News archive for 2009

Junior Home Internationals

Jamie Stevenson achieved the silver medal position in last weekend's Junior Home Internationals in Wales.

Jamie, representing Scotland, had one of the best runs of his season at the weekend. Running in a strong M18 field he managed to hold off some very strong competition and beat 2 Junior World …

9th Sep 09   → read more...

What a Cracking Six Day

What a Cracking Six Day

Congratulations to Gareth on leading FVO and Tay in organising what is now being acknowledged as a s superb "Six Day". From threads on Nopesport, comments on Blogs and to floods of emails, the complements have just poured in

  • What a cracking week's orienteering!' …

11th Aug 09   → read more...

FVO Six Day Successes

It was also great to see the FVO junior girls everywhere at the prizegiving (and I don't just mean giving out the prizes!) - Grace Molloy, Emily Nicholson, Laura Hendrie and Rachel Hendrie all finished on the podium for their class. Well done to them and also to the other …

10th Aug 09   → read more...

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Team Prudential Forth Valley at the Rat Race

The highly successful team finished with a brilliant 5th place at the Edinburgh Rat Race. Picture courtesy of Janine

22nd Jul 09   → read more...

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Nerve-wracking win for Team Prudential Forth Valley at the Harvester

At 7.05am on 21 June, just over eight hours after the start, Ross McLennan came flying down the hill from the final control and was joined on the run-in by the rest of our team - to cross the finish line at Merthyr Common in south Wales together and take …

22nd Jun 09   → read more...

Jamie Stephenson Trophy 2009

The sun shone at Pitmedden Forest for this year's annual junior club competition. 130 juniors from all parts of Scotland took part, including large contingents from INVOC (26) and MAROC (36) who arrived in coaches.

The competition consists of 5 courses – Yellow boys, Yellow girls, Orange, Light Green and …

22nd Jun 09   → read more...

Scottish Champs Results

Congratulations to all our FVO people who came away from this weekend's Scottish Championships with trophies and medals!

In the individual championships then FVO's Scottish Champions were Roger Goddard in M35L, Beccy Osborn in W35L, Steve Nicholson in M40L and Gareth Bryan-Jones in M60L (running up an age class!). There …

29th May 09   → read more...

Junior Selections

Congratulations to the three FVO juniors who gained selection for the main international competitions and the summer training tours:

  • Frances Brown - tour to Lagganlia
  • Jamie Stevenson - tour to Halden, and team for European Youth Champs in Serbia
  • Abi Longhurst - tour to Halden and European Youth Champs reserve …

18th May 09   → read more...

JK Success

Great news from the JK in Northumberland this week - not just that the sun shone, but also that FVO people were in the prizes once again!

Individual highlight of the weekend must be the individual win for Gareth Bryan-Jones in M65L, where only one person could get within eight …

13th Apr 09   → read more...

FVO wins the Scottish heat of the CompassSport Trophy competition

Congratulations to everyone who turned out for FVO on Sunday and helped us through to yet another Compass Sport Trophy Final - a great effort!

It was particularly noticeable how the junior courses contributed to our score on Sunday. On the Light Green it was Jack Barrett and Morven Dean …

30th Mar 09   → read more...

2009 Club Tops

New Club Tops

FVO have a new club top which is laser printed with our own unique design and incorporates the colours and style of our current top. It will be produced in a coolmax polyester fabric, with a zip neck.

Tops are available in unisex sizes xxs, xs, s, m, l, xl …

15th Jan 09   → read more...