EYOC 2013

[frostbite]

EYOC 2013 gets under way in a little over an hour with the sprint race in Óbidos, Portugal.

Start lists and live results here

http://eyoc2013.fpo.pt/index.php/82-new ... -2013-live

Good luck to all the British team

15:42:00 Jennifer Ricketts W16

15:00:00 Daniel Stansfield M16
15:24:00 Callum White M16
16:01:00 Andrew Barr M16
16:16:00 Alexander Chepelin M16

15:24:00 Carter-Davies Megan W18
16:04:00 Jones Sarah W18
16:25:00 McMillan Rhona W18

15:02:00 Dane Blomquist M18
15:35:00 Joe Woodley M18
15:58:00 Oliver Williams M18

[EddieH]

Intersting that 100% of the 16s are Scots but only one of the 18s. Does this say something about the future?

[JK]

I see they are registered as GBR - in FIN we were down as England - which was duly objected to!

Interesting how some of the girl's surnames and forenames are the wrong way round ... or is it the chaps' ones?

GL to all!

[aiming off]

It certainly looked like the future at the JIRCs (held recently on the south coast of England).

The strength and depth of the Scottish JOS was very impressive.

And good luck to all at EYOC.

[Spookster]

Sprint results:

W16
23rd Jennifer Ricketts

W18
24th Sarah Jones
44th Megan Carter-Davies
71st Rhona McMillan

M16
12th Alex Chepelin
28th Callum White
37th Andrew Barr
66th Daniel Stansfield

M18
20th Oli Williams
82nd Dane Blomquist
86th Joe Woodley

[JK]

I spotted a young Miss Aebersold, daughter of Christian (who has a few WOC relay titles to his name from the early 90s).

Are any of the other medallists kids of world champs?

[gaw]

I spotted a young Miss Aebersold, daughter of Christian (who has a few WOC relay titles to his name from the early 90s).

Are any of the other medallists kids of world champs?

Heidi Martenson, 4th on the sprint is the current Junior World Champ from this year in Czech, and daughter of Jorgen - who no doubt some other Nopers will tell us what he achieved - multiple World Champs?

Sara Hagstrom who won today was also at JWOC and may well have been in the medals there but mispunched.

Just goes to show how strong the competition is.

[graeme]

Jorgen - who no doubt some other Nopers will tell us what he achieved - multiple World Champs?

Jörgen ran at WOC when he was younger than many of these EYOCers, finishing (I think) in the top -10. Certainly well clear of the Brits.

He also set up Park Work tour, which will be coming to Stirling next year.

(and won 10 WOC medals in between)

[madmike]

Jorgen - who no doubt some other Nopers will tell us what he achieved - multiple World Champs?

Jörgen ran at WOC when he was younger than many of these EYOCers, finishing (I think) in the top -10. Certainly well clear of the Brits.

He also set up Park Work tour, which will be coming to Stirling next year.

(and won 10 WOC medals in between)

And has won at least one age group gold at WMOC as a 35, a 40, a 45, a 50 and is a first year 55 next year.

[ifititches]

from the British Orienteering report on the website yesterday
"Dane Blomquist and Joe Woodley are also eagerly awaiting tomorrow’s race as this has been the 2013 focus for both."

and they appear to have dead-heated with a time of 52.25 for 30th place!
http://www.ori-live.com/go-live/eyoc2013day2.aspx

Some great GB runs in the younger age classes too.

[Sunlit Forres]

Megan Carter-Davies looked to be going brilliantly well until something went wrong in the latter stages. I'd put money on Sasha Chepelin getting a JWOC podium place in the future.

Must be such a good expeience for all 11 team members and well done to Portugal for putting it all together at such relatively short notice.

[mappingmum]

Long distance, winning time = 42 mins. Surely the EWT should be 1 hour for these young fit girls and boys.

Edit: checking I see there is only sprint/"long"/relay in scope for this competition so perhaps it is a naming anomaly as there is no "middle".

[greywolf]

Long distance, winning time = 42 mins. Surely the EWT should be 1 hour for these young fit girls and boys.

The [url=http://orienteering.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/EYOC-Rules.pdf‎]rules[/url] say W16 35-40mins, M16/W18 40-45mins, M18 45-50mins. 3 out of 4 long races were won in the appropriate range, with two M16s breaking 40 mins.

Not every nation believes that the best way to develop junior orienteers is to make them run very long distances (but then I expect few of them can match our enviable record for retaining juniors through to the senior ranks...)

Edit: but more importantly, some great runs from our juniors, especially from Sasha

[andypat]

And very well done to the M16 team of Andrew Barr, Callum White and Daniel Stansfield who took a podium 6th place in the relays today at EYOC.

Dare I say well done to the BOF team for getting the results (and a report) up on the website pronto!

[DaveR]

Well done to the M16 team, the report is here - http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/index.php?pg=1&action=news&id=Mjg1MA==&rtn=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5icml0aXNob3JpZW50ZWVyaW5nLm9yZy51ay8=