BUCS Orienteering Champs 2016

[duncan b]

The British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Orienteering Champtionships are taking place this weekend in the Forest of Dean, Bristol and the Cotswolds.

The University of Bristol Orienteering Club is hosting the event with the aid of Bristol OK and North Gloucester OC.

Saturday's individual is on Moseley Green and is a selection race for the World University Orienteering Championships in Hungary this summer.

Thanks to the BUCS O Needs You thread entries stand at (approx) 105 on Men A, 67 Women A, 13 Men B, 20 Women Open, 10 Men Open (same course).

The relays on Sunday are at Cooper's Hill, famous for its cheese rolling. Competitors will find runnable woodland, detailed contours, but some steep slopes.

[buzz]

Any results yet?

[King Penguin]

Don't know who is doing SI, but BOK have a Western Night League event on the same area this evening so that might delay uploading of BUCS results.

[Nottinghamshire outlaw]

Has the sport of orienteering missed a trick today? I looked at the BUCSport twitter feed - lots of photos from other student sports competitions but ours seems to be the secret sport again.

[haloite]

Has the sport of orienteering missed a trick today? I looked at the BUCSport twitter feed - lots of photos from other student sports competitions but ours seems to be the secret sport again.

Same with our club - golden opportunity squandered last week - Social Media works - you just have to have the will to make it work

[andypat]

Has the sport of orienteering missed a trick today? I looked at the BUCSport twitter feed - lots of photos from other student sports competitions but ours seems to be the secret sport again.

Same with our club - golden opportunity squandered last week - Social Media works - you just have to have the will to make it work

...and the time. As someone who has had to use facebook and twitter in a semi official capacity for both SOA and S6D, its simply not possible to focus on it if you have various other roles as well - and I think that applies equally to club O (possibly unless you are retired or otherwise not working). IMO for social media to work you need to give it to someone who is keen and say that's your job, nothing else, no planning, or coaching or organising or manning the start or whatever. But how many clubs these days have the volunteer resource to do that?

[sloaner]

Men - 10.5KM

1st Alexander Chepelin 58:52
2nd Kris Jones - about 20 seconds behind


Women - 7.5km

1st Charlotte Watson 54 ish

Jo Shepherd - Guest 51 something I think


Sorry memory not good and been a long couple of days

[sloaner]

Course 1

1st Alexander Chepelin University of Edinburgh Men A 58:52
2nd Kristian Jones University of Ulster Men A 59:05
3rd Jonny Crickmore Heriot-Watt University Men A 60:33
4th Willy Gardner University of Sheffield Men A 61:28
5th Matt Elkington University of Sheffield Men A 61:34
6th James Parkinson Oxford University Men A 63:27
7th Chris Smithard DEE Guest Men A 63:49
8th Oliver Williams University of Sheffield Men A 65:05
9th Aidan Smith Oxford University Men A 65:21
10th Daniel Stansfield University of Edinburgh Men A 65:25
11th Will Rigg Heriot-Watt University Men A 65:35

Course 2

1st Jo Shepherd EUOC Guest Women A 51:30
2nd Phil Murray BOK Guest Men B 52:45
3rd Charlotte Watson University of Edinburgh Women A 54:05
4th Zoe Harding University of Edinburgh Women A 54:20
5th Lucy Butt SARUM Guest Women A 55:08
6th Rebecca Harding Lancaster University Women A 57:06
7th Katie Reynolds University of Edinburgh Women A 58:10
8th Sarah Jones University of Edinburgh Women A 59:01
9th= Julie Emmerson Durham University Women A 59:13
9th= Tamsin Moran University of Sheffield Women A 59:13
11th Jenny Ricketts University of Edinburgh Women A 59:23
12th Helen Ockenden University of Cambridge Women A 59:26
13th Bethany Hanson University of Edinburgh Women A 60:00

[duncan b]

Results after the Individual

[duncan b]

Edinburgh were overnight leaders with and retained that lead after today's relays winning both Mens and Womens courses.

Link to full results can be found here

Top 3 results:

Men
1. Edinburgh - Daniel Stansfield/Andrew Barr/Sasha Chepelin
2. Sheffield - Matt Elkington/Oliver Williams/Willy Gardner
(3. SPOOK - Kristian Jones/David Schorah/Chris Smithard)
4. Sheffield - Nathan Lawson/Joe Woodley/Adam Potter

Women
1. Edinburgh - Katie Reynolds/Zoe Harding/Charlotte Watson
2. Edinburgh - Bethany Hanson/Sarah Jones/Jenny Rickets
3. Sheffield - Katrina Hemingway/Tamsin Moran/Alice Rigby

As you may have guess Edinburgh were overall winners. I will try and post full list of overall results by tomorrow.

[duncan b]

BUCS Orienteering 2016 Overall Results

16.52 EDIT: Apparently these results aren't quite right so there may be some slight positional changes. But Edinburgh still win!

[eddie]

I just want to add on here a massive to Bristol University (and to support from Bristol OK and North Gloucestershire OC) for their fine efforts. Great weekend. Top racing. Excellent work.

[Scott]

16.52 EDIT: Apparently these results aren't quite right so there may be some slight positional changes. But Edinburgh still win!

I'm not sure whether this is what you mean, but I'm don't believe DNFs/MPs should be counted when working out the penalty score for incomplete teams. Not going to make any difference to the top positions though.