Luke Fisher on the run-in of Day 2 at JK2024,
The JK this Easter had sprint, middle, long and relay and the wins were spread around. Luke Fisher and Cecilie Andersen took the overall wins, Peter Hodkinson and Laura Robertson the sprint honours, and Forth Valley and South Yorkshire the relays. It was a well-organised successful weekend. Thanks to the Midlands clubs.
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James Hammond of Forth Valley won M18 at the sprint, overall in the forest, and was in the winning JK Premier Relay team. Laura Roberston won the W21E sprint and was in the winning JK Women's Premier team.
Sprint
On Good Friday the sprint orienteering race was held at Loughborough University.
Winsplits - M21E course 1, W21E course 2.
The Sprint Podium: L-R Nathan Lawson, Fiona Bunn, Peter Hodkinson, Laura Robertson, Freddie Carcas, Charlotte Ward, photo: Wendy Carlyle.
Peter Hodkinson on his way to the sprint win, photo: Rob Lines
James Hammond on his way to the M18E sprint win, photo:Rob Lines
Forest Individual
The Saturday middle and Sunday long races were from the same arena on Cannock Chase.
The overall JK trophies are awarded based on cumulative times of the two individual races. The scoring is usually dominated by the long, and that was very much the case this year as the W21E middle race was voided and the M21E middle race truncated to about half-length. The decision for the M21E middle to declare results after eliminating all splits from a misplaced control to the expected end of the course was not without controversy of course, and it was later discussed by events and competition committee.
In the men's competition Luke Fisher, 12th in the middle, had a very good run in the long to take the overall win, with Chris Smithard (6th in the middle) his closest challenger 1:18 behind, and Simon Harden (2nd in the middle) at 2:13.
JK24 Overall (forest individual) Podium, photo: Scottish Orienteering Facebook
In the women's competition Cecilie Andersen was 1:49 clear of Lucy Walker with Niamh Hunter just behind her at 1:58.
Two GB internationals with a former coach: Cecilie Andersen just ahead of Megan Carter-Davies and Bristol OK's Mark Saunders
Jonny Crickmore won the men's middle race: he did not run on Sunday.
Jonny Crickmore, photo: Wendy Carlyle
Simon Harden
Fiona Bunn ran well in the voided W21E race, photo: Rob Lines
Relays
The relays were held on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire.
JK Premier
The first four teams were from Scotland.
- 89:20 Forth Valley (Chris Smithard, James Hammond, Peter Molloy)
- 89:32 Interlopers (Freddie Carcas, Luke Fisher, Peter Hodkinson)
- 89:37 Interlopers (Eddie Narbett, James Ackland, Sasha Chepelin)
- 89:49 Edinburgh University (David Bunn, Boyan Ivandjikov, Euan Tryner)
- 92:44 Octavian Droobers (Philip Vokes, Will Gardner, Nathan Lawson)
- 93:09 Edinburgh University (Jim Bailey, Matthew Gooch, Alex Wetherill)
JK Women's Premier
Two teams were well ahead. In the top six there were two teams from each of three clubs. There were no teams from south of Sheffield in the race.
- 88:57 South Yorkshire (Chloe Potter, Laura Robertson, Cat Taylor)
- 89:38 Edinburgh University (Niamh Hunter, Isobel Howard, Fiona Bunn)
- 99:07 South Yorkshire (Imogen Pieters, Laura Goy, Miia Roller)
- 103:20 Interlopers (Pippa Carcas, Aoife McCavana, Mairi Eades)
- 106:34 Edinburgh University (Ellie Bales, Fiona Eades, Lizzie Stansfield)
- 107:00 Interlopers (Jura MacMillan, Roanne Lilley, Louise Adams)
The relay arena, photo: Wendy Carlyle
The Forth Valley winning team: L-R Chris Smithard, Peter Molloy, James Hammond, photo: Rob Lines
The South Yorkshire winning team: L-R Cat Taylor, Chloe Potter, Laura Robertson, photo: Rob Lines.