WAGAL Winners 2024

The WAGAL scoreboard has been updated with points from the final WAGAL event of 2024, Mildenhall North on 17th November, and also with points awarded in lieu to officials who organised, planned or controlled at WAGAL events during the year. That means that the standings are now finalised and the class winners can be announced. And they are:

• Junior Men: Erik Biernacki-Jablonski
• Junior Women: Alys Powell
• Senior Men: Mark Hopkin
• Senior Women: Helen Bickle
• Veteran Men: Chris Rampton
• Veteran Women: Emma Jarrett
• SuperVet Men: Dil Wetherill
• SuperVet Wormen: Sue Hartley

The overall highest scorer is once again Sue Hartley. Congratulations to her and to all the class winners.

WAOC Winners in the UK Urban League 2024

The 2024 UK Urban League is now complete and winners have been decided. Amongst them were two from WAOC:

Alys ("Perfect 500") Powell in Womens Young Junior category, and Hebe Darwin, first in the Womens Open.

Congratulations to both, and well done too to the 4 runners up from WAOC:

Hana Powell (WYJ), Erik Biernacki-Jablonski (MJ), Kate Jarrett (WJ), and Camilla Darwin (WV).

More details on the 2024 UK League results can be found here.

Compass Sport Cup final 2024WAOC come 6th

On 20th October 34 WAOC members travelled to Holcombe Moors in Lancashire to take part in the 2024 final of the Compass Sport competition. WAOC came 6th ranked team in the Cup (for larger clubs). Congratulations to everyone for getting round successfully, surviving both the weather and unexploded ordnance on the hill. Everyone contributed and it was gratifying to see scorers from W12 to W70, with some great performances. WAOC were only one of two teams whose 25 scorers came from all 12 possible scoring classes, which really speaks to the depth of participation and quality in the team.

Individual results can be found here.

Park-O is backComing soon to a park in Cambridge

Park-O returns for 2024-2025. The courses will change slightly compared to previously, but will still be held on Saturday afternoons and all are welcome - especially newcomers.

For more experienced orienteers, we will be offering an odds/even score at each event with a small prize awarded to the person who gains the most points over the four Park-O events

WAOC Juniors at the Peter Palmer Relays

Congratulations to our team of seven WAOC Juniors who travelled to the northern Lake District last weekend to participate in the prestigious Peter Palmer Relays.

WAOC were placed 10th out of 14 teams, finishing as the best team from outside Scotland, Yorkshire or the Lakes.

David Peregrine dies

The WAOC committee are sad to report that David Peregrine, former chairman of WAOC, EAOA and British Orienteering, has died after a short illness. David received an honorary WAOC membership at our 2023 AGM.

WAOC take Bronze in Yvette Baker Final

Many congratulations to the 18 WAOC Juniors for their fantastic Third Place at the Yvette Baker Trophy Final on 7th July. There were many brilliant performances and ALL contributed in terrible weather. This is the best ever result the club has achieved since the Trophy was founded in 1999, and it is great to have some national silverware. Results at https://www.herts-orienteering...

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.