosted the 2024 West Midlands relays on a sunny day in Baggeridge. The results by relay class are here, and a pdf file of the results by course is here. Scroll down for a gallery of images collated from the clubs’ social media, and some backgound on the mapping of Baggeridge.
Many thanks to all the volunteers, particularly Adrian and Kerstin for planning and organising, and congratulations to the winning teams:
Class
Club
Runners
A – Mini
(trophy with Mel Elkington)
B – Junior women
WRE
Harriet Allinson, Grace Allinson, Annie Lewis
C – Intermediate Women
(trophy with Mel Elkington)
D – OpenWomen
OD
Juliette Soulard, Harriet Lawson, Anne Straube
E – Senior Women
POTOC
Eden Pigott, Ianka Evans, Elizabeth Bales
F – Veteran Women
WRE
Sarah Bayliss, Marian White, Diane Jacks
G – Super Veteran Women
(trophy with Mel Elkington)
H – Junior Men
(trophy with Mel Elkington)
I – Intermediate Men
OD
Adam Landels, Rupert Powell, Max Straube-Roth
J – Open Men
HOC
Kin Wai Lee, Steve Blackmore, Dave Aldridge
K – Senior Men
OD
Alistair Powell, Alistair Landels, Tom Jeffries
L – Veteran Men
HOC
Simon Thompson, David Williams, Ian Chafer
M – Super Veteran Men
WRE
Andy Clough, Rod Postlethwaite, Andy White
N – Mixed Ad Hoc
HOC
Barry McGowan, Karen Thompson, Ka Man Leung
Men’s Open winnersWRE, Junior WomenPOTOC’s Senior WomenHOC’s winning AdHOC team2/3 of HOC’s winning Veteran men WRE, Super Veteran MenWRE, Veteran Women
From Rod Postlethwaite’s archives:
Did you know that WRE were the first club to map Baggeridge Country Park way back in 1985? Back in those days there was no computer mapping and training maps were drawn with pen and ink and photocopied in black and white.
The map was surveyed by the late Ken Posnett (Wrekin’s one time Chairman) and drawn by Dave Gittus and was used for a couple of Tuesday evening training events before HOC mapped it in colour.
Calling all trophy holders! Please remember to return these to Baggeridge on the 21st April 2024. If you can’t be there the please arrange for someone else to return it.
