After leaving Olten, Switzerland following the first of the World Cup series, the GB team travelled immediately to Genoa, Italy and were joined by an additional team member, Peter Molloy, for the second round of the series. 

A sprint focus event with an Individual Sprint followed by the Mixed Sprint Relay was held in an arena beautifully located on the waterfront in Genoa’s western end and both were varied and challenging sprint courses.  

Individual Sprint 

Both the men’s and the women’s courses began in a hilly forest area, which offered difficult route choice challenges on the slopes before moving into more classic urban sprint with the shorter legs on narrow streets.  

It was a win for Simona Aebersold, who made her way through the course with very few errors to dominate the Womens event by 28 seconds. Natalia Gemperle was second and Norway’s Ane Dyrkorn in third.  

In the Men’s, Kasper Fosser took the victory with Sweden’s Martin Regborn in second with Tomáš Křivda in third.  

The highest placed British athletes were Peter Hodkinson 27th and Megan Carter-Davies who returned from illness after missing the first round in 29th place, unfortunately there was a DNF for Ralph Street due to injury. 

Images below: Charlotte Ward, Jonathan Crickmore and Megan Carter-Davies. Credit: IOF / Kristina Lindgren

Results

British Orienteering’s Board formally invites members to the Annual General Meeting, which will be held at 11:00am on Saturday, 5^th October 2024 at The Studio in Birmingham.

Please find a link to the following:

• Formal Notice of AGM 24
• Accounts from 2023 (to follow)

Those attending the AGM virtually via Teams should register attendance by 11:00am on 4th October 2024.

The AGM will be followed by a Members Forum to enable wider participation and consultation.

Member’s Open Meeting - Agenda

The Board would like to place the following items on the agenda:

Members, clubs and Associations are also asked to raise any additional strategic items or issues that you would like to be added to the agenda.

Any such requests should be sent for consideration to Peter Hart, Chief Executive (peter.hart@britishorienteering.org.uk) by the 15^th September 2024.

Whilst it may not be feasible to add all such items to the agenda, those items that are of strategic importance and are common to several requests will be added.

The meeting will close at 16:00.

Further details and papers for the AGM and Open Meeting will be circulated as soon as they are drafted.

We are thrilled to announce that the new British Orienteering website will launch next week on Wednesday 5 June 2024.

Over the past year we have been working on a redeveloping the old site to incorporate the core pages and features that our members use on a regularly basis, whilst adapting the site to make it more user-friendly to newcomers that are being introduced to our sport. Watch the promotional video below to get a glance at how your new website is going to look. 

As you will notice there are some slight changes to the navigational menus and we will be releasing another video next week to highlight more details about these changes, as well as a more in depth look at our brand new Club & Membership Toolkit!

Members

We have tidied up the members menu slightly but kept much of it the same replacing only the 'Club Zone' with the new 'Club and Membership Toolkit'. So you will still be able to find all the information you use on a regular basis once you have logged in. 

Watch the promo video

The new Club & Membership Toolkit

Our Club & Membership Toolkit is the new home of where we will keep all of our resources and templates to help our Clubs and members to promote their activities, events, and the sport in general. You will be prompted to login at certain points as you navigate your way around the toolkit. 

Learn more on Club Development, ways to promote your club, and visit our the new Digital Content Hub where members can download and modify templates and assets to use across their own marketing and promotion. You will also find information about inclusion, volunteering and our Annual Awards on this page.