The 2026 East Anglian Championships were held at Bromehill on 1st November, hosted by WAOC.

The following WAOC members took home trophies. Congratulations to WAOC's EA Champions:

• James Scott (M12)
• Chun Yan Alastair Fu (M18)
• Jonathan Pye (M35)
• Bob Hill (M70)
• John Harris (M80)
• Ailsa Rankin (W12)
• Kate Jarrett (W18)
• Elizabeth Bedwell (W21)
• Johanna Powell (W50)
• Helen Hague (W55)
• Noreen Ives (W70)

The full list of EA champions for this year and previous years can be seen on the EAOA website.

The final event of the WAGAL for 2026 was at Bromehill on 1st November. The scores have been finalised, including points to officials who did not run in WAGAL events they organised, planned or controlled. The outcome can be viewed on the WAGAL scoreboard.

The overall highest scorer this year is Janet Cronk. Congratulations to Janet and all the WAGAL winners:

• Elysia Cowe (W Junior)
• Elizabeth Bedwell (W Senior)
• Emma Jarrett (W Vet)
• Janet Cronk (W Ultravet
• Erik Biernacki-Jablonski (M Junior)
• Paul Cumner (M Senior)
• Stephen Borrill (M Vet)
• Chris Rampton (M Ultravet)

Winners will receive an award at our next AGM and prizegiving.

For those of you who came along to Park-O on the 17th and would like to learn more about how to orienteer, novice training for adults and juniors will take place at the next three Park-Os between 1 and 2pm, with enough time to do a course afterwards.

EAOA was responsible for holding the yearly Junior Inter-regional Championships JIRCs this year at Hatfield and Writtle forests.

The 12 national junior squads competed against each other as individuals and in relay races over the weekend of 26/27 September with not only orienteering tested but also Ceilidh skills! Overall winners were Scotland (pictured right), with EAOA coming 7th out of 12.

Well done to the EAOA juniors, and the 8 WAOC juniors for representing their region as part of the EA squad. Particular congratulations to Erik for winning the M16 individual race on the Saturday.

You can find more photographs of the awards ceremony, courtesy of Addy Fu, here.

Full results of the JIRCS competition are on the SOS website.

Park-O restarts on 17th October at Coe Fen and we're offering a £1 discount on the first event.

If you enter all 4 Park-O's, you'll get a free entry for a Orange, Yellow or White course at our Rowney Warren event in March.

This summer, Erik was selected to take part in the Deeside training camp, held annually and based near Aberdeen. You can read his report here.

The WAGAL Scoreboard has now been updated with the points from Ampthill Park on 13th September. This was the 4th of the five WAGAL events of this year. The final WAGAL event of 2026 is the East Anglian Championships which WAOC is hosting at Santon Downham on 1st November.

The final event of the East Anglian Urban League for 2026 was at Milton Keynes in August. Now that all the league events have taken place, the scores have been calculated and can be viewed on the EAOA website.

Congratulations to the following who topped the league in their age class :

• Hana Powell (WYJ)
• Camilla Darwin (WSV)
• Erik Biernacki-Jablonski (MJ)
• Maciej Jablonski (MV)
• Chris Rampton (MSV)

Runners up include Matt Eaton (2nd in the MV class), Dil Wetherill (2nd in MSV), and Peter Duthie (2nd MUV). Hebe Darwin and Arran Pritchard also had highest points in their class, but did not attend the minimum number of league fixtures to qualify as class winners.