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JROS Czechia Tour 2024
Luke Bennett has recently been on the Junior Regional Orienteering Squads tour of Czechia.
He summarised the trip as follows: "Overall, Czechia was an amazing experience and I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about orienteering aboard. Dan said our clubs were welcome back at any time for a training week, and would help us sort out training areas, so perhaps in the future we can go on a club tour to Czechia! I would like to thank all the coaches on the tour for making it an enjoyable experience whilst also learning lots about international orienteering. I would also like to thank DFOK and SEOA for their contributions that allowed me to go on this tour."
Here is the full report of the trip.
Club Championships 2024
This year's club championships will take place on Sunday 8th September at the HAVOC event at Dagnam Forest near Harold Hill. This is a new area for orienteering.
Further details of the courses and eligible age classes are here.
Yvette Baker Shield Final 2024
On Sunday 7th July, 9 DFOK juniors represented the Klubb in this year’s Yvette Baker Shield competition. They came 3rd out of 8 teams. Read the full report for more details on how they achieved it.
British Sprint Champion
Congratulations to Luke Bennett who won the M16 class at the recent British Sprint Championships at the University of Warwick. Luke completed the 2.2 km course in 9 mins 18 secs almost a minute ahead of his nearest rival.
Success for DFOK at the final KOL
The final KOL of the season took place on Saturday 25th May at Jeskyns Community Woodland and Ashenbank. There was still a lot to play for in the league and this was the last chance to improve your standing. The area is a mixture of open parkland with some denser forest in Ashenbank and so it was going to be fast and furious at times but also require some fine navigational skills for those on the longer courses.