Front Page Archive
14/10/07 UWOC help Octavian Droobers win the Compass Sport Cup for the third year in a row. Congratulations everyone!
30/09/07 On his overseas travels, Foreign Sec Matt Rooke helped Waterloo Stars to victory in the Ontario Relay Champs, check out his blog.
30/06/07 Iain Embrey is named the university Sportsman of the Year at the Sports Fed Ball!
Mark Cummings receives the Colin Brummett Trophy for outstanding contribution to sport.
04/06/07 UWOC-er Iain Embrey is included in the British team to be sent to the Junior World Orienteering Championships in Austrailia this summer. Congratulations and good luck!
25/05/07 Ex-UWOC coach Graham Gristwood, and Linus Kaisajuntti helped their Swedish club IFK Lidingö SOK to 4th place in the Virkiä-Jukola Relays 2007. Results can be found here.
01/04/07 UWOC Men Come 3rd in BUSA Orienteering Championships. Congratulations to Matt Rooke, Iain Embrey and Linus Kaisajuntti.
Archived News - 2005/06
Warwick find way to 5th in BUSA Championships
New recruits helped Warwick's Orienteers to a respectable finish amid icy conditions
While most students will have spent the morning after the end of last term settling into the start of their Spring break or recovering from the previous night's festivities, 20 members of the University of Warwick Orienteering Club took on some of the country's top orienteers in the BUSA Championships.
With this year's event being hosted by Edinburgh University, the competition offered entrants the opportunity to run in challenging and hilly terrain and promised a showcase of young talent. The two favourites, Edinburgh and Sheffield, each boasted a number of members of the UK squad, and consequently it was always apparent that the overall victory would go to one of these sides. However, on the back of last year's 4th place finish, Warwick were strong contenders among 20 other universities.
The championship's first day witnessed the Individual's Long-course race, held in Achray Forest near Aberfoyle, and gave competitors the choice of 3 courses in the Men's event and 2 in the Women's. Featuring technically demanding landscapes, at times requiring runners to ford icy streams, this was much a test of resolve as it was of fitness & navigational ability, but despite this Warwick's Matt Rooke and Iain Embrey produced impressive results in the 9.1km, 29 control Men's A course. Achieving similar times for the first 3 controls, a navigational error by Embrey saw Rooke become the leading Warwick man until a similar mistake by the latter drew them level. With Embrey erring towards control 19, it was to be Rooke who came in first for Warwick in 20th position after 1 hour 29 minutes, 26 minutes behind overall winner Murray Strain of Edinburgh. Embrey managed a strong 29th place, with solid performances also coming from Laurence Ball in 43rd and Rowan Bomphay in 62nd. The non-scoring courses also saw Warwick gaining decent results, with Shane Enright and Rob Latham finishing 2nd in the B and C courses respectively, behind Durham's Ben Smith and Queen's Belfast's Neal O'Boyle. In the Women's event, Warwick's Caroline Northall secured 30th position in the 6.3km A course, won by Sheffield's Rachel Elder, while Hazel Kendrick, Yen Nguyen, and relative novice Nicola Cui took 6th, 7th, and 8th in the B course.
Sunday's relays, at Kinneil Woods near Bo'ness, was to offer competitors a more run able and intense experience, with shorter courses and much flatter and more open terrain than in the Individual races. However, the nocturnal addition of ½ ft of snow added an extra dimension of difficulty. Despite losing out on 1st place in the Men's relay to Sheffield, an overall points lead from the previous day, coupled with victory in the Women's race proved to be enough to secure the title for Edinburgh by 17 points. Meanwhile, Warwick's men produced some fine runs to take 3rd on the day, but with their women's side outgunned and outclassed, and with the relays counting for less than the Individual events, it was too little, too late, leaving them in 5th behind Oxford and Durham.
Harold Wyber
