Category: Championships

It’s not only the hares that go mad in March – orienteers can look forward to a double-header weekend over the 14th and 15th March with the Scottish Middle Distance Championships at Gleneagles and the CompassSport Cup & Trophy at Errochty.

The Moray Coast proved to be the ideal location to host the 2020 Scottish Night Championships and the first Compass Point SOL event of the year. While the rest of the country had battened down the hatches, the weather was fairly mild to allow for successful racing at both Findhorn and Darnaway

This year’s Scottish Orienteering Championships will take place at Tentsmuir – north of St. Andrews – on the weekend of 22^nd-23^rd August 2020.

The British Team for the 2019 World Orienteering Championships has been announced, and the team includes many faces that will be familiar to Scottish Orienteers.

Faskally Woods & Pitlochry will host the Scottish Score championships on Sunday 1 September, with STAG hosting the event.

On Friday 28 June, Callendar Park near Falkirk hosted the UK’s first ever orienteering event to be broadcast live, as The Adventure Show showed the JOK Chasing Sprint live on a beautiful summer evening, giving a fantastic introduction to the sport.

With a mixed weekend of weather, the 2019 Scottish Orienteering Championships weekend took place in Dumfries & Galloway, with the Individual Championships taking place in Dalbeattie Forest on Saturday 25th May and the Relay Championships at Drumlanrig Estate, near Thornhill, on Sunday 26th May.

The 2019 British Orienteering Championships were a “tour de force” in Yorkshire for many of Scotland’s clubs and individuals, who headed south for championships based around Bradford, Leeds and the Yorkshire Dales.

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.

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.