Swansea Bay Orienteering Club

The blustery weekend provided a great chance for runners to test their skills on the technical sand dune terrain around Swansea.

Firstly, Saturday night brought the Western Night league to Kenfig Burrows for the orienteers to tackle the contours of Kenfig at night. Not daunted by this, a good qua...

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Fielding a team of 35 runners from Diana in W70 to Sam in M10 the club took to the Forest of Dean for the 2023 Compass Sport Cup Final hosted by Bristol Orienteering Club. Taking on 11 other small clubs from across the UK including last years champions Interlopers from Edinburgh..

It was definitel...

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The Winter League kicked off at Nicholaston Burrows on Sunday. After a blustery wet start, it was lovely to have the sun make an appearance and bathe competitors in warm autumn sunshine.

Before the event juniors and newcomers took part in a bit of pre-event training. Working on contour identific...

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With the schools finishing for the summer and summer holidays starting ..this usually signals a rush away to take part in the Summer Orienteering events, wherever they may be. And this summer was no exception. Starting in the Dolomites with the Italy 5 days and then moving swiftly to the Swiss O wee...

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A brilliant day on Sunday for our SBOC juniors William, Robin, James, Sam and Lucie at the Yvette Baker Final at Sandal Beat in Doncaster.

Donning the new squad tops for the first time, they all put in a great performance to take silver in the Shield competition 🥈😀👏 A special mention goes to young...

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