Harlequins Orienteering Club

The Thompson family have been busy preparing to host the Club Championships on Saturday December 6th for the second year in a row: 2025 Club Champs final details It would help them to get everyone registered if members could please pre-enter on Fabian4: Thanks also to Paul Hammond who has been calculating the all-important handicaps for the Bert Pardoe Trophy; which Harlequins do you have to beat and by how much, to be in with a shout for best performance…

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Paul Hammond has updated the HOC League standings following Harlequins’ West Midlands League event at British Camp on 16th November. There are still 2 events left but the Blackmores have a firm grip in the TD4/5 Leagues whilst the Fox juniors are fighting over the TD1/2/3 League. TD1, TD2 and TD3 (White, Yellow, Orange) scores after 11 events. TD4 and TD5 (Light Green, Green, Blue, Brown) scores after 11 events. A strong HOC points haul in our ‘home’ event sees…

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Wrekin Orienteers hosted the 2025 West Midlands Championships last Sunday 2nd November on the steep slopes of Severn Valley Country Park, and Harlequins members bagged a total of thirteen championship titles. Event results are here, and the full list of winners is on the WMOA website along with the list of past champions, which would indicate this to be HOC’s most successful ever year at this event. Congratulations to our new champions: W10 – Ada AtkinsM10 – Jake FoxW12 –…

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Octavian Droobers hosted the inter-club West Midlands Relays on Sunday at Pooley Country Park. Results are now available on the OD website here. Harlequins were able to field a total of 11 teams, leading to an impressive density of HOC club tops at the 11 a.m. main mass start. We managed to pick up top spot in 6 of the 8 categories contested, with Juniors performing particularly well. HOC’s trophy winners were: Mixed Ad Hoc: Karen Thompson, Georgina Hudson &…

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HOC had a great day out at South Gare, Redcar in the Compass Sport Cup Final, hosted by Cleveland Orienteering Klub. Our place in the final was earned by the club’s performance in February’s qualifying heat, and the occasion provided a great opportunity to compete together once again as a team on the tricky, and at times energy-sapping, sand dunes next to the North Sea. The team bagged 6th place overall in the Cup competition (for the larger Clubs in…

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Contact Ian Gamlen by the 19th September if you want a run at Pooley Fields! (Captain Kerstin will be away). More information, including a link to the latest Final Details PDF, is on the OD Event Page for the relays.

Paul Hammond has updated the HOC League standings following the Compass Sport Cup Final at South Gare. An extra event has been added to the West Midlands League which means that we now have 13 qualifying events, so totals are based on your best 7 results. TD1, TD2 and TD3 (White, Yellow, Orange) scores after 8 events. TD4 and TD5 (Light Green, Green, Blue, Brown) scores after 8 events.

We have three 2025 Midlands Champions to celebrate. Derwent Valley Orienteers hosted this year’s championships at Chinley Churn in the Peak District. This area of exposed moorland provided a lot of intricate rocky detail to navigate, along with an abundance of contours, many of them quite close together! Congratulations to our winners Steve Blackmore (M45), Simon Thompson (M60) and Alison Sloman (W85). Photo credit for Alison at the start: Peter Cull

Harlequins fielded four teams at the British Sprint Relay Championships on Saturday 30th August which took place at RAF Honington near Bury St. Edmunds. This made for fast, flat courses with plenty of historic military assets on display, some of which were deployed as control sites. The format calls for mixed gender teams of three (four in the elite classes), with Harlequins’ two Junior teams bagging 6th and 8th places, our Super Veterans 10th and Veterans 19th. The action moved…

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