Orienteering - Top of the class efforts in Scottish event (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Orienteering - Top of the class efforts in Scottish event

1:49pm Saturday 15th August 2009 in Sport By Gazette Sports

ALMOST 100 orienteers from south Cumbria competed at the biennial Scottish Six-Days Event, this year held on Tayside. Lakeland OC provided class winners in M10A with Stewart Allison, W18 Short - Kate Farley, W65 Long – Carol McNeill and W75 Long – Verena Johnston.

A total of more than 3,000 orienteers from across the world competed, including strong contingents from Scandinavia and Australia.

A range of 50 courses each day catered for boys and girls aged less than ten to men and women over 85.

South Ribble OC’s Maurice Collett successfully completed each of the six day’s courses in M85.

Different venues were used for each day, ranging from mixed woodland and moorland at Tullochroisk near Kinloch Rannoch to the coniferous Tentsmuir Forest near St Andrews and the sand dunes of Barry Buddon military training ground near Carnoustie.

Lakeland’s Chris Heppenstall finished 29th in the Men’s Elite class, based on his aggregate time for all six days.

For all other classes, honours were based on a competitor’s best four positions from the six days. In addition to the local class winners, the following achieved gold standard performances, all Lakeland OC unless stated otherwise: Junior Classes: M10B – 3rd Thomas Edmonds (Barrow); M12A – 8th James Allison; M16A – 4th Jack Wright; M20 Long – 2nd Mike McIver; W14A – 10th Sarah Jones (Barrow), 11th Katie Wright.

Men’s Senior Classes: M45L – 5th Martin Bagness (Warrior); M50S – 3rd Derek Allison, 13th Richard Tiley; M55S – 10th Martin Powell, 17th Rick Browne; M60L – 21st Simon Cane, 29th Dick Towler; M70S – 4th Stan Johnston.

Women’s Senior Classes: W45L – 3rd Liz Campbell (Warrior), 18th Julia Laverack (Warrior); W50L – 2nd Anne Salisbury (Warrior), 6th Judy Burge, 17th Jackie Chapman; W55L – 9th Diana McClure.