Next Events
Sun 21 Apr
Ickworth Park (SUFFOC event)
Near: Bury St Edmunds more details...
Wed 24 Apr
Milton Urban
Near: Cambridge more details...
Wed 1 May
Girton College
Near: Cambridge more details...
Next Regional EventIckworth Park (SUFFOC event)
Sun 21 Apr
YBT Qualifier
Near: Bury St Edmunds
Summary
The regional qualifier event for the 2024 Yvette Baker Trophy (YBT) competition for junior club teams will be hosted by SUFFOC at Ickworth Park on 21st April.
This will be a colour-coded event open to all, as well as including the YBT element.
WAOC at the JK 2024
Many WAOC members spent the Easter weekend at the JK festival of orienteering, which this year offered a sprint in the campus of Loughborough University, two days on Cannock Chase (Beaudesert) featuring mud and more mud, and a Relay event on Stanton Moor featuring runnable heather moorland and intricate abandoned mine workings.
Annual PrizegivingSome photos from the event
This year we held our AGM and prizegiving at Arbury Community Centre in North Cambridge, on the afternoon of Saturday 16th March. These followed a MapRun activity, taking advantage of the nearby excellent urban orienteering terrain.
WAOC'S East Anglian and Midland Champions
The EA region hosted the Midland Championships this year (the first time for a long time) which meant that there was a splendid turnout from clubs across the centre of England (on a splendid day) to compete for the Midland Championship trophies. The event was combined with the East Anglian Championsips and quite a few WAOC runners took home some silverware.
East Anglian Urban League 2023 - Our class winners
The class winners from the 2023 East Anglian Urban League were rewarded with medals, at a brief ceremony at the Kings Forest event on 18th February.
A pleasingly large number of WAOC club members were recipients.
WAOC winners in the East Anglian League 2023
The category winners in the 2023 East Anglian League were awarded their medals at the recent CompassSport Cup and Trophy event in the Kings Forest. Recipients included an impressive line-up of WAOC orienteers.
WAGAL 2024
The first two events of our WAGAL club league took place in February, and points from these have been calculated. The current scores can be viewed on the WAGAL scoreboard.
WAGAL Winners for 2023
The scores for this year's WAOC league (WAGAL) have now been calculated and published on the WAGAL scoreboard. And the winners are...
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