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World TrailO Championships 2016

 

 

The selected Great Britain team are to compete at the World TrailO Championships 2016 in Sweden from Monday 22 August to Saturday 27 August 2016.
 

Photo credit:  Anna Auermüllerová

 

The Great Britain team selected to compete as follows:

For the Open PreO class:
John Kewley (Manchester and District Orienteering Club)
Ian Ditchfield (Mole Valley Orienteering Club)
Nick Barrable (South Yorkshire Orienteers)

Tom Dobra (University of Bristol Orienteering Club) will join them for the TempO.

The Open Relay Team will be selected in Sweden.

For the Paralympic PreO class:
Dick Keighley (Wimborne Orienteers)
Peter Roberts (Eborienteers)

John Crosby (Newcastle and Tyne Orienteers) was selected to compete in the Paralympic PreO and Paralympic Relay classes at the World TrailO Championships this year, but unfortunately is unable to compete.  There will therefore not be a GB team in the Paralympic Relay this year.

Anne Braggins (West Anglian Orienteering Club) is the Team Manager.

Follow the Great Britain team at the World Trail Orienteering Championships next week.

Great Britain World TrailO Team

Competition Format:  TempO

TempO Qualification, Tuesday 23 August

TempO Final, Tuesday 23 August

Open TempO Class
John Kewley (Manchester and District Orienteering Club)
Ian Ditchfield (Mole Valley Orienteering Club)
Nick Barrable (South Yorkshire Orienteers)
Tom Dobra (University of Bristol Orienteering Club)

Team Manager
Anne Braggins (West Anglian Orienteering Club)

Competition Format:  PreO

PreO Day 1, Wednesday 24 August

PreO Day 2, Friday 26 August

Open PreO Class
John Kewley (Manchester and District Orienteering Club)
Ian Ditchfield (Mole Valley Orienteering Club)
Nick Barrable (South Yorkshire Orienteers)

Paralympic PreO Class
Dick Keighley (Wimborne Orienteers)
Peter Roberts (Eborienteers)

Team Manager
Anne Braggins (West Anglian Orienteering Club)

Competition Format:  Relay

Saturday 27 August 2016

Open Relay
GB team will be selected in Sweden.


The full programme is available on the World Trail orienteering Championships website.

Some live results will be available for some of the days here.

British Orienteering wishes the Great Britain TrailO team all the very best as they travel out to compete at the World TrailO Championships in Sweden at the end of this week! 

 

Item posted by Jennie Taylor, Marketing Manager

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