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Club Charity 2009
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Wessex
Orienteers
Informal
Saturday
4th July 2009
Hethfelton, Near Wareham
Courses:
Yellow, Orange, Light Green
plus a 45 minute score.
Full
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Wessex
Orienteers
Regional
Event
Sunday 11th October
Venue:
Bisterne South (Near Burley)
Signed
from Grid Ref: SU232023
(Sat Nav 504917 14100)
Full
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Wessex
Orienteering Club
Invites
you to the
SOUTH
WEST SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS 2009
SATURDAY 5th SEPTEMBER
The
2009 South West Sprint Championships will take place
at the University of Bournemouth on a new map drawn
to ISSOM standards by Bill Brown. There will be
a two-round competition with a prologue in late
morning and a final, in reverse order of times (fastest
from the prologue starts last) in the early afternoon.
Depending on numbers this may mean 30 second interval
starts for the final. The combined times will be
used to determine the overall winners. Click here
for full
details, Under 16 participants require a
signed consent
form.
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Two
British Champions are Wessex Orienteers!
Congratulations
to Wessex Chairman Richard Arman on becoming British Champion
for class M80 at the event in February and to James Crickmore,
British Champion for M16S shown below receiving his trophy
from Ian Sayer at the Buddens informal.
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Wessex & Wimborne Annual Dinner & Dance - Presentation
Of Trophies
(Photos by Ian Sayer)
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Wessex
Orienteers' new Trophy, the Charlie Morton Junior Award was won
by James Crickmore M16, the club's Junior Champion for 2008. The
trophy was presented by Karen Morton and received on behalf of
James by his Father, Roger.
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Gavin Clegg
receives the Mens Club Champion trophy from Chairman Richard
Arman

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Richard
Arman presenting the trophy for Ladies Club Champion 2008 to
Kay Sayer.
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Tina Stratford
is presented with the Ian Horsey Trophy in recognition of being
the most improved Wessex Orienteer in 2008 and winning the Club
League.

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Hardy
Relay - Another win for WSX
Rob
Hick organised the Wessex Hardy Relay this year at Hethfelton,
one of WSX smaller mapped areas near Wool. The event took place
on a gloriously sunny 26th July with teams from WSX, QO, WIM and
NGOC taking part in the complex muti-loop, multi-runner handicap
relay. Despite having the toughest handicap, the WSX team of Gavin
Clegg, Dale Paget, Roger Crickmore and Jon Brooke took the honours
on the day with some strong running and also a plan that worked!
There
were also a range of colour coded courses enjoyed by around 20
friends and family not taking part in the relay.
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WSX
win the Dorset Coastal Path Relay!!!
July
12th saw the 18th running of the annual Dorset
Coastal Path Relay, from just west of Lyme Regis to the
mouth of Poole Harbour - a distance of 65 miles.
After
7 hours 36 minutes Martin Lewis, Chris Lee and Nick Hillman finished
the final multi-runner leg along Studland beach to bring WSX
home in first
place for the second successive year.
In
total, 27 members of WSX took part in the relay, with teams of
'sprinters' tackling the steep climbs and some of the stronger
runners making individual efforts on the longer, more inaccessible
sections. Roger Crickmore was the team captain for WSX and planned
all of the logistics for the day.
The
other teams, in order of finishing were: BOK, KERNO, The SW Junior
Squad, SOC, WIM and BKO
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For
more Coast Path Relay pics, click here.
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WSX
at the Poole Festival of Sport

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On
28th June, WSX took part in the Poole Festival of Sport at Carter
Community School in Hamworthy. The event was a chance for people
of all ages (though mostly children) to try out new sports and
there were around 30 activities to take part in.
Kay
Sayer was in charge of organising the WSX stand while Bill Brown
had specially mapped the grounds in order to put on a short course
and also organised some exercises to try using a grid of cones.
Other helpers from WSX on the day were Alan Hooper, Julie Astin
and Roger, Tracy and James Crickmore.
Over 30
children had a go and the team collected contact details from
their parents in order to alert them to forthcoming events.
Hopefully we might see some of them again.
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