CompassSport Magazine

25/09/2025

Issue 4 (aka AUG25) went to our printers S&G in South Wales late last night. Another issue of pure O delight. Coverage inside the magazine includes EYOC 2025 in Brno, CZE (Cover shot of Finn from the Sprint), Antwerp Sprint Orienteering Meeting 2025 in Turnhout, Belgium, 41st Harvester Relays hosted by JOK, Jukola 2025, European MTBO Championships, OMM Lite, Southern Navigators Orienteering Club at 60, Idre World Cup #1, 5th Coast and Islands in Shetland, GBR Elites abroad features an Interlopers Orienteering Club - Edinburgh member, Manchester and District Orienteering Club O-Ring 60th event, Informal Event Format #69 is CluedO by Saxons Orienteering Club and more...

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📷 Eszter Kocsik

15/09/2025

Just over a 1000 runners took part in the 41st CompassSport Cup Finals, held in some fine dunes by Redcar at South Gare hosted by Cleveland Orienteering Klub. South Yorkshire Orienteers took the CSC for the 18th time by only 5 points ahead of Forth Valley Orienteers and Interlopers Orienteering Club - Edinburgh took the small clubs Trophy for the 6th time.
Course winners' prizes were vouchers from CompassPoint shop and presented by owner Romauldas Stupelis HOC.
Full report in a coming CompassSport Magazine!
Many thanks to Peter Guillaume SYO who is standing down as the CompassSport Cup Coordinator having done the job for over 20 years. He will still carry on doing the entries. Andrew Kelly CLARO will now take over Chairing the CSC Steering Committee.
A huge thanks to all in CLOK and beyond who made this fabulous weekend and competition happen.
Next year's CSC Heats are on the 22nd February 2026. Final will be 18th October 2026 at Pippingford Park, Ashdown Forest, hosted by Mole Valley. Put those dates in your diaries now!

📷 by Anthony Barrable / CompassSport Magazine

17/06/2025

Vol.46/3 - JUN25 went to our printers in South Wales this morning. We have extensive coverage of JK 2025 hosted by YHOA and BOC Long & Relays hosted by NWOA. We also cover the Long Night at the 78th TioMila Relays, O-Myths on Seeding, Informal Event Formats at WCOCs Xmas event, Ex-GBR Elites #23 covers a Marine who competed in 2 of the earliest WOCs, Who are all the 21s?s of a Border Liners Orienteering Club member, Competitions, Reviews from Warmies and inov-8 All Terrain Running TRAILFLY Zeros, and all the other usual columns and features.
A shout out to some of our advertisers! Scottish 6 Days Orienteering, Orientación Canarias G-Com and LPA City Race, Lakes Climber, Peel Land Surveys, European Orienteering Championships 2025, Irish Orienteering Championships, BIG 5 Orienteering Week, Mourne Mountain Marathon, Lakes5, Eborienteers White Rose Weekend, South London Orienteers London City Race, Ireland 2026, Devon Orienteering Club Caddihoe Chase, Cyprus International Orienteering Festival.
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Cover Photo: Robert Lines with colour editing by Will Heap. Taken at JK25 Day 3 - Wharncliffe Long Distance - featuring M35 Champion Andrew Llewellyn of Forth Valley Orienteers

15/04/2025

Vol. 46/2 aka APR25 went to our printers in South Wales this lunchtime. As usual it has a super variety of content and loads of maps to marvel at. BOC Nights, Middles, USA Junior Nationals in Texas, 1st Purbeck Hill Challenge, Lipica Open by Train, a new Mapping Corner column, O Myths #14, Safety Column #19, Know Your Club O-Tops!?, 11th Stockholm Indoor Cup (SIC), Informal Format #67 courtesy of Saxons Orienteering Club Kent Night Cup at Perry Wood, Who are all the 21s? Column containing a Quantock Orienteers, RC #5 includes BUCS, 37th Interland, Talent Squad Training, Special Selection Race in exotic Crawley, and lots more of course.
Cover shot by the legendary Robert Lines from BOC Middles in MVland.
A shout out to some of our advertisers: OMM Lite / Grasmere Gallop, World Masters Orienteering Championship 2025 world masters orienteering, Lakes Climber, BIG 5 Orienteering Week Scottish 6 Days Orienteering, Antwerp Sprint Orienteering Meeting, Peel Land Surveys, , Fabian4 Online Entry Service, European Orienteering Championships 2025, BOC Sprints & Sprint Relays hosted by EAOA, Mourne Mountain Marathon, Ravinen's 3-kvallars, Cyprus International Orienteering Festival, , in shropshire, and more!
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15/02/2025

Vol.46/1 - FEB25 issue went to the printers yesterday, Valentine's Day. The cover show's a Claro Orienteering stalwart starting at Airienteers Indoor-O Event at Bradford Grammar School at the end of last year. Photo by the great Wendy Carlyle AIRE.
This issue contains extensive coverage of the 11th Orientación Canarias G-Com event on Gran Canaria, SROC - Red Rose Orienteers's 60@60 event at Lancaster University on NYD, Mountain Marathon Review Calendar for 2025, 2024s World University Orienteering Championships, Who are all the 21s? column features Lakeland Orienteering Club, 50 years of being a Mapper article by a Devon Orienteering Club member, Croeso 2024 winners, Informal #65 features a Border Liners Orienteering Club event, Photo-O Solution, Eyes and O article, CompassSport Newsletter Awards, and more...
A shout out to some of our advertisers: Irish Orienteering Championships, Lakes Climber, BIG 5 Orienteering Week, Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering, Scottish 6 Days Orienteering, Sprint Orienteering Meeting, Peel Land Surveys, , Fabian4 Online Entry Service, European Orienteering Championships 2025, BOC Long & Relays, BOC Sprints & Sprint Relays, Northern Champs Weekend, Mourne Mountain Marathon, OK Ravinen's 3-kvallars and more!

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29/01/2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79dv84215no

Car park challenges at the Concorde Chase last Sunday hits the BBC news.

Vehicles had to be towed out a field one by one in an operation lasting about seven hours.

10/12/2024

DEC24 - Vol.45/6 went to our printers in South Wales yesterday morning so will be on doormats, in the UK at least, next week. It is the usual 64 page whopper December issue with the Foreign Multi-Event Calendar for 2025 to plan your O travels, coverage of the OMM in Glen Artney and 11th OMM - JAPAN, the 40th CompassSport Cup Final, JHIs, BSOA Champs in Kent hosted by Dartford Orienteers, EYOC, JWOC, JEC, Northern Sprint Championships hosted by Claro Orienteering, Troll-O children's O event in Oslo, Norway, Ex-GBR Elites Abroad #22, and all the usual columns, comps and more.
A shout out to some of our advertisers: Irish Orienteering Championships, O-Ringen, Lakes Climber, PWT Park World Tour Italy Orienteering.it, BIG 5 Orienteering Week, Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering, Scottish 6 Days Orienteering, Antwerp Sprint Orienteering Meeting, 5 Days of Italy - Orienteering, Peel Land Surveys, , Fabian4 Online Entry Service, Orientación Canarias 2024 G-Com, European Orienteering Championships 2025 and more!
PHOTO: from the start of Day 1 at this year's OMM by Tom McNally.
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04/11/2024

Vol.45/Issue 5 is at the printers in South Wales. Cover by Robert Lines from Southdowns Orienteers Newtimber Hill event in early October. Contents includes World Orienteering Championships 2024 Tour and Volunteering article, Coast & Islands in Knapdale, WMOC 2024 in Turku, Lakeland Mountain Marathon 2024, Distraction to Discipline by Rachel Collins at meadowwellbeing.com, UK Top 120 Orienteers - age and gender adjusted, Rail Sport World Champs, PPJRs, JIRCs, Photo-O where you can win your entry to the Scottish 6 Days Orienteering 2025 on Royal Deeside, and much more...

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20/10/2024

Congratulations to South Yorkshire Orienteers and SROC - Red Rose Orienteers for winning the 40th CompassSport Cup and Trophy Finals. Huge thanks to Pendle Forest Orienteers for hosting so splendidly.

30/09/2024

Vol.45/Issue 4 (aka AUG24) is now at the printers. Contents: 14 pages of World Orienteering Championships 2024, BOC Sprints weekend in the West Mids hosted by Harlequins Orienteering and Octavian Droobers Orienteering Club mainly, 5 Days of Italy - Orienteering 2024, Know Your Class Leader of Cleveland Orienteering Klub and Wessex Orienteers stalwarts, the usual columns and features, etc.
Cover photo by Robert Lines of Freddie Carcas at WOC MSR at Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh.
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25/06/2024

After an intense working month in the CompassSport Offices, JUN24 (Vol.45/3) and the 40th WOC Souvenir Programme were sent to our printers &G in South Wales late last Friday Night.
Current subscribers will get the World Orienteering Championships Souvenir Programme for 'free' as part of their subscription if they are on the current mailing list which will go to the printers in a few hours. Otherwise it costs £6.

Extra copies and non-subscribers can order their copy via the following Sientries link for 'WOC extra services' https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?elid=Y&event_id=13816 - deadline 5th July.
Non-subscribers not going to WOC who would like a Programme should contact 'Nick (at) CompassSport.co.uk' for organising postage and payment.

The WOC Programme contains: timetable and location info for each day during the week, detailed profiles of the top 10 ranked male and female athletes coming to WOC, profiles of the GBR Sprint Squad (final selections still to be made) - all have spaces to get athletes autographs, a wealth of pages of statistics and analysis including our own in-house professional statistician who has worked out what the advantage is of a home Sprint WOC to home athletes, a map quiz on past Sprint WOCs, copies of existing maps of race areas, past Jury cases and rulings at previous WOCs, Wall of Volunteer Fame - with 437 names on it, Knock-Out Sprint results table, 'A Day in the Life of an athlete at WOC' article by WOC Sprint Bronze Alice Leake and various relevant, choice major event adverts for upcoming O fun! It is something you will want to keep for sure!

As for the CompassSport Magazine JUN24 we have coverage of British Championships in Long, Forest Relays, Middles, STAG - St Andrew's Orienteering Club of Glasgow CRET weekend, Antwerp Sprint Orienteering Meeting, Orienteering Foundation supporting JROS article, Scarborough accessible course by Eborienteers, Safety Spotleight #16, O-Myths #11, Planning and Physical difficulty, Know Your Clas Leader profiles of a Saxons Orienteering Club and Airienteers members, Distraction to Discipline pt.3 by Rachel Collins Wellbeing, Silvanus of getting the flags in the right place, Competitions and more!

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30/04/2024

Issue 2 (Vol.45 - APR24) is now at the printers and will arrive early next week. It contains coverage of Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering 2024, 3rd Cyprus International Orienteering Festival, the start of our 'Who are all the 21s?' column with a Harlequins Orienteering member, O-Myths #10, Ex-GBR Elites abroad #21: Helen Palmer, Emily Benham MTBOer retires, more Borrego Maps from San Diego Orienteering in the USA, Lagan Valley Orienteers approach club activities in a new way with the helpd from the Orienteering Foundation, BIG 5 Orienteering Week, Silvanus, Barkley Marathons 2024, Orienteers making the Paris Olympics, BUCS, Interland 2024, GBR Squad news and more.
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Photo by Jean Robson of the Dumfries Camera Club at the Scottish Night Champs in Dumfries.