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. 

Hot off the back of World Cup Round 1, which took place in Switzerland this past weekend, we look ahead to the upcoming World Cup Round 2 competition which takes place in Genoa from Saturday 1 June to Sunday 2 June. 

Event programme

The International orienteering competition of World Cup Round 2 will take place in the the historic city of Genoa. Our athletes can expect the terrain to consist of narrow streets and passages with some steep inclines as they strive to complete the courses in the quickest times. 

Saturday 1 June: Indivdual Sprint

Sunday 2 June: Sprint Relay 

KO Sprint

The 2024 Orienteering World Cup got underway in Switzerland under very variable weather conditions. As the first runners in the men’s qualification got underway the sun was shining, but halfway through heavy rain made the short tricky courses even more complicated.

Due to the weather being so bad, the Womens start was delayed by 30mins and the rain eased, so that the rest of the qualification could go ahead.

Of the British Team, Ralph Street, Nathan Lawson, Rachel Brown and Cecilie Andersen made it out of the qualification heats into the quarter finals the following day.

Fortunately, the previous day’s heavy rain was nowhere to be seen, and the sun shone in central Olten that hosted all of the Saturday’s races.

Joey Hadorn (SUI) and Tove Alexandersson (SWE) took the first Orienteering World Cup wins of 2024, on a flat and fast urban terrain course in the old town centre. The semi-finals featured “runner choice”, leaving the athletes with 20 seconds before the start to decide one of three course options. It was at this point that Ralph Street along with Sweden’s Hanna Lundberg missed out on the top 2 to earn a place in the final.

Unfortunately, Cecilie Andersen, Nathan Lawson and Rachel Brown did not make it out of the competitive quarter finals, all with close finishes.