Category archive for Results

JK 2023 Day 3 - Seven star on Sunny Sunday

There was a spectacular seven overall podiums for FVO athletes at the 2023 Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering following the Long race at Bigland.

10th Apr 23   → read more...

JK 2023 Day 2 - Super Saturday!

Strong middle day at JK'23 for FVO, as the team picked up eight A class medals on a fine afternoon of racing at High Dam.

9th Apr 23   → read more...

Hammond Hammers New Record

Forth Valley Orienteers' young star James Hammond broke new ground as he became the youngest-ever Scottish elite champion, with victory in the Middle distance championship which was held at Beecraigs Country Park, Linlithgow.

21st Mar 23   → read more...

Stars shine at Nights

A truly dominant performance right across the board saw Forth Valley Orienteers come away from the Scottish Orienteering Night Championships with seven titles amongst 11 medals, following racing at Balmoral.

28th Feb 23   → read more...

Dark 'n' Dunes success for FVO

FVO athletes were to the fore as the 2022 championship season got into full swing, with the Scottish Night Championships followed up by the first SOL of the year.

15th Feb 22   → read more...

Sweet SOUL Music

FVO athletes were amongst the medals in the second race of the 2022 Scottish Orienteering Urban League series, with four atop podiums at the end of the day in Peebles.

8th Feb 22   → read more...

Stars shine at the Seaside

The young stars of Forth Valley Orienteers took their chance to shine, as they scooped eight medals at the Scottish Junior Cup, on the wooded dunes of Tentsmuir, Fife.

31st Aug 21   → read more...

FVO = Top Rank

As the dust settles on another great year for FVO athletes in competitions across the UK, there are 53 club members (exactly half of those with ranking points) who are placed in the top ten of their class in the Scottish standings.

26th Dec 19   → read more...

Bo'ness Bullets

A number of FVO athletes were well placed in the UK Orienteering League races run as part of the 2019 Sprint Scotland Festival, in Bo'ness, after some frantic navigation around the streets of the town.

30th Jun 19   → read more...

JK 2014 Winning Senior Team

FVO Success at JK Relay

The JK weekend finished with some intense relay competitions at the complex Pwll Dw area. Forth Valley teams were well to the fore once again.

24th Apr 14   → read more...

Stansfield and Molloy Victorious at JK Sprint

There were strong performances from Lizzie Stansfield and Grace Molloy to win their classes in the JK Sprint competition which took place on Easter Friday at Swansea University.

23rd Apr 14   → read more...

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Jamie Stevenson Trophy

Congratulations to FVO's juniors in coming in second place in the Jamie Stevenson Trophy. A small team of FVO juniors (12) managed to come in second to Maroc with 37 runners.

Congratulations also to the small FVO team who organised and staged the event as well. With only a relatively …

17th Jun 13   → read more...

Scottish Relay Championships

There were some more great performances from Forth Valley Orienteers at the Scottish Relay Championships on Sunday 26 May at Maxwelton Estate near Moniaive, Dumfriesshire.

Unfortunately no FVO teams were victorious, but there was some exciting racing and that is what it's all about.

In particular, there was a great …

28th May 13   → read more...

Scottish Individual Championships 2013

There were some great results for Forth Valley Orienteers at this weekend's Scottish Orienteering Championships down in Dumfries and Galloway.

The individual championships were held on the testing Craigengillan Estate near Loch Doon, over rolling open moorland, pock-marked with small cliffs and boulders, under blue skies and a fierce early …

27th May 13   → read more...

Lizzie is British Champion

There were some great results from the small group of FVO runners who headed down to the Surrey Hills for the British Long and Relay Championships this weekend.

Top result was for Lizzie Stansfield who won her 3.3km W12 course in a time of 30.41 to give a 1.5 minute …

5th May 13   → read more...

Goddard Defends British Middle Distance Title

There were some typically excellent performances from FVO at the British Middle Distance Championships at Stanton Moor on 21 April. Roger Goddard successfully defended his M35 title whilst Hazel Dean was the victor in her W50 class.

Roger had a great run, completing his 4.5km course in 30.25, giving a …

22nd Apr 13   → read more...

FVO Scoops Prizes at JK 2013

There were some excellent results for FVO runners at the major JK 2013 orienteering festival that took place at the Chilterns from 29 March to 1 April.

Second was the best that we could achieve, but we had plenty of those! Peter Molloy was 2nd on the M12 Sprint course …

2nd Apr 13   → read more...

WEE results

Congratulations to our series winners for this year - and especially to our junior winners:

Short Course

  1. Robin Purves
  2. Jamie Goddard
  3. Oliver Holden

13th Sep 12   → read more...

British Relay Winners

British Championships

This weekend past saw the British Long Distance and Relay Championships being staged in the Lake District. Saturday’s Individual race was at Dalegarth and Sunday’s Relay at Helsington Barrows near Kendal.

FVO produced three British Champions:

Lizzie Stansfield W10 Hazel Dean W45 Martin Dean M50

FVO had nine Relay teams, …

8th May 12   → read more...

Night O League Results

League results for the 2011/12 night O series are now available.

Congratulations to Heather Thomson (of ESOC) for winning the Short Course and Will Hensman for winning the Long Course and for everyone else who braved the dark (and cold) to complete.

I can’t vouch for their accuracy (not …

6th May 12   → read more...

Winning Juniors

JK 2012

So....four great days of orienteering at the JK this weekend are over - and with a range of impressive results from so many different FVO people, not to mention the great organisational effort on Saturday for which many thanks are due to David Nicol as day organiser. And as if …

10th Apr 12   → read more...

Club Champs

Congratulations then to our new club champions:

Class Winner
Junior Girls Grace Molloy
Junior Boys Benjamin Parkinson
Girls no entries
Boys no entries
Women Hazel Dean
Men Will Hensman
Vet Women Rona Molloy
Vet Men Jason Inman
Super Vet Women Val Finch
Super Vet Men Gareth Bryan-Jones

Thanks to Roger …

24th Nov 11   → read more...

FVO helps West win area title

FVO juniors were instrumental in helping the West area team to secure victory in the Inter Area competition on 29 / 30 October. This is the first time the West has won this since anyone can remember! The dominance of the North has finally been broken – hurrah!!

Strong runs …

31st Oct 11   → read more...

FVO members selected for VHI

FVO has strong representation in the team to represent Scotland in the VHI which this this year will be held in Deeside, Scotland, over the weekend of 8-9th October. The individual race is at Birsemore Hill and the Relays at Coull.

Hazel Dean represents us for the women, and there …

11th Sep 11   → read more...

JK Relay Mens 120+ Bronze Medal

120+ is the age to be

And to finish off with the JK relays, for FVO the critical age seems to be 40 - with either the teams' ages to average over 40, or to be in total under 40 .....

The FVO Floozies (Rona Molloy, Louise Longhurst & Beccy Osborn) took second place in the …

25th Apr 11   → read more...

Jamie Stevenson at British Middle Prizegiving 2011

British Middle Distance Championships

Another race and another 2nd place in the M40, but this time for Jason Inman. Jon was 4th today.

In the M20's race Jamie Stevenson took 2nd place and Tom Ryan 8th.

Our Club President, Roger Goddard, running up in the M21 race, came a very respectable 26th.

10th Apr 11   → read more...

Webroute

There appear to be a couple of tools of the Routegadget format, but slightly simpler in that they only take account of tracks and not time to controls (in the way that Routegadget does).

2nd Jan 11   → read more...

Compass Sport Trophy

Great news from sunny Burbage Moor in the Peak District where the Compass Sport Trophy Final was held yesterday. FVO retained the trophy and are national champions once again!

18th Oct 10   → read more...

Park World Tour

A great run by Tom Ryan, coming in 9th at the PWT Open Prologue at Scone Palace has led to Tom qualifying for the Elite final on Saturday. Good runs also from James Tullie, just a few seconds after Tom in 16:37, but running non-competitively, and for Ross Mclennan. Ross …

12th Sep 10   → read more...

British Middle and Long Distance MTBO

On Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th May, FVO hosted the British Middle Distance and Long Distance MTBO Races at Drumlanrig and Mabie forests respectively. The events were a great success - thanks to Janine and Jason for their excellent organisation. Results for both events can be found at their website …

10th May 10   → read more...

Spring Weekend and results and RG now posted

Incorporating World Ranking Event, Scottish O League, UK Cup, Future Champions Cup and GBR senior and junior selection races

Well, it's all over now and we hope that had a jolly good time - and, if not, that your wounds heal quickly. Sorry to all of those of you who …

28th Mar 10   → 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...

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...

2008 FVO Club Champions

2008 Club Champions

Will Hensman and Janine Inman flew around Barr Wood to record clear victories in the Senior Mens and Womens club champs on November 22nd. It was a crisp morning, so running fast certainly helped you to keep warm! Steve Barrett planned some excellent courses to test everyone's concentration; few had …

22nd Nov 08   → read more...

2008 Compass Sport Trophy Winners

In a very close final, FVO came out winners at the Compass Sport Trophy final at Sutton Park to retain our title. Some great runs by FVO members across all the courses were just enough for FVO to beat SARUM into second place by just 10 points.

Particular mention to …

19th Oct 08   → read more...

Congratulations

Also congratulations to FVO juniors running for West Area in the Scottish Inter-Area Champs at Inshriach this weekend - Daniel Stansfield, Frances Brown and Morven Dean. Great stuff from Daniel in particular who won the JM2 class (and then ran non-comp on JM3 and did the fastest time on that …

13th Oct 08   → read more...

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Scottish Champs

A great win in the open relays on Sunday at Tullochroisk for the FVO Female Flyers - Hazel, Kirsty and Janine; while the mens' team of Ross, Jason and Ewan came in third. Good results too for the FlyingVets (Simon, Steve and Martin) who were second on their handicap event; …

26th May 08   → read more...

FVO's Double Champion

FVO's Jamie Stevenson - already British Champion for his age class - became the Scottish under 16 Fell Running Champion on at Ben Lomond on Saturday. Despite the poor forecast, the 2008 Ben Lomond race ran in perfect conditions, sunny but not too hot. Jamie then rushed back to take …

11th May 08   → read more...

SOL2 at Touch a great success

SOL2 at Touch a great success

FVO put on a second superb event at the weekend; with many brilliant comments coming back to the club about the events, the courses, the planning and the organisation by email and on Nopesport. Also, a few wee wins. Congrats to all our class …

11th May 08   → read more...

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2008 Scottish Sprint Championships

An exciting afternoon, with a fantastic finish as the seeded runners came in towards the end of the afternoon, with a "photo finish" failing to split FVO's Ross McLennan and Douglas Tullie from EUOC who both finished in just 18.31; the Womens Open champion, also representing EUOC, was Becky Carlyle. …

10th May 08   → read more...

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British Championships at Culbin

Huge congratulations to the FVO runners crowned as new British Champions after the superb races this weekend in a successful return to Culbin forest. Leading the charge for FVO were Jamie Stevenson in M16A, Martin Dean in M50L, Gareth Bryan-Jones in M65L and Victoria 'should have run elite' Longhurst in …

28th Apr 08   → read more...

British Middle Distance Champion

Congratulations to Jon Cross. On the 5th April at Hopwas Woods, Tamworth - Jon won the M40 class in the British Elite Middle Distance Championships. Full results here

8th Apr 08   → read more...

JK Results

Congratulations to lots of FVO people for some excellent performances over the weekend......

At the JK individual (snowstorms at every day!), Abi Longhurst and Jamie Stevenson both made the podium with great 3rd places on W16A and M16A, - both days were selection races for the summer tours so this …

24th Mar 08   → read more...

Compass Sport Cup

A good result for FVO, again coming first in the CST qualifier with a total of 1274 points; coming well ahead of Clyde in second place on 1170 points. FVO scoring results below:

Brown Men Points
Will 3rd 98
Roger 4th 97
Fraser 5th 96
Blue Women Points
Hazel 1st …

28th Feb 08   → read more...

SOL 6

FVO once again ran a very successful SOL on Dumyat on 30th September

30th Sep 07   → read more...

Compass Sport Trophy Win

FVO win Compass Sport Trophy

Congratulations to Jon Cross for pulling together a winning FVO team to travel down to Blidworth, Nottingham and win the Compass Sport Trophy. This year FVO managed to beat SARUM into second place, reversing the result from Greenham Common last year, and regaining the trophy …

16th Sep 07   → read more...

Jamie Stevenson Trophy

Congratulations to FVO juniors. This is the second time in three years that the FVO juniors have won. Victory was enjoyable as they beat MAROC into second place, who had beaten FVO only on a countback last year.

Club results were

  1. FVO 592 points
  2. MAROC 591 points
  3. ESOC 586 points …

2nd Sep 07   → read more...

Callendar Park SOSOL

A good day was had by all. Thanks to Maureen for Planning, Louise for organising, David Kershaw for controlling, and everyone who helped out on the day! Tori's soup, rolls and cakes were the icing on the, er, cake.

Results now available here, splits here.

Total geek-fest extended …

11th Feb 07   → read more...

Club Champs

Thanks to Martin for organising, and to Paul Frost and Ecko for loan of equipment. Congratulations then to our new club champions:

Title Winner
Junior Girls Frances Brown
Junior Boys Craig Thomson
Girls Abi Longhurst
Boys Jamie Stevenson
Women Rona Molloy
Men Marcus Pinker
Vet Women Louise Longhurst
Vet Men …

18th Nov 06   → read more...

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Compass Sport Trophy

FVO holders of the Compass Sport Trophy for the last two years were just pipped into second place in the GB final of the club competition at Greenham Common on Sunday. We ended up with 1239 points (from a maximum of 1300) in second place to SARUM with 1265.

Obviously …

15th Oct 06   → read more...

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Junior Home Internationals

England win the individuals, and the overall trophy. Scotland win the relays. Wales take the Judith Wigham trophy.

24th Sep 06   → read more...

Jamie Stevenson Trophy

FVO's juniors were narrowly squeezed into second place in the Jamie Stevenson trophy on Sunday afternoon at Kinnoul Hill at Perth by MAROC. Both FVO (last years winners of this Scottish inter-club competition for juniors) and MAROC scored 592 points out of a maximum of 600. But on a countback …

14th Sep 06   → read more...

Scottish champs successes

A strong contingent from FVO headed north to Banchory to take part in the Scottish Champs over the weekend of the 27th/28th May.

The best individual results were achieved by:

  • Steve Barrett - 1st in M45S
  • Cathy Tillbrook - 1st W35S
  • Jen Barrett - 1st in W45S
  • Steve Nicholson - …

28th May 06   → read more...

FCC Middle Distance Event at Ganavan

  • The sun shone - at least until all the competitors were home,
  • Ewan Purves was in charge of litter control,
  • No-one mentioned the climb,
  • and a good time was had by all

Final Results can be found here, and
splits can be found at WinSplits Online,
splitsbowser can …

8th May 06   → read more...

JK Results

A number of good results for club runners over the two days of individual competition at the Easter Weekend down at Ilkley and Keldy

  • Lucile MacLeod - 1st in W65S
  • Jason Inman - 2nd in M35L
  • Abigail Longhurst - 2nd in W14A
  • Susan Hensman - 2nd in W21V
  • Dave Coustick …

16th Apr 06   → read more...

Compass Sport Trophy

Congratulation to everyone who helped a depleted FVO team take second place at the Compass Sport Trophy and qualify for the final on 15th October

Keep that date free to see whether FVO can qualify for a hat trick of victories

With many of the club away either taking part …

26th Feb 06   → read more...

South Achray SOSOL

SoSOL 2 at South Achray

Click here for results and splits from the SoSOL held at South Acrhray on Sunday 30th October 2005. Thanks to Beccy for planning, John Emelius for controlling, Gary & Caspian for organising -- and of course Robin for his ever helpful presence round SportIdent. And …

30th Oct 05   → read more...

Podium at MTBO World Champs!

Janine Hensman (FVO) represented Great Britain at the World Mountain Biking Orienteering Championships in Slovakia last week. Despite having broken her collar bone only 6 weeks before that prevented any mountain biking until just days before the race, Janine gained an amazing 25th in the middle distance, and along with …

9th Sep 05   → read more...