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You've just got a few more days remaining to get your entries in for some top notch barebones orienteering on some of the best terrain in Scotland, taking place on 14/15 August at Balmacara near Kyle of Lochalsh.


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For those looking to take on some of the world's best orienteers in Perth at the Park World Tour, get your entry in by the end of July to take advantage of cheap entry rates - prices rise on August 1.


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For those looking to take on some of the world's best orienteers in Perth at the Park World Tour, get your entry in by the end of July to take advantage of cheap entry rates - prices rise on August 1.


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We've just learnt about the development of new software that allows the drawing of orienteering maps for free, good news I'm sure you'll agree. So we got in touch with the developer of the O-scape extensions, for use with the open source vector drawing software Inkscape, to find out more about the project.


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The World University Orienteering Championships ended with victories for Sweden in the men's race and Switzerland in the women's race, as Great Britain's week ended in disappointment with the men 8th and women 11th.


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Graham Gristwood recovered from a troublesome start to take a Bronze medal from today's World University Orienteering Championships middle race, as Matthias Merz once again took Gold ahead of Patrik Karlsson of Sweden. Radka Brozkova of the Czech Republic won the women's race over 90 seconds clear of Sofia Haajanen of Finland and Ines Brodmann of Switzerland.


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The World University Orienteering Championships today provided an exciting sprint race around the town of Borlänge in Sweden, with home favourite Jerker Lysell winning by just nine seconds from Great Britain's Scott Fraser. France's Anelie Chataing won the women's sprint by a similarly slim margin of just seven seconds from Switzerland's Caroline Cejka.


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It was a Swiss double header today in the World University Orienteering Championships, as Sara Lüscher and Matthias Merz won the Long Distance, with Merz winning convincingly by over four and a half minutes.


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This week the World University Orienteering Championships are taking place in Borlange, Sweden, with a record 31 nations and 309 athletes taking part. Amongst them will be a strong British team, looking to follow on from a successful competition in Estonia two years ago.


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Sam Giles, a Junior with Sarum and SW Squad, is to cycle solo from Lands End to John O'Groats, averaging 80 miles a day. Inspired by the sad loss of two classmates, he has taken two years to plan this sponsored event and hopes to raise £2000 for two cancer and leukaemia charities. If you were pushed out of the mud at this years JK, Sam was probably one of the youngsters who helped you!


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Kris Jones ran a fantastic race to claim silver medal in sprint distance at the Junior World Championships today.


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Quick update from Duncan Grassie, one of the planners of the Purple Thistle 2010.


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Kristian Jones got the Junior World Orienteering Championships off to a flying start for the British team with a silver medal in today's sprint.


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The Junior World Orienteering Championships gets underway tomorrow with the sprint distance event around the grounds of Aalborg University, Denmark.


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After the toughest of tests, taking us round the tough Finnish forest found at Jukola last weekend, here's our review of the Magicshine MJ-808 (P7) headtorch which is available from brightbikelights.com


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For all orienteers interested in Long-O and multi-day events Grampian Orienteers are organising a mountain marathon (solo or pairs) near Braemar on 13th and 14th November with part of the course in a forest on 1:10,000 scale maps.


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The Purple Thistle returns to the 2010 orienteering calendar on 14/15 August, heading out West to Kyle of Lochalsh to once again offer top quality orienteering in some of Scotland's best 'unexplored' terrain.


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2010/2011 will be Cambridge University Orienteering Club's 40th anniversary year and they are looking to get in touch with former members.


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The UK's premier Ultrasprint orienteering event will return to Cliffhanger on Saturday 3 July. A high intensity, high speed form of orienteering, the Ultrasprint starts and finishes into a specially constructed labyrinth. Competitors face a technical and physical challenge that includes complex map reading, multi-terrain racing, and a number of river crossings. A number of the UK's top elite orienteers will battle it out over a qualifying stage and final to become the Ultrasprint champion 2010. Qualifiers are open from 11am-1pm and the chasing start final begins at 2pm. EOD only, entries are FREE to all visitors to Cliffhanger.


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With the biggest relay event in the world about to happen, we catch up with Jon Duncan of KOK.


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