Month: April 2019

Everyone at Scottish Orienteering says congratulations to all who have been selected to run for Great Britain in this summer’s junior international races.

This year’s World Schools Championships in Orienteering (WSCO) is being held from 29 April – 5 May in Estonia. Scotland will be represented by a team of 15 athletes from throughout the country, and three coaches.

With World Orienteering Week set to take place from 15th-21st May 2019 we’re helping schools, clubs and other groups across Scotland become part of the 350,000 people aiming to break a world record in this year’s event.

With three months to go until the 2019 Scottish 6 Days Orienteering event, entrants have already signed up from more than 26 countries, and orienteers from around the world are encouraged to enter by 30 April to take advantage of discounted entry.

A well-organised Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering 2019 saw a huge effort put in by many volunteers from across the south of England and as far afield as Moravian. Four days of racing, plus two days of Trail O (Temp O and Pre O) proved fairly demanding for anyone who went for the full weekend!

This year’s Scottish Schools’ Orienteering Festival is set to take place at Hopetoun House in South Queensferry on Friday 7 June and schools from across the country are encouraged to come and take part!

Everyone at the SOA would like to wish good luck to all the Scottish orienteers making the long trip south to this weekend’s Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering 2019, as well as those staying north for Tayside Orienteers’ “Not the JK”, near Perth.

Many thanks to everyone who spared time to respond to the survey on the inaugural Scottish Middle Distance Championships. We had 74 responses, of which 66 were from individuals who participated at Birnam – a very impressive response rate of 29.7%.

Anyone looking to take part in this year’s Scottish Orienteering Championships can now enter via SiEntries, as entries for the 2019 Individual and Relay Championships are now open.

As from the 1st April 2019 Forestry Commission Scotland and Forest Enterprise Scotland no longer exist.